Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1912 — Does It Pay to Strive for Fame? [ARTICLE]

Does It Pay to Strive for Fame?

By ROBERT G. LEE

As the days.pass into months and the months into years, we pause and look, or rather try to look, into the future. Every normal human being is gifted with a desire to conquer something’ That something may be very great or exceedingly small in its proportions. Sometimes the idea or formation of the ’distinct desire is long in coming te-the surface. But when it does come it is there to stay. Now, 1 ask, does it pay to strive and struggle to become one of immortal fame? Or does it pay more to seek comfort

and security in a secluded walk of life. Which now is the proper path io follow? These questions make us think of Gray’s “Elegy,” in which the obscure class is called the “poor.” But can it be that they are gifted with greater things than the so-called brilliant class? /