The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-23
SUCCESS MADE EASY.
Simply a Matter of Will Power, Inspi
rationistS Tell Us.

Efficiency is the popular catchword of
the day, and the eminent sanity OF
what it stands for is generally recog-
nized, although many persons prefer
to look about for some synonym, OWING
to the Teutonic manner of exploiting
the word. But when we speak of sue
cess there seem TO be various attrib-
| utes that are urged as necessary. There
| is one III particular. Our Most Eminent
Citizen (home address, Oyster Bay)
used to speak quite impressively about
the desirabiEty Of ''bucking the line
hard. That is not exactly efficiency,
except in certain circumstances, but it
is frequently urged in one way or an
other i'll these days as the factor of
paramount Importance
Perhaps it is nothing but the Colo
mel s point Of view that was adopted
by William Dudley Pelley in a recent
magazine story Anyway, there was no
essential novelty in what be expressed,
but his manner Of putting it was pun
gent In giving advice to a man who
was apparently down and out he had
one Of his characters remark:
''Let me tell YOU something, and
don t YOU ever forget it, regardless
folks with twenty-ounce brains, youth
or college diplomas that get the good
things o the earth 1t S the folks will
engine-pilot fronts, who bang through
this vale o tears usin their voice K
roar Out d ny way Success, man
is like a play on football field. TIL,
grandstaud don t applaud or give mucl
credit to some brainv little chap tina
bo Ian o1lH rp,lp1 M
the edge o circumstances till he. make
a goal But let some great mountain Q
humanity with a PROV like battle
ship wrap himself round the initiate
remnants 0 that hog, aim straight 70
the center o the opposition and 9
through il like a whole armamcu
works, and the battle 0 Gettysbur
, won / be iii it with the racket made b
ten thousand onlookers as they tax
the 9randStand to pieces to throw i
- the air in approval
:" OF course. there is much to be sal
= on both sides of this question. but tn
view here presented seems to be widel
= accepted at the present time, and appa
!. ENTITY it is the nub Of the principles en-
= phasized by most Of the Prophets {
:. Self Help who advertise their cage
HISS 10 tel ever NbOuN NOW u AIAlN
= As Mr.. Pellev's picturesque charact,
- remarked in another place: Spine al
= pep is q habit that can he acquire
same as chcwin tobacco.
q That is the idea that is conveyed |
about all the aforesaid prophets. TIL,
by tell most convincing stories to elm,
ag the truth Of their theory We we
ke reading the other day how "a failu
IL at 90 won sudden success. 1T seer
N the gentleman had arrived at the a
81 of three score years to End himse
he thrown ont of employment and :" on
the scrap heap. He had alwa
worked for small wages and his pal
fully acquired savings had been Us
up ut intervals nv sickness He II
. always been q modest sort Of man, /
nv assuming and deprccatory in mann
half scared to pieces by the thought
losing ahi IS Aiqb- aWhen athe dlloBGiiifus
did fall the truth slowly dawned
him. His lifelong failure was due
lack Of = dominating will power 4
an er he recognized the trouble his y
We promptly came to the surface and ma
Tested itself. Everybody detected
aid new energy and determination in
manner, and III two days he succeed
in borrowing a capital Of six hundl
~ dollars with which he started SIN
IN manufacturing business. a scheme Il
the he had long cherished in the back
zen his head.
ar. That was less than two years ago
ept his hrst year OF business he pad