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Give Your Second Wind a Show.
By HERBERT KAUFMAN
Every day is a grab-bag:, with at least one grand prize; try for it.
Each twenty-four hours presents another opportunity; watch for it.
Providence is always experimenting with new combinations of circum
stance search for them.
The forces of growth and displacement never stop; why did you quit?
Nothing stays put. The unexpected is an absolute certainty. Events
do not .repeat themselves in the same sequence so don't discount your
prospects.
There'll be a fresh lay-out in the marning. 'A lot of people began to lose
their grip yesterday and will start to make blunders destined to affect
your chances tomorrow.
Firms will fail; men will fall; a given number of folk will go to bed in
obscurity and awake in success; shifts will occur in organizations which
will alter policies and require a different outfit of employes.
This concern will conclude to enlarge its plant and that manufacturer
will decide to reach for further markets.
Maybe conditions weren't ripe for you, but that state of affairs won't
persist if you do.
Read the want pages; they tell where the yeast is working. Business is
incessantly firing and hiring help.
Payday is the last stay-day for thousands.
Going concerns weed incompetence and need efficiency straight through
the year.
You may possess the very requirements for a situation which you
haven't happened to contemplate.
How do you- know that you're best qualified for your present occupa
tion? Few jobs are really suited for their holders. Most persons jump
into the nearest opening and stick to it without regard to temperamental
fitness for the task.
Careers are seldom intelligently surveyed. If you behold no promise
ahead, it's probably because your head holds no purpose.
Wait a reasonable stretch of time, and if you don't progress, turn to
something else.
Experiment what's the good of owning a variety of mental tools if
they're left to rust in idleness?
A carpenter unfamiliar with the resources of his kit isn't much of a
builder. Neither will you be until you become an adept with your various
faculties.
It takes quite a while to learn the full range of one's ability. We fre
quently discover what we do best after a reasonable period of hit-and-miss.
No invention would ever come through if the preliminary discourage
ments were taken seriously.
Big achievements don't happen; they represent patience and enthusiasm.
Moving up front isn't easy, but staying back is harder.
There are few trials worse than the struggle for a living wage.
Of course you're disappointed, but not half as much as we are in finding
you a habitual under dog.
You hadn't exhausted resource when you surrendered ambition. That
was a mere try-out. You were just limbering up.
Will you ever give your second wind a show?
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wasn't yachting
he landed on our
Columbus
when
side,
He had a plan and stuck to it,
although all Europe tried
By all the rules laid down by
fools to drive it from his
mind.
They told him that there
wasn't anything for him
to find,
And jeered at him and sneered
at him, but still he would
insist
That since the earth was
round, not flat, a new
world must exist.
And so he got his chance and
proved himself right after
all;
He held a bunch of aces and
was not afraid to call.
If you possess the winning
cards, sit tight, don't drop
your hand.
It may take time, but finally
we'll figure where you
stand.
The Way to Win and Lose in Business
THE best pitcher can't win without a reliable catcher to hold his curves.
Teams, not stars, pile up the telling scores. Single-handed games are
only for the arts and professions. Commerce requires organizations.
When groups strive for one purpose, make sacrifice hits when and where
needed and forget individual records to remember mutual welfare, thev are
invincible.
But employers will not receive the loyalty and . support they require if
earnestness and honesty are not constantly recognized and promptly
rewarded. Esprit de corps disappears the instant one faithful helper is
denied his due. Nobody wTill do his best except jith the understanding that
he is serving himself in fulfulling his duty. ,
Inappreciation fathers competition. Every city in America is filled with
monuments to the obtuseness of firms deluded with the notion that they
could pay talent less than its market value.
Most men would never think of going in business for themselves, if their
old bosses didn't suggest the idea, by making it plain that there were no
partnerships in the future.
A Searchlight to Timbuctoo
The trip
Wireless
WITHIN the next decade you'll cross the ocean in 21-hour Zeppelins,
from the Pacific to the Atlantic Coast will be reduced to two days.
telephony will be universal any spot on earth within call.
