The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-03-06
KEEPING IN TOuCH.

usually supposed. A man may have
attainments Of much worth in and Of
themselves and yet lacking In others,
fail to put his impress upon the COM
munity in which he lives.
Industry, integrity, energy, intelli-
gence-these are factors laid down as
essential to success. 1t is incontro-
vertible that they are as fundamental
as the simple mathematical laws OF
addition, subtraction, multiplication
and division. And yet the most ordin-
airy observer has discovered men in
every walk of life who had all these
qualifications and yet failed to arrive
in any sense which is seemingly COM
mensurate with their splendid char
acters. 1t Is evident that to these
very valuable factors, another ingredi-
ent must be added, to make a COM
pound which has in it the guarantee
of the largest and best kind of a life
which shall meet ones own highest
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whom it comes in contact the marks
of a great soul.
When the really large man is dis
covered 1t will be found that he has
the capacity and the determination to
keep in touch with every thing that is
vital to his own and his neighbors
welfare. When reference is made to
a large man, it is not meant that he
of necessity occupies a large or a
democracy, thank heaven, like our
own, are found everywhere. In the
office, in the busy marts of trade, in
the factory and the work shop, and on
the farm. But wherever found they
are recognized above everything else
by that happy and insistent faculty
of keeping in touch with human life
and human interests at every point
possible. 1t applies just as truly to
woman in her life, whether in the
kitchen, the office, the school room or
mistress of her home. No better ad-
vice can be given the young man or
the man of business, If he is to have
that real and splendid success which
he Graves, and his friends desire for
him, than to cultivate this quality of
keeping in touch.
Keep in touch with yourself. Study
your own limitations and your own
excellencies that you may make the
most of the one and overcome the
others.
Keep in touch with your business.
Push it in every way possible. Have
an absorbing passion for 1t and be
determined that you will understand
all it's possibilities and promote them
as fast as you can. Have an eye to
it's weak points and fortify them.
Your goods, your customers, your
clerks-keep in generous and constant
touch with them and remember that
in proportion as you size them up
correctly and deal rightly by them will
be your success.
Keep in touch with your home
There Is no other place in the world
like it, The wife and the children
who go and come-these are the peo-
pie to keep in touch with because in
them and with them is found all that
makes earth an Eden and gives each
man an inkling of what heaven may
be. Cherish home ties and daily dc
all that can be done to strengthen and
, protect them.
Keep in touch with your commun
ity. If you live in Norfolk determine
that you will make it's welfare a part
of your life; that its schools, Its
churches, its roads, its parks, its bus
mess enterprises, its social atmos
phere, its upbuilding and development
shall be a matter of great and con
slant concern to you and that you will
keep in touch with every movement
that makes for a larger, better and
more beautiful city. Be alive. Have
opinions and a will of your own
Make yourself felt. 1t is keeping in
touch with the current problems, like
securing the Carnegie library, erect
ing a Y. NJ. C. A. building, encourag
ing home industries, more factories
better homes and more of them, more
people and more business, that makes
the valuable citizens.
Keep in touch with the social life
of the city-with its ministers, III
teachers, its daily newspaper-all thu
forces which are devoted to the pro
gress of its life. Criticise them wheI
slow, Indifferent or unwlse, comment
J them when they are sane, wide awake
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