East Liverpool High School - Keramos Yearbook (East Liverpool, OH)

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emmog C-Zgenior Qtessage YOU ARE THE MASTER OF YOUR FATE of comparatively equal abilities at the age of twenty-five and traced them to the age of sixty-five and found that five out of six were living on charity when they reached their sixty-fifth year. Just one in twenty is able to live without working at sixty-tive. FEW years ago the American Bankers Association took one hundred healthy men These young men were healthy to begin with. They all had the same chance for suc- cess. The difference lay in the way they used their minds. Ninety-five out of one hun- dred just do the tasks that are set for them, they do what they are told to do but nothing more. -They have little or no faith in themselves-no initiative-none of the courage that originates new things and better things in life. They are either directed or con- trolled by someone else. Where will you be when you reach the age of sixty-five? Dependent or independent? Striving and struggling for a living-accepting charity from someone else-or outstand- ing successful citizens, serving your communities in a manner that will reveal honest, successful, Christian lives? We trust that during the few short years which you have spent in the public schools you have learned what it means to be the Master of your fate. Until you have learned this you will never attain life's full success. Your fate is in your own hands, you have the making of it. What you are going to be five years, ten years or twenty years from now depends upon what you think today. Are you going to continue to bow down to matter as the only power? Are you going to look upon your environment as something that has been wished upon you and for which you are in no way responsible? Or are you going to try to realize in your daily lives that matter is merely an aggregation of electrons subject entirely to the control of mind, that your environment, your success, your happiness, are all of your own making, and that if you are not satisfied with conditions as they are, you have but to visualize them as you would have them be in order to change them? The former is the easier way right now-the easy way that leads to the hades of poverty and fear and old age. But the latter is the way that brings you to your Heart's Desire. And merely because this great Power is invisible, is that any reason to doubt it? The greatest powers of Nature are invisible-Love is invisible, but what greater power is there in life? Joy is invisi- ble, happiness, peace, contentment. The radio is invisible-yet you hear it. It is the product of a law governing sound waves. Law is invisible, yet you see the manifestation of different laws every day. These things were brought to life when man learned how to unfold his wisdom. How about you? Will you take active control of your own thoughts? Will you think healthy thoughts, happy thoughts, successful thoughts? The difference between the successful man and the unsuccessful one is not so much a matter of equipment. It is riot a question of opportunity or luck. It is largely in the way each of them look at t ings. The successful man sees an opportunity, seizes upon it, and moves upward another rung of the ladder of success. It never occurs to him that he may fail. He sees only the opportunity, he visions what he can do with it, and all the forces within and without him combine to help him win. Your superintendent wishes to every member of the class of 1931 a most successful career, a life that will bring joy and happiness into the lives of all with whom you are associatedg a life of service to God and His people. -Herbert G. Means, Superintendent of Schools. 10

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