THE STJNDAT OTIEGOXTAX, POItTXAXD, 3IAY 21, 1916.
There are no free passes to
Success.
Fortune has an interstate
commerce law of her own
she won't deadhead any one.
Only the very busy are very
happy. Industry is a talis
man against worry and want.
Occupation sweetens even
the rich man's loaf.
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At the Field Hospital
HUMAN lives on the bargain counter. Horse flesh
dearer than man-meat. Death served by twenty
million assistants. Packing-house efficiency
translated to the battlefield. Mile after mile of hospital
trains. Ambulances, careening at break-neck speed.
What a scarlet harvest!
Shattered skulls, broken faces, brain wounds, lung
wounds, spleen wounds, groin wounds.
This poor devil won't live that tattered carcass
can't.
In normal times one might save the old peasant
yonder, but such a laborious operation is out of the
question, with a thousand other cases demanding in
stant attention. Percentage outweighs individuals
the greatest good for the greatest number is the su
preme law.
So many dead so many dying and so many guns
still pounding battalions to pulp! life grows cheaper
every day and death more commonplace. Few mys
teries here. Among this groaning multitude, what curi
osity may not be satisfied. .
Try that experiment it may work. In normal
times you wouldn't dare, but there are so many thou
sands of them that one mischance won't coun
Besides, if there is any human reason that can jus
tify annihilation by platoons, then let a few serve fu
ture generations and die to save a myriad to come.
Take that tendon or, better still, transplant the shin.
Quick! Clamp clamp clamp suture! If it works,
an illustrious page has been added to medical history!
The other one? Oh, he was already doomed. Anyhow,
he was an enemy.
Believe Me, Bo
(The Rough-Neck Speaks on the Japanese Question.)
I BEEN readin' by the papers that the busy little Jap
Wants to tell us how we ought to run our corner of the map ;
We have trampled on his dignity and hurt him in the hide,
We have mussed his tender feelin's and forgot he has a prjde;
He's insulted, and he makes no bones o' mentionin' the cause,
And the reason is a section of our immigration laws. .
Claims he's better than the Hindus and Chinese they're not
his class.
Says he'll stop his dealin's with us if we let the statute pass.
With a million soldiers ready, and they're there BELIEVE
ME BO
And a fleet that always occupies a front seat at the show,
He don't have to wait outside the gate while others get the door;
And he ain't above remindin' us that he won't sidestep war.
Judging from my experience, and hopin you'll excuse
A rough-neck like Yours Truly givin' folks like you his views,
Certain people are about to get a chance to prove their case ;
Mr. Trouble's in the neighborhood and shootin' off his face.
I'm a hick, I don't know nothin', and it may be they are right,
These gents who say a Nation never has a cause to fight,
That the gift of gab is worth as much as forts and air
machines,
And a peaceful disposition just the same as submarines ;
Howsoever, if you ask me, I believe they're off their nut,
And if you will take the viewpoint of an ordinary mutt,
When a battler gets his Dutch up and he makes his little say,
All the boys without their hardware let him have his own
sweet way.
Rifle Bullets and Bird Shot
THE profuse seldom perfect. Excess and excellence
are never found in the same production.
. Carelessness is a spendthrift. Hazy and lazy
writers are word squanderers.
Charles A. Dana once begged to be excused for the
length of a letter, "but," he added whimsically, "I
haven't time to write a snorter one."
Exactness requires care. The price of good aim is
heavy with practice ammunition.. One rifle bullet will
penetrate farther than a wagonload of bird shot. A
single well-considered, briefly expressed sentence will
explain a situation which a page of hit-and-miss argu
ment obscures.
A long-winded talk or message indicates that you
are not well posted on the subject.
A fumbling narrative leaves a jumbled impression.
Smooth performances are impossible without ade
quate preparation. You can't interpret yourself or
anything else before you thoroughly understand what"
you intend to do.
A great picture is a mixture of inspiration and
art, and art is a tedious process, an elimination of con
fusion. -
Paderewski's soul is filled with genius, but don't
forget that his message would not carry if his fingers
were not filled with training.
Every unpracticed hand is certain to strike false
notes.
This is a basic principle in all transactions. It
applies in selling a bill of goods, composing an opera,
erecting a skyscraper and performing an operation
it is a truism in all activities from fiddling to financing.
When you really know, it you can quickly show it.
