The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-20

The book has already received
favorable comments from many well
known writer's, publishers and promi-
nent men.
A B. Hepburn, a member of the
Rockefeller foundation and chairman
of the board of directors OF the Chase
National bank, New York City, has
ordered twenty-five copies to dis
tribute among the employees of his
bank.
The book is briefly a practical ser
mon" to young men and eXplodes the
idea that failure is more easy than
success.
Here are four paragraphs from the
booklet of Mr.. Howe which concisely
express his philosophy on success and
failure:
The simple truth is. that money
may more easily be accumulated with
honesty than without it; the more
steadily a man practices pOliteneSs,
fairness. industry and temperance, the
more his store increases, and the
greater his opportunity for useful
ness"
Long experience has demonstrated
that the best way to make money, and
attain success, distinction and useful
ness, is to exceed the average in po-
likeness. promptness, reliability, in
duStry. temperance"
Il say that a man who lives a sue
cessful life meets with many discour-
agements and hdmiliations, but lives
easier and more useful life than the
failure There are more days of sun
shine than of storm, and when the
storms come, a well-kept house is
safest and most comfortable. The
people, like returning soldiers and
travellers. eXaggerate the dangers thru
which they have passed; you do not
need palace and may avoid howell"
''The sum of my teaching is that
good conduct is easier and more
agreeable than bad; that success, mod
est or great. as your talent warrants,
is easier than failure"
Here are other Illuminating and in
teresting excerpts from the book:
The great results in all walks in
life are produced by contributions
by the many.
Millions of humble men who have
been dead many years have assisted
in our present civilization.
Only a few of those who are indus
trious and fair fail to succeed. while
only a few of those who are idle and
vicious fail to score a failure. But
every man who practices fairness,
politeness and industry should re-
member that he must use with these
simple virtues all the common sense
row. Then he will have a philosophy
and rule of life that has never been
eXcelled since time began, nor can it
be excelled in the future.
If I make the best of life. I am
wise; if 1 do not. am a fool
Do your work the best you can,
and be modest. patient, polite and
honorable, and some day the prize
coming to you will arrive. 1t will
not be as great as you expect-no
man ever got all he expected-but it
will be all that is honestly coming
to you. You may not be able to at
tract attention with your wit and
ability-few men are-but you can
attract attention with gentleness, po-
likeness, industry. fairness and relia-
bility.
The best good men can do will not
result in prosperity for the shiftless,
the impolite, the dishonest, or the
lazy.
The preaching that sin is agreeable
is not only untrue, but mischievous.
If you believe sin is agreeable. steal
something. and try it; don't worship
the devil under misrepresentation of
the facts.
This is the sum of it ALL. man may
most surely make a success of his life
by practicing the simple virtues, and,
while about it, live a more comfortable
and useful life than the man of bad
habits. The good things of life are
never as good as you expect them to
be, but they are better than the bad
Men talk and write of success. as a
tremendously difficult thing, and say
that in order to achieve it they must
give up all the finer feelings, all leis-
ure and all enjoyment. Success is not
actually difficult; it is easier than fail
IRE. 1t results in more usefulness
than failure; in more leisure, in more
enjoyment. Success is natural; it
actually means no more than living
life in the easiest way
Look about you and note the men
who are failures: Won will find in