Evening star., 1932-07-15

What has become of the old-fash.
ioned boy. who said Yes sir" ano
Yes ma am" who stood back to lie,
others enter an elevator first, Who was
in all things truly modest and humble!
We are glad to be able to tell you
We met him the other day. and the
encounter was refreshing. He is still
alive, and doing well.
What worried us, however, was
whether he will keep on doing we'll. In
such world as this, and whether Oh
not something could not be done Tor
him, to insure him a success which ne
might otherwise fail to achieve.
Six months ago his case would have
been hopeless, but conditions have
changed somewhat recently, and men
are more willing to put faith In
modeSty, in humbleneSS, in many OF
the old-time virtues.
According to all ordinary "go-get-
ter" standards, which had such q
vogue, this young man of whom We
speak hadn't a chance.
He was licked before he started.
He was not brash enough, not push
ing enough; he did not claim the
center of the stage on his entrance
and monopolize the attention Of the
entire company all the time he was
present: he did not leave it with some
startling act or word on his part, sc
that he would be remembered.
The confounded young fool was
really Christian. Somewhere in his
ancestry the old perfect ideals had
been loved and acted on. Maybe those
men and women did not succeed" in
the modern money sense. but they
thought their lives We're better because
of their beliefs.
And here was this youngster, coming
into business with the simple idea that
lack of assertion would get him
somewhere.
year or so he would not have had
a chance, but today his prospects are
brighter. and do you know why? Be-
p-ofundity of those old rules and
preceptS,
1t is not unreasonable as many see
it. for modesty and humbleneSs to be-
come the keystones OF character, and
that these qualities will enable a
capable young man to success In
big way"
No doubt there are thousands upon
thousands of people in all lines who
have become slightly fed up" as the
saying has it. on the tremendous self
sufficiency which would push young
man with no experience into pretend
ing that he has had a great deal.
Too long the earmarks Of success
have been set up as success. Bold eX-
teriors have been mistaken for bold
interiors. Much writing and much
reading have given a uniformity tc
human beings which actually does not
exist.
The real aim Of cultivated society
should be to bring out the true nature
Of its members, within the law. i
would rather live wild in the woods
than in a community without law,
said Napoleon And he was right.
Consumers of all types are becoming
rather tired of finding the article they
paid a dollar for last week sold to a
friend for 80 cents the next. Putting
the old two and two together, they
figure it out that the thing never was
worth more than 80 cents.
Our modest young fellow, II his
modesty ever puts him at the head OF
things. won't pull" such stunts. For
the time being, however. he must be
content just to get along.
Respectfully it may be suggested to
establishments Of all kinds that there
is market value in the old virtues
Executives conceivably might do bit
more looking around for themselves
than they sometimes have been in
clined to do in the past.
Instead of permitting the loud
mouthed members of the outfit to bel
low, Here I am. look at me-" they
conceivably might initiate the looking
for themselves.
This has been the big idea. in the
past. OF course at least on paper. but
every one knows that there is quite q
difference between theory and practice
in all things Of moment to mankind
One might feel reasonably sure thai
no traction company in the world woule