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Cards and Chips
BY HERBERT KAUFMAN
Play your cards, not your chips. The size of your stack can't reduce their value. The best hand
sweeps the board.
Ability creates capital. You are your own mint. Resolution plus ideas equals money.
It's nonsense to believe that you are handicapped by empty pockets.
Inherited assets sufficient to permit dawdling stifle initiative and make a cipher out of many a man
who, under the spur of necessity, might otherwise have developed into a big figure.
When you are unpracticed in the processes which produce riches you are not qualified to protect
your holdings from those who have been trained to take advantage of every weak opening.
A bank roll is not a substitute for wisdom.
If you have brains enough to conserve wealth you possess all the qualities necessary to secure it.
There wouldn't be nearly so many new millionaires if the old ones had educated their children to
be as alert and as energetic as they were.
There isn't a private trademark on a dollar in the land every penny in the country will ultimately
drift to capability. -
There is no enduring poverty except lack of character, purpose and determination.
Subnormals are the only logical paupers.
The frequent quotation of a few parasitic fortunes exaggerates their actual significance.
Superficial folk are prone to believe that there exists a static class of plutocrats who control all
the chances to make good.
Such a notion is a ridiculous fallacy.
In some European countries the continuation of noble orders and pernicious laws of entail centra
lize the ownership of vast holdings and natural resources. But no such system exists on this side of
the Atlantic.
Here any man can become as great as his will..
Ninety-nine per cent of the country's potent figures are, as yesterday and as they will be to
morrow, exemplars of the possibilities always open to earnest ambition.
Those whose prominence is a hang-over from previous generations are hardly worth figuring
they represent so small a fraction in this or any community.
The great financiers, manufacturers, merchants, professionals and artists of our time trace their
careers back to humble and penurious beginnings.
They enjoy no favors or advantages which you cannot obtain.
They thought hard, fought hard, and achieved. '
You face no greater discouragements than their rebuffs.
They simply had your advantages the early realization of their inevitable course. They knew
that they would have to help themselves, and while they were at it they took a liberal helping.
No false ideas of pride or. privilege obscured their vision. They began upon a rock bottom basis
and built from the outset on a firm foundation of realities.
They tumbled to themselves while still young before they got far enough to be hurt, and there
after proceeded without any hampering delusions.
They count for something because they could count on nothing but their personal efforts.
A keen man with a clean plan must succeed.
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You Can't Do Ag You Please
WE can't attend to our business without minding yours you can not
do as you please. Every piece of the world's work relates to
another action. Civilization is organized effort. We are all parts
of one machine, and no single cog can run amuck without disturbing the
section to which it belongs.
You are entitled to equal rights, but that does not signify that you are
independent. Justice is standardization of privilege: Democracy a band
ing together of individuals for the promotion and safeguarding of mutual
interests a license to liberty as emphatically opposed to the liberty of
license - ,
A state of 'society in which every one could act as he liked would be intolerable and
impose constant hardships upon the majority.
Fair goiernment insists upon the restraint of selfishness and demands the observ
ance of very definite laws of conduct and procedure without which conscienceless
ambition would ride roughshod.
Within these reasonable limits of action you are a guaranteed free agent with all
the power of the republic to warrant the exercise of your franchise. But when you
exceed the set bounds you must submit to the same correcting forces you stand ready
to evoke when others outrage your rights.
The terms under which you are permitted to. operate your affairs possibly block
your plans at times and inflict a personal disadvantage, but remember they express
the will of the Nation which stands ready in turn to grant you security against those
who seek a proportionate disadvantage over you.
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Herbert Kaufman
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There's room enough for all of us,
but rot in every place;
There's chance enough for every
one, but not in every race;
They may not have a job for you
in town just at this minute.
But there's a nearby city with far
better prospects in it;
Your trade is overcrowded? Well,
new industries are starting,
A driver out of work can take to
other things than carting;
Ambition does not fold its hand 3
and quit at one sound thrash
ing; You aren't worth a tinker's dam if
you can't stand a smashing;
We don't pronounce the P in luck,
but Pluck's the way we spell it.
If you are worth your salt, your
future course will quickly tell
it.
Adapt yourself to circumstance and
seek a new location,
You aren't forced to slick to one
spot or vocation.
Copyright, hy Herbert kamlman. Great Britain ud All Other Riht Kcereii.