The Price of Success

The price of success, whether of individual or nation, is found in work, education, and ideals. Work. - The world grows more busy with each passing year. Its machinery is never idle. Its burdens are too great to be encumbered with dead weight. Backward individuals and backward nations will surely be crushed beneath the Juggernaut we call civilization, unless they take a more active and intelligent part in its affairs. There is more and greater work to be done with each succeeding generation. The achievements of individuals in the past are a challenge to the youth of today. There are still further fields of exploration, adventure, and accomplishment, and a multitude of past achievements to be perfected. Every man possessed of the will to work finds his opportunity awaiting him. Education. - Education he must have. The time is past when hope of success can be offered to the ignorant. With each succeeding year the necessity for special accomplishments and particular fitness is more pronounced. Science has so far advanced as to become broken into many divisions, each requiring special training. Applied to every branch of government, industry, and even society, the demand is for education, that intelligence may be developed and applied to its full capacity; for in no other way may progress be assured, and progress is the purpose of life. Ideals. - Work and education are not sufficient to equip either the individual or nation for the accomplishment of the purposes of life. There must also be the inspiration and governing force of ideals. Without ideals there can be no lasting achievements. Without ideals there can be neither understanding, tolerance, justice, nor brother" hood between individuals or nations. Without high ideals there can be no worth-while aspirations, no true nobility of character, no spirit of unselfish service, all of which are essential to real progress.