The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, May 25, 1939, Page PAGE FIVE, Image 5
THUBSDAY, MAY 25, 1939. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FIVE Baccalaureate Services Held Sunday Evening (Continued rrom rage 1) ago. Therefore, it is becoming more ji::d more evident that if we go forth into life unfitted, unprepared for the vocation we may seek to enter, our opportunity of success will be small. The world being what it is, only those who are willing to prepare', to pay the price, have any chance to win for themselves a place in the struggle which goes on. Perhaps this is not exactly as it should be. yet it is a situation every youth starting out in life must face. Therefore you young people must not be satisfied to drift along, optimisti cally hoping something will turn up or you will have the good fortune to "fret a break." To begin life with that idea means you are defeated from the start. Once you have made up your mind what vocation or line of work you want to follow, you must determine to be the very best you can be. Take advantage of all the opportunity for preparation, for the measure of vour s'i cess will depend upon the man tier in which you adapt yourself and the way in which you seek to master the finest art of your chosen profes sion. Now to be a success is the natural ambition of every youth. Every nor mal youth has high hopes and great ambitions for the future. The famil iar picture of young Walter Raleigh sitting on the sand with his knees undf-r his chin as his arms clasp them listening rapt to the sailor whose finger points over the sea is a classic of youth, "the eternal dreamer." Youth will never be content with the ordinary levels of the misty flats they will scale the heights, accomp lish the impossible, conquer new worlds, so youth build their castles in the air. And it is a good thing youth does dream and have such an ;;uventurou3 spirit, such bold audac ity. Without it conquests would be impossible and progress unthinkable. And youth was never more daring, more adventurous than it is today. Never in all history was there a time when youth dreamed more of a better and nobler world than do the youth of today. But the great task in the life of every youth is to bring those dreams to earth. This art of capturing the dream and of them working steadily into the tapestry of common life is not achieved without a great deal of effort. Countless thousands fall by the way and soon become content with the ordinary levels and to move along with the crowd drifting aimlessly through life. Tonight you are surrounded by many people who dreamed their dreams, saw their visions and car ried their banner high. But for many those dreams have perished the romance of life has gone. I have read many touching stories of how missionaries have had to act as gravediggers and bury their own c hildren. But that is no more tragic than those who have conducted their own funeral and buried forever the man they intended to be and are now content with themselves just as they are. Now the great question is why do so many people give up and settle down and fail to achieve" the highest they hope and dream. Is it because they lack the necessary ability and do not have the brains? I do not think so. because you will often find those who have given the greatest promise in the beginning fail to jus tify the high hopes once entertained lor them. And those who were con sidered slow and awkward achieve the highest goal and succeed. Where in lies the secret of success and achievement and the cause of oft repeated failure. These are important questions for any graduating class of young peo ple and I hasten to say I have no easy or special formula. I have no ton lesson course on how to achieve success, and I would remind you there i3 no short and easy path to real and abiding success in life. Straight is the gate and narrow the way that leads unto life. But I can give you some enlightenment from one of our own poets on this great issue of life. For Longfellow in his immortal poem, "Excelsior," reveals the things for which every youth" must be pre pared to encouuter and battle if they would succeed. Longfellow re veals in his poem the obstacles which stand in the way of youth'3 highest achievements and to win over these is the only real success in life. In the poem, as you will remeiaber. Longfellow pictures for us a youth passing through an Alpine village mid snow and ice. And he bore in his hands a banner with a strange device . . . "Excelsior." Here was the