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Nv..: y--;;p-;;.4v;' YW; yv . . . .'... . - v, ': .: , EGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1913. THE OREGON en With Ladders Which Are You? ree Th M Or (it Britain Right! Reaerred. "KtoWrUbt, USX it th iHf Onmpiir. Then he which had received the one tal- ent came and said. Lord I knew thee that ' thou art an hard man, reaping wnere tnou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed. "And I was afraid and went and hid thy talent in the earth: Lo, there thou hast that ns Jthine" JLT'i St. Matthew xxv., 24:25 Vf:R and over we must keep saying to ourselves, "I shall do better. I shall overcome past mistakes; from now on 1 shall go upward, NOT sit still or go down." Man is mentally what a young child ;; js physically. He walks a few steps, stumbles and falls, ihen rises and walks on again. ' T Sometimes aJittle thing, like a picture on this page, .starts the train of thought that leads a man upward. 'picture, tells us in a second what words cannot tell iis-in an hour. y: Do you doubt it? Ask yourself what would be the .effect if the living head of a big snake should rise above Jjlhis newspaper as you hold it. What words could pro duce the effect in your mind of such a PICTURE? Iwifi y !x--'Any man, old or young, may see in this picture his jjwn life as it is today. Brain, character, ambition, physical and mental (t power constitute a man's ladder, s; Each of us is climbing up, striving for what is bet ",'tef, going' downward, or idly sitting still, DOING .Nothing. - The great majority, like the man sitting on the lad Sfr do little, one way or the other. . We have our moments of youth, with its ambi vftlon, enthusiasm, ..pitiful, boundless hope and self-con- Widence. We dream and tell others what we shall M ii7-and then youth is gone. . , The rest of life is more or less taking things as they '"tdrhe, like a floating twig that drifts and turns as the current takes it. ixw- You ought to say TO YOURSELF and to the men V2rid women around you what you would say to the men 'in this picture. 2? To the man going down into the pit of vice and fail ure you would call out a bitter, earnest warning, trying fjta persuade, frighten or shame him into a better use of his ladder, : sfsjti. . . - . i5 fan 1 1 r. . - !!! ilil Mi m M J, 1,:; II; iliiiii - What. Each Man Amounts to De pends Upon the Use to Which the Ladder Is Put. - Your ''Ladder" Is Your Brain, Your Thinking Power. Do You Use It to Climb Upward, to Go Downward, or Do You fust Sit Upon It and Do Noth ing? - : : y'': Y '.' The Three Men in This Picture Represent Us All. ', i "Y h'K J ;.r- 13 Hiiiiii ! i ,' .I'll'.'! -,. Il . r.V',T 111 me i''"'"H I'"': 'llJ..!'"!' L:i.ij I 0mm ill! ii'!!' ! 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"fa. t si at"' vol :, - Sft8.. - To the man climbing upward you would speak en couragingly, urging him not to be frightened by the teepness of the cliff or discouraged by the great height .of real achievement. ' JaJJ.' And the man sitting still what would you say to v'him, who is most nearly like all of us? ; : ' Hc is t0 dul1 and indifferent to climb upward, with 'outven the energy to go wrong the dull, mentally .ired, indifferent man, who takes things as they come. How many millions there are of such men'1 Each ;;tias SOME POWER, some opportunity, which is HIS .rtLADDER. BUT HE WILL NOT CLIMB. Of such men there are a thousand kinHs nnrf ih(v i'ave a thousand reasons for sitting instead of climbing. These are the things they say, while' others climb "ana reacn the heights above them : what is the use of .f I MirCt UAH A 11 i M-r- Mfriv trvin cr Jr lt1 V mm 'A A'' IK ' J- - V c k If I work hard, the employer rets the benefit I -et nothing. t I shall take things easily. "SOME time, SOME day, when things are differ ent, I am going to do SOMETHING worth while. "I never had any luck. Those that pass me are luckier. . . 'i.J "Life soon ends peace of mind is the chief thing. Why should 1 worry and tire myself, when I know thai ;(iil soon be dead, anyhow? The whole thing will -nke no difference In a hundred years." . - s Thus talks the. man sitting on the ladder. You would tw say, to him: a - GET UP AND CLIMB .Better fall and break your neck trying than stav flat on the ground like a turtle or a clam. 'Jt .isworth ttWl-to; ;Ty: 'it only for the ake"o 13. The world is what it is changed from savage barbarism by man in a few hundred thousand years because men have worked and climbed, not satisfied to sit still. The picture is a good one, simple and plain as the story in the Bible about the man dissatisfied with his one talent, who buried it in the ground and gave it back as he got it, to the master who had given it to , him. Most of us are men of ONE TAL ENT, and, like the man in the Bible, discouraged by the smallness of our power, we wrap it up, do nothing with it, and when death comes hand it. -back, rusty and unused, to the' Power whence it came, Use the ladder, long or short, that nature and your ancestors have given you. Climb upward, if you climb only one yard or one inch. When you HAVE climbed an inch, pull up the ladder, start ONE INCH , HIGHER and climb again. With a scaling ladder six feet long a moun-' taineer might climb a cliff 5000 feet high. He needs only courage, deter mination' and energy to do it. He climbs up six feet, gets a footing, places his ladder higher, climps again, ... and thus rises steadily. . Sometimes the, climber reaches the top, where the world looks broad and wonderful, where there is room for all, where a man is A REAU MAN, and in death ridiculed as a failure. But at least he tries. Get up early TOMORROW morn ing. Get the start of a long sleep tonight open your eyes fresh, rest ed, strong. Pick up the ladder of your power, long or short. Put it against the cliff of success BE A CLIMBER! ' There are rules for everything and rules for the man who means to climb upward. 'SAVE YOUR POWER for your work. No dissipation, gambling, drunkenness, foolish late hours. Don't burn up your ladder. Pick out the spot where you mean to climb and stick to THAT spot at least until you know positively that you have picked out the wrong place. Select some point above you on the cliff of success and say to your self, "1 am going to get THERE." Then keep climbing until you do get there, or until you die. Keep your eye fixed on the spot that you have selected. Start out in the morning determined to climb. .Ask yourself every day in the even ing what progress you have made. Be severe with yourself, critical and harsh. No man succeeds who is not his own slave-driver. Remember the one great rule; You must climb UPWARD always, and in the same direction. You would laugh ataman running along the bottom of ,a cliff, climbing up 10 feet, climbing down, going a little farther to climb up to feet, com ing down, and thus indefinitely. You would pity to scorn such a man yet nearly all of us are like him. We climb , up and climb down, climb up and climb down during. the few years that are given us, and. at the end we are about at the level whence we started or at a lower level.- He who will, no matter how short his ladder, no matter how slight his opportunity, may finish every day of his life finding himself a little higher up, than when the day began. , Save your strength; save vour health, save your money, save '.your save your cnaracter, iu uat; H E M ALL AS THE L ADDER .YY Y. i ;' ' Y Yy: -:- lyJj 'YYTY - C'Y'Y- Y YY 'Y .; y.'Y'YYV'YY YHYYY:'-"Y;:Y.Y";' m4pjm - ' JHAJO WILL TAKE YOU HIGHER. Y4:. V .