What You Can't Do Now, YouCan Never Do

There Is No Such Thing as a To-morrow That Is to Do Won-ders. Tomorrow Means NEVER. It Is a Word of Failure.

Copyright. 1913. by Star Company.

Don't plan anything for tomorrow, unless you ARE WORK-

ING AT SOMETHING TODAY.There is no such start, there is no such tomorrow.

If you can't work today, you can't work tomorrow.

If you can't begin the thing today, you can NEVER begin it

Tomorrow is a word that in every language means NEVER.

Itmeans self-deception, disappointment, idleness, lack of purpose.

When a thought comes to you, get at it.Don't say to yourself, "Iwill do that sometime; perhaps to-

morrow."Make a note of the idea, think it over, plan for it, BEGIN IT.If you can't start it now, you never can do it.The thing to do is to work today, and to keep working tomor-

row and every other day. «

Keep your mirid on today, devote the hours of today TO THEWORK OF TODAY.

Then when today's working hours are over, and you haveactually done all that you can in those hours of work, permit your-self if you choose, to think of plans and dreams for the future.

There is not a young man in the country without some goodidea, some good plan, some earnest hope in his mind.

But the curse of a millionis. that the plan, the idea, is to takeform and become real TOMORROW.

Get away from that tomorrow habit.You need not take literally the advice, "Live as though this

were to be your last day." A man who starts a house must believethat he has days ahead in which to finish it.

The thing to do IS TO START THE HOUSE TODAY, andlet the tomorrows take care of their work.

We print this picture because it seems, in the attitude of theman sitting under the tree, to typify the attitude of a great manyAmerican young men, and to give a needed rebuke.

If you are sitting like this boy, with your arms folded, yourfeet together and your head down, jump up, throw back your t

shoulders, take a long breath, and start now up that hill that leadsto success.

Pity this poor "futurist" of failure. He is the futurist of to-morrow, the futurist of the plan that willnever become real action.He is as dismal a failure in his way as those poor so called "futur-ists" who invented what they call a new style of art, and have onlysucceeded in being unusually hideous.

Poverty Is the Father of Vice,Crime and Failure

Use Your Energies to Diminish Such a Curse and to Im-prove Humanity by Giving It Full Efficiency.

Cußvrlght. Ijy St«r Company.

These are days when men do their hardest work for money, ?when they scramble and struggle and strike each other down inthe effort to reach wealth. And it is not possible to blame them.They are trying to escape from poverty, from a disaster worse jthan any prairie fire or other physical danger.

Dire poverty is the worst of curses. It combines every kind ofgoffering, physical, mental, moral, and in the end means either jdeath or degradation.

The great task of humanity is the abolition of poverty. Thegreat benefactors of humanity are the great industrial organizers of ithis day, because, in spite of individual selfishness, they are plan-1ning production on a scale that willin the end provide for all.

It is worth while to discuss and to realize what real poverty |means. If we can realize its meaning every one of us must be more \anxious to relieve, as far as we can, the poverty around us, and jespecially anxious to work fof the social betterment that shall one 'day wipe out poverty forever.

Poverty means dirt.

1 The thoughtless and comfortable have a way of saying: "The ]poor might at least be clean." But cleanliness is a LUXURY; itidemands leisure and*p« ac e of mind, as well as bathtub, soap, hotwater and good plumbing. The very poor can not be clean.

Poverty means ignorance, and it means ignorance handed jdown from father to son.

Poverty means drunkenness. The pennies of POOR men andPOOR women pay for more than half the vile whisky, gin and !other poisons that men buy to help them forget.

Poverty and its sister, Ignorance, fills the jails and the insane? ~-vlums.

Poverty is the mother of disease, and it fills the hospitals,?.j Tens of thousands of consumptives alone are murdered every

year by poverty. They are too poor to do that which is requiredto save their lives.

The great men of the world do not emerge from poverty, fromEqualor.

A starved body produces a starved brain. The greatest geniusthat ever lived could not think better than a child of 10 if you de- iprived him of food for 10 days.

What can you expect of the inferior minds that have been halffed through a lifetime or through several generations?