youth dreaming his dreams, seeing his visions, looking away to the heights. lie was not going to be content with the ordi nary levels of the misty flats. Al ready he was on his way to the Alpine heights and as he passed through the village he bore his ban ner of strange device . . . "Excelsior still higher." lie would climb high, he would go beyond any who bad ever climbed before him. This youth, we are told, began this climb to the Alpine heights mid Through the drawn blinds, he could I The peasant's last good night was see the shadows of those within, en- I Beware of the pine tree's withering joying the warmth and comfort of a I branch; beware of the awful ava- big blazing fire and the happy fel-Jlanche lowship of friends. How foolish he That is ever the advice of age to was to exert himself upon such a youth. Beware, you can never make wild, impossible endeavor; why not iL The world is full of people who leave that to others; why not enjoy I have lost their nerve and hope mmseir, nave a good timer "Wait." says the man of years to t u qi bioucu ouuuc, i"itne youia wun nis nign nopes. His heights challenged this youth. And extravagant dreams. "Wait until you from his lips there escaped a groan I nave lived a8 iong as i have; you xceisior. wju ten a different story. For I The temptation to ease and pleas- dreamed my dreams, I saw my vis- ure was great, and here is the point hens, I had my hopes; but where are where the majority fail and fall by I they today? me way. r-eopie noi wining 10 pay "Whafu th use of t.rvinp- tr. Hn snow and ice. He was handicapped j the price, not willing to make the tne impossible? Things have always from the start. He was foolish ac-J necessary sacrifice. So many voices I heen a3 they are and they always will be. You cannot change them, so cording to general opinion to attempt Jin our day of ease and pleasure call the impossible under such a handi cap and in the face of such obstacles. If there was snow and ice in the vil lage, at the foot of the mountain slopes, what chance would he ever have of gaining the heights? It was a fool-hardy thing for anybody to start under such circumstances he was handicapped from the very start. But this youth was not to be deter red by such difficulties. His brow was sad, his eye beneath flashed like a falchion from its sheath. And like a silver clarion rung the accent o? that unknown tongue . . . "Excel sior." Too many people allow the handi caps of life to overcome them. They begin to feel sorry for' themselves They stroke their wounded spirits. "If." they cry, "I had not had this handicap what a person I would have been, but as it is I have never had a chance." Self pity is a vice of the mind, an ignoble temper. Self pity causes more people to fail than tongue can tell. Many a youth facing life handicapped by some physical in firmity, poverty or lack of -social posi tion says "If only I could change places with someone else. If I only had the chance of John Jones, only had friends and wealth like him, I WOULD succeed it would be easy. But as it is, I never have had a chance; everything is against me." And so a great many people go thru life indulging in self-pity, remind ing themselves of what they might have been. Let me remind you people here tonight that real success comes from within, and not from the circum stances without. Very few people start life under perfect or ideal con ditions. Real success is taking our lives and making something out of them in spite of handicaps. Once when Ole Bull, the great violinist, was giving a concert in Paris, his A string snapped and he transposed the compositions and fin ished on three strings. That is life to have your A string snap and fin ish on three strings. And some of the finest things in human life have been done that way. Indeed much of the most thrilling part of the human story on this planet lies In such ca pacity victoriously to hurdle handi caps. Bach, the great musician, was entirely blind; Helen Keller is deaf, dumb and blind yet with only the sense of smell, taste and touch to ad mit her to the great outer world, she is an excellent scholar, graduate of a university and woman of letters one of the most heroic and noble fig ures of the world today. Frederich Douglas, the great Negro educator, began life as a slave, learned the alphabet from signboards and scraps of paper. Read the biographies of men like Abraham Lincoln, Edward Bok, Michael Pupin, Ramsey McDon ald and others like them and you will discover how men (some living in our own day) began life