THE KUSKO TIMES
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Kusko Times, MdGrath, Alaska.
TIcGRATH, ALASKA, MAR. 23, ]!>21
“There are too many men around
here who say ‘can’t’,” explained an
smptoverr
Dcrrt say^'can’t.”
Don’t confess defeat before you try.
If’Newton had been a can’t man when
he saw the apple fall, somebody else
would have discovered the law of
gravitation.
When your employer wants some
thing done and you say offhhnd that it
“can’t” be done,” he wonders. Maybe
it can be done. Perhaps be will later
ascertain that it can b«- done.- What
fchbn is yoer position? •“Can’t” is a
dangerous word for an emydeye: It is
dangerous fo? art-employer;-- Don’t risk
sA 0-' it.*’
'nordinary things, and some extra
ordinary things. there is no way to tell
what may be done until you try. And
if you fail one hundred times, you may
succeed in the one hundred and-first
attempt. While a refugee, Robert
Bruce learned that from the spider.
“Can’t” may be a sign of timidity. It
may mean that- you are Ias\v Worse
still, it is admission ;»hat you are a
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weakling, and the weaklings in the so
cial order are the failures, the dere
licts, and the backwash of progress.
What if'Abrabafoi Lincoln in his boy
hood of poverty had been one of the
“cant’s”? He would have lived a
rail splitter and died a rail splitter.
What if the American colonists had
said “can’t”?
Everybody for thousands of years
said “can’t” to the thought that men
might fly througq the sky. But Lang
ley and the Wright brothers came
along and men are outftyiag the birds.
Marconi was born - with no word
“can’t” in his vocabulary* and-we have
wireless.
And so runs the-story of ‘man. No
great inventor, no-great-discoverer, no
great statesman* no great philosopher,
no great reformer, began life with
‘canals.”'
“Can” is the shibboleth -that' made
America, that raises men- td - the
heights and that carries* civilisation
forwardr—Portland Journal*
While the UMted States Senate was
debating a resolution, a few weeks ago,
to appropriate 150,000'for the expenses
of inaugurating President Harding,
Senator Borah declared that Mr. Hard
ing does-not ©are for display, and for
bis part Mr. Borah thought $10 enough
for all necessary expenses.
Senator Knox recalled that Abraham
Lincoln.- when he was inaugurated,
stooped aDd kissed thirty-four pretty
girls who represented the thirtv-four
States of his-tinae. The Pennsylvania
senator thought some liberality due to j
modern Presidents- who have been'
shorn of such pnerogaii-ves. though
there seems to be nothing- in the eon- j
stitutiou to forbid it. even- now when i
fourteen States hare beenoadded to!
Lincoln’s number. Senator Reed re
torted that what Mr. Lincoln did cost
the Datior. nothing and it was*tie argu
ment for a big appropriation.’
Senator Fletch r told the familiar
story of Jeffersonian simplicity. Presi
dent Jefferson went- to the capitol on
horseback, alone; tied his horse to a
rail fence, stood,uptin mud-spattered j
riding boots, took the-oath ef- office,!
addressed about one hundred words to
those who happened to be present, ■
walked back to bis horse, and rode
away. It didn’t oost a cent.
Senator Knox sarcastically advised
Senator Fletcher to bring Jeffersonian
simplicity down to date by reading
President Wilson’s expense account at
Paris; whereupon Senator Reed, recal
citrant Democrat, gave it as his opin
ion that “the -Jeffersonian eruption ap
pears on the skins of some Democrats
only when they are in the saddle.”'
Ttre-birth-place of Theodore Roose
velt, at 28 East Twentieth street, New
York, was dedicated recently as a-me
morial Ito the* life *s,ad works - of this
great American. The property has
lately been bought for this purpose
with funds raised; byopopelar subscrip
tion. Among the’relics shown is the
gymnasium apparatus-'wkb'which the
delicate boy fitted himself: for the
strenueus life he afterwards led. - -
A co-operative store started; in
Washington, D. C., a year age by-6,200'
workers in the Treasury Department,
r.o reduce the-cost of Irving, has closed
its doors. The workers had given- $5
ipieee towardtheexperinaent. Lately
1700 of them “withdrew th®!r ra^ney.
7' ‘ ' .f; "Ity to tL■ i >to:*e is j
' -,i r:;e o? its failure.
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