Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-04
AS THE YEAR BEGINS
By H. Addington Bruce


To Maltbie Davenport Babcock we owe this
| thought
| zone of the commonest mistakes and one
| of the costliest is believing that success is
| due to some genius, some magic-something
or other which we do not possess.
Success is generally due to holding on
and failure to letting 60 The decision that
nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing
! can detach will bring success"
Y At this, the beginning of a new year. there
are myriads of workers, and not all of them
young ones, who will do well to give thought
full consideration to these words.
They voice one of the most fundamental
truths. Only, to appreciate it's truthfulness,
one must have clear understanding of what
is meant by holding on" and letting CO."
SO far as the winning of success is concerned
Many, many men, without knowing it. let
co." even while they remain in the same
occupation year after year. Merely to avoid
shifting from one kind of work to another,
or from one place of work to another, does
not constitute 'hol ing on in any true sense
of the term.
Everything depends on the spirit in which
one does ones work.
To regard ones work simply as liveli-
bood-earning activity, to deem it a necessary
evil and something to be done with the least
possible expenditure of energy is hardly to
apply to it a grip that nothing can detach."
On the contrary, it involves letting co. of
1t at every opportunity and on the slightest
excuse
There is an instant letting so" of it the
moment the working-day is done. And all
through the working-day there is letting
CO." as one gossips with ones mates, or lets
the mind fit to projected amusements OF
the evening.
To people who thus work-and the world
abounds in such-success may we'll seem at
tributable to some special gift which has not
been bestowed on them. IF | had Edison's
genius" they say, cor Ford's, then 1 might
succeed as Edison and Ford have succeeded"
Actually the great outstanding fact about
the Edlsons and Fords in every walk of life
is that they have been distinguished above
all things for Willingness to give more
thought and effort to their work than to
anything else in which they may engage.
Their work has literally been their life
10 them. They have not rebelled against it,
but have gone at it with enthusiasm. And
they have let nothing loose their grip of it.
they have not let pool or billiards, base
ball or golf, dancing cards assume for
them paramount Importance compared
with the work they have to do. Recreation
they may take, as all should, but recreation
never has for them the fascination which
their work exercises
Read at random a few biographies of emf
nently successful men. Always you will find
! their life stories record of fervor for work
and logged application to work. That it was
NNANNNN
perpetual ''hoIding on" their intense, eager,
ardent holding on"
Copyright, 1929
trine of the absolute independence of the
executive in nominating to office, and his
right to disregard the wishes opinions of
members of either house or congress"
The great Thomas Jefferson clearly
of the opinion that the constitution gives
the nomination solely to the president and
| senators have nothing to do with the original
selection, or nomination, of candidates.; that
| the senate is only to see that no unfit person
| is confirmed for appointment.
! However, with only now and then an ex-
! ception, senators of the same political party
as the president insist that before he makes
a nomination to office in state represented
| by them he should not only consult them, but
| also be guided by their wishes. Out of this
practice grew the now familiar term "sena-
| torial courtesy
Of course, there have been times when
| senatorial courtesy" has been extended to
| senators not of the same political party as
! the president, the most recent instance of
| this kind being the case of the late Senator
Thomas E. Watson, when his opposition to
the confirmation of nominations to the offices
| Of postmaster and collector of the port of
Savannah was sustained by the senate.