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a ee See Sea cutee Seats 2 a RR eeleN aie RS eR ms atte meer or ccc en a GOES A teat acne Fata a tie RE aC 1 sb a an a NR ATOR RENO ae BOE a A NE GAN 2 RR TIT Ea PU EN RI i BARRED Be aE, RD ose REE Dk as ts Be a tg EES DE cE we ec eee See Uren eeeniae te Caer sie ON THE OCCASION OF THE VISIT OF Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth TO OUR CITY ON JUNE 6th, 1939 I HEREBY PROCLAIM THE SAID DAY A Civic Holiday and respectfully request its observance by all loyal citizens. THOMAS E. HENRY, ° Mayor Mayor's Office, Stratford, Ont. 26th May, 1939. GOD SAVE THEIR MAJESTIES Here is an example of developing secondary talents so that confidence in important matters follows: A thirty-year-old clerk in a business office who had had no early advan- tages had wanted all her life to play the piano. One day on her walk home, moved by an impulse which she fortunately did not resist, she turned into a house which advertised music" lessons by a little sign in the window. Her success, of course, is only com- parative. She had not the time need- ed to make a really excellent musician, nor did she begin early enough to train the special muscles that a pro- fessional pianist uses. But she suc- ceeded in reference to her own goal. Her whole life has been altered by that moment of courage. Besides the pleasure she has had from under- standing music as only the performer can ever understand it, she has, and knows she has, acted in an adult fash- ion which resulted in giving her more confidence in every relation of her life. From being the overworked and op- pressed drudge of her home, she came to live in her own small apartment, she visits her family on terms of amicable indifference, and has made a group of friends whose tastes coincide with hers. By DOROTHEA BRANDE This case should give a hint, at,least of the proper procedure. Take a def- inite step to turn a dream into a reality. Do something every day to- wards your intention, however re- mote your goal may have to be. Always your first question to your- self should be, 'What would I be do- ing now if it were really impossible for me to fail at---whatever it is; trav- eling, modeling, writing, farming?" It may be any of these things, or any one of a hundred more. Whatever it is, by thinking, you can discover easily what the first step would be if you were engaged with reality, and not with a dream of a dif- ferent life. We seldom realize how great an amount of the friction we all undergo in our lives comes from our expecting to be rebuffed or ignored. 'Think back to some encounter you had today in your office, in a store, with a servant or tradesman in your home. Try to remember just the form your request took. Making all due allowances for courtesy, or for the re- spectfulness due to superiors and eld- ers, was there not in addition a tenta- tiveness about your request? Didn't you ask for co-operation in such a way as to leave room for refusal, or grudg- ing: action, or for being ignored? Now think of the ideal way in which that question could have been asked, or that order given. It can be cast just as courteously as before, but in such a way that the person of whom you asked help cannot refuse you without being deliberately surly and hostile. That is the tone of success. When you find it you benefit not only your- self, but the person with whom you must co-operate for effectiveness. _ Do not waste another's time and energy or your own patience by sug- gesting even indirectly that there is more than one course of action, if there is only one which will get the result you require. The work to be done_takes half the time if the atten- tion is undivided and so is free to go on to the next demand quickly. 5 By going over your day in imagina- tion before you begin it, thinking of all the contacts you are likely to have and how they can best be handled, listening to your own voice and cor- recting it till you get the tone which is at once courteous and unanswer- able, you can begin acting successfully at any moment. : By doing so you will find that you get through your business day with less fatigue; with what you have left you can begin to realize some minor wish of which you have long dreamed in secret. From there it is only a step. to finding the courage to begin to do the major things you have wanted and hoped to do. " oer awl DALE'S Radio Service wr , Reliable Service 208 Nile St. Phone 2470 © THE STRATFORD. MIRROR Page 3 Author of "How to Win Friends '-and Influence People." S-Minute Biogre phies MAHATMA GANDHI The World's Best Known Man Carries False Teeth In His Loin Cloth _ Every so often, out in India, a little brown man, wearing a loin cloth, lays himself down on a cot, refuses to eat, and threaten. 1 until he dies. Then newspapers all ever the world feature the story because Mahatma Gandhi is one of the leading figures of this generation. Reckoned in terms of money, Gandhi is a poor man. If he solid all his earthly possessions. they probably would not bring seventy- five cents; yet he is more powerful than any millionaire on earth. Physically, he is weak: and he refuses to use force or violence; yet his teachings and his spiritual in- fluence are more potent and power- ful than a hundred battleships of England. One person out of every six on earth lives in India. And for cen- turies, these. people of India have 'been aslee ow this little frail man, who \. :¢hs less than a hun- dred pounds, is arousing India to a sense of its own gigantic power. He is instituting reforms that may 'have far-reachine effects on the his- tory of the orld. There ar iany curious things vabout Gandhi. For example, he has 'a set of false teeth, which he car- 'ries in a fold of his loin cloth. He ;puts them in his mouth only when he wants to eat. After his meal, he itakes them out, washes them and ,puts them back in his loin cloth jagain. ' : He speaks English with an trish ;accent, for one of his first teachers ; was an Irishman. He wears nothing 'but a loin cloth now, but for years the lived in London and wore a silk ;hat_and spats and carried a cane. | He was educated at London Uni- | versity and became an attorney. But the first time he attempted to make a speech in court, his knees trem- ~ bled, and he was so frightened that he had to sit down in confusion and defeat. As a lawyer in London he got nowhere at all. He was practically a failure there. Years before, when he first came to England, his Irish teacher made him copy the Sermon on the Mount, over and over again, purely as an exercise in English. Hour after hour, Gandhi wrote "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. . . . Blessed are the peace- makers for they shall be called the children of God," and these words made a profound impression on him. Presently, he was sent to South Africa to collect some huge debts; and he tried to apply there the philosophy of the Sermon on the Mount. And it 'worked. Clients flocked to M. H. Gandhi because he settled their claims peacefully out of court and saved them time and expense. Gandhi soon had an in- come of fifteen thousand dollars a year. The meek was inheriting the earth. But was he happy?. No. Because he knew that untold millions of his fellow countrymen were living in misery. He had seen thousands die of starvation, and worldly success seemed cheap and unimportant.' So he gave up all his money, and took the vow of poverty, and since that time, he has consecrated his life to helping the poor and the down- trodden. eae Millions regard Mahatma Gandhi as a saint. Others believe that he is the reincarnation of a Hindu god. In a world filled with sordid greed and selfishness, I, for one, feel like standing with bowed head before this man who is seeking nothing for himself but is willing to die in order that others mf4y live. . For i NEW "YORK, N. Y. . . A generation of travel progress is com- memorated in this symbolic race between a "horseless carriage" and @ modern streamliner which took place at the New York World's Fair. The ceremony marked the 40th anniversary of the invention of roller bearings. The "horseless carriage," which dates from 1899, still rolls on the first successful roller bearing installation ever made. 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