YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR LUCK

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 13 (Supplement)

YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR LUCK

No writer of novels about successful men could possibly imagine such astonishing things about their beginnings as actual facts. •• • ' John Pierpont Morgan, very probably tlie most . powerful banker who ever lived,* was the son of a dry goods merchant: " The man ' who gave Morgaii's father his start as a banker, was George Peabody, who had been a dry goods clerkuntil his uncle's store burned down. Dr. William Osier, greatest' of physicians born in the western world, was the youngest of nine children whose father was the minister of a tiny settlement in the wilderness north of Toronto. Cecil Rhodes was one of twelve • children whose father was the minister at Bishop Stortford, a little English marketing town. His lung trouble was so bad, when he was sixteen, that doctorß said he could live only a few years. With a little monev borrowed from his aunt he went to South' Africa to work on a farm. "The wish came to me," he wrote, "to render myself useful" to my country." ... , Before he came-to the. end of his life, Rhodes had aided more than.eight hundred thousand square miles to his country's territory, and he established the wonderful Rhodes -Scholarships at Oxford University, in the belief that young Englishmen and Americans should know each other better, so that the two countries could wifcli a v united prevent any war and, spread the highest forms of civilisation through the world.