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You Must Do Your Own Climbing
The Steps Are High and Broad, and the Climb Is a Long
One—to REAL SUCCESS.
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BY LAW)y-— '
This is the country of success and we hear endless talk
about it.
This newspaper has discussed success often, yet it takes the
subject up again to-day, for the young men among our readers,
and the young women as well, are writing constantly for advice
or for suggestions.
Certain men whom we call successful, by which we mean that
they have got MONEY, have succeeded " without the quality of
industry. They are the gamblers, the Wall Street geniuses, or
others who with tricks have got the better of their fellow men,
BUT THEY ARE NOT SUCCESSFUL
Men of the same stamp have succeeded, even without sobriety
or honesty.
But even such success as theirs demands certain qualities.
They must have, for instance, at least temporarily, SELF-DE
NIAL. They must know how to hold themselves back, husband
their resources, keep themselves in hand until they shall have
achieved the particular object or the particular sum which they
have in mind.
To tell a young man that he NEEDS certain qualities is
Wasting his time and your own—except as you may direct his
attention TO THE POSSIBILITY OF DEVELOPING IN HIM
SELF the essentials of sucoess.
The late Collis P. Huntington, asked to advise a young man,
said: “Take ten thousand dollars and go into the business of
raising rubber trees." The young man didn’t have ten thousand
dollars.
Mr. Huntington said: Well, go and get it before you come
to me for advice.”
The great railroad man s attitude is very much like that of •
the ORDINARY adviser of the young. He says, Be honest, be
industrious, be self-denying, be courageous, patient, sober”— i
but he does not tell him how he CAN BE these things.
To make a real success you must have, first of all, INDUS
TRY—the faculty for hard work. That quality is greater than
all others put togethei. AND YOU CAN CULTIVATE THAT
QUALITY IN YOURSELF.
Map out what you are going to do each day, AND DO IT.
Never let yourself get into the habit of leaving a thing UNFIN
ISHED. It is hard; for some it is almost impossible. But if you
WILL IT, you can make yourself a hard worker eventually. You
must do that—that is the FIRST step to the real success.
SELF DENIAL is especially a matter of self-education.
Instead of putting your mind on the question, “How can I
amuse myself or dress myself?” say to yourself, 'WHAT CAN I
DO WITHOUT?”
Se'lf-deuial is not important simply because it saves your
money—it is especially important because IT SAVES YOUR
TIME AND YOUR VITALITY. Sobriety is, of course, a part of
self denial. If you don’t smoke excessively or at all. if you don't
drink excessively or at all—you save money and you save vital
ity. If you don’t pay foolish attention to dress -only neatness
and common sense are necessary to success—you save the time
and the thought that many men put ou worthless worrying about
their personal appearance.
The most important in the line of self-denial perhaps is TO
MAKE YOURSELF NOT WORRY ABOUT WHAT OTHERS
THINK OF YOU. Try to earn the approval of those wno are
worth while, and dismiss from your mind the opinion of the
crowd that means nothing to you and can do nothing for you.
More men waste time and energy and worry on the opinions of
others than would make them successful if they could be indif
ferent to public opinion.
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ENTHUSIASM is one of the great factors in success. It is
important especially BECAUSE IT HELPS A MAN TO GET A
START.
Unfortunately, enthusiasm is one of the qualities most diffi
cult to cultivate. It is almost a part of a man's own self, like his
dark hair or regular features, or wide shoulders. Yet even en
thusiasm CAN be cultivated, and it should be cultivated. Begin
by getting out of your mind the critical, complaining, dissatisfied
feelings. That is like pulling the weeds out of a field.
If you can get out of your own brain the foolish feeling of
complaint, of mortified vanity, you will be clearing the field for
enthusiasm to grow.
Enthusiasm is largely a matter of vitality, health and
strength.
Get up in the morning after eight hours' good sleep, and you
will be enthusiastic—ready to attack any proposition. Get up
with five hours’ sleep and a night foolishly spent, and you will
have no strength for enthusiasm. Cultivate your strength, save
it, and train yourself to look enthusiastically and hopefully at
the world, scorning its difficulties.
