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Show Do the Best We Can An old carpenter, who has never made very much money, but who has raised lour boys and two girls to manhood and womanhood, met a friend the other day. "How are the boys and girls getting along?" asked the friend. The old man turned away with a tear in his eye. "My two girls are married to fine lads," he said. "Three of my boys have good jobs but John, the fourth, he doesn't seem to be able to keep a job. . . . But I did the best I could." Calvin Coolidge recently wrote to a friend in New York concerning a woman who has-helped her boys thru coljege. Speaking of her, Mr. Coolidge "said: "The world is full of people who are doing the best they can." That is true. We ought to remember it, always, when we judge others. No one wholly succeed sat anything. It is easy to criticize criti-cize the mistakes our friends make. Most of us rfave a habit of setting up a perfect standard and then deciding whether a man is goodby the nearness with which he comes to that standard. But not many of us would wish to be judged that way. Nearly everyone does the best he can, according to his lights and abilities. Some have more ability than others; some have the advantage of better training. But no man can ask for a better epitaph than : "He did his best." " : |