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Seward daily gateway., 1926-12-31
FALL HAS RELAPSE

FL PASO, Dec. 31. R-Former Secretary of the Interior Fall had a slight relapse.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-12-31
Coolidge Tells World United States Is Able
 To Resist Militaris1rl

SPEAKING AT TRENTON, N. J., PRESIDENT COOL IDGE POINTS TO IDEALS OF WASHINGTON AS SPIRIT WHICH CREATED AMERICAN NATION SUGGESTS THAT REMAINDER OF THE WORLD TAKE NOTE
Evening star., 1926-11-11

through which the conductor creates
music. Each performer must sub
merge his personal idiosyncracies,
and concentrate on the aims of the
group, as articulated by the conductor.
Sometimes. great SoiOlSts, of a highly
individualistic temperament, are unfit
ted for work in a symphony orchestra.
Department Heads Task.
The department head in a corpora
ton has an analogous task to that of
the conductor. He must express the
policy OF the concern in speclnc
program. He counts on the employees
in the department to follow the mo-
tions Of his imaginary baton, and
to keep IN harmony with one another.
The dissenter, the excessive lndlVl-
dualist. the controve"sialist may have
extra ordinary talents. and may in ad-
d.tion have the humber virtues OF
reporting to work each day promptly,
interesting himself in the job anC
avoid clock watching. Yet he may
find himself up against stone wall
which blocks his promotion. Suci!
an indiN IduaI who goes off on tan
gentS--and his type is to be found in
every enterpriSe-laCh the capacity
for teamwork, which is necessary to
bring him tangible rewards.
Where worker finds himself out
of sympathy with the person who
has the power to promote him, he
should either change his ways or
change his job. Few executives are
magnanimous enough to push for
ward subordinates, no matter how
gifted in other ways, who are in
compatible with them, Small-minded
men frequently deny themselves and
their dependents the fruits Of pro
motion by thoughtlesSly antagoniZing
their chief.
The formula for promotion is com
petence IN doing the job in hand plus
a capacity for teamwork.
VenturesOmeness an Asset.
The ambitious worker, however. is
always ready to train some one to
take his place so that he can step
into a better job. The employe who
fails to reveal capacity TO do this is
frequently held down because the de-
partment head fears that he can find
no one else to replace the good
worker.
NenturesomenesS sometimes height
ems the prospects of promotions, or
at least lack of it often holds able
men III humble places. Several rail
road presidents who worked them
member among their early associates
promising men, who feared to assume
the risks of promotion to jobs In
which they were untried. When such
cautious men became chief clerks.
they knew they had a permanent job
with prospects of a pension after re-
tirement. They knew they had dem
onstrated their competence in that
station, and were afraid to take ad-
vantage Of opportunities to step into
better places because of uncertainty
whether they would be able to make
good. They would not trade humble
certainty for a more brilliant uncer-
tainty. Such tinidity. of course
never makes first-rate business men.
The men who climbed to the top of
the ladder, you may be sure, pos
sessed not only intelligence and abil
ity. but also something of the spirit
of adventure.
Evening star., 1926-11-11
THE BUSINESS OF GETTING
AHEAD.
What Brings Promotion?

The essential quality that brings
promotion is capacity TO impress the
employer with the realization that
ANY orders given to you will be carried
out effectively.
Modern business enterprise is CO.
operative effort. and the boss
fs vcrs subordinates about whose abil-
i.y TO carry out their assignments
there can be no doubt. To feel that a
Sob is as good as accomplished when
Instructions have been given to a par
Ucular staff member. is TO eliminate q
source OF worry. Department heads
Ike workers that relieve them of
worry and uncertainty.
The executive is like the conductor
of a symphony orchestra, who inter
prets music through band OF several
hundred pieces. The leader must have
confidence that the mere motion Of his
baton will result in the expected per-
forrnance from the first violinist. the
SIa yer of the bass drum and the wind
Instruments Every subordinate mem.
her Of the orchestra Is an Instrument
Evening star., 1926-11-11
EXCHANGE SEATS UP.

