Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-28


thought but for the common success TO
put the ball over the goal.
Precisely the same thing is true OF fami-
lies. 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 q Hebrew friend of mine,
who has made great fortune, said to me;
"The reason we Jews succeed so often
is because our families stick together and
work together. When you see father and
mother and house full of children all
striving for the same object you may be
very sure they will attain 1T. Perhaps at
first they don't make much money in
dividually, but the aggregate earnings OF
the whole family amount TO respectable
sum, and using it as whole 1t gives them
a working capital that enables them to
branch out into a bigger business, 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 himself.
81 owe my success entirely TO family
team work of this kind. My Two brothers
and myself had each only few hundred
dollars, but we pooled our capital and
started little cloak and suit factory. One
brother STAYED in the work room, and saw
there was no loaing among the work
people, and that the work was properly
done The other brother did the buying
and kept the books. / went on the road
and sold the goods. In every department.
you see We had someone who WAS vitality
Interested in getting the very best results
for the hast money. Also we had abso-
lutte honesty N every department, and
such seYv1ce as you grvc yourself you can
not hire anyone else to give you; so OF
course we made a success. We couldn't
miss il working together that way, but if
each one of us had gone off by himself, as
YOU Gentile families do, we would all still
be poor men,"
A family dong team work-that is q
commonplace secret Of success, isn't il?
Yet IL is one that almost invariably wins
out. You rarely see a united family that
isn't prosperous family. II is the house
divided against itself that falls.
You can even MARROW down this ssser
ton to the individual family and SAY, that
when poor young couple get married and
start out in life together, whether they
will become well 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 70 do
team work. No man, who isn't a hnan-
cial genius, can make any headway
against wife who is wasteful and extrava-
CANT and bitten by the manis 10 live
beyond their means. Nor can any man
succeed who has peevish, fretful, selfish
wife who thinks of nothing but her own
pleasure, and who stands In her husbands
way by refusing TO go to 1--we IN some place
where fortune calls him, or who kills his
ambitions and paralyzes his energy by
always opposing every new scheme, and
throwing wet blanket over every fresh
enterprise.
But when the wife keeps up her end
of the game by providing her husband
with comfortable CHEEKY home where he
is fitted and cossetted and braced up for
the next days fray; when the wife IS
willing to economic and sacrifice so that
the money may 90 back into the business
instead Of into fine clothes and automo-
biles: when she is just as interested in her
husbands 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 prosperous one. This
viii be startling news to lot of men who
Deem to think that making a happy home