Minute Message  : Mountains and Mosquitoes

Publication date: Saturday, 2/1/97



        I understand that the first attempt to dig the Panama

Canal ended in failure. The men and machinery tackled the

moutains and jungles. However, the project was abandoned because

of the mosquitoes. You would think a small insect would not pose

such a threat to progress, but the mosquito could do what the

mountains were unable to accomplish.



        Yellow Fever which killed thousands was carried by

insect. It was only after American doctors found ways of

protecting people against the disease that their second attempt

was a success.



        There is a great difference between the size of mountains

and mosquitoes. Yet, the bug was more powerful than the mountain.

The lesson is, we need to focus our attention on the small things

if we are going to succeed on the big things. Far too many good

people are victims of their own inability to deal with the

little, insignificant things in their life. A moment of

indisretion, a temptation to use other funds for ones own

benefit, or a theft of a Twinkie that which cost a man his job he

held for 20 years. Reader, know thyself if you wish to succeed.





Norman Russell

2761 Broadway

North Bend, Oregon USA  97459