Do you know what made the Revolution and changed condi- jtions in France? It was not poverty. Not a single poor man wasI leader in that Revolution. Every one of them was well fed, had>- well nourished brain?Danton, Robespierre, Marat, Desmoulins,:Mirabeau?every one a well fed brain in a vigorous body.

As poverty breeds ignorance, so ignorance breeds poverty.The greatest enemy of poverty is the Public School. Work and \rote, therefore, for public school betterment.

Miserable women walk the streets by thousands oh cold win-ter nights?poverty has put them there.

? : ' Hundreds of thousands of children are born xmly to struggle? ror a few years through a stunted infancy?poverty digs their ;

graves.For one genius that has fought and conquered in spite of pov- '\u25a0

erty 10,000 have sunk out of .sight in the fight against the worst of \enemies.

Don't waste time extolling the blessings of poverty?use yourenergies to diminish poverty's curse and to improve humanity bygiving it the full efficiency which freedom from worry alone cangive. 1° i |

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"AIN'T THAT A SHAME!"

THE RISING SUN OF SUFFRAGE

Evening CallsA young man of New York is tb get $48,305 if he does not smoke

cigarettes. Well, that is a trifle more than he Wduld get in trade if hesaved the couporis.

* * *Felix Diaz in Berlin says he is sure to be the next president of Mex-

ico. It h very safe for Felix to make that prediction?while he's inBerlir

Sow liic Kovcr:u..un ... tt u.ug to urtmerger the jewelry trust. Aren'tthe price of diamonds high enough already?. |- *?\u25a0 \u25a0\u25a0 ? iiiii ,

Tuesday will be Admission day?btit we dort't expect any one tomake an admission that will r.fTect his tax bill.

* * *The financial reports of the Geary street railway reminds one of the

poet's "storied earns."* * *The walnut crop of southern Califorriia is estimated at 1,1.500 tons.

Quite a shell game. ** * *Germany is to liave an army of 11,000,000 men in 1925. About enough

to cat 3,11 the eggs tho dove can lay,

ELLA WHEELER WILCOXON

MODERN EDUCA=TION

Outdoor Schools andGardens Suggested

as Practical

Children Should Not BeForced to Study Sub-jects to Which TheirNatures Are Indifferentand Starved of Knowl-edge Which They Crave

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

GREAT change* are taking

place all over the worldin methods of education.

The former things are passing

away and the new things are

better than the old. A school oforganic education has been Es-tablished during the last twoyears in Fairhope. Ala., and theidea is now being talked aridppread broadcast by progressiveindividuals.

Marietta Johnson, the principalof this parent school, has givenher lite and vitality to makingthe nature method a success.

Lately she has been at Green-wich, Coftrt., giving a demon-stration of her methods to overGO pupils and 26 adults. It isher ambition and hope to make

'this demonstration so convinc-ing that public schools will fol-low hef methods of instruction.

Here are some of Mrs. John-son's sane ideas:

"We know that many children'fail' in school. We know thatmany grow indifferent and un-happy. We know that snttie are

not strong enough to meet the'requirements' Then why inthe name of education shouldwe continue the treatment whenthe response is unsatisfactory?

Train Child According toPhysical and Mental

Powers"Why not sahely and bravely

look the little child in the facearid throw away all of the tra-

ditions of the elders and all ofour unrighteous requirementsand simply and religiously meet

HIS requirements?"How shall we know them?

By the symptoms of his re-

sponse or reaction. The test ofa school is the condition of thechild?bodilj'?mentally ?spirit-ually.

"What does the body need?Fresh air, out of d oors play,freedom, no long confinement atdesks, no enforced silence, butquiet only when the occupationrequires it. Much choice in oc-cupation, physical co-ordinationthrough creative handwork.

"What does the mind require?Time to observe, investigate,think and reason ouf a fewfhings?often help and guidancefrom the teacher, but rarely or-dered attention?experience, ac-

tivities in harmony with age andinterests ?that is, things ofsense in the early years, books,experiences of others, and ab-stractions in the later years.

