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No Man Is as Great as His
Work
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In His Little Lifetime He Can Do Only a Small Part of Any
Important Task, Then He Must Pass On and Leave Its
Completion to Others.
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“You can lake it from me. young man. that neither Wall
street nor the Standard Oil Company nor any other power on
tMTth had anything to do with the building of this railroad. I
built it with my own brains. They got me the money. they got
me tin men. Il is a good railroad: one of the best m the world,
and it is goinir to last for many years as a monument Io me.
But bear in mind that I made the railroad; the railroad didn I
make me." I
This came fiVm a pompous, iron-.jawed railroad president, as
he scowled at an inquisitive reporter.
The reporter duly set this speech down, and somewhere in
some newspaper it may he found, essentially as we have set it
forth here
It isn’t true, it isn’t just, it isn’t even common sense, but
there can be no doubt that wnen the railroad president uttered it
he believed it. every word He fancied then, as be fancies now.
that he was greater than his work, and that the railroad prac
ticall' sprang from Ins brain, as we are told that lesser deities
sprang from the brain of Jove, who was th» head ol the family
of deities worshipped by the thoughtful but credulous people of
early times
Now Ibis man, able as he was. merely put together that I
railroad Centuries before he was ever heard of men dug iron
ore from Ihe earth, and thus provided the means by which his
track and locomotives and car wheels could he built.
While the buffaloes were still kicking up dust clouds along .
his present right-of-way. Stephenson was tinkering at his lea
kettle of a locomotive engine, thus beginning ONE BRANCH of
the railroad business, of ALL <)!■’ WHOSE BRANCHES this
man calls himself the master.
Thi'ii other men improved the locomotive and devised meth
ods of engineering and harnessed the lightning to the electric
telegraph, and taught steam how to work in a steam shovel, and
educated the public into ways of buying railroad stocks and
bonds, and experimented with different kinds of rolling stock,
until from the abundance of the work that they had produced
it was possible to choose and arrange the materials for a rail
road
And meanwhile the tough, sinewy pioneers who had crossed
the plains with ox teams, fighting their way against Indians and
wild animals and famine and blizzards, developed a new country
and planted the wheat fields that made the railroad worth while.
So the great railroad builder, instead of being greater than
his work, was merely a small part of it.
He took up the work of hundreds, even thousands, of other
men. and. bellowing the example of many other railroad builders,
combined it all into a tolerably efficient railroad.
Relatively he was about as much the originator of the great
system that he brought together as the fourteenth eoral insect in
a reef composed of fourteen hundred billion coral insects is the
originator of the reef.
The world requires men like ibis man men with imagina
tiou and nerve, who can see its needs, and who have the courage
to supply them, no matter whether their motives are purely phil
anthropic which is often or wlml'v selfish. But the world can
not afford to let such men get conceited or to fancy that com
pared to their own important personalities the work that they are
doing is a mere incident.
Several times in history big. able men have become possess
cd with the idea that they were greater than all other earthly
beings, she last of these was Napoleon, and he lived io under
stand, if not to admit, his mistakes.
America has Iweu more fortunate in its great men. Wash
itiglon knew that compared Io the cause he served his own per
sonality counted lor hut little. There was never a time that he
would not have stepped aside Io let an abler man lake charge ot
trie Colonial army, had an abler man been possible to find.
Lincoln counted his country first and |iimself lasi He had
m> vanifv that h's contemporaries were able to discover: he had i
no ambition other than to the country once more united and
al peace Great men were both of thes". yet neither of them
fora minute fancied that In was a- eieai as the task that he ,
had been set to do
Jhe world that hum >f ns ;<imu is ;l o t . ( ii workshop, m
which each must find the job h" is l>,.st fitted to do. ami do it
as well as he may
Education is bm ■.i.i,i> n< ; vvlmi mher men iiav d„r m ,h
world inorder th.l vv may v:.-. ~i imie in dis.-ov ring v.hai
has already been discovered or m following paths that have t
been found to load in no useful dire,•non
There is no work so unimportant that u is lo be despised
so long as il is wholesome; ihei" >s no field of human endeavor 1
that has been so fully cultivated that it will give no further re
turn for labor
The man vv ho realizes that instead of being cr. aler ihan his
task he is infinitely small in comparison with u has a chance to
do his best, ami in doing his best he is reasonably sure to h.
successful.
Whether lie gathers together a great fortune or not does
not matter a great deal Snnr men were not meant for foi
tunes, and are spoiled by them
But whether or not he can jiislily his existem-. by heme
of use to those that are here ami those who are to .onm mat
tors a great deal
Let him lake hold of any work that ionps i,, hand if Im
finds that In 1 can do il. and after learning all that there s to
know about what has been done upon it go e.mrageoiislv to work
to do a little more if he can
He will soon find that as lie progresses th, importance of his
. task becomes constantly greater in his eves. and that .is i]p
vears have passed by he has <<>m. io prefer ii to anvil, ..g Is,
in the world
Whether it is medicine, lav. engineering or selling
ies. if he feels that it is a great and useful work he w II find m
if pleasure and satisfaction, and urn-...-,• .mslv .• qdl .
one of *he world s really valuable hoi
The Atlanta Georgian
Gie never had a chance
That Is What Nine Men Out of Ten Who Are Failures Say. Look Out That You Don't Say It Yourself.
