Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1910 — Be Prepared. [ARTICLE]

Be Prepared.

A great many people prefer to slide along the line of least resistance, to get along just as easily as they can, to paying the price in preparation for something better, says Orison Swett Marden in Success Magazine. They are not willing to prepare themselves for a wider, larger place. They'know that their education is deficient, that they lack special training; and they know that they could manage, somehow, to repair their deficiencies, hut they lack the energy to do so. They prefer to slide along in an easy-going way, with the least trouble possible to themselves. How many wrecks, how many lnoom |

plete and wretched lives we see everywhere because people did not think it worth while to prepare for much of a career! They thought they would get Just a little education to help them along; just enough for practical use. They did not think It worth while to dig down deep and lay broad foundations. They did not see life as a whole. The reason why the lives of so many people are mean and stingy and juiceless is because they put so little into them, they make such a meager preparation in education, in culture, in training, in thinking. Their harvest Is small because they sow so llttla and such inferior seed. If the youth expects a rich, golden harvest, he must prepare the soil, he must do some good sowing in the seedtime. You cannot take out of your life what you have not put into It, any more than you can draw out of a bank what you have not deposited.