Show Vv MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE Asked to give advice to young men Thomas A A Edison said young men would not accept advice It ItIs ItIs Is one of the divine e of oung men to exult In strength to trust above all sll In the keenness of their own eyes es to plunge Into the musty old ol with courage and faith and hearted light heated airiness that all the thea tha a advice from all the graybeards on onearth earth cannot dim And that fact act Is the gr greatest of ot hope that we have br or hue have ever had Tho Th day that all young oung men agree to sit alt lt quietly said and the advice of their elders eldershope eldershope hope will have fled ned from the th earth Young men do not take advice r o They do not listen to us when w warn arn them to go slowly take easy and be humble cogs cos cosIn cosin In i c t machine they cannot under s 8 and They only laugh when we i Lint that caution prudence and tIto safer course courle are are preferable to tho fire and enthusiasm of ot youth routh that scorns to count costs or reck- reck reckon reckon reelon on risks For this world to a young man mari t a II different place than It Is fa to tobit tIB bit 1111 older ones It Isn't such a big bl 5 orIel orld to him or such a h bar rd orld orld Its It's a world that has haa a few fow d of course b but t they are re de defects th that t any determined young youn chap Lap bap who doesn't mind getting bumped I a Utile little can Iron out In no notime o time As At he be grows older of course he earns better He lIe gets too careful of lOr himself to risk an any ant more bruises ba J bu buting bunting Ung his head bead against the th I ramparts that surrounds the cita cita- cita cita dl of Injustice and wrong lie tie Is Isto to tot canny to let himself be car carried lied ried off his feet by any appeal to hIs emotions be they ever so eo no no- noble nobie noble ble bie You Vou must touch the chord of Interest self if It you OU OU would move him No young men do not take ad ad- advice advice vice They see see-ab Bee ah never de- de de delude I lude Inde yourself they see eee clearly clearly- clearly 1 that we older ones have made mado I more or less leas of ot a mess of this I orld orld but when the mess growl grow growa I a little too unbearable as It did didI I I I not nol long ago they step forward I cheerfully and without complaint to to die by thousands In order to set the our mIstakes mistakes our right mistakes mistakes t ft was so In 1776 It was so In 1861 It was so In 1917 It will 1 be beso beso beso so the next timo time we older ones dot tet Involved In the consequences or of our mites mass Ignorance and aud folly tolly We prate a lot about the value of ef experience and caution but I deep in our hearts we e kno know right t tell ell a oil that one heart blazing with youthful enthusiasm and reckless reckless- reckless ress iese Is worth more to the world than all the prudent heads on onearth onearth I earth carth Its It's always alwa's the he way Genera Genera- Generation tion Uon after arter generation passes on the thelong thelong long road to history and as they piss pass their way Is occasionally for tor a 3 moment by the red fin fin- that rises over over oer newly destroyed destroy destroyed ed fortresses of ot oppression And always as the black towers crash down before the hosts of freedom the the glorious headstrong young men who will no not take advice are In the thc ho van leading leading the attack |