Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-13
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7 FEEL that I simply must tell you my
great secret. 1 can't keep it in any
longer.
My wife and had often talked the prob
lem over at home. The gist of the matter
was that l was making no headway in bust
ness because l couldn't seem to get time
to concentrate on my work. AS Joan said
to me, You know, Bobby the trouble with
you is you're too popular. You have too
much magnetism. Everybody likes you so
much they simply won't leave you alone"
MUCH as / hated to admit it, I knew it
4VA was true. 1t had troubled me for a
long time. Every morning when I was
trying to get through the accumulated work
on my desk the telephone would keep buzzing
chaps who wanted me to go out to lunch
with them. Big business men insisted on
my going to the Terrapin Club with them,
and would sit around for couple of hours
just swapping yarns while / ached to get
back to the Office. The president of our
company would call me into his private Of
fee for chat over business matters, and
though I used to try hard to break away he
would keep me there an hour or so just lis.
tening to my ideas on how things ought to be
run. Stenographers were all fighting to take
my dictation The result was that my letters
were late getting done. Influential men who
happened to be passing through the city
would pick on me and insist on seeing me.
My work was neglected every. day.
r USED to have to take a portfolio of
l. papers home every night Even there i,
was no better. Joan and I would settle
down for a quiet evening, she with her sew
ing and / with my work. But we kept on
being interrupted. Some of the most promi-
nent people in the city were always drop
ping in to pass away a merry evening, to
hear my views on the league of nations or
something of that sort. Or they would ask
us out to dinner, and we didn't like to re-
fuse. Its all your damned savoir fdire,"
Joan would say despairingly. Mrs. Fitz-
Carlton says she simply has to have us there
every time she entertains, you are so well
read and give all her guests new ideas on
art, politics and philosophy Isn't there
anything you can do about it, Bobby? Wen
be ruined if this goes on"
CHE was quite right. We were on the
- high road to dismal failure. Everybody
in the Office liked me so much that every
time a particularly difficult contract had to
be put over IL was WlSneu on me. learned
that it's always the popular guy that gets
the tough jobs handed to him. My desk was
a kind of social center. Visitors to the Of
flee would refuse to leave until they had
been introduced to me. ] never got a chance
to be alone for a minute How / enved
little Peters. the awkward. brusque book
keeper, whom everybody hated. Nobody
ever interrupted him or pestered him to 60
out to lunch at IL o'clock or play a round
of golf with the president Of the steel trust
whenshe wanted to get job finished
One day took Peters aside. ''Look here,
old man." said, t'tel me how you do it?''
/ hardly expected him to tell me, but he was
mighty decent
What Peters told me was revelation I
felt like new man and put it into practice
at once OF course il took time, but felt
the urge and the will to succeed Within
month / was getting results.
IJOW happy I am now! What an added
i sense Of power have. What glori-
ous ability to get work done unhampered
By 4 thousand upnecfssafy interfoptipuz.