handi capped, with few opportunities, and yet achieved great things. Like the youth, they were possessed of a great ambition, an undefeatable spirit and they too bore in their hands the banner of strange device and bore it amid snow and ice . . . "Excelsior." Some of you young folks here to night may feel you are handicapped from the start and the heights are not for you. Do not begin by feel ing sorry for yourself. Do not yield to self-pity. Do not despise your limi tations. They can be made your op portunities. Remember, real success crmes from within. Have some high and worthy purpose in life; set your goal away out in the front; carry your banner high. Grasp firm in your hand the banner of strange device and let the silver clarion ring . . . "Excelsior, I will climb higher still." Then we read that as the youth passed through the village he saw in happy homes the light of household fires' gleam, warm and bright. Above the spectral glaciers shone, and from his lips there escaped a groan . . . "Excelsior." The voice of ease and pleasure called. Why forsake friends and the bright gleam of the warm, glowing fireside? Why forego the comfort and ease of a warm, inviting home for the us, it is easy to become soft and sophisticated. To the student in our schools to day there is .the call of sport, fra ternities, places, of amusement. Edu- what is the use of trying?" Thus says age to youth. But youth with his rare courage, his bold audacity, crys: "It can be done; it will be done.'" And to him im- . . . cation merely tor social purposes, oo tnere i3 no such thins as the il becomes increasingly difficult to possible. When Napoleon decided to get one self to do the hard and dif- crosg the Alps, one of his officers ficult thing. The temptation to take said( ..gir it is impossible. It can tlie easy way is great it is popular not De done," Napoleon answered. to be a good sport. And you can get .'The word 'impossible' is not in my along just as wen. success in me is vocabulary." And that is the spirit knowing how to influence people and o! youth. Nothinc is inmossible. the win friends then why try anything cry of j.outh is ever higher, Excel- more difficult than that? Never was sioi.( the best is not to be tnere a time wnen we nave so many And when the dawn broke upon easy ways offered to success. But al- those Alpine heights, the youth who low me to tell you young people bore in his hand the banner of there is no easy way or short cut to strane device was far un the Alnine .CHICLY STUFFJ j butjhoujgdodltdTeat in. icarmr7ceatherr' I iuL-k Dorothy Greig IITE'RE all for jellied foods la if melting weather. They slither down so nice and cool. Some peo ple like jellied desserts but as for lis, we'll vote every time for spicily seasoned jellied vegetables, meat, chicken, or flsh.1 When we serve Bach a dish we're always careful to precede it with a light hot soup to provide the very necessary hot dish every meal should have in warm weather. This jellied T salad " is T one " oi our favorites for a warm-weather luncheon or sapper. We like It, first, because it tastes good and, second, because it i3 so easy to make. real character and worthy achieve ment. Charles Dickens declared in the hour of his greatest success: "To me drudgery has been the grey angel of success." There is no easy way the path of real achievement is along the hard and difficult road of self sacrifice. The men who have achiev ed anything worthwhile in the field of human endeavor have not done it through their own genius so much as by hard work. They have worked and toiled while others took the path of ease and pleasure. "Do not your great discoveries often come by brilliant intuitions and inspiration?" asked a reporter of Thomas Edison. His answer was most illuminating. "If I have attain ed any success worthy of mention it has been due perhaps to two per cent of inspiration and ninety-eight per cent of perspiration." Again he declared, "I never do anything worth while by accident. When I have de cided that a result is worth getting. I go ahead on it and make trial after trial until it comes." The success of Thomas Edison was in the refusal to give up when he was faced with slope. "There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful he lay. And from the sky, serene and far A voice fell like a falling star, 'Excelsior.' " That is the spirit that wins. Man ly courage, grit and determination rin when all things else fail. Youth with unbounded courage, grim de termination, who refuses to believe in the impossible, is