Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1918 — Way to Success. [ARTICLE]

Way to Success.

Power is. the goal of every worthy ambition and only weakness comes from imitation orx dependence on others, says a writer in Success. Power is self-developed, self-generated. We cannot increase the strength of our muscles by sitting in a gymnasium and letting another exercise for us. Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean you never will be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. The man who tries to give his children a start in the world so that they will not have so hard a time as he had is unknowingly bringing disaster upon them. What he calls giving them a start probably will give them a setback In the world. Young people need all the motive power they can get. They are naturally leaners, imitators, copiers, and it is easy for them, to develop into echoes or imitations. They will not walk alone while you furnish crutches; they will lean upon you just as long as you will let them. One of the greatest delusions that a human being could* have is that he is permanently benefited by continued assistance from others.