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Show MAGEL ROGERS WINS CHAMBER of COMMERCE . MEDAL FOR ORATORY Mi.ss MaccI Rogers who won !,he annual oratorical contest ai, the Beaver Bea-ver County high school this year, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rogers. Miss Rogers wais. born in Beaver county and has been a faithful student stu-dent of the Milford schools from her first entry into school life. Her speech follows: The Door to Success is Labeled Push Push in the lives of the many mem bers of humanity, is the urging forward for-ward the persistent endeavor and effort put forth by those members of the human family who are solving the combination on the door at the end of the highway of success. It Is the pride and boast of the world that this is an age of self-made men and women. However humble may be the position of the man or woman, it is within his or her power to reach the pinnacle of fame and fortune. To be or not to be that is the ques- tion: Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outragious fortune, Or take up arms against a sea ot troubles, Andl by opposing end them? Names of men and women, who without friends or money to help; themi have riseii by the force of their own genius to the highest, positions, i and their example stands out boldly to encourage and cheer othen? who are struggling onward on this highway high-way of success; 'and to ' help then-open then-open the door which is closed before be-fore them. . In many respects our lives are like the broad and boundless sea. but at no one point is the resemblance more vividi and truthful than in regard re-gard to the possibilities of success or failure. Like the ocean, life car. be made the highway to fortune and happiness, or it can be' made the scene of sad disaster and fata wreck. As we grow older and come more to understand and take on responsibilities responsi-bilities we all find ourselves in a world! where the prizes and rewards of labor are Very unequally distributed. distri-buted. We look about us to' find some of our fellowmen enjoying' a luxur-' ious plenty, while 'others are struggling strug-gling on in the giiseries of poverty. We also find that the conditions of success, with some few exceptions, are open to all alike and that the laws and elements of nature are perfectly per-fectly iiTipnrtial in their operations. Why, then, are not all alike successful success-ful and happy? What makes the dir-icrence dir-icrence between these two classes in xeistence? It is lack of push. I do not ruean to say that all persons are created cre-ated with an equal amount of menta? ability, or that every man or woman is a natural genius and only needs the suitable opportunity to become the leader in all that, is great anc good. Through all ages have lived men who have largely guided the thought and activity in their time, and who have left their indelible press upon the pages of human history. his-tory. And by such men are we led today. Some are always saying, "If this and that were not as it is," or "if I had- lived in another day, it would have been different with me;" but siuch kind of slack reasoning and murmuring never led anyone farther on the highway of success, or helped them to enter the right door. If you wish to be successful, you must do as you would to get in at the door through a crowd. Hold your ground and "push hard." So far as circumstances being a hindrance to men who are trying to succeed they give men opportunities opportun-ities and occasions to do something. And the one t,o succeed is he who says, as we often hear quoted, '"Tis not in our start, dear Brutus, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.'" Therefore let the love of labor be your highest motive. The lack of goodi ideas in your motive may be the difference between a battle won and a battle lost. One of the strongest points of advice ad-vice which aids in the persistent en-dcavor en-dcavor given to every young man or woman is accumulate. It often Iseems to a student in high school that he is. merely wasting his time by going through with the routine exercises of the class room week after af-ter week and year after year; that the studies he is pursuing can never do them much of any good in after life; but he will find to his positive satisfaction, when the duties of that after-life press upon him-andl he does not hvae time to hunt up facts and the opinions of others, that not one day diligently spent in studying during dur-ing early years was lost; that all 'hese facts and resources accumulated accumu-lated when thought and, memory were fresh and vigorous were held by the mind as a isort of capital stock End came into use exactly when the push and1 effort of persistent endeavor endea-vor was most wanted to open the door to success. The education received re-ceived at school and college is bu'-a bu'-a beginning .and is mainly valuable in so far as it trains us to the habit of continuous application after a defi nite plan and system. Another good point of advice to all young people of enterprise, given in the application' of our accumulated! accumulat-ed! knowledge to everyday life, Is punctuality. There can be no worse traits in a business man than to be continually behind time in his engagements. en-gagements. If a man's word or appointments ap-pointments cannot be depended upon, up-on, he is sure to be mistrusted and then neglected altogether. Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study lost health by temperance, but lost time is gone forever. Lord Nelson once said, "1 owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time." And when Washington's Wash-ington's secretary excused himself for the lateness of his attendance, and laidl the blame upon his watch, the master quietly said, "Then you must get another watch or I another secretary." And it is in just Isuch small ways that many become so unreliable un-reliable and irresistant that they are trampled on by the soverenty of the reliable. David Star Jordon says. "The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going." It is hard to do anything with those human derelic's who are just drifting along waiting to see what will happen to them, instead of being up and out to make things happen for themselves. Real purpose organizes the various element's of a man's life for effective action. A pile of steel- filings and shavings lying on' the floor of a foundry may be fine in quality, they may weigh a ton, but unorganized, they have but little value. Organize (continued on page five) MACEL ROGERS WINS MEDAL (continued from page one) and weld them into a shaft, attach one end to a s'jrew propellor and the other to a steam engine, and it wia sendi a mighty orean liner from New York to Liverpool in five days. Bring all your ideas of life under the organizing power of a purpose and they become effective. In like manner, a mind a heart, a soul, is nothing more than a confused heap of thoughts and wishes, impulses and desires, longings and aspirations, until by the power of purpose all these are brought into unity and made effective in their thrust toward some worthy fulfillment. Otherwise their power to press forward) ana push themselves into the realm of success, is choked to death by the crowd of careless which is allowed to enter the great storehouse of habits by careless storekeepers. But we follow the careful keepers . along the highway, which leads to the door of success; we find them able to use all those good habits, which they have been so careful as to let be the only occupants of the storehouse, and which have been growing stronger day by day, through all the school years spent in high school and college, to push open the door which has so long been closed between them and that glorious realm of success. There's no power In ancestry to make the foolish wise, The ignorant learned, the cowardly and base Deserving our respect as brave and good. Hence man's best riches mmst be gained and not given His noblest name deserved, and not derivedL |