Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-29
I'D you ever consider the val
ue CT team work in the

~ I'D YOU ever consider the val
- Of course we all know that
no one man, no matter now marVe-
lous a player he is can win a foot
ball game by his own efforts alone.
1t takes the whole team, playing
as a 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
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 great for
tune, said to me:
THE reason we Jews succeed SO
often is because our families stick
together and work together. When
you see a father and mother and
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 such
money individually, but the aggre-
gate earnings of the whole family
amounts to respectable sum, ana
using 1t as d WnOl6 IL S1NOS bllCLlA
a working capital that enables them
to branch out into bigger busl-
ness, that eventually makes them
all rich, whereas no one member OF
the family could alone have ever
saved up enough money to have
started out in business for HIM
self.
"I 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
brother stayed in the work. room,
and saw there was no 1oafing
among the work people, and that
the work was properly done. The
other brother did the buying and
kept the books. I went on the road
and sold the goods. In every Ge-
partment you see we had someone
who was vitality interested in get
ting the very best results for the
least money. Also we had absolute
such service as you give yourself
you cannot hire anyone else to
give you; so of course we made
success. We couldn't miss it work
ing together that way, but If each
one Of us had gone one Of G11 by hi himself
would all still be poor men"
4 family doing team work-that
is a commonplace secret of success,
isn't it? Yet it is one that almost
invariably wins out. You rarely see
a united family that isn't a. pros
porous family. 1t is the house di-
vided against itself that falls.
You can even narrow down this
assertion to the individual family
and say that when a poor young
In life together, whether they will
become we'll off and happy, or be
poor and miserable depends, nine
times out of ten, on their ability
to do team work, and especially on
the wife's ability to do team work.
MUS. can make any headway, against
a wife who is wasteful and extra
VACANT and bitten by the mania to
live beyond their means. Nor can
any man succeed who has a peev-
ish, fretful, selfish wife who. thinks
and who stands in her husbands
way by refusing to go to live in
some place where fortune calls him,
or who kills his ambitions and par
ing every new scheme, and throw
ing a wet blanket over every fresh
enterprise.
But when the wife keeps up her
end Of the game by providing her
husband with a comfortable, CHEEKY
IlOIffS WHERE is Is Hlleu dHu cur
setted and braced up for the next
days fray; when the wife is will
ing to economic and sacrifice so
that the money may go back into
the business instead of into fine
clothes and automobiles; when she
is just as interested in her hus-
bands affairs as he is, and as
keen for success, why that couple
can't fail-they are doing too good
team work.
And it takes team work to make
happy home as well as a pros
porous one. This will be startling
news to a lot of men who seem to
think that making a happy home is
exclusively a feminine occupation,
like having babies.
People are always telling women
that they should try turning a
smiling face upon their husbands