bound to win. Has that not been the history of the march of progress. Look not back, but forward. The onward march of civilization has been to the Alpine heights. Out of the low mists into the mountain air, out of darkness unto light, out of slavery unto free dom, and the best is yet to be. Al low no one to persuade you other wise; the greatest accomplishments of the human race lie not in the past, but are yet to be achieved. The great est discoveries are yet to be made, the most beautiful poem has yet to be written, the finest picture has yet to be painted, the highest heights of human endeavor have yet to be (illied salad is a " happy thought X " for a summer meal.' Jellied Vegetable Salad with Horseradish Mayonnaise 1 package lemon-flavored gelatin 1 cup hot water -r 1 cup tomato juice w 1 tablespoon lemon juice , 4 teaspoon salt 2 cups shredded cabbage 1 medium-size cucumber, shredded y'2 scaJlions, sliced very thin Pour the boiling hot water over the lemon-flavored gelatin and stir until dissolved. t Then add the to mato juice and set aside to cool. When the mixture begins to stiffen, add shredded cabbage, cucumber, sliced scallions, - lemon juice and salt. '- Pour into a mold and put into the refrigerator until firm. . Turn out on lettuce or greens and serve. Serves 7-9. Horseradish 'MavonnntsK 3 cup mayonnaise ' s -4 X teaspoon grated, horseradish Uix . thoroughly, y Eeeming defeat; he just kept on un" achieved A. 1 1 it.J Vt I 0 I 111 ue v.., w.e u Qut Qf the travail of the psent experiments. IHnv will onmo a hotter Inmnrmu- iho T- D -X- 1 ! Dl.l'i 1 i ! r r i n I ' DCC ...w.u.i. .- ......fe ... llJre Qf tne unfinished beckons tc poverty in a small room in,London. th and must a t thjs chal. , - J , J J I.IU horsing aay uy uaj, ueuyiug u..uu lenge carry higher the banner of any pleasure. His inenas ten mm they are sorry for him. He answers, 'Pity me not, I am rich I have my creams. for mm tne nousenoia fires gleamed warm and bright, but above the spectral glaciers shone and from his lips there escaped a groan . . . "Excelsior." They called him fool, but we call him seer now. If you really want to achieve any thing worthwhile, you must be wili ng to pay thfe price, willing to make the sacrifice. truth, freedom and righteousness. Any of you young people here to night can accomplish greater things than we have dared to dream if you have the faith and courage to accept the challenge of this high hour. In the church of San Dominico at Bologna there is a beautiful sarco phagus carved in marble. It was commenced in 12 S7 by Nicolas Pisano. Two more great artists worked upon it and two hundred years later a young apprentice tried Michelangelo spent weeks in re-1 his hand upon what men thought to touching his work, bringing out a be a perfect thing. Three months he muscle here, softening an angle worked alone and when his master there until from the rough marble came to see his working, he found he he released a figure of perfect beauty, had but added an angel to the mar- Dante sees himself growing lean Dle shrine. Today men know the over his Uivme Comedy. uiDDon youth who carved it was Michel worked twenty years on his "Decline angelo. So you are one with the and Fall of the Roman Empire;.' workers of the ages you must toil Noah Webster thirty-six years on his to make your highest dreams come dictionary; George Stephenson fifteen true, you like Michelangelo must years on his locomotive. All thislwoi-k. to perfect what the ages have tells of men who traveled the straight begun. You must carry the banner and narrow way, made great sacri fices and paid an enormous price. They bore this banner of strange device . . . "Excelsior." "The heights by great men gain ed and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they, while their compan ions slept Toiled onward, upwa.rd through the night." of human progress higher. You must seek to make a better world, a hap pier race, a finished kingdom. . . . Excelsior. Let your objective ever be upward. seek to emulate the youth climbing the Alpine heights and let your aim be ever higher. For he died climb ing. I must confess when I first read this poem I was rather disap pointed. I felt Longfellow had made a mistake. Surely after overcoming strenuous climb amid snow and ice? j replied . . . "Excelsior." Are you willing to pay the price, 80 many difficulties, battling against to make the sacrifice any worthy So many odds, refusing to be turned achievement may demand? You will aside, the fitting climax would have have to forego