Show 00 WHY FAIL Success is easier to attain than failure wrote Ed Howe the retirEd retired editor E and country town town philosopher ph- ph pher er at Potato Hill Farm near Atchi- Atchi Atchison son son Kansas Right In a sense for forthe the road to failure is harder on us than the road to success I Ed Howes Howe's philosophy is that success after all Is not so cult dITtl-cult Trouble is most of us waste too much time seeking an impossible impossible Impossible sible short short cut ut to it t instead of fol fol- following following following lowing the old reliable reliable road may may- mayhard mayhard may mayhard hard work patience perseverance and common honesty One of or our national weaknesses IS a near Dear mania manta for magical for formulas formulas mulas Well We'll never be satisfied until we are able to te cure any dis dis- disease disease ease e with one pill have a 11 pocket pocket- size pocket SIZe radio without batteries and make life bre an endless period of pros pros- prosperity prosperity without the traditional spells ot of depression Still that's the right attitude In Inthe Inthe inthe the sense that its it's the only way well we'll ever attain the perfections we crave American mentality does not ad admit admit wit mit that anything Is impo impossible impossible except where it applies personally to the Individual It we had half the confidence in our indIvidual solves selves that we have in la our herd or social group it wouldn't be necessary necessary necessary sary to talk so much about how to succeed To the ambitious it often seems that that life lite is an unending series of failures Success is the sum total of these failures This angle angio ange of ot the dIScussIon is la furnished by President President dent Lowell of Havard Havard- He adds It has been asserted by military critics that a nation 13 ne never finally beaten in war un nn until W til It believes Itself itsel beaten With not less accuracy it may be said t that at so long as a man lives he has ha not failed unless he ho believes that be has ha tailed failed The man who rushes ahead ahe d r re- re repeatedly Into the samo same stone wan wall wallI has bas the kind of ot head least likely I to be affected by the process He HeI I shows perseverance but not deter deter- determination determination to succeed Wisdom con con- consists consists In changing the method as the result of experience In other words try butting the head bead against other parts of the wall until we find a w weak spot instead of repeating at the same point of attack The Tho careers of or most moat great men provo prove that success comes only after efter a series of ot Abraham Lincoln in his younger days tried to be a successful storekeeper at which venture he laDed fated twice Goodyear failed at thousands ot of experiments before he discovered how haw to make sticky rubber gran into a useful mod and commod usable corn commod commodity ma ft ity William 1 lames lamee tried to as an as artist artiste artist then U asa as a a doctors doctor and an psychologist psycho wound d up successfully as a ogist and philosopher So it goes roos When failure be- be becomes becomes bi comes chronic its it's often because were we're attacking the wrong part or of ortho the tho wail wall trying to succeed at the tho wrong vocation For every person in the world theres there's some line Una ot of work at which he Is certain to be highly I successful The job Is to ta find it It Instinct will guide us more accurately than reason |