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R HE big words in life are the little
: words, that is to say words of
few letters. As men gradually
. built up language from grunts,
whistlings and signs to a regular
e vocabulary, they always kept
'very short words for things most important.
What are words that we use most often and
tHat are necessary to us? Here are some; see
how short they all are:
‘\ YES, NO, GO, COME, BUT, DIE, LIVE
AND IF.
We have big words, plenty of them, polysyl
labic, redundant, but they are not words that
men use when they want to say something in a
hurry. -
This editorial is about the short word IF, the
word that towers up in life’s castle, frightens
many, discourages others and excuses short
comings,
. * *
A well-known line says that in the bright
lexicon of youth there is no'such word as “Fail.”
That is high sounding but inaccurate. If youth
determined to sing like Caruso, or lift itself by
its boot-straps, or square the circle or contrive
perpetual motion in the face of gravitation’s
force youth would fail.
Youth fails at least a dozen times, usually be
fore it succeeds. And every failure rightly un
derstood helps on toward the final success. ..
You cannot cut failure out of youth’s diction
ary. But you might cut from the dictionary,
from conversatiom and from life that big little
word IF with which men begin almost every
confession of incompetency.
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In this picture you see the road and the cas
tle of life. From the left, where men come, off to
the right leads the path over the mountains. In
the middle stands the big IF; men reach that
word, fall down and go no farther. If they had
ignored it, r-fused to see it, walked around it,
they could hove gone on traveling the road that
““TODAY"
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THAT “IF” IN THE CASTLE OF LIFE
A Daily Column of Comment and Opinion on High Spots of News Written by Arthur Brisbane in His Incomparable Style Appears in The Atlanta Georgian.
TELL YOUR NEWSDEALER TO DELIVER THE GEORGIAN AT YOUR HOME EVERY WEEK DAY AS WELL AS THE AMERICAN EVERY SUNDAY.
AAo e AN Rt e e A A Ae M AAt
Look at This Picture Care
lessly. You See an Old Castle,
Men Walking Toward It. Some
Lying Exhausted. That’s All.
Look More Closely at the Tall
Tower on the Left and the Shorter
Tower on the Right Covered with
fvy, or Hold the Page to Let the
few travel—the road of real independence, free
dom and courage.
One man says “If I had had a father to send
me to college.” Another, “If I had inherited a
fortune, or even enough money to give me a
start.” :
Another, “If I get leisure and a freedom
from worry, I'll show the world what I can do.”
Another, “If the game were worth the candle
I'd make the effort needed.” - :
And so on indefinitely. 2o
Each, thinking himself quite original, walks
as far as the word IF and then, like the men in
the picture, lies down and goes no farther.
- The men you admire are the men whose dic
tionary had no IF, the men who passed through
life without seeing or caring about the two big
letters that stand out in this picture.
They said to Columbus, “IF you try it, you
will sail a certain distance, then fall over the
edge of the ocean into eternal space.” They ac
tually thought then that you could sail to the
.edge of the world and fall off of it. But Colum
bus sailed.
They said to Father Marquette, whose cour
age carried civilization as well as religion with
him, “If you go, the Indians will torture you
first, then kill and probably eat you.” But he
wenb,
Because they would not be frightened by the
gloomy IF, our ancestors rebelled and sepa
rated from England. If they had failed, they
would have been hanged as traitors. But they
went around that IF and on beyond.
Caesar crossed the Rubicon, and had a mag
nificent time while it lasted. because he chose
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 1919.
Light Shine Through It and You‘
See the Word IF Stand Out. ‘
This Is the Castle of Life.
And Many Fail Because They See
Only the IF and Stop T;;ere.
They Never Reach the Road Lead
ing Off to the Right Across the
Mountains, Beyond the IF to Suc-‘
cess and Freedom. " |
to ignore the fact that IF his enemies in the Sen
ate got him that would be the end.
Alexander led thirty thousand Macedonians
against the millions of Persia and made himself
ruler of the world, just as he rode the savage
horse as a boy of twelve, because there were no
If’s for him. i
Aristotle, his great teacher, evidently left
that word out of the young prince’s education.
If he had failed to master Bucephalus, the
horse would have killed him.
If he had not known how to stampede the
great war elephants of the Persians his men
would have been trampled, and he made a slave
by the Persian king. Instead the king offered
him his daughter and half his empire. Alex
ander took it all and set fire to the palace to
amuse a dubious lady.
. & &
The first step forward is the step that carries
you past If into the high open road of accom
plishment. “Without Ifs or Buts,” is a good say
ing. “Without Ifs,” is better still.
In his famous story, “The Count of Monte
Cristo,” Dumas most appropriately had his hero
imprisoned in the Chateau d’lf.
In French our word IF is S/, also a word of
two letters. Dumas simply took the name of
Castle of If, which really existed. But most ap
propriately it-was after he had escaped from 1f
that Dumas hero uttered his well-known cry,
“The world is mine!”
’ & & . "
The world, or at least a fair share of it, be
longs to anybody that can escape from If and
go on independent of it.
Some reader will say. “That is all very well
in theory. But'lf you had a poor chance in life,
‘bad health, miserable appearance, neglected
education, what could you do”?
Find your answer in history. Epictetus was
a slave and so was Aesop. And one of them was
deformed, but the wisdom of those two men is
teaching the world at this minute.
Pope was a sickly creature. The female
nurse put a heavy canvas jacket around him and
sewed him into it each day that he might sit up
and work. He had every excuse for doing noth
ing, If he had chosen. Read his “Essay on
Man,” and you will see that he didn’t choose.
Robert Burns was a poor ploughman, drank
too much and was always. in trouble with
women. All that did not prevent work that has
inspired millions. .
Cut one letter out of the short sentencs, “If
Ican.” Cut out the F and when scmethin?'la to
be done and men ask who can do ii, let the an
swer be, “L, I can”; with no If in it.
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This' country meets with admfration and
gratitude the brave men that return from Eu
rope, after covering their country with glory as
fighters on the ground or in the air or on the
water.
Who is the man that failed as a fighter?
It is he who saw the If just beyond the edge
of his trench, or in the barbed wire entangle
ments. It is the man who saw If spelled out on
the ground below him as he flew, not over
anxious, perhaps, to find the enemy.
The man of high reputation and distin
guished courage is the man for whom even the
short word If is still too long by one letter.
Every day the world and its opportunities
ask us all the question, “Who can do it?” The
majority begin their answer “If” and that is all
you ever hear of them.
The few answer “I” with no If about it. And
those that to-day cut the F out of If are the men
about whom your grandchildren will be reading
in the years to come.
If is only one of the milestones on life’s
journey. It meets you at the beginning of the
road. It marks the spot where fall the majority
that neveg arrive anywhere.
Go around it, through it, over it, or under it.
BUT DON'T LET ANY IF STOP YOU.