We're still in the primary class of accomplishment; Fifty-mile howitzers and 24
inch guns are mere matters of .development. Inpredictable performances art waiting
.behind the dawns. Humanity is equippped for any stunt it is able to consider.
With a battery of brain-cells, man can generate sufficient power for a searchlight to
Timbuctoo.
A Basket for Poverty Lane
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T'S sharing season Winter and the poor are here.
Prosperity hasn't rapped at every door; it never
knows the back streets.
The price of coal appais even your income how
will they make out with their meager jjence and the
cruel profits at which little bucketfuls are peddled out?
Food never cost so much. Mighty little meat and
potatoes will reach the tenements this year most of
'em are lucky to have bread and milk for their babies.
You're apt to forget and the charities never have
enough to remember all ; especially the proud and silent
derelicts who would rather die in cold and hunger than
list themselves as paupers.
Many a gently born old lady has drifted to the ram
shackles. Penury is doubly bitter where memory
caresses dear and happy years.
Here's a chance to lend to the Lord at compound
interest to lay by a bit for the hereafter; to play the
raven; to give a pittance from your plenty and let pride
hold its white head high.
They're easy enough to find. Take care of one
at least Fill a cupboard and a stove. Thanksgiving
won't count for much if you haven't earned a little
thanks-getting. Pack an extra basket for Poverty
Lane.
Surgery's Splendid Hour
DEATH alone reveals the secrets of life medicine
has always been a very heavy debtor to war.
Therefore this colossal slaughter, at the very
perihelion of surgical progress, is furnishing a clinic
of incalculable value.
Future generations will trace immeasurable bene
fits from the experiments now taking place on Euro
pean battle-grounds.
It is impossible to estimate the significance of the
operations performed in the field hospitals. The big
gest men of every country are with the armies, working
under conditions that peace cannot parallel, fortifying
their skill by incessant practice on living subjects;
handling more cases per hour than they normally dealt
with in a day; forced by the demands upon their atten
tion to move with lightning rapidity; to take chances
impermissible under standard circumstances.
We already hear of incisions, stitches and methods
of drainage which promised unbelievably to reduce cer
tain mortality figures. Amazing antiseptics have been
discovered. The application of anesthesia has been
reduced to a certainty. Bone mortising, skin-grafting,
the restoration of destroyed features are so completely
accomplished that nothing seems too miraculous for
expectation. Fevers are understood as never before.
Pus and gangrene have been robbed of their terrible
power.
Strange instruments are being constantly invented
and appliances for the straightening of crippled limbs
and the restoration of vitality to salvaged members.
The vast number of maimed and blinded soldiers
has appalled the economists. For the first time in his
tory, a thorough attempt has been made to plan special
occupations for these unfortunates, so that they may
become self-supporting. The vision of a million leg
less, armless, sightless men wandering over the conti
nent has stirred ingenuity to devise mechanical and
magnetic limbs with which they can take their place in
the ranks of age-earners and remain contributing
members of society.
Thank God there are a few credits to be entered
upon this awful ledger page.
Fear and Fact
WALK up to your worries and smash them.
Thej-'ll shrink if you won't. Absent treatment
never cured a ti'ouble. The longer you post
pone an issue the stronger it grows. Dread is an
inventor of racks and thumb-screws. Cowardly minds
are never free from suffering. When imagination
becomes a torture chamber, men die a thousand deaths.
If the fools who fled from ghosts had investigated
the cause of their terror, flapping wash lines would not
cause so much ridiculous agony.
If you're due for a trouncing take it promptly.
Fate usually backs down when she sees your back up.
Half the threats of fortune aren't fulfilled. Fear
strikes oftener and harder than reality.
tOPlKlOHT. 116, BV HERBERT KAIFMA.N. OH EAT BR1TAI. AAD ALL OTHER ItlGillTS REEltEO.