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Show WHY MANY MEN FAIL IN LIFE. B Theve was an entire sermon in the few words uttered by James A Patten. on his 70th blrlhdav at EvaHSton, 111 j J Mr. Patten was the former wheat king. In telling his friends who had gath cred to honor him, how to succeed, he declared his success was duo to hi habit of "early to bed and early to rise B .ind work hard Ideal are worthless H unless you do go to bed early, rise I early, fight all the time you are H ;:.vake and save yrur nione . I believe that frugality Is more essential than! j unusual ability. A man roitfht be as I brainy as can be, but if he didn't save j B ' his mone he would never get any- J K where. Men of brilliance never get anywhere unless they have money to I back their schemes. Education Is no. particularly an essential. It cives one a polish, but unless you have the I spunk and the willingness to work hard your education will get you noth- Many of the most successful men in j the United States had limited educa- Uonal advantages, but nearly every I man of commanding pot it ion has been I a bard, earnest worker, who early In I life learned to discipline himself, j A big percentage of the down and j out class in this country has been I pushed to one side through shiftless- ness and unwillingness o work The boy who falls to train himself to work and stick to a task, will develop into a man without energy and eventually even-tually fall by the wayside. 1 The greatest schooling one can have is in learning to like work. |