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Show JUST FOLKS By ErLgmr A. Gist --T- 4) THE BEST-LOVED MAN i It Isn't all in getting rich, It Isn't all In, winning fame, A bigger thing than IctOry Is how you vc I tried lo play the game. 9 Is keeping faith with men and standing true to what Is best. And rinding joy In bumble things and 1 being fit for every lest. i The good man need not come to wealth rmr peed he rise to wond renown, ' Not often Is the richest man the best loved citizen Jn town. Vou 11 find he walks In bumble ways and , modest la Ihe garb he. wears, And on his l ack from day to day life piles a multitude of ..ares. (His glory Is a generous hearl a voice that carries hope and cheer. . A willingness lo dr. his work, a wish t i he of service here, He asks no favored place from life, nor' shirks the hurdshlps In his way. I But meets all men with head erect and plays the friend from day 10 day . . The best loved man In any tcnn is hor.- est. manly, brave und true, j Sharing his life with all wh live, doing what work he finds to do. He may not climb the heights of fame nor eomo to treasure s golden fee. But he Is still accounted gieat In ill God asks a man to be. oo |