| Show l J rw How W. W Win o of ow to ln In Friends and end Influence Peo People k t NO ON 1 0 fl KICKS A DEAD DOG in 1929 there was an event In Chicago which attracted the most brilliant educators in the country People came carne for or thousands of or miles for the occasion Not a n. football game came not a political powwow No tho occasion was the Inauguration of a young man of thirty as president president dent of the fourth richest university situ sity In this country the University of Chicago a university with an endowment of seventy million dollars dol dol- lars The young oung man who was to be he Inaugurated inaugurated In in- au as president had worked his way way through Yale as a waiter walter But Dut now the great sat at his feet Robert Maynard Hutchins I was not there but I got a glimpse of it from the late Dr Jefferson Jefferson Jofferson Jef Jef- ferson Davis Sandefer formerly president of Simmons Hardin-Simmons uni Abilene Texas Texa- Dr Sandefer Sande- Sande fer for sat on the platform next to the father of the new president Turning Turning Turning Turn Turn- ing to him he said i 1 notice that one of the newspapers made a bitter attack on your son today This was stating it mild mildly for Cor young Dr Hutchins had haa not only been attacked by the tIle newspapers and by the educational bigwigs bur but hd had been bitterly denounced l I Dr Hutching Hutchins' father sat I. I for t moment thinking then said v j Jy lY v Yes that's true But reme to her ber no one ever eyer kicks a dead dog I Remember that the next nen t ul l in someone attacks you II I- I I The moment you jOU raise your he head even cven sli slightly above the water le J of mediocrity Y you will discover discover I lot of jealous envious critics o i 0 n tile the banks of the rive river r ready I throw mud balls bans at you some j o the mud balls will win have rOCK rocks i io side This Titis has been true throughout the ages and it will be true un until human nature changes La R Roch b foucauld the French r said many years ago I if You ou wan Ran enemies excel your jOUr fi lends friends but ri you want friends let your friend Incel you Why is that true true g It cause when our friends excel us li I gives hes them a feeling of imp importance when we excel them It gives gl the thea then thena a a feeling of inferiority So it If r Far accomplish anything In the world work I expect to be attacked denounced r I II I condemned That was the fate u i Robert Maynard Hutchins of Abr Abra Abraham ham Lincoln of Socrates and of ot al althe al althe f the good capable and great m mei nie who ever lived t. t So expect Jealousy criticism an am envy expect envy expect them and take theto then the uit in to your stride That's what Genera I Smedley Butler learned to do As r r young man he lie was very sen sensitive L t t ti I He was easily hurt Bu Buhe Buhe he joined the U U. S S. S marines a as t I private and battled his way up t U Uj j i the top He declares in his au auto that he lie had been cuss cusse by every possible combination a 0 o bitter Insulting adjectives in th th English language So now when i h Ii hears bears someone calling him a blank blanks ty blank he he be nevi says DC neve even eyen turns his head to see who i I talking So the next time you jOU ar attacked for accomplishing some something sari som thing why not take It as a comp camp I ment It shows you are alive aliva Tern Verily no one kicks a dead dog I I |