the call of friends, been to find the youth standing tri- the pleasures of the world. There is umphant upon the summit of the no other way. Inchest peak.his banner floating in If you are willing to pay the price the breeze and he with the look of and will keep your dream ever before hoy and achievement in his face. -yo, there is no achievement imposs- Then after due thought, I knew the poet was right. With true poetic instinct, he brings the poem to a fitting end. He died climbing and that is as it should be, for he who accomplishes all he desires has not aimed high enough. All the great souls of the earth have died climb ics, their highest hopes unrealized, their noblest dream yet to be fulfill ed, their goal still in the distance, lble to you. . , . EXCELSIOR Then we read this ycuth, like the youth of every other age, had to face and overcome the discourage ments of those who had tried and failed. Try not the pass, the Old Man said; dark lowers the tempest overhead. The raging torrent is deep and wide. And loud the clarion voice their aim still forward . . . Excel sior. He died climbing. That is the epitaph engraved on a slab of stone against the side of an almost vertical mountain in the Swiss Alps. It tells the eloquent story of the guide who gave his life in a gallant attempt to reach the summit. No man living for the best in life ever does reach the goal of desire, ever achieve his highest dreams. He dies climbing. Centuries ago in a Roman prison p. man of great character, a man who was to leave his impress upon his tory for all time was writing a final letter to his friends. This old battle-scared warrior had achieved much since tha day he had caught the vision of life's meaning on the road to Damascus. Paul carried his ban ner high. Through imprisonment, stonings. hunger, thirst, shipwrecks, v.earfness and persecution he kept the faith, he pioneered and won new kingdoms for his Christ. No life has been richer in achievement and greater in the victories won than Paul's. Yet here in prison, knowing the end of his earthly pilgrimage was not far distant, he writes with a bold, courageous hand: "Not as though I had already yet attained or were already yet made perfect. For I count not myself to have achieved all I dreamed, but this one thing I do, I press toward the mark for the prize of my high calling of God in Christ Jesus." He died climbing grasping still the banner of strange device . . . Excelsior. And if you young people ionightj want a goal worthy of your best ef forts, if you want an objective that will demand the very 'best within you, then that goal is to be found in Jesus Christ. Accept the invita tation he gives to you as he did to those Galilean fishermen: "Follow me and I will make you . . ." make you climb, make you adventure. make you achieve some things be yond your highest dreams. For sooner or later you' have to determine whether life is to be an excursion or a great crusade. Upon that decision hangs your destiny. You are each on the line, ready to move into a great adventure. Your feet are not leaden and your spirits challenge with blithe audacity the heights. I thrill at what awaits you. leu are to witness the rise of right and the slow defeat of wrong, to see superstitions and negations give place to light and liberty, to hear the tread of men moving to freedom, to follow the weary way of women and children fromjieglect in to emancipation. You are to found hemes, live in communities and be citizens of a great commonwealth. You are to labor for truth, justice and right. You are called to strengthen peace, remove discord and defend the cause of humanity. You are set out upon the great adventure to live your lives, to do the work you seek. It is for you to make some of the unfulfilled dreams of the ages come true. I call to you from a genera tion in advance, I reach my hand across the years, nay more truly I am sent back to be your companion on the march. Let us take the road that leads ever upward . . . Excel sior. Above all, may God grant that r.s ycu pursue the upward way, your dreams will be so grand, your ob jectives so great you will, like all the great h"earts that have passed be fore you, "Die Climbing," grasping still your banner of strange device . . . "Excelsior Still Higher." CALLED ON SAD MISSION From Tuesday's Dally Mrs. E. W. Cook and Mrs. Grace Hawksworth cf this city were called to Burlington, Iowa this mcrnir.g cn account of the death of their aunt, Miss Mary Schaffer. Miss Schaffer has been in failing health for some time and her condition was such in the last few weeks that her recovery was hopeless. The deceased as 88 years of ape and was the youngest daughter of the Schaffers as well as the last surviving7 member of this family. