Show Just Folks By EDGAR A. A GUEST THE OLD FASHIONED IDEAS Cynics will shake their heads and say Hard work Is Js but an empty phrase That fortunes nr are are not made that way That only clever shrewdness pays They'll say the plodder poor rc- rc mains The The- Theman man of thrift must thrifty 3 stay tay That earnest workers for their pains Get little more than weekly pay The he modern youth Is urged to flin fling The trite old fashioned rules aside There mu must t be easier ways ways ways' that bring The joys of triumph and of pride But son of oC mine please dont don't forget forget for lor- get When talk like this you chance to hear There hasn't been an idler yet Who's had a profitable year ear When you OU arc are tempted not to work Because your goal seems far faraway faraway faraway away Just bear in mind that men who shirk Are Arc doomed to failure lailure where they stay Though thrift and earnest toil are slow At least the gains they make endure And wheres where's the loafer who can show A method that Is half hat so sure So let the mockers rave and anti rant And call old-fashioned old teachIngs teachings teachings teach teach- ings trite Our mottoes may be partly cant But also they arc are partly right You work and save and If you in miss iss The goal by some hard circumstance circumstance circum circum- stance Your consolation can be this At least you gave yourself a chance chanc t Copyright 1 1035 35 Edgar A. A Guest |