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Show I EASY PICKING. n The song. "Silver Threads Among the Gold." is still piling up royalties though It was written 48 years ago by Hart P. Danks This comes to light in a lawsuit in Brooklyn, N. Y. Tho famous song is said to have sold 2,000,000 copies. Between 1915 and 1920. when it had one of its periodical popular runs after a long sleep. It earned royalties of 150.000. Danks, the composer, died back in 1903. But his song still lives. Maybe if you could come back to earth in (lie year 2000. you would find people 'still singing it -though possibly unde: a different name, stolen by a plagiarist plagiar-ist Men live on, in their Rood and bad deeds, as surely as they survive through their children. When Danks wrote "Silver Thn ada Among the Cold." in 1S74. he had no idea what he was starting. Ho did not even dream that, 19 years after his death, his widow would be in court fighting over the royalties. , Back of this is a definite principle. The principle is this: Growth of success, like growth of crops, takes time. Right now we are sowing seed The real harvest will not come until years later. Thus tne pay we are making today may not be as important as the returns re-turns we will g"t, later on, from experience ex-perience wo are acquiring today. Young men on their first jobs, and younger ones still In school, should keep this In mind. Henry Ford, John D Rockefeller and nearly all other super-rich men are cashing in now on early effort. This law of Deferred Payment or later harvest works another way leaping the weed-crop of past mis Likes. Many of us, cursiug our present misfortunes mis-fortunes (poverty, sickness or general wretchedness), arc placing the blame on the general state of affairs In 1922. Simple truth is. that we may be merely mere-ly paying the penalty of past mistakes. mis-takes. The harvesi comes surely, whethei it is good or bad. whether wheal 01 weeds It may be too late now to rectify past mistaken. But we can prevent i heir recurrence The far-sighted man realizes that right now he is building lor the future as much as the present, and that effort which seems fruitless now will yield big profits later Live for tomorrow This is the key-to key-to all things really worth while. |