The Chemawa American, April 03, 1929, Page 4, Image 4

The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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success. If I were to set down a few simple rules for
youth I think I would collect them under this heading:
1. Take example and inspiration from the great of
the dirty planks of a police station lodging house; and
the
past; choose well your ideals, you will find the
when he complained that the little locket (enclosing
ideals
of work under the rags of poverty more often
the lock of his girl sweetheart’s hair), which he wore
than
resting
on the cushions of the pampered idle.
next his heart, had been stolen from him when he
2.
Read
elean,
virile lives. Health is necessary,
slept, the policeman, seizing him, threw him out of
for
a
sound
mind
must
have a sound body. Youth
the door, and going after Riis to kick him down the
must
not
forget
that
clean,
virile bodies can only be
stoop was attacked by Riis’ little dog, which he seized
had
with
clean
hearts
and
clean
morals.
by the legs and beat its brains out on a stone step.
3. Read much of the world’s best literature. Study
SUCCESS
much but think more—always keep in company of the
By FRANK DUMONT, Chemawa Student
Ream to think, learn to work, lead a clean life, read world’s best minds. Open to every lad the free shelves
of all circulating libraries.
the best books.
4. By being honest with himself, a young man will be
Every boy worth his salt means to be successful.
honest
with others. He will always give an honest
He never doubts but that he will be; but he can’t win
the success in life that he plans unless he has defined day’s work for an honest day’s pay. He will work a
little harder and a little better than his employer ex­
£ qj - himself his purpose and then sticks to it. To be
and he will prepare for the job ahead of time by
successful, he must play father to the man he intends pects
study, observation and application.
to be. He must learn to think, he must learn to work,
5. There is very, little success when there is little
that a job he must do will be done well.
laughter. The workman who rejoices in his work and
Success has no other secret that I know of; for this, laughs away his discomforts is the one sure to rise.
6. Perhaps it may all be summed up in this “ wall
it seems to me, is the free road to achievement. No
motto” many business men have admired as the defi­
young man has yet succeeded who did not learn in his nition of a gentleman:
early years how to work, and work hard to attain his
“ A man who is clean both outside and inside; who
object. Young men can give all sorts of reasons why, neither looks up to the rich nor down to the poor;
in their case, failure is attributable to exceptional cir­ who can lose without squealing, win without bragging;
cumstances. Some will say they never had a chance. who is considerate of women, children, and old people;
who is too brave to lie and too generous to cheat, and
That is the merest nonsense.
who takes his share of the work and lets other people
No young man ever lived who had not a chance, have theirs. He is the man that will get ahead.”
and a splendid chance, if he ever got seriously to work
IN T E R E ST IN G PACTS
at all. This splendid chance will not always lead to
The largest bell in England is Big Ben of West­
riches—wealth that is within the measure of an Jn - minster, weighing fourteen tons.
Nebuchadndkar captured the city of Jerusalem, and
come tax report. But it will build for youth the
character of a splendid man whose life makes others 10,000 leading citizens were carried to Babylon in cap­
happier and better for having known him; whose tivity.
Daniel read the hand writing which appeared on
character overcomes obstacles and handicaps which the wall during Belshazzar’s feast, warning the Baby­
crush weaker men; whose ideals, carried into each lonian king of impending destruction.
Washington Irving was responsible for this phrase,
day’s work at office or factory or home, make him
a worthy and a useful citizen. And if at the end he “ Almighty Dollar,” which he used in his novel, “ A
can count no material riches, he shall, nevertheless, Creole Village,” published in 1831.
The origin of the word money is from the Roman
have progressed beyond most of his fellows. He will “ Moneta,” the word they used for their first coins.
have the greatest riches that reward a life—vital and
The origin of baseball may be traced back to the
fourteenth century when a game called “ club ball”
masterful purpose.
So, if a young man chooses high ideals and sets out was played. Old prints show players tossing a ball
others equipped with a sort of rude club.
deliberately to attain them, it hardly matters what to Thanatopsis
was written by William Cullen Bryant,
business, what profession, what worthy pursuit, he a great American poet. The meaning of Thanatopsis
selects or circumstance choose for him, he will succeed. is a ‘ ‘view of death. ’ ’
The Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918,
But the price of success is hard work.
Young men,
rich or poor, have a splendid chance to succeed in and the actual peace conference began on January 18,
with 27 nations participating.
proportion to their willingness to pay the cost in un­ 1919,
The porcelain tower at Anking, China, was two
ceasing hard work.
hundred feet in height. It was covered with porcelain
There is no golden road to happiness. There are tiles. It was built in the Fifteenth Century and de­
no chair cars and palacial trains on the road to real stroyed in 1853.
JACOB R IIS
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