Honesty has been talked of incessantly ever since the writing
of the Ten Contmandments and long before. There are many
false reputations, and not a few big fortunes, built ON DISHON
ESTY. There are some men who might have been rich if they
had beer, dishonest, but who are poor now But be sure that
REAL success comes only to the honest man. to the man who
thinks and works AND TREATS OTHER MEN HONESTLY.
Whatever you do HAS GOT TO BE DQNE ABSOLUTELY
BY THE EXERCISE OF YOUR OWN WILL POWER : IF YOU
DECEIVE YOURSELF, BLAMING OTHERS INSTEAD OF
YOURSELF. YOU WILL NEVER GET AHEAD YOU MUST
BE YOUR OWN MOST SEVERE JUDGE. Remember that it is
not sufficient to WISH for success or to ADMIRE the qualities
that make success. You must develop those qualities and use
them.
There is one feature of real success about which we shall say
little. That is UNSELFISHNESS It is the greatest, highest
quality of all—although the usual talkers on success do not men I
tion it. Unselfishness enters into our modern calculations bfi.t 1
little. Yet. any man who would be truly great in his achieve i
ments must have for inspiration an unselfish desire to be of use i
to other men. He may pile up millions, but he will not be one
of the world's really great men unless guided by the conscious
ness that a man s first duty and last duty is lo try to make others
better off and happier for his having lived on the earth. j
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311
-W HEM You GET A Ml AUT OMO0IUt,
Rev. John E. White
Writes on
Interesting Sinners
and Stale Saints
ft “ft
I he Problem of Religion Is to Sweeten
the Saints and Save the Sinners
He Says There Are No Godless
Good or Godly Bad.
WRITTEN FOR THE GEORGIAN
By REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE
Pastor Second Baptise Church
-Youre Sore on Ptjsts.triakis»\
DOROTHY DIX
SAYS:
Women Want to
It Is
Born in
Reform Everybody
Them
By DOROTHY DIX.
T HE other day a cult ured
woman, of rather senti
mental tendencies. asked
me what I thought was the great
est art In the world.
"The art of letting other people
alone,” l answered, and thru 1
said, "and It’s the least under-
, stood.’*
She stared and then smiled, as
if she thought 1 intended to be
funny, but 1 was never more
deadly !n earnest in my life. I
have suffered, you have suffered,
the whole world has groaned
under a martyrdom at the hands
of those who would not let us
alone, but who Insisted on regula
ling our lives according to their
own notions, and without the
slightest regard for any pre
judices we might have in the op
posite direction.
1 am loath to confess it, but
these well-meaning persecutors
are generally women. Men are
so busy trying to make both ends
meet in their own business they
have scant leisure to meddle in
the affairs of their neighbors.
A shoe merchant may do busi
ness for twenty years next door
to an insurance agent without at
tempting to show him how to
" rite out a policy, or to conduct
his office. A woman, on the other
hand, can never see anybody do
anything differently from the way
she does it without burning with
a frantic desire to correct them
and set them right.
Born With Desire to Reform.
If Mrs. A's children wear flan
nel she can no more help worry
ing over the B childen having on
cotton than she can help breath
ing Every woman in her heart
believes that she is the only
huma.i being who possesses the
real secret of economy, the true
religion, and an infallible gift for
managing, and. being so perfectly
convinced of the correctness of
her point of view it seems to her
actually criminal to let you alone
and permit you to do your own
way instead of hers.
As a matter of fact, the passion
for reforming thing's is inherent
in tite sex. \Ye can't help it. We
w t re born that way. Ir it« vio
lent and insane form it makes
deat, sweet, refined and angelic
girls throw themselves away on
disgusting, drunken brutes, w hom
they marry, expecting to reform
them and lift them out of the gut
ter into respectability.
woman escapes the fa-clna-
>f the idea entirely, and the
first thing a girl thinks of
she gets engaged is what a
ily delightful time she i*
ng to have reforming her hus-
)d just as soon as she gets him.
netimes it's his politics, and
gion that site means u* have
i change, sometimes it's merely
shape of his collar, or the cut
his hair, but she's aiwavs bent
would he nothing to change about
him.
Men seldom suffer from this
peculiar mania. When a man
first falls in love with a girl he
thinks that everything about her
long as we can, and thus
them of tin
great
ssons experi
ence teaches, and, finally when
they will bear coddling and lead
ing strings no longer, and they
do make a break for liberty, we
sit down and bemoan their lack
of filial reverence and gratitude.
