The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-29
Dorothy Dix Tails

By DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writes

Ieam 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 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 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 fortune
said to mea
THE reason we Jews succeed so
often is because our families stick to-
gether and work together. When you
see father and mother and a house
full of children all striving for the
same object you may be very sure they
will attain it. Perhaps at first they
don't make much money individually,
but the aggregate earnings of the
whole family amount to a respecta BILE
sum. and using it as a whole it gives
them working capital that enables
them to branch out into bigger bust
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 himself.
Il owe my success entirely to fam
lily 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. One brother stayed
! in the work room, and saw there was
no loafing among the work people and
hat T1a Il 4
other brother did the buying and kept
| the books. I went on the road and
| sold the goods. In every department
you see we had some one who was Vi
/ tally interested in getting the very
/ best results for the least money. Also
partment, and such service as you give
yourself you cannot hire any one else
to give you; so of course we made a
success. We couldn't miss it working
together that way. but if each one of
us had gone off by himself as you
gentle families do, we would ali still
| be poor men"
family doing team work-that is
a commonplace secret of success, isn't
it? Yet it is one that almost invari-
ably wins out. You rarely see a
united family that isn't a prosperous
family. 1t is the house divided against
| itself that falls.
You can even narrow down this as
sertion to the Individual family and
say that when a poor young couple
gel. married and start out in life to-
! gether, whether they will because
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 to
do team work. No man, who isn't q
| way against a wife who is swasteful
and extravagant and bitten by tbs
mania to live beyond their means. Nor
can any man succeed who has a peev-
ish, fretful selfish wife who thinks OF
nothing but her own pleasure, 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 paralyZes his energy
by always opposing every new scheme
and throwing a wet blanket over every
fresh enterprise.
end of the game by providing her hus-
band with comfortable, CHEEKY home
; where he is fitted and corseted and
braced up for the next days fray
when the wife is willing 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 hel
husbands affairs as he is. and as keer
for success, why that couple can't fai
i. they are doing too good team work
And il takes team work TO make q
happy home as well as a prosperous
one. This will be startling news to 4
lot of men who seem to think thai
making a happy home is exclusivel,
a feminine occupation, like havins
ba bies.
. People are always telling womer
that they should try turning a smil
. ing face upon their husbands and bf
entertaining and bright and chat!
and wear pretty gowns and SO on.
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