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Show I THE BROAD MAP TO PERPETUAL ; OPPORTUNITY Hj : This has been the season for high school H ! col.'ege and university commencements 1 1 graduates' essays and orations, class hon- m i ors to -whom class honors are due and H i D words of advice from the successful to B those whose success lies just beyond the M turn in the road. While the high school, H' college or univeraity graduate is not the only one just Embarking upon a career of individual and social endeavor, and while a great many of the youth of the land are stpping forth upon the highway of aspiration, oinhelped by higher educational educa-tional equipment, the commencement season sea-son of the year supplies the occasion for words of advice and encouragement from the doers of things to those who aspire to be doers, regardless of who th.e are or what their present equipment or opportunities oppor-tunities may be. Distinguished men have just been heard in every school with a class of graduates. Among these advisers and encouragers have been the president of the United States ajid members of the president's cabinet. A line from the commencement address of each of them reveals this In-tersting In-tersting symposium: President Harding: "Never was there a time when the call was so insistent to those capable of giving unselfish, broad, comprehending direction to public thought." Vice President Coolidge: "There is no progress without industry; mankind is so made that it devlops only through effort." ef-fort." , Secretary of State Hughes: "The man who does the job well will find opportunities opportun-ities he never dreamed of spreading out before him in the ways he never thought possible." Secretary of War Weeks: "The man who reaches the top of the ladder does not get there by performing many tasks fairly well, but by concentrating his intelligence in-telligence and energies on the task he is best fitted to perform." Attorney General Daugherty: "The conclusion of a collegiate course only fits a man for practical and beneficial occupation, occu-pation, Keep busy, Pq things to a finish." fin-ish." -- Secretary of the Navy Denby: "To win is fine only when the goal is worthily attained. at-tained. To be a man that's success." Postmaster General Hays: "Service is the supretme commitment of life. 'I can never accomplish what 'we' can do." Secretary of the Interior Fall: "One never stops learning till he draws his last breath." Secretary of Labor Davis: "In many a carpenter a true architect waits for 'his opportunity." If These men all know and every other inan who has acquired success in America knows, that the United States is now and always has been the great land of opportunity, oppor-tunity, that in this country the people who do things succeed and the ones who don't do things fail, that the element of chance is a myth, that the fruit of honest endeavor is an unpurchaseable reality, whatever it may be, and that the whine of the underdog is rather the object of contempt than pity. "View that great expanse of country from one coast to the other. Isn't it iust one big map of Perpetual Opportunity, all spread out?" It is! National Republican. |