Our theory of doing the best we
can for our children is always to
be doing something. We never
think that the very highest best—
if one may use the phrase—is to
let them alone, and let them find
out for themselves what they are
and what they want to be. It is a
piece of monstrous vanity, any
way, to want one's children to be
just like one’s self.
Fatal Bar to Friendship.
The art of letting alone never
seems so admirable and so unat
tainable as when we deplore its
absence in our associates. Noth
ing else is so fatal a barrier to
friendship. It is not possible to
b< on terms of any sort of in-
timacy with one woman in a hun
dred without her trying to more or
less supervise your entire affairs.
It isn't enough for a w oman to be
satisfied with her own superlative
dressmaker and infallible doctor.
She is miserable until she foists
ihem on every one of her friends,
and then, when she fails out with
"those paragons, she expects you
to change with her. All sorts <>f
ivasons haw been given for the
scarcity of friendship between
women. The real explanation is
light here in a nutshell.
It sounds like a joke, but it’s
tlu* sober truth that a woman has
to reach the very highest pinnacle
of unselfishness and generosity
before she is willing to let others
do their own way, and be happy
after their own taste, instead of
lu rs. but how perfect and incom
parable she is in every relation of
lit'*' when she docs master the art
of letting others alone!
Day Dreams
DOROTHY DIX.
is absolutely perfect, and by the
time he gets over it and gets a
second view of her. he is too wise
to undertake the job of improving
her. He has found out that there
Is nothing mutual in a woman's .
idea of reform, and that she most
emphatically objects to the proc
ess being tried on her, and he
lets h« r alone.
Women seldom e arn tlmi. and
so we are continually treated to
tiie spectacle of wives who have
an unsuccessful war against their
husband’s smoking for twenty-
years and who are still hammer
ing away at the same reform, in
stead of letting him smoke in
peace. It is doubtful if tobacco
is harmful. Certainly# it can't be
as bad morally, physically or
mentally as a perpetual argument
on the subject. Only fancy what
we should think of a man who
was forever harping on the in
jurious effects of chocolate
creams, or nibbling between
meals, or ice cream soda. Our
own especial vices are the only
ones that never need reforming.
There isn’t much doubt that the
great domestic problem is going
to be solved when wo'men make
up then minds it) let their Inis
bands alone a little more -to take
them as they are. faults and vir-
By BYRON H. STAUFFER.
m X orator won much ap-
h\ plause by declaring that
some p'-oplc have wish
bones where their backbones
ought to be. It may be true that
the spinal column should not be
supplanted, but the fact is that a
stout backbone and a strong
wishbone, each in its proper place,
will go a long way toward mak
ing a fine bird or a stalwart man.
The beginning of success is
wishing. Wishing begets dream
ing. dreaming begets yearning,
yearning begets effort, effort be
gets success. Our wishes, some
une lias said, are the foregleams
of our capabilities. Wishing is
net w rong. Our dreams are more
or less vague prophecies of our
possibilities.
Fai
th. be
ing the
substance of
tiling-
s hope
d for,
is
the link that
joins
the dr
ea m
to
its fulfillment.
We
need 1
faith
in
ourselves to
start
with.
croaker con-
st ant
ly tall*
:ing f
*bo
iut ill luck is
predt
■st i nod
to U
iil.
Old General
Scott
laid li
iis de:
lea
t in 'the Pres-
idem
ial rac
e to
tht
* ridicule cast
upon
hi?
letter
o
f acceptance.
whicl
a a w k
warrll
y '
enough began
by s
aying:
"Ge
nil
mien—I have
just .
arisen
from
a
hasty bowl of
soup
to ans
wer >■'
0U1
• letter." Wags
at on
c ? pro
p'nesn
?d
that he would
fall l
lack in
ito th
steaming bowl
with
a ypi
lash.
TI
ie verdict of
poste
rity is
that
he
was timid in
dee’.a
ring 1
li:; p
oli*
lies and too
mode
st in
his r
irol
ests that his
party
could
ly
have found a
r man.
