Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1909 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

To Succeed, • Follow the Bent of jflJB Your Nature. By PATRICK H. MXARREN. New York State Senator. 3********oHE world with which we have to contend is exacting, 1J * I practical and unsympathetic. It has no use for dreamJ! ! > ers except in so far as they afford subjects of ridicule « > y ;» for the practical. 3 UNLESS YOU ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING THE WORLD COMMENDS YOU WILL BE ELBOWED OUT OF THE WAY OR THROWN INTO THE USELESS PILE, 80 TO BPEAK. IF YOU LAG YOU WILL BE OVERTAKEN IN ANY RACE IN WHICH YOU MAY COMPETE. IF YOU TRY TO ACCOUNT FOR YOUR FAILURE THE WORLD HAS NO EARS FOR YOUR BTORY. IT ONLY CARES TO LISTEN TO THE VICTOR. Every successful man in the world has FOLLOWED THE BENT OF HIS NATURE. If you find you cannot avoid thinking about and spending your time at music, become a musician. If you must give all your attention to mechanism, become a mechanic. If you have an irresistible desire to read lawbooks, become a lawyer. But, whatever you do, try to FIND THAT WHICH YOU CAN DO BEST. The world is full of mediocrity. From the standpoint of performance the human family is about 90 per cent as similar as a brood of chickens. There is very little difference in our accomplishments. It is only now and then a man does anything out of the ordinary, and for the man that succeeds in doing SOMETHING BETTER AND GREATER THAN HAS BEEN DONE there is always awaiting a substantial reward alluring enough to cause him to try to excel. IF YOU PUT A SQUIRREL AND A DUCK ON THE GROUND, AS 80ON AS THEY SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY THE SQUIRREL WILL CLIMB THE NEAREST TREE AND THE DUCK WILL SWIM IN THE NEAREST POND. THEY CANNOT HELP DOING SO. NATURE COMPELS THEM.

College Must Fit One For Modern Affairs. By WOODROW WILSON. President of Princeton University. 771 E have fallen of late into a DEEP DISCONTENT | WITH THE COLLEGE, with the life and the work of tile undergraduates in our universities. The American college has played a unique part in American life. So long as its aims were definite and its processes authoritative it formed men who brought to their tasks an incomparable morale, a capacity that seemed more than individual, a power touched with large ideals. Nevertheless the evident fact is that we have now for a long generation DEVOTED OURSELVES TO PROMOTING CHANGES WHICH HAVE RESULTED IN ALL BUT COMPLETE DISORGANIZATION, and it is our plain and immediate duty to form our plans for reorganization. WE MUST RE-EXAMINE THE COLLEGE, RECONCEIVE IT, REORGANIZE IT. IT IS THE ROOT OF OUR INTELLECTUAL LIFE AS A NATION. IT WILL BE FOUND TO LIE SOMEWHERE VERY NEAR THE HIEART OF AMERICAN SOCIAL TRAINING AND INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL ENLIGHTENMENT. The change has been wrought by the breakup of the old curriculum, and with the relaxation of the rule as to what the undergraduate should study the teacher had lost his feeling of responsibility for the life of his pupils. College students, again, are no longer merely the sons of the bookish classes, but the SONS OF MEN OF BUSINESS AND AFFAIRS as well. THEY DO NOT WISH LEARNING. THEY WISH ONLY A CERTAIN FRESHENING OF THEIR FACULTIES TO MISCELLANEOUS CONTESTS OF LIFE, A GENERAL ACQUAINTANCE WITH WHAT MEN ARE DOING AND SAYING IN THEIR OWN GENERATION, A CERTAIN FACILITY IN HANDLING THEMSELVES AND IN GETTING ON WITH THEIR FELLOWS. THEY ARE MUCH MORE INTERESTED IN THE INCIDENTAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE LIFE THAN IN THE MAIN INTELLECTUAL OCCUPATIONS OF THE PLACE. The life and discipline of college are meant to be a PROCESS OF PREPARATION, not a process of information.

Methods of the Ward Politician Are Well Worth Imitating By HARRY A. CARFIELD. President of Williams Collefle, Massachusetts. HAT we have need of today as never before since Rome flfl ■ was mistress of the world are men and women who think less about the success they are seeking and more about the STANDARDS OF LIFE they have adopted and the Kay they are living up to them. Have we not something to learn in this matter of social reform from even the Condemned W ARD POLITICIAN ? His standard of political honesty is low, often too low to be called a standard at all, and doubtless in many instances his neighborliness is forced. NEVERTHELESS HE GOES ABOUT DOING LITSTLE KINDNESSES, HELPING THE HUNGRY MAN TO A MEAL, GETTING SOMEBODY’S BOY OUT OF JAIL, SENDING AN INJURED WORKMAN TO THE HOSPITAL. HIS FACE IS FAMILIAR IN EVERY HOME IN THE WARD AND HIS GREETING TO EVERY BOY IN THE STREET. We need not imitate his mode of life and standard of citizenship nor rest content with his meager attainments and crude acceptance of power, but we may to advantage CULTIVATE HIS KINDLY INTEREST IN THOSE ABOUT HIM, for does he not in verv truth FEED THE HUNGRY, CLOTHE THE NAKED AND VISIT THE SICK AND THOSE IN PRISON? If in so doing he serves those accounted least among us there is the higher warrant 1 for our approval. „