13 THE SUNDAY OltEGOXIAJf, PORTLAND, JANUARY l4. 1917.
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II By HERBERT KAUFMAN .
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You're to blame if your mind is wasting time. It does the work you select.
Fill your head with trifles and there'll be no space for big things. Hack ideas occupy
as much room as thoroughbred inspirations. Unimportant details frequently require as
much attention as constructive plans.
Proportion is the sixth sense and without it the other five are practically useless.
Apply your days discreetly don't do anything which you can hire somebody else to
execute for you. Concentrate on paying propositions. Aside from the arts and fine crafts,
nobody ever got far single-handed.
Delegate the lesser duties to assistants. Let them make an occasional mistake. If
you're saving your thoughts for the responsibility of management a tfew inaccuracies in
the organization won't amount to much.
Differentiate between incidents and issues.
One can't lead and follow simultaneously.
Rely on subordinates. You can't be the whole works.
As the head of the concern, you're the highest-priced employe. Figure your hour value
and invest it accordingly. Triphammers may drive tacks, but not profitably. The opera
tion is too expensive for the return.
Thoroughness is an admirable quality when intelligently exercised, but a folly when
the game isn't worth the candle.
You're a good bargainer, but you make bad deals despite the concessions secured if
the final terms represent a reduction which does not cover the cost of your energy.
You can hire folk to handle most interviews and satisfy the demands of the average
caller.
Correspondence clerks can read and answer the greater part of the mail.
One letter in twenty deserves your consideration the nineteen are merely routine
communications which should never come under your notice.
Of course visitors insist upon seeing you, but it's seldom necessary to meet any of the
people you now admit to the private office.
Lock yourself in and specialize on vision. Your main business is finding opportunity;
you can't anticipate it while a litter of little things is engaging your notice.
Study the future; observe the trend of events -weigh conditions. Success is the servant
of forethought and you won't be able to measure possibilities except you have free
moments tQ reflect and scheme.
Get the dimes out of your eyes and find where the. thousands are located.
Engage experts to purchase supplies and run systems reserve yourself for decisive
matters; that's, real economy.
Hold the throttle watch the gauge and signals or there will be a wreck and you'll
be in it.
Stick to your cabvkeep the schedule. The engineer who tries to be fireman, conductor
and brakeman as well is headed for a smash. '
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ORRY will not cure
the ill,
Plug the leak or pay
the bill.
Stop the creek or run the milL
Why postpone the bitter pill?
Face your bothers, run to
meet them
Half way on the road and beat
them.
If you're threatened by the
worst,'
Take the lead and hit hard
first.
Fear exaggerates a trouble.
Doubt makes every risk seem
double.
Don't surrender 'till you've
fought.
Why give up before you're
caught?
Fight, despite the odds you
may ;
Turn the tide by one bold play.
Lest We Forget
HIGH prices won't come down, cost of living will keep rising until America trans
lates some of its threats into reprisal. It's a sad commentary on the times
when guerrilla business can raid the National income , and escape scot-free.
Of course, we started to "do something' but there is no finish in sight. Every
body is looking to everybody else to handle the job. As usual, we're relying on
"George" playing the old game of passing the buck to the next man, while we
individually attend to personal affairs. In earlier days we held self-respect so high
that Boston fish drank tea. There were once men in this country to fight for right.
Is it any wonder that outlaw interests continue to dare public anger? If we
don't punish law-breakers, how may we expect them to quit breaking laws ? '
A nation that doesn't resent exploitation deserves it.
In the last analysis oppression exists solely by majority consent. Communities
are plundered, rights are overridden and justice defied, only where indifference
rules. Guns and legislation alike must have determined men behind them. Con
gress has already passed the necessary statutes for reliejf. We know the remedy, but
refuse to take it meanwhile the holdup goes merrily on.
Isn't there some limit to your patience?'
The Man Without an Enemy
YOU can't hold convictions and avoid conflicts. Life is strife.' To rise above
the average means to rouse resentment, dislike and envy where you disap
point the expectations, defeat the hopes and upset the calculations of others
who meet a setback in your victory.