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday afternoon at Burlington, Iowa and the interment will also bo made in that city. The ladies from Plattsmouth will attend the funeral. Scarlett O'Hara has Potent Riva .- :-. ' V"' . . : Merchants Win from Union by 6 to 4 Score Les Thimgan Plays Good Game on Mound and Hitting Ault and Phillips Sho Up Well. The Plattsmouth Merchants, be hind the line hurling of Les Thinigau and Floyd Thierolf. deleatcd the L'nion ball club C to 4, on the I'nioii diamond Sunday. Plattsmouth started to win early in the game, when E. Smith and Bi it tain got hits in the first inning ami were driven home by Ault's iuglo. But Union tied the seme i:i the fourth frame, and the Merchants did not score again until the hixth. Thimgan, Phillips and W. .Smith se cured safeties to account fur tuu runs. In the eighth the locals sew jd the game up with two more runs, aguin 011 Thimgan's sind-E. Smith's hits and V. Smith being safe on an :rror. Union came back in the last In ning with a belated rally to seen o two tallies, but Thierolf began bear ing down, and got the side out with out too much damage. Les Thimgan was the outstanding .Merchants performer, both pitching and hitting, giving but two tingles in five inning and securing tuo bits and sc-cring two runs himself. Thier olf pitched four innings and did a line job. He will undoubtedly be with the Merchants for the rest of the sea son. The Platter infield again disk ed in good fashion, there being only three errors committed 0:1 an uncer tain field. M. Hoback, Union huiler, regis tered nine strikeouts, but gae hia ten bits in clusters when they spoil ed Merchants runs. A line cro.vd from Plattsmouth ac companied the team to Union. The box score: Plattsmouth (6) AB li h.. Smith, ss 5 Chovanec, 2b 5 li. Brittain, 3b 5 O Donnell, If 5 Ault, lb 5 Thimgan, p-rf 4 Phillips, it" S thierolf, p-cf 4 Smith, c 4 1 0 1 0 0 II PO A 2 0 0 2 4 2 0 0 0 1 1 13 w 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 41 C 10 27 12 Union (4) AB R Hoback, ss 5 0 Griffin, 2b 4 0 0 Easter, lb 4 0 1 Eaton, 3b 4 0 1 Clark, if 4 12 B. Morris. If 4 2 2 M. Hoback, p 4 11 Carr, c 4 0 1 Keene, cf 3 0 ' 0 Neal, ph 10 0 H PO A 0 0 0 0 1 1 12 1 0 2 1 2 1 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 O 0 37 4 8 27 12 Ituns batted in: Ault, 2; W. Smith, 3; E. Smith, 1; Carr, 2; Easter, r ; Triples: M. Hoback. Doubles: W. Cmitl: Thimo-in IWo,Kl flu.- vanec to Ault. Bases on balls: Ho back, 1; Thierolf, 1. Hits: O.I Ho back, 10 in 9 innings; Thimgan 2 in Fi innings, Thierolf, G in 4 inniug.s. Hit by pitched balls: Brittain (Ho back). Unassisted putouts: Ault, 3; Chovanec, 1; Easter, 1. Winning pitcher, Tinman. Losing pitcher, Ho back. Errors: Union, 4, l'lattsmmit h 3. Umpires. Clark and Sweem. Left on base: Union C; Plattsmouth, 5. Strikeouts, Hoback 9, Thimgan. 2. Thierolf 3. Earned runs, Flam mouth 4, Union 2. Morning Glories are in the flower limelight this season, partly due to the introduction of Scarlett O'Hara, a brilliant carmine-red beauty that won the Ail-American Gold Medal Award. But even before Scarlett O'Hara grows accustomed to her sudden fame, a Etand-in threatens to steal her glory. The unheralded newcomer Is Crimson Rambler, a bright, vigorous, easily - grown flower that is certain to win the hearts of flower growers. Crimson Rambler was developed by foreign seed breeders and is in troduced In this country by the Ferry-Mcrse Sesd Co. In color it is similar to Scarlett O'Hara. While Scarlett O'Hara's flowers are lweer. Crimson Ramblgr.'a are more By BETTY BARCLAY plentiful. Seed of Scarlett a Hara is rather hard to start, and garden ers should chip the seed coat before planting it; but Crimson Rambler does not need chipping and can be started readily. Crimson Rambler la a much stronger climber than Scarlett O'Hara and will prove more satis factory for growth on trellises and as a vine, while Scarlett O'Hara will be found a somewhat more attractive variety for window boxes. The 1939 flower stage will see a brilliant duel - that between Scarlett O'Hara and tns unsung rival. Crimson Rambler. Gro-v ttem side by side in your back yard and see which is your choice tor first honors. '- NOW ON ECOIL That Exciting Serial ROAD OF LIFE A True-to-Life Radio Drama 11:30 A.M. Mcnday thru Friday PRESENTED BY OXYDOU