NEW YORK, November II P).-
The price of seats on the New York
Stock Exchange has risen to S160,00O.
A sale at that price was announced
yesterday, along with two others that
brought S15O.000 and $158.000. The
last sale prior to these was at $142,-
900. The new purchasers will not
be made known until formalities
have been completed by the COM
mittee on admissions.
Evening star., 1926-11-11
Are You a SuckerF

Too many people put their money
in day dreams and wake up broke.
Never put your name on the dotted
line until you have inquired of some
one in your bank what he knows
about some stock issue that is Of.
fered to you privately.
Evening star., 1926-11-11

Secured By frst deed Of trust on real estate
Prevailing interest and commission:
Joseph |. Weller Nc a1Sv w.sn; ,tS 1; NV NV.
Evening star., 1926-11-11

,oso.,ood
n OBERT LOUIS STE
N VENSON was blessed
with kindly sympathy, sim
cerity and literary ability.
him the greatest OF ali gifts
bodily health ne forty-four
years OF MS Ire were a sue
cessIon OF struggles against
illness.
Yet il was not until his
last six wears that Stevenson
became convinced that in the
+ron;cs Law his hest chances of
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BILL POTTER (Rising to hearty dtPiGnse) don't think
I've got very much say (ApplaascJ But agree with
sales manager very much nor round of APPLAUSE led this
time by the sales nldnGg Seems that when he said
ought touch the poetry side of proposition he struck
important keynote if you know what I've just had
very interesting experience selling where sentiment every
thing and often found that all my other arguments for buying
my proposition wasted could always bring the prospects
round by ecng nifty piece of poetry to thensometng
about heaven or home mother, maybe all three.
Thinking OF you that's all that do
All the day long all the night through
Sitting here thinking and thinking of you"
if you know what Something like that Now
that had salesroom fitted up very artscay with
pictures and coored lamps nice deep overstufed furniture
and had orchestra off the somewhere playing
swell like "To Wild Rose" The End of Perfect
Day. and got prospects all sitting deep there in the
shadows soaking up this swell music could just of
in and among EN- very SOFT and steahy like and by the
time they of their they'd wake up and find their
hands full Of signed and receipts for first payments
down. (ApPlGnss If you know what Hearty dp
pan5e-s quite eident they do knooU Just exactly uhGt he
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and his fellow statesmen have lued flock of prospects into the
place and seated them in deep oomy chairs from which their
haned may be protrde in quverng ecsac
the walls lined with huge relief maps of the development
which play pnkand-amber lights miniature aryland for
little dreams still in rompers
BILL: to orchestra leader have prospect here in
the who think would fall you played the right thing
just about
LEADER: And what do you think would be the right thing
just about now? Toreador from Carmen?
BILL: property ignoring fHes sayedm) Something with
in and moonlight and the sound of the surf the beach
and fairies dancing the sand.
LEADER: looking at Bill drxiony You're feeling alright
aren't you? You be careful about walking about in
the without your hat
BILL: (Tartly) Listen Buddy. Maybe you're humorist-
you're certainly not much of musician but if you don't
do what you're told we'll have trouble getting other Bozo
stand up here and make faces orchestra for few hours
every evening Make up your mind Snappy
LEADER: (VisndlSng long hot dhead) Alright
alright don't get mad about it. How about the of Min
netonka?
BILL: Fine-Light on the Mnnetonka and heavy the
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By ]. P. McEVOY

Thc Oos and eeos begin moaning sobbug and the
soft rhythmic Sacisng and trobbng of the drums and sdxes
avea0e spell o0er the audience Bill gd back to his prospect
and begins to into his ear softly unsteady hybnoficaHyy
BILL: That's beautiful music stranger It's low and sweet
and soothing the sob of surf a moonlight beach
PROSPECT: (Enranced) It's purity, alright
BILL: (Croonsg The always like that on the shores
of Key Largo and the night dream peace
days there will be long with happiness and your nights will be
sweet with content Come Key Largo where the goes
pirate ghosts and the winds of adventure ipoe around
dakenng shore Here the little harbor yachts twinkle like FIRE
flies in dark meadow and the homebound fishermen lie on
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Wife $4,000 Spend Simply Trying Play $4,000 Glass; Writer
Says Analysing Tooheavy Expenses Household Where
Ends Can't Made Meet

