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What I have done, anyone can do for I am only an average man. I have never gone to college, my education is limited, and I am not "brilliant" by any means. I personally know at least a hundred men who are better business men than I, who are better educated, who are better informed on hundreds of subjects, and who have much better ideas than I ever had. Yet not one of them approaches my earnings. I mention this merely to show that earning capacity is not governed by the extent of a man's education and to convince my readers that there is only one reason for my success-a reason I will give herein.

One day, a few years ago, I began to "take stock of myself. I found that, like most other men, I had energy, ambition, determination. Yet in spite of these assets, for some reason or other I drifted along without getting anywhere. My lack of education bothered me, and I had thought seriously of making further sacrifices in order to better equip myself to earn more. Then I read somewhere that but few millionaires ever went to college. Edison, Rockefeller, Hill, Schwab, Carnegie -not one of them had any more schooling than I had.

One day something happened that woke me up to what was wrong with me. It was necessary for me to make a decision on a matter which was of no great consequence. I knew in my heart what was the right thing to do, but something held me back. I said one thing, then another; I decided one way, then another. I couldn't for the life of me make the decision I knew was right.

I lay awake most of that night thinking about the matter-not because it was of any great importance in itself, but because I was beginning to discover myself. Along towards dawn I resolved to try an experiment. I decided to cultivate my will power, believing that if I did this I would not hesitate about making decisions-that when I had an idea I would have sufficient confidence in myself to put it "over"-that I would not be "afraid of myself or of things or of others. I felt that if I could smash my ideas across I would soon make my presence felt. I knew that heretofore I had always begged for successhad always stood, hat in hand, depending on others to "give" me the things I desired. In short, I was controlled by the will of others. Henceforth, I determined to have a strong will of my own-to demand and command what I wanted.

But how shall I begin? What shall I do first? It was easy enough for me to determine to do things-I had" determined "many times before. But this was a question of will power, and I made up my mind that the first

step was to muster up enough of my own will power to stick to and carry out my determination.

With this new purpose in mind I applied myself to finding out something more about will power. I was sure that other men must have studied the subject, and the results of their experience would doubtless be of great value to me in understanding the workings of my own will. So, with a directness of purpose that I had scarcely known before, I began my search.

The results at first were discouraging. While a good deal had been written about the memory and other faculties of the brain, I could find nothing that offered any help to me in acquiring the new power that I had hoped might be possible.

But a little later in my investigation I encountered the works of Prof. Frank Channing Haddock. To my amazement and delight I discovered that this eminent scientist, whose name ranks with James, Bergson, and Royce, had just completed the most thorough and constructive study of will power ever made. I was astonished to read his statement, "The will is just as susceptible of development as the muscles of the body"! My question was answered! Eagerly I read further-how Dr. Haddock had devoted twenty years to this study-how he had so completely mastered it that he was actually able to set down the very exercises by which anyone could develop the will, making it a bigger, stronger force each day, simply through an easy, progressive course of Training.

It is almost needless to say that I at once began to practice the exercises formulated by Dr. Haddock. And I need not recount the extraordinary results that I obtained almost from the first day. I have already indicated the success that my developed power of will has made for me.

But it may be thought that my case is exceptional. Let me again assure you that I am but an average man, with no superdeveloped powers, save that of my will. And to further prove my contention let me cite one or two instances I have since come

across, which seem to show conclusively that an indomitable will can be developed by anyone.

One case that comes to my mind is that of a young man who worked in a big factory. He was bright and willing, but seemed to get nowhere. Finally he took up the study of will training, at the suggestion of Mr. W. M. Taylor, the famous efficiency expert of the Willys-Overland Company, and in less than a year his salary was increased 800%. Then there is the case of C. D. Van Vechten, General Agent of the . Northwestern Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Just a short time after receiving the methods in will development suggested by Prof. Haddock, he felt that they would be worth from $3,000 to $30,000 to him.

Another man, Mr. H. D. Ferguson, residing in Hot Springs, Ark., increased his earnings from $40 a week to $90 a week in a remarkably short space of time after he began the

study of will training. These are but a few— there are many other equally amazing examples which I personally know about. And aside from the financial gain, this training has enabled thousands to overcome drink and other vices almost overnight-has helped overcome sickness and nervousness, has transformed unhappy, envious, discontented people into dominating personalities filled with the joy of living.

