Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-25
BY HOWARD WHITMAN

:
.All of us know so-called sue
cessful people whose most emf
nent accomplishment seems to
be that they encompass all the
mean and nasty qualities in hu-
MAN experience.
sThese are the people who give
success a bad name. But the
cosmic justice in it is that as
little as they give to success. so
LITTLE does success give to them.
Some segments of our society
begin 10 inculcate in the young
at a most tender age the notion
that success is largely a process
OF moving other people down.
This is the juggernaut psy-
GEOLOGY. Many youngsters learn
fist TO experience feeling
which they call success when
they have stepped on someone
eRe's toes, elbowed their way
ahead of someone else in line,
OF succeeded in elevating them
selves by firmly planting their
feet on someone else's shoulders.
sThis idea they carry forward
into life. and one day it mani
tests itself at the conference
tables of Wall Street or in the
geease-paint jungles of Holly
Wood.
Means NaStineSS
sSuccess in Hollywood is vir-
tHally synonymous with nasti-
ness. Instead of remarking, I'm
afraid Id get successful and it
would turn my head" one writer
who refused to go to Hollywood
told his friends with meaning
fEl twist. I'm afraid it might
tnrn my head and I'd get sue
csssful."
git is not uncommon in the
movie colony to hear the phrase.
Hes too nice a guy-he could
never succeed"
Gas progress goes. the televi-
sion industry has taken many
Of the laurels. both monetary
and otherwise. from the movies.
And along with this transfer
has come a heavy infusion of
Hollywood success into Madison
Avenue.
In the advertising agencies
and and the TV studios the
rumble of the juggernaut is
fpard like background music
Under the scripts. And one be-
9ns to hear the remark about
this or that conner in the busi-
ness, Hes real dog. He'll go
far
Perhaps this unpleasantness
is merely in the first assault
wave of any great new activity.
The first eXploiters of the New
World were pirates, the first
great industrialists we're robber
1arons and even the pioneers
d Seventh Avenue. New York,
Vere sweatshoppers.
: The gouglng and the claWine
may be, for all We know, an evil
necessary to the opening Of a
new territory, be it steel rails
acrosS the plains or a new ciga-
rette show on television.
No Satisfaction
: Perhaps the mistake we made
IS to call the sougers and the
qawers successful" for actually
de rewards they receive. while
Impressive on the money scale
tail to afford them the No. l in
aiedient Of real success. salts
faction. Anyone who has come
Gose TO them knows that they
ge indeed a contempitable breed
and beyond that they are per-
pnally and inwardly pathetic
Miserable people.
: Psychologically these people
nave inner ego structures some
Sling Ike a sand castle which a
small boy builds on the beach
iust at the edge OF the water. AS
Ele tide laps away at It, the BOY
must constantly shore 1t up with
new eobs OF sand lest IL topple.
After time he finds that he
& not getting anywhere on his
castle at all because he is work
hlg frantically every second Just
Keeping il from falling down.
; Thus. too. the complusivt
rsucceedc must constantly
move from victory TO victory
iexploitation TO exploitation
hst his sandy ego collapse and b.
Rashed away. He, too. finds M
lime for satisfaction in the
kastle Of his inner life because
BE is necessarily occupied shorins
q up
II he has the good sense TO &c
% a psychiatrist he can find out
simply By listening to his own
foice al the rate Of SIS an hour
Fhat his basic trouble Is: Deer
Down he doesn't really feel he is
Sorth a tlnkers dam and. for
fear OF revealing this worthless
ness TO one and all. ne mus,
Constantly achieve for himself
ihe external eidences OF being
AofthvhAe
Z Sucn evidences ase not 70 BE-
confused with real success Real