The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-06

E tB.G.:rDRBES. .Ntreated by the vot- very much difference to you In the long run. To attain success it will still re- main necessary to exert yourself diii- gently and intelligently. It will still remain necessary to think hard, study hard, to plan carefully and to work 1n- dustriously. It will still remain neces- sary to look ahead and to act fore handedly.
 Remember that no dividends come out of the White House and that the gov ernment fills no pay envelope-except those of our too numerous army of tax eaters. Some concerns have prospered during the Harding Coolidge regime and some have gone to tho wall. Some went bankrupt during Wilson's presidency and some waxed wealthy. Some indl- democratic and the republican regimes; others have prospered under neither.
 We like to blame politics or bankers or labor or the weather or something anything else-for our failure to make headway. But we rarely give credit to any third party when we attain suc- cess. Just as there have been successes, individual and corporate, under both republican and democratic administra- tions. so will 1t bein future. Neither be- come over-elated nor ultra-depressed by the political returns now being pub lished. They will neither make you nor break you.
 Tell yourself: q am the master of my fate"
 Toll yourself that whether the cleo ton has gone your way or not. For, either way your future depends, not upon politics, but upon you. Eacn builds his own monument or digs ms own grave.
 It is time we Americans tried to curb our weaknesses for flying to extremes. We allow ourselves to be swayed over much by passing events. Too often we are either riding on clouds or neck deep in the doldrums. Wall street often talks and acts as if the reduction or oivi- dend or the increase of dividend py l per cent affected the fate of the na- lion. A rise or fall of half Of one per cent, in a now almost meaningless call money market, is pictured as an event of momentous importance. A riuctua- ton of a point or two in steel common is sometimes enough to cause wal street to throw it's hats in the air with "Rah, rah, rah," or act as if the world was coming to an end.
 Whether dividends are increased or reduced. whether call money moves a fraction up or a fraction down, whether steel common advances or declines a point or two, even whether our favorite presidential candidate wins or loses, your future and mine will still depend less upon any or all of such like hap penings than upon our own handling of our life. We do well, of course, to follow closely every event and every in fluence having a bearing upon business, labor, financial, social, agricultural and foreign conditions and to strive to analyze their probable effect upon the broad general outlook. But it may help us to keep from losing our heads one way or the other if we remember that after all, we ourselves, not other pee pie, do the carving of our own careers.
 Let us keep that thought in mind in interpreting the results of the voting, and whether things have gone the way we wanted or not, let us roll up our sleeves, prepared to make the most of our individual opportunities.
 Remember, it is we who do the mak- Ing or the breaking ourselves.