The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-27
QUALITY TELLS.
Some Observations by a Man Of Long
Experience Among Men.

zone OF the essentials to great SUCCESS
that many n en- laeh," said a man Of years
and Of long experience Of men, SIS the stay
ing quality.
1T is one thing for a man to start of with
his work in great shape; quite another
thing for him to keep that gait with
undertaking and unsuitable persistenoy.
There are many men who are on their Jobs
at the end Of the first year, just as they
were at the beginning; but nothing like so
many that you can rely on to find right there
and plugging at it just the same or better
at the end Of five years.
Men get tired, or slack, or think they are
not appreciated, and then IL they haven't
got the real stuff in them they let up, and
maybe let go. Here's a young man who
works we'll and faithfully and effectively
for a year, and gets, as he thinks, no recog-
milton; and then il he is really only Splinter,
not n long distance man, What's the use?'
he saws to himself. Here I've been work
ing for a year for this man, like all pos
sessed, and l get never a glimmer. What's
the use Of trying to do anything for a man
like that?'
And with that he let's up in his work, and
as likely as not drops back into the ranks
Of the men that do a days work for a days
pay and listen for the whistle. He thinks
he isn't appreciated. and What's the use Of
trying to do anything for such a mann He
doesn't know that the boss has had his eye
on him all this time, wondering il he wouldn't
do Just this thing that he has done now,
namely, quit, and seeing him do it with
regret, but without any great surprise.
For he has seen men turn out that way
often. A new broom sweeps clean; but 1t
does not seem to be given TO many men to
be able, so to speak. to renew their splints,
and maybe to add more and better ones,
and, with consistent courage, to keep
steadily sweeping clean.
He has seen plenty Of men do bravely
for a year and then let go. and he has seen
men that would go the gait for two or three
years, or more, and then weaken. AS a
matter Of fact, it takes him a long, long
time to be persuaded that the man is really
a slayer; and he may never be. fqlly and
completely. 100 per cent, persuaded; Tor
he has seen men 60 five, ten, fifteen, twenty
years, and then let go; and so IT'S up
TO the man himself to make good.
'The boss can't coddle him, for i he
e eedsdinls S3S aad q m ns k tSst h as, to be- be e 20 tHsd
is really no good; that is, not TT for the
times encourage. young men that they
think are promisingi for they are looking
them bad; and sometimes just the right
amount Of encouragement will pull a young
man over the line between the common
place young men and the men that are
good for something, and confirm him as a
real slayer; but, unless the man has got it
in him, taffy is likely to do him more harm
than good, and to make him less useful, as
the wise boss kno va by long experience;
And so the man has got to prove his
help, and if he is a real slayer he finds a
grim and growing. pleasure In staying;
and IL he is a real A No. Ter he finds he's
| getting a cleaner, firmer, easier grip on his
work, and doing more and doing 1t better.
And then he begins to find himself in a
different atmosphere with relation to the
boss or the business Nobody Ia throwing
any flower shops at him, even now, but he
realizes that things are different. and now
he's getting on.
Il have never known a realstayer TO fail
Of his due reward"