pretty stiff in her criticisms of the
poorer classes, with their shocking
stupidity and waste. would con-
fidently predict that If she goes TO
England some day, and visits some
of the great folk Of London, in their
simple shabby rooms, in simple shabby
neighborhoods, she will return to
America admiring them audibly, audi.
bly, wishing that we money-mad Amer.
leans had half their courage and
their good taste.
DIFFERENT AT HOME.
But TO take an old-fashioned house
in a quiet by-street, TO manage her
own kitchen-as gentlewomen have
had to do since gentlewomen first
were-to train her boy and girl, at
least in part, herself, to entertain
simply and honestly, TO take her pleas
urcs in friendships, books, music and
walks, to put one quarter Of that
income into the bank every year, for
future trips and extravagances' no.
this she will not do.
When it is the cheap pension, the
Italian casetta that costs nothing,
the deliciously droll little place in
Clovelly where Eve we're just mem
bers Of the family" how satisfying
It is.
But when il is merely living sim.
ply at home, somehow the glamor de-
parts from II completely, and we must
do as the Joneses do.
She says that her experience is typi'
cal, her problem average rather than
unique" Well, it may be so. But
somehow one expects better things OF
the modern American college woman.
One expects her to bring a certain
sanity, a certain sense Of spiritual
values to her solution Of LIES little
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TN recent issue of a popular maya
i zine, an anonymous woman writes
ian Accordingly interesting article
called Living on the Ragged Edge.
Ever since / read it few days ago l
have been wondering what sort Of a
person the writer is.
She says she is college graduate,
aud she sounds intelligent, as far as
fine phrasing and a cultured outlook
upon life 20, but she must BE- curious.
~ undeveloped in some ways.
Women have been doing amazing
things since the beginning Of time; our
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Kathleen Norris Censures Woman Who Can't Live Inc

whether or not you can pay your bills
is to remain in a position distinctly
dishonest. You may be very sure that
the little French laundryman you keep
waiting, the little florist who bothers
you so, the little druggist who is try
ing TO make ends meet, have TO pay
their bills.
A foreign-born, inarticulate, anxious
eyed little nobody committed suicide in
this city few years ago; he was
bankrupt. He had n delicacy store,
patrOnized, at one time, By many a
fashionable family; he also had four
children, all with good appetites. After
the tragedy it was found that the rich
and the great owed him more than
$4,000 for pickles and sandwiches and
mustard and oranges.
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ton I'm in favor Of The only noonsne gamor my
interested in bottles you don't have pull
song and dance to sell tile glaor and that's
that What they know whether there bcnedc
ton and balm this proposition but they going get
and if how and how much profit That's all got
say Thank you (S do1n sody scattering dppduseJ
SALES MANAGER: (Dryly) You said quite enough. Now
I'd like hear from of We haven't heard
from him yet Maybe he's got good ideas Somebody in
this gang is bound have might just we'll be him. Besides
he's young and know what they Ou of the mouths of
babes Will you stand up Mr. Potter and tell what you think
if possible?
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moons could think of things say but they're all
along the line So you just imagine said them and let
go at that Thank you very much.
Sits doun to tnnuons APPLAUSE The PROPOSITION of haS
ing symphonic sales discussed pro and and finally
carried Bill quite overoyed auth his and eongratu
lated rOnndy by the of the force, The meeting closes evh
another song sung by the statesmen about Themselves is
naturally big but sV spare yoH the lyric since SHn
day at its best is a hard day.
SCENE TWO
The Symphonic Sales Salon has lowered and boomed
visuazed by Bill Potter, who may be doing
his stuff in its perfumed gloom in occult manner he
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THE POTTERS
PROLOGUE.

