Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1915 — TEN RESOLUTIONS SUGGESTED THAT ARE WORTHY CONSIDERATION [ARTICLE]

TEN RESOLUTIONS SUGGESTED THAT ARE WORTHY CONSIDERATION

Jack Lait, writer for The Chicago Herald, has framed up ten resolutions which he suggests as apt to fit about all cases and if they are good in Chicago then they should also be ■good in Rensselaer and surrounding country and in fact everywhere. Mr. Lait says that ten is a round number and was the number chosen for the holy commandments and often by •mankind in other works since then. He says that if ten resolutions are not for a man to make himself good, fbrave, clean and square, then he had better not resolve but once, to make himself all over new. The resolutions Jack Lait suggests are: 1— To smile every day through a temptation to frown. 2 To tell my wife every day that I love her. She knows that I do, but she loves to have me tell her so. 3 To suspend judgment, for man is not gifted with divine sight is too prone to find a Verdict of guilty without givng hs fellow man a square tral and the benefit of*the reasonable

doubt. 4 To help my staggering fqllowman onto his feet, Tor heaven knows I have staggered and, were it not for the friendly prop, I should have fallen. 5 To 'be earnest at my work, giving what I can to posterity, and to play hard when I play, giving what I can to the day and all who share it with me. 6 To live so every day that, should I die that night, I should need to ask forgiveness of none save God. 7 To avoid excess in all things, so that I may conserve 'body and mind and not find myself spent at the time whfen I should be most useful. 8— To keep faith with the whole world, glory in truth and face the consequences bravely. 9 To work, for that is what my hands and mind are for, and work so that some day my children may point in pride upon my epitaph and say: “He was my father; I am proud.” 10— To fight for the right and pray for the light.