New Walks in Old Ways 



the trumpets of publicity, or high 

 finance, realize that without exception 

 these same self-made, so-called suc- 

 cessful men all sooner or later find 

 their way somehow, dead or alive, 

 back to the good old earth; mean- 

 time having asked themselves a mil- 

 lion times why they ever undertook 

 the journey, why they ever assumed 

 the almost intolerable burdens they 

 were forced to carry as they toiled up 

 the stony paths that have to be 

 traversed on the way to every moun- 

 tain peak! They reach the summits 

 only to find them frozen, to find no 

 real companionship; and far down 

 beneath them lie the green and smiling 

 valleys and the meadow larks. For- 

 tunately not all our boys of greatest 

 natural capacity take this long trail 

 so barren of real rewards. Many of 

 those who would have made great 

 politicians or financiers have had sense 

 enough to resist the lure of the lime- 

 light, and their names are written 



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