xxJHEN Mamie and Red Finished their honeymoon fighting
Wv imaginary pirates in Key Largo they came North leaving
2 Potter to pursue PROFESSIONALISM OF selling dry os 10
wet customers and vice Selling Is not ne" SUN !"
Bill as we know for we had echoes OF his activities IN inc
West where many cornfed mother OF Nebraska Las Dec"
eged through Bills meuous persiflage into purchasing
L, ol,. sets Of the Wonder Picture Encyclopedia for
Children With this training sustain him. Bill should be wen
able to take care of himself among the rabd reasors along Bis
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Of the discomfort Of knowing there is
mot one dollars leeway."
As for the wife, the words she uses
about her own life are; dead broke
is our perpetual economic status"
She speaks Of the past few years as
thoroughly unhappy years-yesrs Of
misery. Bills that mount beyond in
come-last moment frantic borrowing
dull, nagging, insistent hurt"
WHERE TROUBLE LIES.
This woman foresees only "miser-
able years ahead, living with a good
income on the ragged edge Of debt,
never really letting debts pile up yet
never knowing from month 10 month
whether or not We can meet our bills.
EXPENSE" she lnments, for con,
certs, books, tbeater and travel are
practically nil. We have no money
10 spend on the expression Of affec.
ton, we rarely give each other pres,
ents. Life grows drab, and one:
partner the drabbest part Of it. The
lack of a bank balance is the essence
Of negation."
She doesn't say what her income is
but it cannot be less than $1,000
Three servants, in the biggest city
would account for $500 Of that, food
for six or seven persons would surely
mean $1,000 more. at an average Of q
scaDt $40 a week, rent Of the two
houses, low as the country rent, and
low as the taxes and insurance and in
terest on the town house may be
would certainly total 1920.
There are five thousand gone al
ready, with everything else to CONT
out Of the three remaining. School
ing, clothing, dentist and doctor, car
fares, coal, lights, laundry and clean
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their backs staring golden skies coming down kiss silver
(Thc prospect S0dys the Sobbg of the Oon and the
rhythm of Bills honeycd 00ordS Bill puts the open fountain
into his unconscious hand and continnes Now before it is
too late before the world has rushed to this magic isle
before its with traffic and its beaches
with humaniy-now is the time for you
choice haven in this harbo of happiness Your here
and small deposit which you will miss and few dollars
and then of your income and you will have for your
very for your very (sees prospect saVoOng and
decides further talk unnecessary helps him to sign his
leads him still dizzy the office here 5drions
papers handed him and technical things do Nth money
done auth the proper techncaies. The orchestra is still
playing uhen Bill returns The leader beekons him.
LEADER: you land him and just want to tell you
with all due modesy that you would have done if
wasn't swell leader Did you the way mued that cornet
just at the right time? That's what did itha and the obi
cato there towards the finish think you ought to split the
mission with What do you say?
BILL I'd say play Toreado from Carmen for yourself
a solo.
And That's That-Unt Next Sunday.
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er, telephone, all the hundred items
these big outstanding obligations do
not include-surely these would come
to $3.50 per month more.
LOW ESTIMATES.
And these are low estimates, $40 a
week for six or seven persons meals
is moderate, and ! know no house
owner in New York whose taxes and
insurance and interest run as low as
800 a month, to say nothing Of the
country house.
However, call it 5000. I wonder,
in a city Of six millions Of people,
how many have half that? How
many have one-quarter Of that? In
a world Of hungry, anxious, strug-
Cling, underpaid and oyerburdened
men and women, what name ought to
be given TO the wellbred, intelligent,
educated college woman who can voice
a complaint like this? Would it be
"slackerT
She has 5000 and she wants to
shine in the $4,000 class. II she
had $4,000 she would move her out
lay and her ideals up to $4,000. She
prefers to strain, and pretend, and
worry, and owe, rather than to stand
frankly before the world as what she
is-iust a little bit poorer than she
pretends TO be.
JOINING THE HERD.
Not poor-oh, no. But just a little
bit poorer. She. this woman for
whose training in economies and
ethics and ideals and judgment some
good father and mother paid, has
Joined the berd-tbe silly herd that
PUSHES along breathlessly after the
next richest.
She could live like a queen on 1900
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American women especially have been
courageous and daring, for three hun
dred years. They have conquered the
frontiers, borne children, settled 10
form new cities, backed and nursed
and cheered their men in war, in the
immediate past. And now in the
present, all barriers go dow before
them, they fill the professions, they
build bridges and design office build
ings, they are creeping into that last
sacred stronghold, politics.
But here is one, an intelligent and
educated woman, too, who is downed
tby the simplest and most obvious
problem Of all. She can't live within
her income!
What is i.r blood, her training and
her schooling worth, if she collapses
the instant she touches reality? One
wonders what she would do if she
mad TO accompany an exploring hus-
band into the wilderness, make a home
and q living for bouseful Of father
less children, cross the plains in d
covered wagon, or establish a field
hospital by light Of bursting bombs:
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SCENE ONE

