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Show thing an ambition he cannot be kept back even though he have the racial heritage, lowly birth, humble surroundings and the hopeless hope-less outlook that confronted Booker T. Washington. This topic is so old and the truisms tru-isms written here are so bromidic that we suppose an apology should be offered for this sort of an article but the need of everlasting pounding pound-ing into the heads of the boys and girls of this land . that whatever they become is up to tbem and nobody no-body else, justifies it. ORDINARY. Things are ordinary to ordinary people. The job a man holds becomes be-comes extraordinary when the man uses it as a stepping stone to something some-thing better and higher. But the man must be extraordinary to also make his job do extraordinary things. For instance, Patrick E. Crowley, the newly chosen president of the New York Central road, being an extraordinary man made his ordinary ordi-nary job do extraordinary things for him. Each job he held became extraordinary ex-traordinary in that it merely served to boost him still higher. And yet he seemed In the eyes of the average man to be holding nothing noth-ing but ordinary jobs. William Wolcott, the noted English Eng-lish etcher who recently paid this country a visit, feeling the urge to etch, looked about for material upon which to draw and, being in an architect's office, turned to a boy who was wrapping up some plans and said to him : " "What is this paper?" "It is just ordinary wrapping paper," replied the boy. "Nothing is ordinary if you know how to use it," remarked the artist as he took several sheets of the paper and left the office. On those same sheets he made some etchings showing portions of lower New York. One of the pictures he sold for $5,000 and another for $1,000. Of course they were not ordinary etchings even though they were made on "ordinary wrapping paper." They showed ordinary New York streets In an extraordinary way and all through the ordinary medium me-dium of an ordinary pencil and ordinary sheets of paper. Ordinary folks hold ordinary jobs and lead ordinary lives and have an ordinary time. Extraordinary persons use ordinary ordi-nary jobs to achieve extraordinary results and live extraordinary and highly useful and purposeful lives. "All men are created free and equal," we are told. It's a lie. All men may be equal before the law, but there the equality thing ends. Wherever some men get their extraordinary qualities such attributes at-tributes , cannot . be conferred by law, the king's command, a public petition or mere longing. : If a boy is born to be a dub a j dub he remains and what he does ; is ordinary. If a boy comes into the world possessed of that pushing ' |
