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by Glynn McCauley
When you feel the part of the original born loser, remember
where you placed this article so you can re-read it. This article
is going to set forth the stories of some of the world's greatest
people and you maY be' surprised. In all the stories, the people,
whose greatness was usually unrecognized by their contempora-
rles, had one single ingredient of commonality; A firm belief
in the value of not giving up. (Indeed, some even stretched Ben
Franklin's admonition of "If at first you don't succeed, they try,
try again," to more tries than even Mr. Franklin would have
felt Justified.)
Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven
before he could read! Isaac Newton realized the gravity of
grades in elementary school because his were all "down".
Beethoven's music teacher once lamented, "As a composer,
he is hopeless." Thomas Edison wastold by many of his teachers
that he was incapable of learning anything. F. W. Woolworth
got a job in a dry goods store when he was twenty-one but his
employers refused to let him walt on customers because he
didn't have enough sense. A Kansas CRynewsnaner editor fired
Walt Disney because he had "no good ideas." Caruso% music
teacher told him, "You can*t sing. You have no voice at all."
Along the same lines, the director of the Imperial Opera ir
Vienna told Madam Schumann-Heink that she would never be a
singer and even advised her to by a sewing machine so that
she could be useful at something. Leo Tolstoy flunked out of
college ; and Wernher Von Braun flunked ninth-grade algebra.
Admiral Richard E. Byrd had been retired from the Navy as
"unfit for service" until he flew over both poles. Louis Pasteur
was rated as "mediocre" in chemistry when he attended the
Ro~al College. Abraham Lincoln entered the Black Hawk War
as a captain only to be discharged as a private at the war's
conclusion. Louisa May Alcott was told by an editor that she
could never write anything of popular appeal. Fred Waring
was once rejected for high school chorus. Winston Churchill
failed the sixth grade. And after his son had been expelled
from school for the seventh time, Clem Rogers said, "I can't
make him learn. There's just too much mule in him." Too much
mule? In Will Rogers? In baseball, one of the most laughable
trades of all time saw Aaron Robinson leave the White Sex in
exchange for a tobacco-chewing second baseman named Nellie
Fox. At the time of the trade, writers in Chicago vehemently
suggested that the White Sex had been cheated.
These stories, llke those of John Kennedy's are to give you a
IRtle lift. They are to show you the tribulations through which
more notable people traversed. President Kennedy once obser-
ved, they cannot give one courage, C'for that, each must look
into his own heart."
(This was taken from the First United Methodist Church News,
Perry, Oklahoma by Ron Payne)
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1973
THE EASY WAY
SKIP DOBIE
Did you ever stop to wonder
why that some people seem to
have every one of lifes blessings
bestowed upon them, while some
of us never seem to he able to
boil water. The amount of
energy expended has very little
bearing on how well the flowers
will grow. The blacksmith will
tell you that you can pound for
clays on a piece of iron to get
it into the right shape, or you
can heat it up and hit it once
or twice.
Many of liras problems axe
like this, and most of us will
hit at the problem for dayswith
a hammer, to accomplish what a
little planning could solve in
just a few minutes. The human
mind and body is capable of
almost any task~ providing the
timing is right. Decisions made
in the heat of anger, or grief,
usually will bring about more
of the same. The expression;
The world will stand aside for
the person that knows where
there going is Just as true to=
day as it was yesterday. Every
leader in every community is a
person that has demonstrated
that he has the ability to get
the work done. This power is
within us all. The trouble is that
most of us remember our moth-
ers and fathers telling us that it
is to dangerous, or to late, or
to early or many other choice
expressions. The person that
does not continue to grow and
to propser, will very soon be
dead. The bible tell us of the
landowneP that was very pleas-
ed when his servant made good
use of the talents he had re-
ceived. Many a great project
started when a man said, I
don't care how many people have
tried this, I know I Can. Try
this out for openers. Let's as-
sume that you are completly
disorganized, and find It very
difficult to get your days work
accomplished in the alloted
time. For one week, simply
write down on paper all the
things that have to be ac-
complished, as they come up.
After each task is finished cross
R off... DO NOT TRY TO RE-
MEMBER