Prof. Haddock's lessons, rules and exercises in will training have recently been compiled and published in book form by the Pelton Publishing Co., of Meriden, Conn. Mr. Pelton has authorized me to say that any reader who cares to examine the book may do so without sending any money in advance. In other words, if after a week's reading you do not feel that this book is worth $3, the sum asked, return it and you will owe nothing. When you receive your copy for examination I suggest that you first read the articles on: the law of great thinking; how to develop analytical power; how to perfectly concentrate on any subject; how to guard against errors in thought; how to drive from the mind unwelcome thoughts; how to develop fearlessness; how to use the mind in sickness; how to acquire a dominating personality.

Some few doubters will scoff at the idea of will power being the fountainhead of wealth, position and everything we are striving for, and some may say that no mere book can teach the development of the will. But the great mass of intelligent men and women will at least investigate for themselves by sending for the book at the publisher's risk. I am sure that any book that has done for me-and for thousands of others-what "Power of Will" has done-is well worth investigating. It is interesting to note that among the 150,000 owners who have read, used and praised "Power of Will," are such prominent men as Supreme Court Justice Parker; Wu Ting Fang, ExU.S. Chinese Ambassador; Lieut.-Gov. McKelvie of Nebraska; Assistant PostmasterGeneral Britt; General Manager Christeson, of Wells-Fargo Express Co.; E. St. Elmo Lewis; Governor Arthur Capper of Kansas, and thousands of others.

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THE READER'S
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A PARABLE COMPLETED

About two years ago you published an editorial article which appeared to me at the time to indicate in a singularly effective and incisive way what should be the attitude of the American people in this war. It was so brief that it may duced in full:

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"A Parable to be Completed.-A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves. And as they were stripping him of his raiment and wounding him, a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where they were, and when he saw them, he . . . ?”.

But the appeal which seemed then so effective has apparently had no effect. Not only is the victim continuing to suffer more and more, but it is more and more evident that the attitude of the United States is not that of the Samaritan, but of the priest and the Levite who passed by on the other side.

Not that we need suppose that the priest and the Levite had not the courage to fight, or that their motto was 66 Safety first." Their neutral attitude was doubtless due to their superior holiness. Not for them was this vulgar brawling; to their enlightened and purified eyes this fierce struggle, with its waste and its peril, was as the act of madmen. And perhaps, too, they knew or suspected something of the victim's past history-that his conduct had at times fallen short of their own holy professions; and they felt that to have anything to do with a man who had not been without sin, and whose present occupation was not wholly ideal, would be contamination to their purity. And we know that in the moral as in the physical realm differences which appear considerable to those who are on the level of the ground will become inconspicuous to those who have risen to an exceedingly high altitude above the common level.

No, Mr. Editor, you should not have asked the priest and the Levite to view the struggle with the unneutral eyes of an ordinary Samaritan. It was a mistake to preach a sermon from that text to your holy and neutral countrymen. Rather may I suggest another text-the words addressed to another neutral and prosperous community, that of Laodicea: "Because thou sayest, I am rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to anoint thine eyes with eye salve that thou mayest see.'

Toronto, Canada.

CONSCIENCE OR CONDUCT?

The Outlook of November 8 contained a letter from the Roman Catholic Bishop of Yucatan which calls for some statement. He says that, under what seems to him to be practically governmental sufferance, if not guidance, the Cathedral and many churches of his diocese have been desecrated or destroyed. For this he blames Carranza, and denies that what he calls "liberty of conscience" is guarded or permitted under the Carranza régime. The evident of purpose the letter is to interest the United States Government, through an appeal to the people of the United States, in doing something

The Reader's View (Continued)

to ward off the tide of hostility of Carranza to the Roman Church.

What is called "liberty of conscience" ought not to be interfered with by any government, though nearly all denominations have tried their hand at it, from Caiaphas down to Villa and the American Protestant Association of the United States.

