Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1920 — Enemies [ARTICLE]

Enemies

By GRORGB MATTHEW ADAMS

PSOPLE are known and Judged quite as much by the kind of Enemies they make as by the kind of Friends they have. Choose your Enemies. Many a man or woman has been handicapped by having some one else choose their Enemies for them. For Enemies must needs come to every forceful Character, sooner or later. And If you do the choosing of your Enemies, you know the kind you have to deal with. Choose your enemies. Another strong point about choosing your own Enemies, is that you can study them to better advantage than If some one else chose them for you and acted as a Coach to them. For many a man, by close application, to the study of hla Enemies, can finally make them his Friends I Choose your Enemies. Enemies have the most to do with end cluster most around those who are Positive and Definite as Doers. To have big plans and Important work to perform and to go ahead with it without fear or favor, is to create Enemies from Somewhere. But enemies never come around unless you become Effective and Monumental in your efforts. Then the Enemies get busy. Choose your Enemies. But never for a single moment allow the work of your Enemies to deter you from your forward fight. Accept them as a matter of course, never allowing yourself to get down to their level. For then they may swoop down upon you and bewilder and defeat you. Choose your Enemies. And remember that by always remaining bigger than your Enemies, you pave a path over which they may finaHy Walk as your Friends.