The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-05-31
TO SUCCEED, OBEY
{. Hubbard Says He AL
ways Gets His
THE ONLY REAL NEUTRAL IN
THIS GAME OF LIFE is A DEAD
ONE"

horses all my life and nave never
been thrown-but of course | do
not let the other fellow pick my
mounts. Also, chee-ild, look you,
! | haven't an enemy in the world that
recognize as such. My enemies are
simply good people who do not un-
derstand me. This is this misfor-
| tune.
If they injure me in some ways,
| they more than make up for it in
advertising, so l am the gamer by
| their gall.
I've travelled on railroad-trains for
forty years-in this country and in
Europe-and I've never been robbed
nor mistreated. l never had
chewing-match with a railroad man
nor a hotel employee. While the
other fellow is bowling and calling
bad names he didn't get any pie, the
waiter brings me two nice quarter
sections that | didn't even suggest,
save in telegraphic way.
| always get mine and a little
more. Kindness and love have been
| my portion. | never had banker or
| anybody else refuse me a loan of
money or anything.
Once on an early train near Wich-
ita, Kansas, | made reach for my
pocketbook when the conductor en-
tered and yelled, Tickets, every
body!" | reached for my faithful
walletoski, l repeat, and it wasn't
there. l had left it under my pill
low at the hotel. In desperation |
| looked around to see if l knew any
one in that car.
Alas! Not a soul was there l had
ever seen before. Opposite me was
freckled party with derby cock
| ed over his eye at a vicious angle.
In his buttonhole modestly cleaned
the little gold antlers of the Elks.
Without a second thought | reached
over and said, Hey, you, Bill, loan
me five dollars"
He glanced at me lazily, and
reaching in his trousers brought up
big, greenish roll. He skinned
off a five, and as he handed it to
me he said, Yes, brother, sure; and
if there is any change, get your hair
cut" And the pocketbook? Yes,
| the freckled little Elk told the con-
ductor, who was also an antlered
buck, to telegraph back and get that
| leather. That evening smoky,
smudgy, greasy, locomotive fireman
walked into the hotel and gave me
my pocketbook. Not card or
postage-stamp was missing, and the
one hundred siXty-five dollars in
good bills was there just as | had
! left it. | offered the fireman a V.
He smiled and refused to touch it,
All he wanted was a copy of The
PhiliStine with my name written to
! it.
you have done so much for the
| railroad boys-they all shout for
you" said the greasy one.
OF course | haven't done anything
! for them. But | would like to.
l love the boys-the section men,
the track-walkers, fagmen, engin-
eers-the folks who toll and carry
! burdens, and who ask for so little
in return. God bless them all!
The very first item in the creed
of commonsense is Obedience. Per-
form your work with a whole heart
Revolt may be sometimes neces-
sary, but the man who tries to mix
revolt and obedience is doomed to
disappoint himself and everybody
with whom he has dealings.
To flavor work with protest is to
fail in the protest and fail in the
work. When you revolt, why re-
volt-climb, hike, get out, defy
tell everybody and everything to go
to hades That disposes of the case.
You thus separate yourself entirely
from those you have served-no one
misunderstands you-you have de-
clared yourself.
The man who quits in disgust
when ordered to perform task
which he considers menial or unjust
may be pretty good fellow; but
the malcontent who takes your order
with a smile, and then secretly dis
obeys, is dangerous proposition.
To pretend to obey, and yet carry
in your heart the spirit of revolt, is
to do half-hearted, slipshod work.
If revolt and obedience are equal in
power, your engine will then stop
on the center and you benefit no one,
not even yourself.
The spirit of obedience is the con-
trolling impulse that dominates the
receptive mind and the hospitable
heart. There are boats that mind
the helm and there are boats that do
not. Those that do not, get holes
knocked in them sooner or later. To
keep off the rocks, obey the rudder.
Obedience is not to slavishly obey
this man or that, but it is that
CuCGIIul llCIllcl SldlG WhlCll ISopOlul
to the necessity of the case, and
does the thing without any back
talk-uttered or expressed. Obedi-
ence to the nstitution-loyalty! The
man who has not learned to obey
as trouble ahead of him every step
of the way. The world has it in for
him continually, because he has it
in for the world.
The man who does not know how
to receive orders is not fit to issue
them to others. But the individual
who knows how to execute the or
; ders given him is preparing the way
to issue orders, and better still-to
have them obeyed. There is known
to me a prominent business house
that by the very force of it's direct
ness and worth has managed to in
cur the enmity of many rivals. In
fact, there is very general conspir.
acy on hand to put the institution
down and out.
In talking with a young man en-
ployed by this house, he yawned and
said, "Oh, in this quarrel am neu-