---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Haddock, Lon J.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 12
number: 3
published: 1909-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Haddock, Lon J., "You Can Win," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 3 (January 1909): 233–234.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1203unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera1203unse
start_page: 233
end_page: 234
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1203unse
  publication_year: 1909
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1909, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# You Can Win

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YOU CAN WIN!
(For the Improvement Era.)
When an opportunity comes gliding down your way,
Grab it!
Don't run for your burrow, at the first sound of the fray,
Like a rabbit.

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234
IMPROVEMENT ERA.
Take a chance, it's "up to you!"
Brace yourself, and see it through!
It's great to show what you can do,
"Get the habit!"
Notice that the man who always makes his way in life,
Is the doer?
You'll never get a girl to consent to be your wife
Till you woo her.
Courting Fortune's just the same;
Differs only in the name,
Try it on, with the old Dame,
lou'll win out sure.
Lots of fellows "making good," can't you do the same?
Sure you can!
Just keep on a-sawin' wood, stay right with the game,
Like a man.
Have confidence that you can win,
Take off your coat, and work like sin,
Man without, and God within,
That's the plan.
Lon J. Haddock
Salt Lake City. Utah.