The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-17
We All Want More

q" ME job he has picked out, by inheritance by
training. by parental example, by precedent.
is banking primarily, financing secondarily and
manufacturing thirdly. His criterion of the way he
is doing his stuff is the profit he makes. He did
not select this measure of performance BY in
hertance it was selected for him. BY example it
is glorified BY the acclaim of the populace it is
confirmed.
The bigger his profit the more successfully
Melons life has been lived. That's what he thinks
Of I'm sure. He is playing the game of business.
There rules made for that game Handcaps
are set if you please against the efficient
players that the less efficient still play with
out losing their shirts
The business rules are made by the government.
not by Andy Mellon If the rules are wrong or
loose or do not protect the inefficient blame the
rules. Don't blame the who takes the trouble
to find out just what the rules are has the brains
to take full advantage of all the moves permitted
within the rules and plays the game that way.
You might as well criticize Babe Ruth or
Gene Sarazen because they hit the ball so effective
ly. Maybe Babe Ruth ought to be satisfied with 81
home a year. Maybe Sarazen should be salts
fed with two over par. Maybe Max Baer should
pull his punches, let all opponents strike him twice
before he starts. They take advantage of all the
opportunities which the rules give them.
IF I find some way of leaving nv kids
$1,000 won't stop at $780, and if 100000 I won't
stop at $1,000 If your game is golf you surely don't
say that score of 80 is good enough for reason
able man and therefore quit trying when you
reach 80
sc it is with dear old Andy If he can make
100000 GOO he is not going to quit at any figure
below that. Not the quarry but the chase. not
the laurels but the race let me- Lord enjoy ALWAYS
The dollars only tell Andy whether he is running
a good race"
They Start From Scratch
7 DO pot know where Mr. Guening PLAYS his golf.
Il but as consistent 10 golfer am aware that
IN a match with Gene Sarazen 1 would be entitled
to handicap of about so per cent of his score
There IS no handicap system in baseball but in
pug1lsm very often the good fighter is compelled to
starve or boil himself down to weight with conse-
quent loss of strength in order that conditions NAV
be made more nearly even for the less efficient
gladiator. In foot-racing. too, the scratch man
makes concession to opponents who can not pick
them up and put them down with the same rapidity
In the cases Of the Andrew MELONS and other
scratch men of business however, the handicaps are
duffer with an income tax of $50 can avail himself
of the legal devices by which the muti-millionaire
is permitted to escape payment and remain within
the rules If the sporting analogy is good, more
over then the mighty champions ought now and
again to show little chivalry to their pathetically
weak, inferior and groggy opponents This is often
done in sport In sport, the loser does not become
the economic slave of the winner; his children the
slaves Of the winners heirs
And, finally, when Babe Ruth and Gene Sarazen
die, their batting averages, their achievements will
die with them. The of Babe Ruth, if he had
a son, would have to start buSh-leaguer and
hit his home runs. The of Gene Sarazen
will be allowed to turn in Of his old mans
record-breaking cards as his own.
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