If you have no enemies you're probably such a-colorless, compromising, puny,
piking, lick-spittle that nobody finds it worth while to notice your existence.
While there are crooks, sneaks, snides, cads, shysters, smart-alecs, traitors,
grafters and rotters in the community one can't be everybody's friend without
condoning, upholding and sympathizing with everybody's acts. It's discreditable not
to have enemies.
A Nation of Mechanics
IF you can't afford an automobile now, you'll find
good ones within your means before long. Out
put has ruled off the initial investment of all the
old plants; they've paid for themselves and just as
soon as metal quotations return to normal levels, a
sound enough car for anybody ought to be possible
'round two-hundred-and-fifty dollars.
Steel arid brass have delayed the reduction; when
they drop, prices will follow suit. It's rather inter
esting to speculate upon the trend of American
thinking, after another million or five folk grow
accustomed to tinkering with machniery. Running
a car and fussing with its works must inevitably put
wheels in a man's head; watch the Patent Office.
World Peace or Monroe Doctrine?
HOW may the proposals for limited armament
and a concert of. Powers to regulate the be
havior of the Universe, be rendered effective
without surrendering the Monroe Doctrine?
From the beginnings of our independence, we
have maintained and stood prepared to assert force,
in upholding the supreme right to supervise the
affairs of Western Republics.
Several Presidents notably Cleveland and Roose
velt did not hesitate to risk war in defence of this
principle.
If the nations of the earth decide to reduce their
military arid naval establishments to police propor
tions and we subscribe to the plan, we must needs
retire from a position held without compromise or
deviation for upwards a century.
Shall we? Can we?
The Patriot
TOMORROW is the all important goal!
Because undaunted sires paid proud toll
Betimes the Nation's honor stood at stake,
And yielded all unquailing, for my sake !
I, too, in turn if e'er the call shall come
Must answer to the summons of the drum.
I am but one ; yet oft has one before
Swerved victory and turned the tide of war.
One soldier, if his heart be bold, can dare
So nobly as to shame a host's despair.
One sacrifice, when dread has swept before,
Can thrill a kingdom to its farthest shore.
I am but one ; yet it may be that chance
Has willed that I shall perish to enhance
My Country's glory. Battlefields are strange '
With unexpectedness, and hist'ries change
Because the shrilling hour finds The Man.
I may not sense the vastness of the plan
Beyond Horizon. But I shall be there
- To do my humble or my splendid dare.
The Ridiculousness of Kings
WHAT a ridiculous anachronism kings are at
such a time as this! Here on the free side
of the earth, it is difficult to understand the
philosophy with which hundreds of millions accept
the arbitrary decisions of individuals whose sole
justification for power is tradition. Some day Eu
rope will come to its common senses, install a system
of government by ability and refuse further to sup
port the pretensions and extravagances of a chinless
brood to provide whom with diversion and income
armies are mainly kept standing. War and royalty
are synonyms. Republics seldom resort to arms.
The quickest way to get the world on a peace footing
is thoroughly to democratize it. Present happenings
across the way will probably expedite the elimina
tion of thrones and their trimmings. Civilization
can't afford 'em.
Play the Last Hand, Too
THE proprietors of the Britannica once ventured
their last guineas on a proposition to distribute
the encyclopedia through a chain of British
newspapers.
One publisher after another turned down the
scheme, until only the London Times remained to try.
Now, this particular outfit were in the habit of
playing the deck through to the last card and, despite
the discouragement met with at every turn, dared to
suggest that "The. Thunderer" become a partner to
their enterprise. Not only did they get a hearing,
but afavorable answer the fifty-second card took
the trick.
Many individuals and institutions are credited
with hide-bound conservatism, only because tradi
tion denies them the opportunity to pass upon ad
vantageous propositions.
- Never take a rebuff for granted. It pays to keep
knocking until success opens the door.
POFTRIOHT, 18 1, BT HERBERT KLAUS" MATT, GREAT BRITAIN AOTD AU OTHER RIGHTS RE3ERVXD,