| Show A Fortune to Share By VASH YOUNG I Got Tired of Being Being- a Fool M My Kingdom of Heaven is s within I me Wh Why hadn't I seen that before A truth discovered always se seems ms so o plain and s mple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed I saw now that my factory which had been turning out fear worry Impatience impatience impatience tience anger angel doubt doubt no nothing doubt nothing thin but junk was junk was capable of oC taking the raw materials of experience mingling them with faith love and other qualities quail quail- ties and so becoming a plant worth operating I My next step was vas to make a list of the qualities that seemed to me ever- ever enduring the qualities upon which the continuity of ill life liCe depends and without which life long since would have perished from the earth perished perished perished per per- in misery and in failure These w words words' seemed d to me most worthy of places places' on my Love Courage Cheerfulness Activity Compassion Friendliness ss Generosity Tolerance Justice Nine magic words Perhaps in them in-them them was the secret of that Kingdom Kingdom King King- ng- ng dom of Heaven of-Heaven I was seeking so earn eatn- estly Night after aUer night I sat alone with these words fixing them consciousness consciousness con con- comprehending them deciding deciding de de- de what to do about them Reflect them in my conduct that's what I would do about them th m. m They all are arc positive They are dominant They are stronger than their opposites If It they were weaker life ife could not have advanced Each represents a quality which has contributed to the progress of life in the mass and it seemed to tome tome tome me quite evident th that t t these s same me qualities would save an individual My M course after that was plain though not easy Live these words these qualities That was the way out of oC the darkness and muck in which I had been groping But first firstI I must get rid of the accumulation of disastrous junk my m old factory had turned out RESIGNS illS HIS JOB It was at this time that I resigned my job It 38 was the time that old Vash Young died and left to me that inheritance I have told about First I decided to cut out all habits which seemed to be harmful or even questionable I t listed my habits and found that liquor coffee flee tea and tobacco tobacco tobacco to to- bacco all alt could be dispensed with so within the space of a single day I cut these things out of ot my ray life liCe That hat wasn't so easy You who are coffee coHee drinkers know the depression the anger the petulance that comes when suddenly you find yourself without this stimulant and you who use tobacco know the misery that comes when you OU leave of off smoking for or a few days das Theretofore I had battled these habits with my own will power but it was always a los los- ing f fight Human will was not riot strong enough for such a battle It took reason rea rca son and understanding to win vin the dayI day I realized that these things vere were not a part of my Kingdom of Heaven I 1 saw that these desires were weak props for Indulgence sell to lean upon and as my old self eif had faded out these things faded a out also D Domin- Domin min ion on over these habits was a great victory vic vie I tory for me and I have felt eU a wonderful wonder wonder- ful sense of fre freedom dom ever since ince I started but out on on my career as an ar insurance salesman while white still in the midst of ot this battle brittle with physical habits and md at al first business w was s dull For a time my ho household was hard hardup hardup hardup up but very happy Happier than we had ever been before beCore for we C were fighting and winning a series of bat bat- battles battles ties one of which was to get id i-id of oC self Whenever Id I'd find myself thinking of myself Id I'd say Now is the time Ume to think of somebody somebody some some- body else anybody else ele except my- my sell selU FACES DESPERATE SITUATION There came a time when I was com corn compelled to have some money Our condition condition con con- was wae desperate and I almost slipped back into old mental cha channels nels easy channels made wide and deep by long lone years of habit I thought of oC ofa oCa a battle fought in Italy by Napoleon The shooting was going against him and one of his generals rode up find and said It Jt seems to me this is a battle baUle But ut the Little Corporal replied r hotl hotly It seems seem to to me mc a battle won And he did win it But Im I'm no Napoleon There is not even a touch o of genius in me not anything any thing at all in me to distinguish me from rom the average man So I 1 wavered in this emergency and had to check m myself sef sharply When you OU are arc re keenly conscious of ol your own needs go out and do something some thing for somebody else I demanded If It you ou dont don't you'll lose what ground you have gained That seemed to tobe tobe tobe be spiritually sound reasoning so I tried it Over on the east side in New York City there was a hospital for crippled children I went to the superintendent superintend superintend- ent and persuaded him to let me entertain entertain entertain en en- the youngsters I began by telling them stories which fell flat Next I r tried reading to them and that venture flopped also I I. vs I-vs was vas up against it now for Cor a fact for here I had attempted to do something something something some some- thing for somebody else and was about about to to fail in it The crippled children children children chil chil- dren would have been none the worse of oft for lor my failure but it might have m meant ant disaster for me so in desperation despera despera- tion I decided that on my next visit to the hospital Id I'd sing Now Im I'm no wood thrush As a singer I rank closer to the jaybird but the children liked my singing SINGS FOR A YEAR Every Sunday for a year ear I went to that hospital and sang I know nothing noth noth- ing lag of music so to keep my repertoire fresh Id I'd get talking machine records ploy play them on the machine at home and in that way learn the songs sones At the outset I d did d not have money enough to pay for the records but when I explained to the recording company what I was doing they gave me 50 songs sones for children all of which I learned painstaking by-painstaking over the music box in our little apartment But before beCore that year lear was over I had mon money y enough to buy records and to buy many other things too By Byre re refusing to put pul money first I I- seemed to have hit on a pro profitable table program And by profit prom I mean happiness I determined years ears ago never to undertake any business venture if It my happiness would be in the least disturbed disturbed disturbed dis dis- dis- dis in case tailed failed it Before I call called cd cdon on any ciny prospect ct for insurance I checked up on my own mental processes proc e- e es esses s s to to make sure that I would not be cast down if it he refused to buy This doesn't mean that I shy off DC from any solicitation either it merely means that before I make the call I get myself into the right frame of mind Copyright 1933 by Vash Young Published by arrangement with the Merrill Bobbs-Merrill company To be continued d Saturday |
