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THE
CHEM AW A
AM ERICAN
played as though the fact were written upon signboards and fastened to
him, like those on the “ sandwich man.”
It is almost as easy to pick the human failures out of a crowd by
similar hall-marks of individuality.
You have seen men who as they went to their work gave every out
ward indication of incapacity. They may be faithful workers—some
times the most faithful of workers. They are industrious. They are
honest. They are willing to do anything that they are told to do, yet
they lack something which the more successful man invariably possesses,
and this “ lack of something” in their make up is almost always stamped
upon them where those who can may read.
The thing they lack is the courage that self-confidence alone can
give. The qualities they possess are all worthy characteristics, and
must be exercised if real and permanent success is to be attained.
No man can really succeed in life without integrity and industry. Yet
these qualities alone are powerless to lift him out of the ruts of medioc
rity. To rise above the average, one must have something more than
the commonplace qualities of the “ average man.” There is no limit to
the supply of “ average men” in the world’s labor market. As a conse
quence, the remuneration of an “ average man” is constantly shifted to
a lower level, it being simply a matter of supply and demand.
The two qualities upon which the manifestation of ability depends
are knowledge and self-confidence. Though distant factors, the effect
of one upon the other is so marked that it is safe to assert that the self-
confidence which manifests itself so plainly in the features of success
ful men, is the natural and inevitable consequence of the knowledge
which makes the capable workman. It is possible to conceive of knowl
edge without self-confidence. It is impossible to conceive of this un
conscious manifestation of self-confidence without knowledge behind it.
PROTECT THE PIRDS
T IIE
W ORTH
OF
OUR
F E A T IIE R E I)
F R IE N D S
To the credit of the boys at Chemawa it can be said with truth that
they are not bad about killing birds. On the contrary we have seen
much to couvince us that many of them are lovers of our “ feathered
friends.” But now and then we have observed boys stoning the little
things, or trying to kill or cripple them with peashooters or air guns,
shotguns, etc. This is certainly too bad. Why a boy will do this no one
can tell—he cannot give a reason for it himself.
Does the boy ever stop to consider the beauty of the bird? Does he