Adventure Magazine Cover, October 10, 1921 — page 5: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ADVENTURE ) 3 “Life Aint in Holdin’ a Good Hand, but i in Playin'a Poor Hand Well” ie AINT IN | HOLDIN A GOOD | HERE IS NO FINER THING IN THE WORLD than courage. It is the warm and beautiful = flame which lights the fires of ambition in CEVA every man’s soul and burns a forward path through every difficulty. It is easy to be courageous when the odds are in your favor. But the greater hero is the man who smiles a brave smile when days are darkest and keeps on fighting toward the ultimate goal—“to the last a warrior unafraid.” As Grantland Rice so beautifully expresses it:— “‘God grant that in the strife and stress Which all must face who linger here— Upon the Field of Hopelessness Or with the laurel swinging near, Upon the world’s red firing line The battle of the strong and weak— The fate of all the Fates be mine— I will not show the Yellow Streak. If porrune play me false or fair— If, from the shadowlands I creep Up to the heights and linger there, Or topple downward to the deep— On up the rugged path of fame, Where one man falls—another mounts; God grant that I play out the game, For there is nothing else that counts.”’ As the old cowboy saying goes—“Life ain’t in holdin’ a good hand, but in playin’ a poor hand well.” What if you did have to leave school when you were but a boy! What if you have been working for years at a small salary with little or no chance for advancement! Do you think that makes any difference to a real fighter? What you have done with your time up to now accounts for what you are Today. What you do with your time from now on will decide what you will be Tomorrow. Your hands can’t earn the money you need. But -your head can—and will!—if you give it the chance. 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