Show Uncommon Sense I By JOHN BLAKE I Dell Bell S Syndicate Service When Wilen Cardinal Wolsey charged his friend Croin Cromwell not Cromwell not veli-not not Oliver to Oliver to ambi- ambi fling Jling ay away tion he was Ambition A m bt I Ion Jn er very bad ad- ad vice The old gentleman who had got ot otIn In Jn bad with Henry the Eighth was on an his way out of or the picture But ut It was the wrong kind kIn of oC ambition ambition ambition am am- which got ot him Into trouble with th the Big Boss pOSSe The prelates prelate's real ambition wa was to run the country and the king and everybody else And the king being able to do his own thinking preferred to conduct the affairs of oC the tile country as he saw fit t Keep your our ambition working You will need It No great reat man has been without it It The necessity of It ought to be dwelt upon In n the schools If all men men and women were content content content con con- tent to follow the old tracks s to do whatever Is done In the same way that had always alwa's been done they would be about as progressive as a ahill ahill hill hUl of ants nn and about as useful You live here only once as us far faras faras faras as you know Make Male as DS lon long of a n stay In It as ns you can an and do as much work as you OU can enn I dont don't mean just ordinary plodding plodding plod plod- ding sweat producing work I mean new orl original work r You ou cant can't cherish any ambition to tobe tobe tobe be a. a king asking king today Those jobs are all arranged for or in advance The only way nay you ou could get one would be to buy some little South Sea island and pa pay the tle nat natives teJ to make you a king But want to do something that been done before Whether It Is In science or poll poll- tics or missionary work doesn't matter mat mat- ter Dont Don't be satisfied with a little temporary success Try to get yourself a Job that will give you Influence and use your Influence for progress That is open to the objection that It t entails a great reat deal of work but butone butone one rarely hears of or a healthy man hurting himself by work worl I have never ne known a successful man or women who did Id not possess a high degree of I The Big will power Boss If you ou cant can't be your our own boss bossou you ou cant can't be anybody's boss Neither can call jou you do anything an important Im- Im Important and useful And nd If you OU lack luck Importance and usefulness you ou are not going to have hae havea haea a er very easy time In the world Laziness Is natural t to most peo peo- So Is procrastination which Is he tIle child chIllI of laziness No matter what your job is you must learn to keep at it until you master it or some other fellow is going to get far ahead of you in the therace therace therace race for independence and security in n life Cultivate ate your will power Force yourself to stick sUck to your work worl long after the demon of laziness laziness lazi lazi- ness whispers In your ear that you ou are tired an and need a rest D Dont Don't nt worry about wearing yourself yourself your your- our self out Worry may do that Work will not Establish some objective and try tryo to o maintain It Pick out something that Is worth doing and which Is within the Urn Uni limits Units Its ts of possibility Without an ear for music you OU can an annever annever never be a musician Without an artists artist's eye you ou can cin never become a painter or a tor or Without unusual physical strength th and a good sound heart you ou cannot i become an nn athlete But there Is something that you youcan youcan youcan can do and n do well If you have average average av av- age es-age common sense an and the will to I keep everlastingly at ut the task you ou have set yourself Find out what It Is Do not choose It because you think It may bring you popularity You'll pet Jet popularity If It you succeed suc sue coed cee and you wont won't need to look lookaround lookaround around for It When you undertake anything keep at it It and carry It through I If It when stud studying you find yourself yourself your sour self turning page after p page of a book ook following all nit the printed lines Ines and not noting an anything that thatIs Is s there there Is something the matter with your wilL Keep that will at al work Train it il to 10 tobe tobo be bo your boss By and by it will keep you out OU at work and then Ihen you can begin to think thank th k about doing great things But If the will Isn't exercised It will refuse to work and you will go through life accomplishing about halt half as much as you ought to act aeI ac ae- and which you must accomplish ac ac- accomplish t I If It you ou want to be nn anything anything any any- thing but Just an nn average lazy unsuccessful unsuccessful un successful human being There are too many of such people people peo pee pie In the world noW nose Much too many I Dont Don't be one of them Be your I I own boss as far tar as It Is IB possible |