Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-13
SUCCESS CALLED
HONEST WORK
WELL DONE
Applause of World To Be Consid-
cred Only as trimming"
Says Forbes.
BY 8. C. FORBES.
Success used TO be spelt SUCCESS
Hnllars

BY 3. c. FORBES.
Success used to be spelt SUCCESS
dollars
Success is now coming to be spelt
SERVICE.
The Successful" man, especially in
America and other new countries, has
been reckoned he who has made most
FOR HIMSELF.
To-day we place higher the man
who does most FOR OTHERS.
No figure in history ever won en-
during, worth while fame simply be-
cause of the size of his purse.
The public now scrutinizes HOW a
man has filled his purse not less close
ly than how he strives TO empty it.
Even though honestly filled, if he
merely keeps it full to overlooking,
and does nothing for the benefit Of
those from whom he gathered il. no
high niche will be reserved for him
among the worlds benefactors.
Ror those who have fattened on a
defenseless public, who have wrung
he life blood and crushed the ambi
ton out or their employees, who have
ruthlesslv and unnecessarily ruined
competitors, who have not hesitated
10 subvert the law and to practice
corruption, the free born, self
specting American citizen has nothing
but contempt. II any such, finding the
atmosphere of this outspoken Repub-
lie not quite congenial, elect to emil
CRATE to more servile foreign lands,
let them. Their expatriation may serve
as warning TO others not to fol-
low in their footsteps money max
ingWise.
All life is seeking after success
But success may sometimes consist
in failure to achieve ambitions. Chat
sounds Chestertonian. but it is true)
| have mentioned the names OF sew
eral miilionaires whom | regard, and
whom others are beginning to regard,
as pitiable failures They have dol
lars a-plenty, but decent men want
nothing to do with them-and, much
to their astonishment, they are wax
ing to the discomfiting fact.
On the other hand the man who is
running the elevator few PAGES from
where this is being written is to my
mind, really successful He lives a
tranquil. happy domestic life; he
oozes good cheer; he is the picture of
health Sealing upward OF 200
pounds; he never spends penny in
saloons; he is liked by all, the street
urchins OF the immediate neighbor-
hood number him among their most
considerate friends; he does his work
conscientiously and even enthusiast
tically: he makes the best of every
thing, and hasn't a crouch in the
world. He is the kind OF worker it is
good to have around And I doubt
not his philosophic contentment with
his present lot will win him better
though If il doesn't he viii not whine.
The trouble with most OF us is that
we want to succeed in too great a
hurry. Learn to labor we accept
as just, but the land TO WAIT"
gals.
Then our conceptions of what con-
stitutes success are apt to be not
quite right.
When we are young some Of
us never get over tive are apt TO
think that applause, conspicuousness
and fame constitute success These |
things don't They are only the |
trappings, the trimmings, OF success, |
success itself being the work, the |
achievement that evokes these mani |
festations. Not the prize, but that |
which enters into the winning of it is !
what forms success. And the man |
or woman who values the applause
more than the effort the work neces- |
sarv % elicit It, is not ant to be deaf |
eued b. it-at least not for any length |
OF time.
Concentrate on your work and the |
applause. the reward, viii take care |
of itself
II Colonel Goethals had concerned |
himself more with gaining fame and |
promotion and riches than with dig |
ging dirt out of the canal and keep |
ing II out. he would not stand to-day |
where he does. And I'm inclined TO |
believe he ranks fame far below the |
actual construction of the canal The |
man deserving of fame Is not pufted |
up by it.
The new yardsticll OF success may |
not appeal so strongly as the old to |
many people, esuecially young men |
They may see something more attrac- |
tive in SUCCESS than in SERVICE |
But the Dollar by itself can not sat- |
isfy More. in order to gain and re- |
tain dollars under the incoming era, |
il will be found necessary to render |
service. genuine, helpful service to |
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sist Of sweeping streets or orga nizinH |
an international corporation or run |
ming a railroad
The big man OF the future is to be |
the one who DOES MOST FOR MAN |
KIND, not the one who takes most |
from mankind