Begin The Beguine

How to send a message to Garcia 怎样把信送给加

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When war broke out between Spain and the

United States it was very necessary to

communicate quickly with the leader of the

insurgents.Garcia was somewhere in the

No mail nor telegraph message could reach him.

The president must secure his cooperation

and

quickly.

What to do!

Some one said to the president

“there ’s a

fellow by the name of rowan will find Garcia

for you

if anybody can.”

Rowan was sent for and given a letter to be

delivered to Garcia.How “the fellow by the

name of rowan ”took the letter

sealed it up

heart

in four days landed by night off the

coast of Cuba from an open boat

disappeared

into the jungle

and in three weeks came out

on the other side of the island

having

traversed a hostile country on foot

and

have no special desire now to tell in detail.

McKinley gave rowan a letter to be delivered

to Garcia;rowan took the letter and did not

There is a man whose form should be cast in

deathless bronze and the statue placed in

learning young men need

nor instruction about

this and that

but a stiffening of the

vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to

a trust

to act promptly

concentrate their

Garcia!”

General Garcia is dead now

but there are

other Garcias.No man who has endeavored to

carry out an enterprise where many hands were

inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a

thing and do it.

Slipshod assistance

foolish inattention

the rule;and no man succeeds

unless by hook

or crook or threat he forces or bribes other

men to assist him;or mayhap

god in his

goodness performs s miracle

and sends him an

angel of light for an assistant.

are all within call.Summon any one and make

encyclopedia and make a brief memorandum for

me concerning the life of Correggio.”Will

the clerk quietly say

“yes

sir

”and go do

the task?

On your life

he will not.He will look at you

out of a fishy eye and ask one or more of the

Who was he?

Which encyclopedia?Where is the encyclopedia?

Was I hired for that?What ’s the matter with

George doing it?Is he dead?Is there any

hurry?Shan ’t I bring you the book and let

you look it up yourself?What do you want to

know for?

And I will lay you ten to one that after you

have answered the questions

and explained how

to find the information

and why you want it

the clerk will go off and get one of the other

then come back and tell you there is no such

man.Of course I may lose the bet

but

according to the law of average

I will not.

This incapacity for independent action

this

moral stupidity

this infirmity of the will

this unwillingness to cheerfully catch hold

and lift –these are the things that put pure

socialism so far into the future.If men will

not act for themselves

what will they do when

the benefit of their effort is for all?

My heart goes out to the man who does his work

when the “boss ”is away

as well as when he

is at home.And the man who

when given a

letter for Garcia

quietly takes the mission

without asking any idiotic questions

and with

no lurking intention of chucking it into the

nearest sewer

or of doing aught else but

deliver it

never gets “laid off ”nor has to

go on a strike for higher wages.

Anything such a man asks shall be granted.He

is wanted in every city

town and village and

in every office

shop

store and factory.The

message to Garcia ”.