Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-13
CALLED
HONEST WORK
WELL DONE
poIalse of World To Be Consid-
cred Only as Trimming"
Says Forbes.
BY 3. C. FORBES.
tess used to be spelt SUCCESS

BY 3. C. FORBES.
Success used to be spelt SUCCESS
dollars
Success is now coming to be spelt
sERNIGE.
THa successful" man, especially in
ueuea and other new countries, has
brer reckoned he who has made most
#0R HIMSELF.
To-day We place higher the man
lo does most FOR OTHERS.
Na figure in history ever won en-
Inning. worth while fame simply be-
eause Of the size of his purse.
The public now scrutinizes HOW a
han has filed his purse not less close
than how he strives to empty it,.
Even though honestly filled, if he
merely keeps it full to overlooking,
nd does nothing for the benefit of
hose from whom he gathered it, no
.eh niche will be reserved for him
mong the worlds benefactors.
Ror those who have fattened on d
fefenseless public, who have wrung
he life blood and crushed the ambi-
on out of their employees, who have
ruthlessly and unnecessarily ruined
ronpetitors, who have not hesitated
Ia stlbvert the law and to practice
,,rruprion. the free born, self-re-
spectIng American citizen has nothing
Knit contempt. If any such, finding the
armospherp of this outspoken Repub-
NOT quite congenial, elect to emf
yrate TO more servile foreign lands,
ct Them Their eXpatriation may serve
Is a warning to others not to fol-
Iaw in their footsteps money max
81 ngNise
All life is seeking after success.
u
Pn- success may sometimes consist
In failure TO achieve ambitions Chat
sounds C'hestertonian but ii is true)
aavo mentioned the names of sew
oval in llionaires whom | regard, and
"a whom others are beginning to regard,
2s pHiahle failures. They have dol
hans a-plenty. but decent men want
~ ra.hiag 10 do with them-and, much
II the.r establishment, they are wax
Ing to the discomfiting fact.
ON The other hand. the man who is
running the elevator a few PAGES from
where this is being written is TO my
d mind really successful He lives a
81 tranquil happy domestic life; he
81 oozes good cheer; he is the picture of
4 health tscaling upward of 200
q mundSj; he never spends penny in
4 saloons he is liked by all; the street
a uchins ~ the immediate neighbor-
n hood number him among their most
n considerable friends. he does his work
Il conScientiOusly and even enthusiast
a ueqlly he makes the best of every
a thing, and hasn't a crouch in the
4 world He is the kind of worker 1t is
s good to have around. And ! doubt
4 not his philosophic .contentment with
1 his present lot will win him better
though if it doesn't-he viii not whine
IS
The trouble with most of us is that
We want to succeed in too great
hurry Learn TO labor" we accept
as just but the "AND TO WATT
gals
Then our conceptions of what con-
stitutes success are apt to be not
quite right
When We are young-and some OF
MS never get over tive are apt to
think that applause. righteousness
and fame constitute success. These
things don't They are only the
uappngs, 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-
Sary to elicit 1t, is not apt to be deaf
ened by it-at least not for any length
Of time
Concentrate on your work and the
applause. the reward, will take care
Of itself
If Colonel Goethals had concerned
himself more with gaining fame and
promotion and riches than with dig
sing 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 puffed
up by it.
The new yardstick of success may
not appeal so strongly as the old to
many people. especiallv young men.
They may see something more attrac-
tive in SUCCESS than in SERVICE.
hut the Dollar by itself can not sat
IS'N More. i'm order to gain and re-
'an dollars under the incoming era,
li viii be found necessary 10 render
service, genuine, helpful service to
To world. whether that service con-
Sst Of sweeping streets or organizing
3A International corporation or run
h'ng railroad
The big man of the future is to be
..e "ne who DOES MOST FOR MAN
hIND. not the one who takes most
from mankind.
Let that simple truth sink into the
minds and the souls Of the rising
Seneration and all will be well with
.oem and with the world.
Success. be it never forgotten, is
more state of mind than state OF
hoNhet Hence, II is within reach Of
Y, though it NAV cost incessant self
GENIAL. self-control self-immoatiOn,
"Nd unending endeavor inspired by
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