| Show self S elf estimation by THOMAS ARIC ARKLE CLE CLARK late dean of ment men university of illinois tor for an artists contemporaries paul bourget says sass in speaking of the th genius of flau licit bert cannot mens tire lire him ft with ath ex n neither e I 1 t h e r c can an lie he measure himself would it not have e surprised surprise voltaire to learn leai n that lie he would live ilia ony through can dida and didelot that ills his work would reduce itself to the neveu de 11 a m e a u two pamphlets a c r I 1 b bled in a few days the second not even published by its author would it not also have surprised lincoln to have known that tile the few sentences sentence scribbled on a scrap of paper on his way vay to gettysburg and carla carin curried his hat would mark him through all time as a master of cog lish style and the writer of a classic A successful executive once said to rae me that when ft lien a nian man boasted to him that he could do tiny any specific thing w ell 11 he was vis at once pretty well veil con that that particular thing the man mis more moie than likely to do in differently A writer who Is well atell known through out the country once said to me that the composition upon which lie he had put the most enthusiastic work an and d which seemed to ailin the finest thing lie he had ever written he had never been able to sell no one but himself could find in it any particular enjoyment I 1 recall that when william E cur its was writing a dally daily letter and a most interesting one too to the achl ango record herald from the remotest parts of the earth our neighbors hired man who lived just across the road announced that mr curti s job was the sort that he felt eminently qualified to take up tip it seem difficult to him to fill two or three columns a day when one had noth nothing irig else to do but travel about and enjoy himself ile he had never written a line he know how to spell the simplest words yet he seriously thought lie he could c on id do the job what do you think you could clotild do best 0 1933 western newspaper unior union |
