| Show uncommon sensed sense i join jhn BIA 0 bell syndicate Synill Syndi ct catt service face life as it Is dont run away from mil it it you will have placing your share of trou brou ble so will every ho hooky boky body else you will meet with disappointments defeats cut but stand up and take it dont run away probably Iro bably tho the job of 0 attaining distinction lon Is more difficult today than it over ever has been there Is more competition for hie file high prizes there are more competitors who are well trained and well educated time was in the early history of this country when a man who could read and write and figure had a better chance than most of his neighbors what are called vantages advantages aid are more general now illiteracy has practically vanished you never know today with whom you are competing com petin it may he be the man next door it only be some fellow who lives on the other edde of the continent but who has the same ambition that you have and the same determination to succeed 40 0 0 now and then when some great invention Is made and some earnest able studious man profits by it you find fand that perhaps a hundred people have been working on the same thing kut but dont bother about that everi ever body Is on their own it if they are gifted with the willingness to work hard and have keen and intelligent minds they are pretty certain to vin some kind of success with people like these you must compete you never heard of them they never heard beard of 0 you but you are in the same race and one among you Is going to win that easy cut but nothing worth doing Is easy 0 a get the best education you can at the start improve on it as you go along cultivate as far as possible the interest and the friendship of people who have intelligence and perseverance play just enough to keep your body in good health As for work indulge in it as much as you can worry may kill you work wont unless there is u something the elie matter with your physical system it may be that in spite of everything you will leave no footprints on the sands 0 of time but at least before you leave this planet you wll will have the satisfaction that you used everything you had and that you did make progress along some new path 0 a except in partially civilized countries there should be no do such thing as provincialism looking at today in the news the world papers furnished with electric eyes and ears that do their work in all parts of the world happenings in london and paris and the balkans and constantinople are known to the whole world the next morning every intelligent man and woman Is a newspaper reader when I 1 was achild a child in a little town in the middle west the papers in the nearest so called cities printed briefly events that now are given a number of columns once the man who lacked the means to travel knew v very ery little about what was going on in the world today lie he knows all the newspaper correspondents and reporters and editors know and that Is a groat great deal As a result of the growth and improvement pro of the newspapers there Is no longer any excuse for ignorance outside jungle countries there are nevertheless many people who will not take the trouble to read unless it Is about prize ring fights or bandits or little wars in south america if they get no benefit from the press it Is their own fault it Is there every morning or every afternoon in clear type every day the world Is getting more interesting in te resting today something that looks like a war cloud Is rising over the balkans once before a war cloud of about tin the same size was observed in the same place and a few days afterward the w N liole hole world was catching fire if aou ou want to talk convincingly and to think intelligently you must have something to think and talk about you find what you want avant when aou pick your newspaper up from the dour door step or when you buy it from a newsboy in the street streel dont let these opportunities go for nothing read mark and inwardly digest from every land from every clime tidings that are always interesting terest te lug and may become extremely important keep informed about them it will make you a better citizen it will give you a higher regard tor for your own country I 1 have never known a constant newspaper reader todio was not well inaz informed anil and free irons from the belief that the only country that amounts to so anything at all is hit his own |
