Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-12
No Man Is as Great as His
Work
In His Little Lifetime He Do Only Small Part of ANY
Important Task Then He Must Pass On and Leave Its
Completion to Others
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built with my brains They the they got
me the men good railroad of the best in the world
it going to last for many years monument to me
But mind that made the railroad the railroad ddn
make me.
This from pompous ronJawed railroad president as
he scoyed al nquisive reporter
reporter duly this speech down and somewhere
newspaper be found essentially have set
forth here
It ism t true ism just it ism but
there that the railroad president uttered
he every word He fanced then he fances
greater than his work and that the railroad
cay sprang from his brain told that lesser detes
sprang from the head of the family
dees worhpped by the thoughtful but creduous people of
early times.
Now this man. able as he was merely put together
railroad before he heard of dug iron
earth and thus provided the by which his
track and locomotives and wheels could be built
While the bufaoes still kicking up dust clouds along
his present rght-ofway Stephenson nkerng his
Of locomotive engine thus beginning ONE BRANCH of
the railroad business of ALL OF WHOSE BRANCHES this
man calls himself the
improved the locomotive and devised meth
DDS engineering harnessed the lightning the electric
telegraph and taught how work shovel and
educated the public into of buying railroad stocks and
bonds and expemented with different kinds of rolling stock
until abundance of the work that they had produced
it possible to choose and arrange the materials for rail
road
the plains with teams fighting their against Indians and
wild and famine and billiards. developed country
and planted the wheat fields that made the railroad worth while
So the great railroad builder instead Of being than
his work merely small part of it.
He up the work of hundreds thousands of
men, and following the example OF many other railroad builders
combined it all into toerably efficient railroad,
Relatively he about much the originator of the
that he brought together the fourteenth
reef composed of fourteen hundred billion
originator Of the reef
The world requires like this with magma
ton and who its needs and who have the
supply them matter whether their motives purely phil
anhropc-whch often-or wholly selfish But the world
not afford to let such conceed fancy
pared to their own important personalities the work that they
doing is incident
Several times in history big able have become possess
ed with the idea that they greater than all other earthly
beings The last of these Napoleon and lived
stand, if not to admit his mistakes
America has been more fortunate in it's great men Wash
ngton knew that compared the he per
sonaliy counted for but little There
would not have stepped aside let ADLER charge
the Colonial army, had an ADLER been possible find
Lincoln counted his country first and himself last He had
vanity that his contemporaries able discover
ambition other than the country more united and
at Great both of these yet of them
for minute fancied that he the
had been set to do
The world that most Of know great workshop in
which each must find the Job he best fitted do and do
well as he may.
Education but study what other have dore in The
world in order that may discovering what
already been discovered following paths that have
There is work unimportan it is to be despised
50 long as 1t wholesome there field of human endeavor
that has been fully cultivated that viii further re
for labor
The who realizes that instead being greater than his
task he is infinitely small in comparison with chance to
do his best and in doing his best he reasonably sure to be
successful.
Whether gathers together fortune or not does
not matter great deal Some men not for
tunes and spoiled by them.
But whether not he justify his existence by being
those that here and those who mat.
tiers q d>al
Let him take hold of any work to hand if he
n& that he do it. and after learning all there is 70
know about what has been done courageou work
to do little if he
He hn tho 4.
TASK becomes constantly greater in his eyes as the
wears have passed by he has prefer anything else
in the world
Whether medicine law engineering selling grocer
e ne feels that it great and useful work he will
" pleasure and satisfaction, and unconscousy he win become
one o. us worlds really valuable workers