Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-04-04

You can pick out the men who've made
a success of things without knowing
their business, and after you've been
head over $4,000 of them for several
years you can come pretty near picking
out the boys who will make a success
of the future"
'Then success is something to be
made and dependent upon ourselves?
And it isn't luck, not even in part?'
"Not even in the smallest part. No
man ever made a success of his life by
luck or chance or accident. When you
come across one of that vast majority
who have failed because they never
had a chance you'll take notice that
he lacks that indefinable, subtle some
thing that stands for success, n
sometimes'-Mr. Schwab's smile was
comprehensive and cordial-"I'm in
clined to believe the mysterious some
thing is simply a capacity and a dispo-
Eition for nard work"
"Yet there must be some element of
luck in an advance from $3.50 per
week to-
"None whatever" said Mr.. Schwab,
i~nterrupting my s~peculationS. 81 don't
look upon any success l may have
made as dependent in any way upon
luck unless you count it luck to be born
with a mental and physical constitu-
ton that has thrived on HARD work.
eff the conditions Of our birth are
what you mean by luck, then, indeed,
luck has been a feature in my life, for
I was born not only healthy. but poor.
There Is no surer start on the road that
leads to honors and success than to be
born o if our poverty is combined
with grit.
"The rich mans son enters life's race
with a handicapped only the handi-
cap which a fortune is, because it de
prives him of the necessity to progress
and expand, but the handicap Of never
being able to appreciate what he's got,
for everything in life that's worth
while is ten times more worth while
when we yearn and work and climb
for it.
"The first great blessing in my life
was being born poor. The fundamen-
tai principles that founded my charac-
ter were the lessons wrung out Of early
hardships and privations and self deni-
ais. 1 would not give up the experience
Of q boyhood barren Of luxuries and
paved with obstacles for any amount
of money. 1t would be like pulling the
foundation out Of a building.
"Some employer, I knew, would pay
me full value for every hours work I
put in, for l was slowing away, as a
stock in trade, every moments work
and it's subsequent knowledge and ex-
perience. I am q hearty believer. you
know, in b law Of compensation. ]
don't believe an honest effort e goes
unrewarded, though sometimes the re.
ward is a long time coming"
"Yet there are people whose whole
lives are made up Of work and they
don't succeed?"
Mr.. Schwab shook his head doubt
ingly- It's a handsome head. strongly
set upon his shoulders. and his fea
lures, too, are -strong-strong in theil
frankness, their cordially. their STAMP
of sincerity. Good nature. good sense
good intent n the power of fulfill
ment mark President Schwab as ont
of the worlds successes.
"There are many reasons" he said
why men WHO are Always working arr
not always succeeding. Sometime.
they belong to the class who cultivate
the appearance OF working, who man
age to keep busy without doing any
thing. Sometimes they spend thei