Let
not (
oise dreams:
But to that tired lad seated on
Highgate Hill, resting after his
flight from his master’s house:
‘‘Turn again. Whittington, thrice
Herd Mayor of London.” They
speak so plainly, the boy’ rises
and trudges back to his task and
lo the scolding cook.
I like to read of Dick Whitting
ton The story of his life as
sures us that there is always
hope for the poor youth whose
day dream is coupled with dili
gence and frugality. I do not
like to have the story of his cat
branded a legend. There is as
much authority for it as for the
average incident of biography.
Sir Richard Whittington's name
appears in the records of the city
of London as its Lord Mayor for
three different terms, covering
the years 1397. 1406 and 1419. He
was a creditor in large amounts
to Henry the Fourth and his son.
Henry th< Fifth. The invoices
still in existence which show
that he bought on the continent
tiie u oding trousseaux of the
Princess Blanche and the Prin
cess Philippa. And the founda
tion of the fortune of this Middle
Age merchant prince seems to
have been a cat and a day dream.
ry>HE popular expression about
I Interesting Pinners and
Stale Saints’’ indicates a
situation ^that ought to be looked
into. It is a disquieting discrim
ination with enough sting in it to
justify an investigation. Reli
gion stands or falls with the sort
of life and character it creates
and sustains. The Absolute reli
gion may dispute Pragmatism as
an unfriendly Philosophy, but' it
can not avoid the pragmatic test,
and its sovereignty as truth is
finally demonstrated only as it
produces the noblest and most at
tractive human beings. “The
War of Religions.” of which the
Cambridge historians made so
much, is in the last analysis a
conflict of ideals. The true reli
gion shall be able to present to
the wor d a superior attraction .or
it can not win and can not Hold
men. ft? superiority must be con
vincing in its character before it
can be convincing in its creeds.
Its success depends at last on Us
ability to appeal powerfully to
the highest admirations of hu
manity. The tree is judged by Us
fruits and .so is religion judged.
If its fruit is full and beautiful
and sweet, its appeal to men can
not. be resisted. If its fruit is
scant and ugly and sour they will
pass it by, looking for a better
tree.
The question, then, of “Inter
esting Sinners and Stale Saints”
is a serious inquiry. Why is it
that with nine out of ten people
you meet the proverbial "Sinner”
is more engaging than the pro
verbial "Saint?” Why is it that
a general sentiment should exist
that sinners are juicy and saints
insipid ?
Look at the literature of the
world. Our greatest books are
about the wicked people, from
Adam and Cain down to the
Iliad and Shakespeare, and Hugo
and Stevenson. It is notorious
that ihe popular mind responds
to the Jim Bludsoes. and Kipling’s
Bar Room Heroes, and Roosevelt’s
Rough Riders, and Trilby.
When it happen.*; that the sin
ners become saints, as in fhe rase
of Jacob, David and Saul of Tar
sus, or Augustine and Jean Val
Jean and Jerry McAuiey, the in
terest still lingers about the sin
ner and his piquant quality aeems
to come over as a sort of charm.
Now literature assumes to be the
true mirror of life.
Godless Good and Godly Bad.
The great authors are supposed
to interpret the essential human
ity and sound the universal note.
There may be some reason for
this apparent prejudice of litera
ture that dresBes up its saints in
somber drab and dull colors and
portrays the gay sparks, the tough
heroes so alluringly.
Before we charge Literature^
with a bad bias and an inventive
prejudice we must remember that
its success as literature depends
entirely upon the existence some
where of the people who sat for
the portraits. The saints would
have a good quarrel with litera
ture on this score if they them
selves did not confess a leaning in
precisely the same direction.
There is a most famous in
stance of one tvho was saintliest
of all. but w r ho confessed a de
cided preference.for the unreputa-
ble and off-color folk—the Publi
cans and the Sinners.
The trouble with the popular
judgment against the Saints is
WANTING AND NEEDING
irtu*-
qi
n.
What modern cliibv.cn suff i r from
Wo a: t so affair! that they w ! :
bur: thomsu. Ivts mat we kt p
ihvai padded up in cotton wool as
precursors of
Every elSlle must
castle, and after-
tone and mortar,
heard Row Bells
are they saying?
The Garden of Dreams
By E. T. SWEET.
