Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-11-06 | Page 4 | For Those Who Will Not be Elected

uu FOR THOSE WHO WILL NOT BE ELECTED While the big white flakes of snow were falling this morning more than one ambitious candidate must have asked himself the question: "Is this snow for me?" One-half of all the candidates must go down to defeat and not a few will be snowed under. How sad the lot of the defeated; how delightful the outlook for the victorious! But is It not true that too often an election to office is not a harbinger of happiness? A very big percentage of the elected fail to make good, and those who are really successful learn to lean so heavily on the public crib as to lose their self-reliance and, in a few years, they become chronic office of-fice seekers. The average man who keeps out of political office escapes pitfalls not to be encumbered in the ordinary walks of life. Those running for office who fail on tomorrow can say to themselves: "It might have been worse." '