"MY GREATEST BLUNDER"
In the CVerar Library, Chicago, is a book in which 500 men out of work have written of “the greatest blunder of my life.” Hero are some extracts: 1. Didn’t save what I earned. 2. Did not as a boy realise the value cf education. _ 3. If I had taken better care of mv money I would be better- in health and morals. 4 Did not realise the importance of sticking to one kind of employment. 5. The greatest blunder of mv life was when I took my first drink. _ 6. One of the greatest blunders of rov life was nob to perfect myself in one o'f the lines of business I started tint to learn. 7 My greatest blunder was when I left school in the fifth grade. 8. The turning point in mv life was when,,at 15, I ran away from ’home. 9. Spent my money’ foolishly when I was earning good wages. 10. When I let myself be misled in thinking that I heed not stick to one thing. 11. Seif conceit and not listening to mv parents.
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Evening Star, Issue 15478, 28 April 1914, Page 4
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184"MY GREATEST BLUNDER" Evening Star, Issue 15478, 28 April 1914, Page 4
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