The Washington herald., 1920-06-28
TEAM WORK.

Did you ever consider the value
of team work in the family?
OF course We all know that no
one man, no matter how marvellous
a player he is can win a football
game by his own efforts alone. 1t
takes the whole team, playing as
unit, pooling their united skill and
strength, and with no thought but
for the common success to put the
ball over the goal.
Precisely the same thing is true
Of families. The reason that so
many households are bankrupt in
purse and peace and happiness. is
not because the individual members
of it lack merit, but because they
have not learned to do team work.
So they fail.
Not long ago a Hebrew friend
of mine who has made a great for
tune, said to me:
The reason We Jews succeed so
often is because our families stick
together and work together. When
1 you see a father and mother and
la house full of children all striving
for the same object you may be
very sure they will attain it. Per-
haps at first they don't make much
money individually. but the aggre-
| gate earnings of the whole family
| amounts to a respectable sum, and
using il as whole ii gives them
a working capital that enables
| them to branch out into A bigger
| business, that eventually makes
4, them all rich, whereas no one mem
her of the family could alone have
ever saved up enough money TO
have started out in business for
| himself.
Il owe my success entirely to
family team work of this kind. My
two brothers and myself had each
only a few hundred dollars. but we
pooled our capital and started a
little cloak and suit factory. On,
brother stayed in the work room
and saw there was no loafing 8
among the work people, and thai
the work was properly done. Th'
other brother did the buying anC
kept the books went on the
road and solo the goods. In ev
cry department you see we ha'
someone who was vitality interested
in getting the very best results fol
the least money. Also We had alb
solute honesty in every department
and such service as you give your
self you cannot hire anyone els,
! -
success. We couldn't miss i
working together that way, but |
each one of us had gone off b!
himself. as you gentle families dc
we would all still be poor men"
A family doing team work-tha
is a commonplace secret of success
isn't IL? Yet 1t is one that almos
invariably wins out. You rarei,
see united family that isn't
prosperous family. 1t is the hous
divided against itself that falls.
You can even narrow down thi
assertion to the individual famil,
and say that when 4 poor youn
lcouple get married and start ou
in life together, whether they Wi
become we'll off and happy, or b
poor and miserable depends. min
ttimes out of ten, on their ability {
do team work, and especially oil
the wifes ability to do team worf
No man, who isn't n financial ge
nius. can make any headway agaiRs
a WIFI, who is wasteful and extrava
CANT and bitten by the mania t
l live beyond their means. Nor ca
any man succeed who has a peeyisf
tfrctful, selfish wife who thinks 4
notbing hut her own pleasure, an
{ who stands in her husbands wa
by refusing to go to live In som
place where fortune calls him, o
; who kills his ambitions and par
T alyzes his energy by always or
posing every new scheme, an
: throwing a wet blanket overy eN
cry fresh enterprise.
But when the wife keeps up he
end of the game by providing ne
s husband with a comfortable cheer
home where he is fitted and col
, seted and braced up for the ne,
days fray; when the wife is viii
= ing to economic and sacrifice &
THAT the money may go back int
the business instead of into fir
clothes and automobiles; when 81
lis just as interested in her hus
e bands affairs as he is. and as kee
A for success, why that couple can
4 fail-they are doing too good tea
?. work.
VI And It takes team work to NAL
4 a happy home. as we'll as pro-
0 porous one. This will be startlir
q news to a lot of men who seem
: think that making happy hon
= is exclusively a feminine occupi