Hartwell High School - Wave Lengths Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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3-0-x -r C6716 gnner CUTge N a factory where marinefs compasses are made, the needles, before they are mag- netized, will lie in position wherever they are placed; but from the moment they have been touched by the mighty magnet, they take on a mysterious power. Before they are magnetized, they do not answer the call of the North Star, nor does the magnetic pole have any effect upon them; but the moment they have been electrified, they swing to the magnetic north, and are ever after loyal and true to their afhnity. Multitudes of people, like unmagnetized needles, are unresponsive to any stimuli until they are touched by that inner urge we call ambition. Whence comes this overmastering impulse which pushes human beings 011. etch to his individual goal? How and when does it gain entrance into our lives? If we could explain just what ambition is, we could understand the mystery of the universe. It is the same kind of urge that is in the seed, buried out of sight, which pushes it up and through the soil, prods it to the utmost to give its beauty and frag- rance to the world. It is the instinctive impulse to keep moving on and up. It exists in every normal human being and is 215 real as the instinct of self-preservzztion. Indeed, might it not be said that this incessant upward promptinguthis urge which pushes men to their goal-is an expression in man of the universal force of evolution which is flowing Godward? God is whispering into the ear of all existence of every created thing, Look upii. Everything seems to be striving to teach a higher level. Everything is in the process of evolution, and the evolution always upward. The butterfly does not become a grub, but the grub develops into a butterfly. But for the fostering of this desire to push on and upwardethis God-urgee- the progress of the universe would cease; and, with the race, so with the individual. Ambition often begins early to knock for recognition. If we do not heed its voice, if we procrastinate in answering its call, if we cultivate the habit of picking out the easier tasks and putting OE the more difhcult ones, if we offer no encouragement to its years of appeal, the inner urge gradually sloughs off in its functioning, deterioration of ideals sets in, and the growth of the soul becomes stifled in the self-inflicted discontent of ease. Man then becomes a mere scrub-plnnt without flower or fruitage, for the better things do not grow in material or mental soil without work, care, and nourishment. Only weeds, briars and noxious plants thrive easily.

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3-1 1-1 1-: id He who would Climb to heights sublime Or breathe the purer air of life, Must not expect to rest in case, But brace himself for trial or strifej, On the other hand, the craving for something higher and better is the best pos- sible antidote, or remedy, for the lower tendencies of human nature. The weakening through mnlunutrition of the undesirable human traits necessarily follows the strength- ening of the desire for the finer things of life. If :1 man constantly strives is he not elevated? His aspiration finally becomes inspiration and ennobles his whole life. It, therefore, behooves us never to discourage not refuse to heed the inner voice; for if we do, the urge will become less insistent until it finally will cease to exist, and life will become stagnant and dead. XVc must be ever up and doing. There is no rest in growth for growth means Change, spurred by the inner urge. There is no limit, where ambition abides, to human growth. When ve reach the height which looks so attractive from below, we find our new position as unsatisfactory as the old one A perpetual call to go higher and higher rings in our ears; :1 divine impulse constantly urges us to move on toward eternal perfection, for A mnifs reach should exceed his grasp, or whatis a heaven for? To the heights we, like the magnetized needles of the Mnrineris compass swing, spurred on by the inner urge to struggle with destinye-the inner urge, which is heavens own incentive to make mania purpose great and his achievement greater. MARGARET LOTH 33 p.