The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-21
IN THE LAST ANALYSIS

A man in Atlanta is really RESPONSE
bic for this.
In a letter to me he supplied the text
and part of the preaehment-
Il have frequently mad the fact to
confront me-" he wrote
That there are many eminently sue
eessful men who are utterly devoid Of
politeness."
And continuing: "A kind of self-as-
sertiveness and arrogance characteTizes
these men:
Procuring for them the same results
that come to those who have genuine
personal power
And whose conduct has no untoward
effect On anyone"
But he has reversal Of opinion lit
tie farther along, and says
''Til take il all back; these men are
not eminently successful.
You never see one of them above
mediocrity.
"Eminently successful men almost
universally have a keen sense of polite
ness and consideration for others
Does it seem odd to think of the other
fellow in connection with ones Swn
success?
Yet we must.
Never mind that so much bluff goes
for the real thing,
Don't worry because nastiness is
sometimes considered as superiority.
The cymbals can drown the music of
the first violin.
The wheeling trotter gets more imme-
date attention than the faster horse
with a good breathing apparatus.
A house daubed in seven glaring col
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that's tastefully painted
Don't you see?
A successful career isn't just a few
minutes.
Success doesn't consist in being a pair
of cymbals. wheeling horse or a gau-
dy house.
Yet some folks take it so.
OF course, they don't know they are
heard and seen as cymbals, as wheez-
ing horses and as instances of horrible
taste.
They do stick OUT That's why my
friend in Atlanta was wrong in his first
analysis.
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Success is in the silences." wrote
Bliss Carman.
I've never been quite sure in which
of three ways he meant that:
Whether in the quietude of mind that
| inevitably results from knowing one is
a decent human;
In the silent contemplation in which
ones fellow beings loom large and i'm
portant, and one s personality shrinks;
Or in the commentator that shines
| from glistening eyes when lips find it a
| task to frame words.
Am / sentimental for the minute?
No, indeed-just leading up to it.
Getting you into the mood for a cor
rect last analysis.
It's a fact that bulldozing, impolite
| inconsiderate men are never eminently
successful.
| They make a certain amount of head
way
But they are continually throwing
clogs in their own wheels
Remember. my boy" said an old
and very successful man a good many
years ago-'there are enough gentle
men in the world for thee never to need
to have dealings with anyone who isn't
a gentleman"
/ 1 wonder what the man who's IN
/ gentleInanly-we've a right TO say I'M
manly-in his conduct toward others
thinks of himself?
Can he have an idea that he's smart ?
Does he believe he's right?
Can he be plagued with the notion
that he's made of finer clay?
| Does he feel that his abilities are of
a higher order?
Chances are he's like the bully at
school
A rank coward-a cur-at heart
Buster has been used to conceal
fright, you know.
SuperciIiousness has been used to COW
er infeTiority.
And-jamming through the world
with head down. apparently not caring
who is jostled OF hurt, may be because
the clear light straight from the sky
| through long centering on self.
/
Have you-just you-come with me
to the last analysis?
Have you realized that, in this dear
old world of ours, we're all interdepen-
dent?
Do you understand that success in
your work; and in the requirement of
those things that mean comfort and
ease afteTwhiIe;
Cannot be sure or really enjoyable
unless you're a mans man
A polite, thoughtful. considerate
man?
Lose sight of the few nasty fellows
who've happened to get along.
They don't count-it will drag you
back to let them count
/ K x x
I'm grateful to the man in Atlanta.
And SO are you.