The weekly luncheon of the sales force OF the hey Largo
Deyelopment-every mothers gogeter BILL as one o w
goingest of the geter sitting the edge OF his CHAIR
every straw crunb of inspiration. The walters are Clearing
the dishes with customary pandemonlum as the sales
rises and looks down upon the sea of hungry faces
- SALES MANAGER: Trapping for OrdG) Well fellows
think it would off right and give the proper spirit 10 the
meeting right off the if have the old Key Largo Song
Waddye say?
Statesmen: (Singng dntInhv
Yes Sir that's Key Largo
No. Sir no embargo
Yes Sir that's Key Largo-wov'
Hey. hey, you from Fargo
Load up all your cargo
And come to Key Largo now
We declare
It's bear
Simply oozng with sunshine and air
(You tell em)
Yes, Sir, that's Key Largo
: No, Sir no embargo
: Yes Sir that's Key Largo-wow!
SALES MANAGER Well boys we're here today to talk
things over and exchange ideas OF what want are
good ideas and do say myself my ideas good as
nnyone and maybe little better perhaps had better carry
on All those favor say aye The Ayes have IT. AS
saying think perhaps have been paying too much at
tenon to the commercial and financial arguments in dealing with
BUYERS and not enough with the artistic and aesthetic and poetic
arguments which feel will be successful for influencing
the emotions of the buyers you know what mean We have
been irving to appeal much their heads and not to their
hearts if YOU know what think should talk more
about the of proposition and the gaci, having
home where the benedcton and the moon Is ban
think we should say them that they should here as to
story book island where the sea- like sleepy wanderer done
with great deeds signs among the tree shades lonely friendly
sea- that gers the frontier OF out OF Moby
Dick and an island out of Robinson Crusoe.
Bill: (Refeaing half to himself where The sun is a
benedicton and the is balm That's hot stuff
SALES MANAGER: I'd like to have some expression from
fellows along this line Wilson, what have you got to say!
WILSON: ID of fact lad 7hO has nothing much to
say about but being good real estate salesman has plenty Of
aUords at his disposal just the same Seems we going to
get off on wrong foot with this gamor and poetry and stuff
believe in giving them cold hard facts Or at least If they ain
facts thew ought to sound like facts Of it's pretty hard
TO tell these days just what facts but your magma
ton YOU can always find and that's the only kind of magma
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a year. She could manage with lit
tie skill, on $1,000. Even then her
income would be above the average
One woman ] know is raising five
children on less than $500 a year,
right in this same city. and they
are being educated, and wisely fed,
and they have a sunshiny, If crowd
ed, home, too.
What has the writer Of this article
done, to show that IL she had ten
times her present income she could
do any better with it?
The woman / mention, Of the
$500 income has shown something,
for she is happy and not bitter, life
is interesting rather than drab and
negative, to her, and she doesn't owe
one penny.
THINKS HER COWARD.
Nowadays, when one may have 50
much for nothing, or for little, when
public libraries and public concerts
and lectures abound, when daily
papers and radio and free schooling
offer enormous advantages to those
on limited incomes, when telephones
and gas stoves and electric lights and
prepared foods lift the real drudgery
from the kitchen-what a coward a
woman must be 20 write like that.
How odd il would sound 20 a starved,
hunted, shiveriDg mother Of Russia
this talk Of poverty on $1,000 a year.
Does she think-the writer Of this
article-that friends on a $4,000
basis are just a little nicer folk than
the friends one may have on $1,000:
Does she care for the sort Of friend
to whom an questionable address
would prove an insurmountable bar =?
Her attitude puzzles one. would
guarantee that this woman can be