Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-01-15

MAJ brains 10 tAiua beyond their man
Fest daily duty.
American industry is spiuin- owen
with men who started lic even with
The leaders. with brains just as big
WITH hands quite as capable And
get one man emergeS from the mass,
rises sheer above his fellows. and the
rest remain.
The men who miss success have
two general alibis: I am not @
genius, is the one; the other, There
aren't the opportunities today there
used to he.
Neither excuse holds true The
first IS beside The point, the second is
altogether wrong.
have always teit that the surest
way to qualify for tie job just ahead
is to work 4 little harder than any
one else on the job one is holding
down Young men may enjoy drop
pnc their work al ! o. O'Clock and
SIippias into a dress suit for an even
ing OF pleasure, bu. the habit has Ger
tain drawbacks hIppen to know
several able-hcdied gentlemen who
got k so completely that now they
are spending all their time days as
we'll as e' enines. in dress suits, serv-
~ food IN fashionable restaurants
10 men who did not acquire the dress
u.t habit until somewhat later in
lie.
Nothing is more fatal TO success
than taking ones job rs matter OF
course II more persons would get
20 onthused over their days work
that some one would have TO remind
them to 90 cut 10 lunch there would
be moro happiness in the word and
less indieenstticn II YOU must De a
,iutlon. be a glUtuu for work
II have yet to hear an instance
where misfortune hit a man because
be worked overtime. know lots OF
instance, vherr i. hit men who dil
not Misfortune has many cloaNs.
Much more serious than physical in.
Jury Is the SLOW, relentless blight that
brings standstill lack OF advance
nent, final failure
The man who als to give fair
.eryice during the hours Tor which
1e is paid is dishonest The mar
}ho is not willing to give more than
his Is foolish.
Next to integrity comes personal
ty Ii YOU have personality, che
sh it, il you have not. cultivate it,
'or personality can be cultivated .
.ltho the task is not easy.
When want to find fault with ny
nen say nothing when | 80 thru
heir departments If were satisfied
would praise them My silence
iuyts more than anything else in Ia,
world. and it doesn't give oHense 1t
makes them think and work harder
u have seen more men fail in bust
Tess thru the attitude taken by their
wives in their Younger days than from
Ill the vices put together. \ naggjnl
wife or one who is not in sympai..j
nth a man, work. who expects i'm.
'ossiblc things OF him. and is incap.
Die OF taking a general inteiugen.
interest in his work. is one Of the
olse handicaps be could have.
In Europe several years ago /
vent thru some steel plants in Aus
Liza Later | was talking with En-.
error Francis Joseph
What can you find in our small
nd comparatively unproductive cs.
ablishment to interest you? asked
he emperor. when you have such
lrge splendid steel plants in Amer
"a
At least. yuAr Majesty. replied
can see what " avoid
Seine OF those nations across the
,tiantic have very definite divisions
aristoctacy Men in whose veins
0w, titled blood are vested with the
ghl to Sit IN high places | have
ways believed that the aHstocracy
{ any country should be the men
no have -uceeedoi-the men who
ave aided in upbuilding their coun,
rY--thp men who have contributed