ne
state. He could plat great coal empires and command armies of men, but
he seems to have been pitifully ignorant of the fact that the barrel
shakes.

It is the educated, the rich and the worldly wise who blunder most in
the training of their children. Poverty is a better trainer for the
rest.

The menace of America lies not in the swollen fortunes, but in the
shrunken souls who inherit them.

But Nature's eliminating process is kind to the race in the barrel
shaking down the rattlers. Somebody said it is only three generations
from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

How long this nation will endure depends upon how many Gussie boys this
nation produces. Steam heat is a fine thing, but do you notice how few
of our strong men get their start with steam heat?

Children, Learn This Early

You boys and girls, God bless you! You live in good homes. Father and
mother love you and give you everything you need. You get to thinking,
"I won't have to turn my hand over. Papa and mamma will take care of
me, and when they are gone I'll inherit everything they have. I'm fixed
for life."

No, you are unfixed. You are a candidate for trouble. You are going to
rattle. Father and mother can be great and you can be a peanut.

You must solve your own problems and carry your own loads to have a
strong mind and back. Anybody who does for you regularly what you can
do for yourself--anybody who gives you regularly what you can earn for
yourself, is robbing you of your birthright.

Father and mother can put money in your pocket, ideas in your head and
food in your stomach, but you cannot own it save as you digest it--put
it into your life.

I have read somewhere about a man who found a cocoon and put it in his
house where he could watch it develop. One day he saw a little insect
struggling inside the cocoon. It was trying to get out of the envelope.
It seemed in trouble and needed help. He opened the envelope with a
knife and set the struggling insect free. But out came a monstrosity
that soon died. It had an over-developed body and under-developed
wings. He learned that helping the insect was killing it. He took away
from it the very thing it had to have--the struggle. For it was this
struggle of breaking its own way out of that envelope that was needed
to reduce its body and develop its wings.

Not Packhorse Work

But remember there is little virtue in work unless it is getting us
somewhere. Just work that gets u