O GARDEN of dreams, where
roses smile.
Bathed in dew at the break
of day!
Where the weary spirit loves to
while
The halcyon hours away.
I d linger with joy o'er the mo
ments passed
Where the bees on the blossoms
sup-
But some rock 1 must at the
chickens cast
That are digging my garden up.
By WIGHTMAN F. MELTON
of Emory College. Oxford. Ga.
S OME years ago a white family
was moving out of a base
ment. on Linden Avenue
Baltimore, near Richmond Mar
ket. A one-mule wagon contained
all the belongings, and there was
no chair on the wagon. A passer
by overheard this bit of conver
sation between two negro women
nexi door:
"Didn’t they have a chair last
year?” *
"Why. no. woman, it was year-
before-last that they had a
chair! ”
That family wanted what it
needed, and it needed it whether
it wanted it or not.
\ savings bank offered a prize
for the best advertisement of it^
business submitted. The prize
winner began with this sentence:
that it does not discriminate at
the right place nor between the
right example. For instance, an
English periodical has been
breaking a lance in behalf of
"The Godless Good." The claim
is that there are numbers of men
without any relation to religion
who are actually belter than
many of the Orthodox.
These are designated as "The
Godless Good.” Only on one con
dition is such a designation al
lowable. There is no "Godless
Good” in this world, but we will
allow the phrase on this ven
dition: We will call them “The
Godless Good” to offset another
1 ineptitude of words which de
scribes another class of men who
may be known as "The Godly
Bad.”
The clear way out of the tangle
is never to forget that Religion
and life art inseparable and that
a creed is va’ueless to any man
until he realizes and illustrates it
in his character an ' conduct. The
unfairness of popun »■ compari
sons between Saints an ' Sinners
i lies in the selection of ti. best
• Sinners on one hand and ’he
worst Saints on the other.
Everything worthily inter* st
ing in the sinner belongs to the
saint. There would be fewer
people willing to be classed
as sinners outside the pale of re
ligion if there were more saints
j inside the pale of religion to ex
hibit the full panoply of beauty
which belongs to all who have
entered consciously into the
abounding liveliness of genuine
religion. t
Brooks and George.
The great movement in our time
is not, as some suppose, against
the Faith once for all delivered
to the Saints, but against the
saints who have not once for all
delivered themselves over to the
Faith. The importance of the fun
damentals in theology was never
so emphatic as in this day. when
the world is so exacting of char
acter and life. Doctrines must re
joice in deeds and creeds become
jubilant in conduct, for every vine
must smile toward wine and every
foundation must find its vindica
tion in the palace erected thereon.
It is the task of the church to
sweeten its saints and save the
sinners. A true saint Is a sinner
saved by grace.
It was said of Phillips Brooks:
"He is a saint, but he is so hu
man that you do not mind it.'*
Christianity is out to produce that
sort of saint. The point about
Ben Aldhem was that though the
angel told him that his name was
not found among those that loved
the Lard, he replied: "I pray
thee, then, write me as one who
loves his fellow men.’*
Henry George, the great single T
taxer, did not arrive at his reli
gion by the conventional route,
but he arrived. In his famous in
terview with Cardinal Manning, it
was discovered that the Church
man and Theologian and Mr.
George were spiritual brothers,
since both affirmed their love for
humanity. The Cardinal said:
“Mr. George, 1 loved the Lord
Jesus Christ and, therefore, loved
my fellow men.” Mr. George re
plied to the prelate: ‘‘Cardinal,
1 loved m.v fellow men and, there
fore, I loved the Lord Jesus
Christ.” The great doctrines of
religion will move toward en
thronement in the popular heart
when people are compelled to
say: "Behold the interesting
saints and the stale sinners.”
"He who works for small wages
and saves something every week
is better off at the end of the
year, than the man who works
for a big salary and saves noth
ing." The spendthrift is* usually
the person who wants what he
does not need.
Humanity may be classified in
the following ascending scale:
1. The ignorant, who do not
want, but need;
2. The foolish, who do not need,
but want;
3. The poor, who both want and
need, need and want:
4. The comfortable, who do not
want and do not need;
The contented, the happiest
people on earth, whose wants and
needs coincide; they want oniv
what they need, and they need
only what they want.