The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-04-13
NO FAILURES WITHOUT EFFORT
Every One Is Step to Success. Instinct and
Experience.


He Who Makes No Effort Exempt.
copyrighted. 1914 by Thomas J. Sullvan.1
He only is exempt from failure who
makes no effort.
In the lexicon of youth, which fate
reserves for IA bright manhood, there
is no such word as fail-it comes later
in life.
There are so many reasons which
can logically and truthfully be ad-
vanced as causes contributing to the
numerous failures that will endeavor
to analyze only the principal ones-the
business failures.
Every failure is a step to success;
every detection Of what Is false d.
reefs US to what is true; every trial ex-
hausts some tempting form of error
Not only so, but scarcely any attempt
is entirely failure; scarcely any the
ory. the result of steady thought, is
altogether false No tempting form of
error is without some latent charm
derived from truth.
Failure is. in sense, the highway
to accomplishment, inasmuch as every
discovery of what is false leads us to
seek earnestly after what is true, and
every fresh experience points out some
form Of error which we shall afterward
carefully avoid.
In this article we have not the space
to treat of individual cases or their
many causes, but will deal altogether
with the commercial side of the ques-
tion-the business failures.
Perhaps the most general and COM
mon cause is lack of capital. Many
men venture into business with just
enough money to "swing" the enter
prise for a month, at the end of which
time they expect the new business to
be self supporting 1t seldom is, and
as the concern becomes a financial
cripple the inevitable is sure to happen
failure.
Business Instinct Required.
II may bt sulu III passing IudL SOLl-
bined with the first form of failure
there are two others, lack of business
instinct and business experience. And
these three are frequently augment
ed by another equally dangerous in
business. and that is engaging in a
business of which you have no knowl-
ege or experience in No man can hope |
to succeed in any line of business
where his principal qualifications are
assets and ignorance.
But without question the most pro- |
nounced cause Of business failure in |
any line or in any community is that |
of lack of patronage. No business con-
Germ, professional man, church or
school can long endure without patron
age. Heavens eternal wisdom has de-
creed that man should ever stand In |
need of man.
The beautiful must ever rest in the
arms Of the sublime. The gentle need |
the strong to sustain them, as much as
rock flowers need rocks to grow on or |
the ivy the rugged wall which it en-
braces. Patronage is the sustenance of |
business, and without it failure follows
just as surely as death follows the rock
flower and the ivy when their support |
is withdrawn.
Farmers Frequently Fail.
Listed among the business men who |
frequently fail is the farmer, the
greatest producer of us all. He fails |
for the same reason as do some of
our other business men-because of /
ignorance. Many Of these men have
been born and reared as farmers and
imagine that is all the qualification
necessary to follow that vocation. 1t
is not. Technical education, constant
study of conditions elsewhere and a
full realization OF the necessity of
fertilization Of his farm constitute
the first principles of the successful
farmer.
Few farmers have not been Obliged
to avail themselves OF the local mer-
chants willingness to extend credit
and now that the local merchant is
facing graver calamity and greater
pest than ever n farmer was obliged
to meet in the retail catalogue houses
methods OF doing business would II
not be right and fair for the farmer
and every resident Of the community
to rally to the aid of the man who
rallied to their aid In days gone by
with a willingness only equaled by
his confidence In his customer and his
loyalty TO his community
When farmer fails the whole COM
munity suffers and the man who must
bear the brunt OF the burden is the
local merchant His capital Is invest.
ed and his hope OF return rests with
the farmers ability to produce. II a
blight, n drought. a cyclone or pest
bugs destroy the crops the merchant
must make the best Of II and carry"
the farmer for another season or until
he has good crop.
Loyalty is the greatest virtue that
man is endowed with and the prae-
tce OF It now by residents OF small
cities and towns In favor OF the local
merchant whose business is endanser.
ed by the retail catalogue trusts would
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