Liberty of conduct" is another matter. The Bishop of Yucatan seems to be ignorant of the real hostility of the Mexicans to the Roman Church as it exists in Mexico. He ought to find out that no one complains of the consciences of the clergy there. It is their conduct that has aroused anger. The Mexican people are not concerned with conscience as yet.

The Roman Catholic clergy in all Spanishspeaking lands have had almost unobstructed control for three hundred years. There has not been until within the last fifty years any, and even now but very little,, effective opposition to their control. And with what result? The Church has absorbed the best properties for itself. It has prevented honorable marriage by its high fees and its denial of the validity of civil marriages, and thus has been the abettor of illegitimacy. It has encouraged lust by the lust of its clergy. It has controlled the schools and carefully guarded education from anything that would disturb the leadership of the priests.

The Bishop would do well to read any history of Mexico not written under the censorship of the clergy. He will find that the auto da fé was established in that country and inaugurated its reign by burning at the stake twenty-one "pestilent Lutherans." And for two hundred and fifty years that system continued until 1820. The Church controlled the education, taxed the industries, and in this way acquired great wealth. It had extensive estates in the country districts and the most profitable properties in the cities. In 1859 it owned one-third of all the property in Mexico.

And what has now brought about the trouble? Is it Protestant interference? Is it some new religion? No; there are not enough Protestant people in Mexico to make a ripple on the surface of its life. It is the very people who have been under the tutelage of the clergy.

In almost the entire Spanish-speaking American world the votes of the common people and the wide-awake leaders and lovers of their country have put the Church out of control. In South America during the last fifty years the whole country has been changed into various republics. In studying the language of their new constitutions one is greatly impressed with the evidence that they were molded on the Constitution of the United States and corrected by our experience. That means that the people there desired to have the same separation of Church and State that we are supposed to have here. In nearly all of these constitutions there is a clause cutting out ecclesiastical domination, giving freedom of religious belief, establishing the validity of civil marriage, and putting the schools under secular control.

In no one of these countries while the process of political emancipation from Church control was in progress were the clergy anything but a drag on the endeavor. A S. HOBART. Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pennsylvania.

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"What are you doing with all that small coal?" Perkins asked me as the coal wagon stopped at my house.

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A Self-feeding Heater "You see," I went on, "the Spencer has a magazine-feed and sloping grates. The magazine is filled up in the morning with enough to last all day, even in cold weather, or 24 hours in mild weather. The coal just feeds down on the fire as it is needed. The sloping grates do the rest-they automatically distribute the coal at an even depth. So the coal is all afire all the time. "That's why the Spencer can burn

40% less than mine, but that

your heater requires 50% less attention than mine?" "Just about that," I answered. "You

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in coldest weather."

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Benjamin Franklin, Printer. By John Clyde Oswald. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. $2.

A capital account of Franklin's work, suitable for readers. young My Life and Work. By Edmund Knowles Muspratt. The John Lane Company, New York. $2.50.

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The author is a Roman Catholic; opposes Socialism and the single tax; regards private ownership the best system of land tenure; upholds private capital and interest and profit; advocates the moral right of the laborer to a living wage, provided the business makes it possible for the employer to give it; and in general may be described as conservative but not reactionary. Japanese Conquest of American Opinion

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Jig of Forslin (The). By Conrad Aiken. The Four Seas Company, Boston. $1.25.

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Lark Went Singing (A), and Other Poems. By Ruth Guthrie Harding. Introduction by Richard Burton. Edmund D. Brooks, Minneapolis. $1.

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ESSAYS AND CRITICISM

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Red Cross and Iron Cross. By a Doctor in
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The author is a young American who enlisted in the French Flying Corps shortly after the beginning of the war. His book is a graphic account of experiences and adventures, the most notable of which took place above Verdun during the German attacks.

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Dictionary of Similes (A). By Frank J. Wilstach. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. $2.50. A very good book of its type, but we are doubtful about the type. Like the dictionaries of quotations, it will be convenient to writers and orators who want to find some appropriate ornament to brighten up their too somber preachment; but those ornaments are always best which grow out of and are a part of the article, not sought for and added to it.

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