News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-02-10
Man Who Can DO Things
Is in Demand
BY oRlsON SWEET MARDEN.


| Copyright, Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate, }
When Mayor Mitchell of New York
was discussing Colonel Goethals, who
has won worldwide renown for his
mastery construction of the Panama
canal for the head of the police de-
partment, he said he wanted the big
gest man in America for the job.
The man who is in most demand
everywhere today is the man who can
do things, the man with vigorous
ership, the man who can create some
thing, the man with resourcefulness,
the man of productive power.
There are plenty of men who can
do routine work, who can follow pre-
scribed lines, carry out in detail
program which others make, but the
man OF original force, Of constructive
energy, who can get out of the beaten
track and blaze away for others is as
rare as he is valuable
There is always a big premium on
the man of original ideas, progress
siVe methods, the man of productive
force, the thinker. There is an adj
vertisement up at the door of every
house of human endeavor for such a
man. Great business concerns are
securing the country for men Of this
stamp; large combinations are look
ing for them as leaders. Merchants
need them, insurance companies are
looking for them; they are wanted
everywhere in the business world, in
all walks of life.
The world wants leaders, men with
great executive ability, men with
stamina, men who have an abundance
of iron in their blood and lime in
their backbone. 1t needs aggressive
men, men whose blood is full of posi-
tive force, men Of grit and stamina
these are the men who make things
move.
The man who is wanted everywhere
today is a born winner, the man who
is victory organized, the man who has
the habit OF victory These natural
winners have great self-confidence as
well as determination. They have CO.
lossal self-faith in their ability to over
come obstacles.
These great positive, forceful char
acters are optimistic. Their ability is
not weakened by doubts and fears
and hesitations; they do not worry;
they are not able to do the things
they undertake. These are the sort of
men that accomplish the great things
of the world the giants that turn
neither to the right nor to the left,
who do not go over, around or under
obstacles, but through them, and are
always equal to the occasion.
If you are ambitious to be some
thing more than an average individ-
ual, if you expect to step out of the
crowd and stand for something in
you must not do things as
everybody else does them; you must |
inject superiority into everything you
do; you must be original, inventive, |
resourceful.
If you expect to become an import
ant figure in the world of commerce,
a captain of industry, instead of COM
mon soldier in the field of labor, you
must put your shoulder to the wheel.
Some of the best people ever known
good companions, splendid friends
and extremely agreeable-have never
accomplished anything worthy of their
ability, simply because they had no
stamina, or grit. They were tame,
they lacked the fire,
force, the originality and the push
hat accomplish things.
People whose blood is full of posi-
i've force are the leaders, the agrees
5ive men who set to the front. They
10 net lag and loiter behind, waiting
o be attacked. They take the initi-
alive and push ahead, regardless of
obstacles. They go through life TAX
ng it for granted that they shall con-
.rol their surroundings; they are
convinced that there is but one pow
er in the universe, and that they are
/ part of that power. They act as if
hey had their trolley pole upon the
great trolley wire of infinite power,
md that they are equal to any task,
10 matter how great.