isa-normaladvance-1915-00147

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE1477. Will to learn. Finally, make up yourmind that you can learn. It has been foundfrom experience that when people have thewill to learn, the mind will work much moreeasily. Do not say, I cant learn it. I am notinterested in it. When you get this attitudeit is almost impossible to do successful work.Most of our exchanges have more or lesscomment to offer on the war. The followingexplains the origin:Modern Diplomacy, or How the War Started.Said Austria: You murderous Serb,You the peace of all Europe disturb Get down on your knees,And apologize, please,Or Ill kick you off my front curb.Said Servia: Dont venture too far,Or Ill call in my uncle, the Czar He wont see me licked,Or insulted or kicked,So you better leave things as they are.Said the Kaiser: Push in that Serbs face,It will-teach him to stay in his place If Russia says boo,Im in the game too,And right quickly well settle the case.The Czar said: My cousin, the Kaiser,Was always a good advertiser Hes determined to fight,And insists he is right,But soon hell be older and wiser.For forty-four summers, said FranceI have waited and watched for a chanceTo wrest Alsace-LorraineFrom the Germans again,And now is the time to advance.Said Belgium: When armies immensePour over my boundary fence,Ill awake from my nap,And put up a scrapTheyll remember a hundred years hence.Said John Bull: This ere Kaisers a slob,And is word isnt worth arf a bob,(If I lets Belgium sufferIm a blank bloomin duffer)So ere goes for a crack at is nob.Said Italy: I think Ill stay outTill I know what the row is aboutIts a far better planJust to sell my banan,Till the issue is plain beyond doubt.Said our good Uncle Samuel: I swaowI had better keep aout of this raow,For with Mormons and Niggers,And Greasers, I figgers,I have all I kin handle just now.—Ex.THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DOING THINGSSomebody said that it couldnt be done,But he, with a chuckle, replied,That maybe it couldnt, but he would be one,Who wouldnt say so till hed tried.So he buckled right in, with a trace of a grinOn his face. If he worried, he hid it.He started to sing as he tackled the thingThat couldnt be done—and he did itSomebody scoffed: Oh, youll never do that At least, no one ever has done it.But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,And the first thing we knew hed begun it With a lift of his chin, and a bit of a grin,Without any doubting or quiddit He started to sing as he tackled the thingThat couldnt be done—and he did it.There are thousands to tell you it cannot bedone,There are thousands to prophesy failure There are thousands to point out to you, oneby one,The dangers that wait to assail you But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,Then take off your coat and go to it Just start in to sing as you tackle the thingThat cannot be done,—and youll do it.—Ex.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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