n who still has health
may with the winners stack, and have a chance at fame and
wealth--for has-beens do come back.

_Walt Mason._

From "Walt Mason, His Book."

WISHING

Horace Greeley said that no one need fear the editor who indulged in
diatribes against the prevalence of polygamy in Utah, but that
malefactors had better look out when an editor took up his pen against
abuses in his own city. We all tend to begin our reforms too far away
from home. The man who wishes improvement strongly enough to set to work
on himself is the man who will obtain results.

Do you wish the world were better?
Let me tell you what to do.
Set a watch upon your actions,
Keep them always straight and true.
Rid your mind of selfish motives,
Let your thoughts be clean and high.
You can make a little Eden
Of the sphere you occupy.

Do you wish the world were wiser?
Well, suppose you make a start,
By accumulating wisdom
In the scrapbook of your heart;
Do not waste one page on folly;
Live to learn, and learn to live.
If you want to give men knowledge
You must get it, ere you give.

Do you wish the world were happy?
Then remember day by day
Just to scatter seeds of kindness
As you pass along the way,
For the pleasures of the many
May be ofttimes traced to one.
As the hand that plants an acorn
Shelters armies from the sun.

_Ella Wheeler Wilcox._

From "Poems of Power."

AWARENESS

A man must keep a keen sense of the drift and significance of what he is
engaged in if he is to make much headway. Yet many human beings are so
sunk in the routine of their work that they fail to realize what it is
all for. A man who was tapping with a hammer the wheels of a railroad
train remarked that he had been at the job for twenty-seven years. "What
do you do when a wheel doesn't sound right?" a passenger inquired. The
man was taken aback. "I never found one that sounded that way," said he.

God--let me be aware.
Let me not stumble blindly down the ways,
Just getting somehow safely through the days,
Not even groping for another hand,
Not even wondering why it all was planned,
Eyes to the ground unseeking for the light,
Soul never aching for a wild-winged flight,
Please, keep me eager just to do my share.
God--let me be aware.

God--let me be aware.
Stab my soul fiercely with others' pain,
Let me walk seeing h