Show HOMELY Y WISDOM By JAME LUCEY President Coolidge's Mentor Copyright North orth American Newspaper News News- paper piper Alliance 63 Park Row New York N N. Y My Dear Mr Lucer- Lucer Not Lucey-Not Not ot often oCten do I see you jou OU or write you jou but If It were not for YOU vou I would not be h here re and I want to tell teU you jou ou how much I 1 love you jou ou Do not work too hard Try to enjoy yourself your your- self In your our well wen deserved leisure age Yours sincerely CALVIN COOLIDGE Washington D D. C C. August 6 1923 THERES THERE'S SOME ITEMS FOLKS FORGET TO PUT ON A MANS MAN'S BALANCE SHEET Sometimes you hear lear people say sav If It That mans man's a failure and then theu you vou go up and ask em what they thy mean nine nino chances out of ot ten yo vou ou find they sa say that because he hasn't t ta a lot of ot the worlds world's s goods They don dont don't t stop to figure out what he lies lie's s got in the way of ot character and peace of mind the good work hes he's done dore or the family hes hos raised They forget to put ut a lot of ot items on the balance sheet If H a man has raised a family supported supported supported sup sup- ported them comfortably and always alwa's paid his bills has always had plenty of work to do and has done It right and has lived to see his children row prow up to maturity I really don dont don't t Know why you vou can cant can't t call can him a success But Rut theres there's one thing more that a amans a aman's amans mans man's got to have to call himself a areal areal areil real reil success He lIes lIe's s got to have a clear conscience With past misdeeds preying on his mind no man than can call himself a success Of Ot course I don dont don't t mean that any man can be sinless We Ve Weare Weare are human and w we e can cant can't t get through life without erring a little sometimes no matter how hard we try But it isn't so serious if It we are aro sorry for our mistakes and tT try to make things right But when a a man knows that he hes he's t done or said something wron wrong I can cant can't cantsee cantsee t tsee see how he c can n sleep how he can be happ happy or rest easy at all If It I thought I Id I'd d sent out a pair of ot shoes that weren't t done right I couldn't couldn t sleep a wink l for thinking l 0 of them of t the I Ithe hiX place where Id I'd left a r rough e edge e or orthe orthe the w weak eak place pace I hadn't hadn t fixed I Id I'd d rather work work all aU day and all aU night on the same pair of ot shoes use my mj own stock and put in a new welt sole heel heeland heeland heeland and backstay and have the Job right even if it I lost 5 doing It than to hav havea have o e ea a poor Job go goo out and let people be beable beable beable able to say that James Lucey did it A Job lob has got to stand the test A Aman Aman Aman man or a a. shoe that cant can't stand the thel test Is not t a success u anyway you jou l look at f it it T Then e only's 1 when al failure u comes In |