Central Washington University - Hyakem / Kooltuo Yearbook (Ellensburg, WA)

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fiJnrk anil OlbfrrfulnfflH Prof. F.. ). Kletnme made an address on the above subject. The following is from that address: Some time ago this familiar quotation came to my notice: “For every evil uriler the Min There is a remedy or Ihere is none; If there is one try and find it. If there is mine never mind it. From this stanza 1 get the suggestion of the subject—work and cheerfulness. If the problems of life have a solution vc should try and find it—work. If there is none never mind it—cheerfulness. I am glad these two words apjiear together. One assists the other. A cheerful mind is a busy one. A happy person is one who has an active hand guided by a cheerful spirit. Work has ever been nature ' s motto. It has taken eruption after eruption to pile up mountains. It has taken centuries for nature to produce the perfect flower. The earth is the result of millions of years of development. Later, animals are found upon it. and ages after man appears in all his perfection. Carruth beautifully expresses this thought when he says: A fire mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell. A jelly-fish and a saurian, And caves where the cave-men dwell; Then a sense of law and beauty. And a face turned up from the clod. Some call it evolution. And others call it God. Young |H-ople sometimes think that success is mere chance; that fortune conics to tlic calm and inactive; that fate will open the future and reveal the way to fame and honor. If they do not find it so then they are apt to complain with the man in the story who insists that he “hain’t hed no show.” If opportunity comes it will In- the result of effort, not of hoping; of activity, not of dreaming. Fenny son ua crossing the F.nglish Channel from France to his native land— Knglatid. lie was standing on the deck as the sun was sinking in the west The stem- that met his eyes was beyond the description of a Dickens or the skill of a Raphael. I he clouds were ever changing as the rays of light were refracted into prismatic colors through the various strata of air. Below him were the placid water- of the channel, reflecting the beauty of the scene above and adding grand- rat is beyond description. The scene was an inspiration and Tennyson ati n« it fade away until color was no longer visible, then the poet returned to h s rooms and wrote the beautiful verses which begin: Sunset and evening star And otic clear call for me I A, ’d n «a.v there lie no moaning at the liar, “ ben I put out to sea. 2 3

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Training departtiwit pokc ' las Mr’Hofack ' mai h ° “ Pri ' i| “ l ° f ca.io„ if JL No.” hlu W Z IT ' ? “ « M “ - Wn, ho. ,obuih, . ho,,,-,a girt. dnmraiic. ££ A. C. P„ ' io. Hil Nfll? U e sigh for those who’vc gone bevond, Heyond this world so dear, Hut why not give our friends some help, Our friends who are quite near. If you have roses, sweet and rare. To give with words of love, Please give them while your friends are near, I o those not gone above. c write a long biography To voice the love we have bor those to whom we never gave Our thanks in life—how sad! Then get this message one and all. Give forth the words of praise; lo worthy friends in active life Our benediction raise. 22

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That poem was written in a few minutes, but it was not an extemporaneous effort. Tennyson had been thinking those thoughts for years and all his prepara¬ tion was brought to bear upon this effort. The scene merely arranged the thoughts in a new manner. One cannot tell the amount of effort required for a particular production. The great artists conceal all the art. bunker Hill Monument stands ujxm fifty feet of solid cement. Patrick Henry came from the rear of the room in the ir- ginia Assembly and under the inspiration of the moment delivered that oration which every American school-boy knows, ' T repeat it sir, we must fight. but the youthful orator had delivered similar productions in the woods many times before, when there was no one to hear save the birds. Bryan took the Democratic Convention at Chicago by storm when lie delivered that speech in which he said. “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon the cross of gold. but these thoughts had been given to the people of Nebraska on numerous occasions. Success comes to any one who can pay the price. Some one has said that genius is ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Turner, the great painter, when asked for the secret of his success replied: “1 have no secret, only hard work.” Webster said, All 1 have attained of success is due to energy, not genius. Thanatopsis was written one hundred times before it was given to the public. George Eliot tells us that she wrote Middlemarch in her youth. She wrote it as a young woman. She revised it in parts during her later life. And when she presents it to the world she says: I give-you a volume that is the product of my whole life ' s effort. A youth ap¬ proached Angelo and said: “I would like to l c an artist, of what can you assure me? “Well. said the artist, looking up from his work, if you give me twelve vears of your life. I may be able to make you an ordinary workman. Not much encouragement for the get-success-quiek youth. Labor can make five dol¬ lars worth of iron into ten dollars worth of horseshoes, or one hundred eighty dollars worth of knives, or six thousand eight hundred dollars worth of needles, or two hundred thousand dollars worth of watch springs, or four hundred thousand dollars worth of hair springs. If you expect to succeed in school life, work. If you hope to win in life’s school, work. but a more pleasant side of our subject is cheerfulness. Wc should work, but we may smile as wc work. “Laugh anil the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone. This dear old earth must borrow its mirth. It has trouble enough of it own.” It ' s a great waste of time to worry—smile. Frowns mean defeat. Clouds darken, sunshine brightens. Cheerfulness helps us physically. It increases the heart action. It encourages deep breathing. It produces clear thinking. It gives appetite. It reduces doctor bills. It buys opera tickets. Cheerfulness sends the blood coursing through the veins and arteries, giving a glow to the check, a brightness to the eye. a quickness -4