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May You Find Your ♦ ♦ ♦ Countless thousands have found inspiration in Dr. ConweH's lecture, “Acres of Diamonds,” which the Founder personally delivered 6,152 times. Its theme was that opportunity often may he found near at hand, and in one’s customary line of endeavor, with no need to wander afar. It w-as based on the story of an ancient Persian named Ali Hafed, who had a large farm near the River Indus. He was quite contented until he learned of the beauty and value of diamonds, whereupon he resolved that he would no longer be happy until he had a diamond mine of his own. He wandered to Palestine, and then through Europe, until, reduced to rags and wretchedness, he threw himself into the bay at Barcelona, Spain. ♦ ♦ ♦ But, as Fate would have it, the man wrho bought Ali Hafed’s farm found a strange stone, and showed it to a priest, w-ho identified it as a diamond. Thus was discovered the diamond mine of Golconda, the most magnificent in history, from which came the Kohinoor and other famed gems. Had Ali Hafed remained at home and dug in his own cellar or underneath his own w'heatfields, or in his own garden, he w'ould have had, literally, “acres of diamonds.” Founder, President, 10
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—KiiyHdft RUSH D. HOLT age 33 youngest L’ S. Senator West Virginia University —Hurrell. from M. G. M. ROBERT TAYLOR age 27 - motion picture star . . graduate of Pomona College. WILLIAM McC. MARTIN age 32 . . . president. New York Stock Exchange. Yale graduate. The Templar expresses its thanks to Durward Howes, editor of America's Young Men and American Women, for his selection of the “Marching Youth. ' YOUTH 9
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