Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-10-20 | Page 11 | La Barba

AI j I La LaBarba Barba V i I V I By By bR DR FRANK CRANE V V There is a young man mall going to school at Stanford university who is quite e in iti many ways V This young oung man stems seems seems to have learned the first les lesson on in in all education That first lesson is to take tale yourself off other p peoples people's oples ople's backs If a man has never i learned that nothing else that he learns will do him I much good In this tills The most important thing tiling in ones one's career world is the ability to stand on his own feet and the great calamity that can happen to a human soul soOl so far faras as has been reported is to be endowed The Biblical command to earn carn our food by tIle the sweat of our brow seems to be founded on mighty good cc economics It may may be the curse of Deity upon man but if so the curse of Deity is better than the blessing of mankind The strange thing about it all is that this young oung man has ilaS earned his ills living In a peculiar way while going to high school lie has been prize fighting during his school days and climbed to the eminence of being the flyweight champion At this queer business it is said that he has hasI I amassed or so But the queer thing about I it all is that he ile now gives up his career as a bruiser and his alluring prospects of cash and elects to go goto goto goto to a university lie He has not only been exceptional in athletics but is a young oung man of good habits quiet and well behaved and also has managed to be among the foremost intellectually speaking of his Ills class Ills His marks are A I. He lIe may disappear School prodigies have a way of settling down Into clerks The man who was foremost in all athletics and in his studies when I went to school became principal of the high school and as far as I know never got any farther yet some sonIc of the runts of the tIle class made circles all aU around him in the way of success Sometimes the tile boy who is expelled from school turns out to be tho the leading man of the town and employs s 's the school genius at 40 a week You never can tell But it is a good idea just the same to keep your eye on La Barba He lie has started off oft right no matter whether he gets anywhere or not and it itis is Isa a safe bet that he lie will amount to something Copyright 1927 McClure Newspaper Syndicate Inc Ine