Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1915 — Learn to Help Yourself. [ARTICLE]

Learn to Help Yourself.

I fear that a great majority of people, at least in a great majority of cases, nimbly sit down when they run up against a blind wall, writes Arthur M. Judy in the Atlantic. If they can call the plumber, or the butcher, or the gardener, or the laundress, or the shoemaker, or the blacksmith, or the dairyman, or the horse-tamer —then a way out will be made for them. And that is what your city life tends to do for your boys and girls—set them to calling upon an endless variety of specialists to help them surmount life’s prpblems. On the other hand, farmer boys and girls must learn to be all these specialists. The consequence is, they grow up with the feeling that they can and must do it, no matter what befalls; and that feeling, or I greatly miss my count, is the secret of the power Of Initiative.