Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-01
DR.. Marden's
Uplift Talks
BY oRlsoN SWEET MARoEN.
$1,000
ooOyrighl BY Mcclure Newspaper syndicate
PUT NEW BLOOD INTO YOUR
BUSINESS.

A medical journal reports an ex-
pertinent upon very feeble horse
twenty-six years old. The blood of
four lambs was transfused into the
animal and he Immediately showed
marked signs Of new life and vigor
and seemed much younger. The young
er. more vigorous corpuscles of the
aambs rejuvenated the old horse and
impaired a new vital force.
There are business houses which
have become feeble from the loss of
the old time vigor and vitality. Some
times because the proprietors have
gotten along in years or because they
have made their money and are in
Gained to take things easy. But what
ever the reason of a declining vitality
I'm business. IL II is not resuscitated
and rejuvenated with new blood. with
new vitality. II 1t is not Refrigerated
in, some way, dry rot will set in and it
@ill gradually peter out.
have in mind,a proprietor who has
been running his business on the
same old plan. ON the same old ideas
as his grandfather used. More pro-
gressiye young men moved to his
town and have started the same line
Of business, and although he sees his
customers gradually slipping away
from him he says that what his COM
petitors are doing doesn't interest
him. He is never looking to see what
others in the same line of business are
doing, what new methods, new ideas
they are adopting. The result is that
he il hopeIessly in rut and his bust
ness is4gradualiy dropping on
A business must be fed just as much
as an individual, and 1t must be fed
on new food, 1t must be fed on new
Adess.
The progressive man keeps in touch
win his competitors.
The junior member of a firm recent
sy established was asked by an old
business man how they managed to
get their store so quickly into fine, 30
fully equipped, and In such excellent
working order. The young man re-
piled that he had been ION the road"
for some time, had visited food fairs
and model stores I'm different sections
OF the country and that the firm had
put into practice the points he had
gained while travelling. He then con-
AIDED to him some entirely new and
attractive features which. they were
about to introduce as the result Of his
,obseEEations while ION the road"
When q man says to himself. Nov
4 can breathe more freely, I can let
mp q little, have a field, am head
and shoulders ahead OF my competi-
tors and l can afford to take things
easy he is in danger.
Overconfldence IL the first sign Of a
decline, the first symptom OF deterio-
cation We DO our best work when we
are struggling for our position when
we are trying with all our might to
gain our ambition, to attain that which
the heart longs for.
.IATabltion Ia the very handspring OF
efficiency. for without 1t there is no
motive for the necessary effort to
achieve II Ia possible to ruin the
4nest ambition in a short time. The
enemies of ambition are always at
work. Encouragement, fear. worry
aaziness, the temptation to take things
easy. to slide along the line of least
resistance. the feeling of satisfaction
I'm ones achievements all these
things. II not constantly watched and
guarded against viii gradually under
mine the ambition
This ls true OF the teacher, the
preacher. the merchant and the spe
.cialist In every line. If they do mo-
keep up with the times, If they do no
keep In the sxery4Ean of progress, al
ways on the lookout for the new and
4he progressive, they quickly becom,
back numbers. The new. the up-to-date
everywhere Is crowding out the oil
fosy.