The Human Being Who Lives Only For

Success Consists Of Being And Doing, Not Simply Accumulating.

What Would You Call America's Most Priceless Asset? Surely Not Its Limitless Natural Resources, Not Its Matchless National Wealth, Not Its Unequalled Store Of Gold, Not Its Giant Factories, Not Its Surpassing Railroads, Not Its Unprecedented Volume Of Cheap Power. Is Not Its Most Priceless Asset The Character Of Its People, Their Indomitable Self-confidence, Their Transcendent Vision, Their Sleepless Initiative And, Perhaps Above All, Their Inherent, Irrepressible Optimism?

Summer, With Its Dog Days, Its Vacations, Its Distractions, Is Over. We Have Had Our Holidays, Our Rest, Our Recreation. The Fall Season, With Its New Opportunities For Effort, Enterprise And Achievement, Is Upon Us. Let Us Rip Off Our Coats And Get Down To Business. We May Have Allowed Pessimism To Grip Us During The Summer Months. We May Even Have Allowed Laziness To Enter Our Bones. Now It Is Up To Us To Throw Off Both Lassitude And Pessimism. The Time Has Come For Action, For Aggressiveness.

Vitally Important For A Young Man Or Woman Is, First, To Realize The Value Of Education And Then To Cultivate Earnestly, Aggressively, Ceaselessly, The Habit Of Self-education.

Happiness Is Normally The Prime Search Of Every Rational Human Being. One Way To Derive Increasing Happiness During The Year We Have Just Entered Is To Strive Diligently To Promote The Happiness Of Others, To Think Of Them First, Yourself Second. Happiness Is The Greatest Tonic, The Greatest Elixir, Of All. Worry Is Among The Worst Poisons. One Sensible New Year Resolution: I Will Do My Utmost To Have Consideration For Others, To Exercise Usefulness, To Radiate Happiness, To Conquer Worrying Over Things I Cannot Possibly Remedy.