| Show AN ESSENTIAL OF SUCCESS L IN TIlE LIVES OF MOST OST OF OUR PRESIDENTS A gr great at lesson lesson In t Is fa to be learned from the lives of our pres- pres presIdents John Adams taught school as a ayoung young man man manto to obtain money for his Zachary Taylor labored as a boy on his fathers father's southern plantation and had practically no early educational advantages and Millard Fillmore worked as ag a village school teacher and borrowed money ot of enable him to study law The early struggles of Abraham Lincoln and the disadvantages that beset him arid and through which he hewon hewon won dominance and rose to be one of the tho greatest men of all times acre MO known tho world over As AI a boy Lincoln the rail splitter worked for fol ten years oh his fathers father's farm farmand and his entire schooling was loss than one year Andrew Johnson came from a poor po r family and 0 as a boy was apprenticed to a tailor for tailor for tor ten years during which time he taught himself how to read and write James Jawes A A. Garfield Garield had practically practical practical- ly no educational advantages as a ayoung ayoung young man and was compelled to maintain himself early In life by the 1 ha hardest dest of farm labor At one time In this period he earned his living by driving a team of mules on a canal boat Warren G G. Harden started life doIng doing do- do Ing chores on a farm in Ohio For several years he ea earned ned his his hood us' us a typesetter school teacher Insurance agent and newspaper re- re porter The of the Chronicle Chron- Chron icle the presidential nomInation nomination nom nom- next year Calvin Coolidge's first job was was' wasas as asa a chore chOro boy boyan on his fathers father's I worked his way through college part of the time His vacations were all spent In earnIng money Other presidents who have learned learned learn learn- ed the value of thrift were Hayes Cleveland Me Mc Kinley and Wilson Every young man should Inculcate savings habits and lay by for tor a pur- pur pose It Is too easy to spend It all allin in fancies that get one no- no no 1 where I |