"Why should education insist

upon being urtcducational? Our

insane desire to 'educate' is a

fatal barrier to development,which i3 the only true educa-

tion. Could a child's consciousstriving and overeating makehim taller or broader 5 Neither %\u25a0

willconscious striving and over-

study make him wiser or better.Why not act as reasonably ineducation as in other things?

"If the nature of the littlechild requires freedom, why not

give freedom instead of requir-ing him to sit at stationary desksand be silent? If his nature re-

quires out of door fresh air, whynot give that? Cah't he learnanything out of doors? If hisseeing should not be at closerange, why give him a book atsb young an age? Can't helearn anything without books 5

Arrange School Work SoNo Nervous System Is

Overtaxed"What is to prevent outr tak-

ing the desks out of the roomand removing the 'intellectualrequirements' of the first gradesin any city? Instead of desks,

have tables at which the chil-dren may work.

"Instead of requirements?inreading, writing, etc.

?let the children sing and play,make things of paper, card-board and textiles, taking carethat the nervous system is not

violated by too close work."Let them have gardens in

which they may plant what theychoose and care for in thei, own

way with the sympathetic as-

sistance of the teacher. Aa

"Let them have stories ofgeography, history and litera-ture. Give them ah opportu-nity to learn to speak some

other modern language thantheir own. Let them have water

"colors and clay which they mayuse freely.

"Allow the teacher to takethem out of doors at any hour

she may wish, taking them to

parks and museums for thepleasure artd profit of going andseeing, rather thati to preparethem to 'pass' any particular ex-amination."

All these wholesome ideasand many more are to be dis-cussed and explained and provedby conferences for the develop-ment of this point of view 1 inchild education, and by the es-tablishment of centers where theprinciples may be applied andwhere teachets may be trained.

DOUBTWILLIAMF. KIRK

THERE is a devil and his name is Doubt;The country and the city know him well.He makes each human mind his citadel

Arid many an honest aim he puts to rout.He argues well, about it and about?

He kills more lore than any tongue can tell;He leads obedient mortals to his hell

And mocks them when they seek a pathway cut

You do not know him, yet you doubt your friend:You sneer at him, but doubt a mother's love.

He ramps upon your trail until the end,As smooth as silk, as fluttering as a dove.

In evert- brain he builds his little fires-He is the trustiest dfcvil Satan hires.

Up-to-the-Minute JokesGRAINS OF WIT

Never let a woman tell you a Se-cret. If you keep it She will thinkyou arc not interested, and it yourepeat it .«he will be still madder.

There would be ho trouble aboutwho had the last word were it notfor the first.

There are people who do not know,an opportunity until it Is Rone; and

are some favorefJ tfiortals whoare spared the pain of recognizing iteven then.

We may sneer at mutual admira-tion clubs, but nearly all of us areon the waiting list.

CONVERTED THE LOPurchaser? But is the parrot a good

bird? I mean. I hope he docs hotuse dreadful language.Dealer? R's a saint, lady; e<ng 9?ymns beautiful. I -ad some par-

rots wot uaed to swear somethingawful, but. if you'll believe me, lady,thla 'ere bird converted the lot.

BOTH BROKEN

A small boy rushed into a drvsstorp.

"fay. mister." ex-jclaimed the youngster, '"I want someliniment and cement"

"Some liniment and cement!" re-peated the druggist, not a little per-plexed over the strange order. "Are

I J'ou going to use them both, af thejsame time?"

"Vrs, sir," was th* prompt responseof th* hoy. "Ma. S he hit pa Witt, the

Ipitcher."

I FAMOUS BEAUTY CHORUS f.a? 1

What's drawing the crowd?" askedjthe visitor across the Styx. "Oh, Ijsee. Musical comedy billed, withMosart leading the orchestra. ThatIs quite ah attraction."

"It's the sextet that draws "em."interposed a bystander. "Thinkit! Helen of Troy Sappho,Pompadour, Dubarry and JCelt Owj%ail on one stage."

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL SEPTEMBER 8 1913

THE MCALLF. W. KELLOGG, President and Publisher

JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Vice President and Treasurer

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