By FAD
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NO. 10.
One of Ihe regulars in the corner saloon
straightened Yum up and he left to see some
I good friends. Yum wanted lo start all over
again anti he a right guy. ”
He thought lie d t;i l<• a small heer for
hefore he started, hu! on • of Hie gang
fold hint that drinking heer right:
whisky was the stuff. Drinking heer. said,
always made him think of a fellow trying io
scratch his hack without any finger nails.
Yum took a few shots and went down to
sceTiii old friend He sat in the hall. When
the office hoy asked for his name he said.
'■Just tell him that Yum is here; he'll know."
Fhe Working Man and His Money
Save, Save, Save. Fhe Future Will Care For Itself
(Tile pillow mg .irtieh is piloted
In !><•! i o ission from Mr, Timm is
Tapp ’s blink jll: I published by Illi'
F’l.i 11 Beck ( ‘o., New York. ind
copyrighted by tnn tit led
" Youth and < tppin t unity." I
IK I us keep bi fol i ii- the a ve> -
■ ego w n u mid iiis
money . ami let 11 ask w li.u
his money imams. what its power
is. mid how it may serve him now
.lid m I lie fill 111 e . I'm Ve| y UUI 11.
who earns little or much, looks
upon money almost hungrily as th"
one .('souive of saletv. lie wants
tile use of it now and the com
fort of it in the future. Most peo
ple get the one the use of it in
the present lint not thei. thi
fut w < pi nt, lion of it. ' 'mi a men
have both'’ -
It is a comforting fact to state
that he e in. Hut in m .1- ■ th.it a
workingman of any status, may
i liav- this two-fold use of nr-ney he
must begin the- study of two
t kings
I lift he money he ea I|S
(if the time he possesses
l-'i mu :se he must get I lie t w o
fold satisfaction In see's pte.-'-nt
• eomfm i mid fut ure insurani ■
How shall he begin .
Assuming ii*.' he gives the very
i ties! there i- in him fm ihe money
he leceivs. it becomes clear th it
money is otilv another term of the
best there is m him lb- thinks
ami works, is faithful tn bis task,
ami al the end Os Ihe w eek t •
P V env elope I fix KS HIM THESE
<„>l AI.ITIES HACK AGAIN IN
t.A'oTHKK I 'lltM. Illis money is
a thing he can exchange readily
i.e other things But before he be
gins tn exchange it lie should pans,
a moment and -ay to himself:
What He Should Think
When He Gets His Pay.
This envelop! contains ill dr
• ffort of my health, strength uid
thought tm a we. k I may m may
not be able to keep health, strength
.ml thought up to the present pitch
t • the end of my life, hence this
nr nev should protect and guaran
k. m. protection 'ai<-'. when I
m.o possibly be loss so
I'lii-mtiL' ibis tin> of reasoning,
bis fust d. dm tion will he Ibis
• o all mils against himself th it
be commits ’Io. waiting of money
’ cm of the most disastrous. for
• ■ mj va m ■ o w 1- ( oig bi w
WK I INKS DAY. JINK 12, 1912.
The hoy returned to tell Yum that his boss
was out. Yum went to other offices, but they
all seemed lo be out.
Einally he thought of the boy that drove
the butcher wagon in the smdll town years
ago. lie came out and saw Yum. He thought
perhaps that if his old pal was given a help
ing hand he might get going after all. He
told Yum to see him the next day and that
he'd rig him up with some new scenery and
give him a job.
The world seemed a bit brighter now.
Yum had a slight chance at last,
To Be Continued.
Bv THOMAS TA Pl’Kir
power of mind and body. The
mom y he iirns should serve him
faithfully. and lie. in t urn, must be
faithful to himself in the use of his
money, t'p to the prison, moment
In- has perhaps saved nothing. The
rule of his life has been a varia
tion of "easy come, easy go." tint
it hire not put him forward. He
is no bitter off. lias nothing in
’.land, Ile is. in f it. a little oldei
and a little nearer the time when
hi - efiieiency may be less than it is
toda y.
He Must Make Himself a
Student of Money.
If he can -uv -id in Seeing him
self in tills tight, he will begin to be
.. sin ' nt m money. The first tiling
lie nusl do is to study m order the
fobow ing subjects:
I Appropriation.
-'. Equipment of himself as a
W orker
3. Tile daily leisure lie enjoys-.
By appropriation is meant this:
If he is , family man. certain fixed
items of expense must be met reg
ularly. lb- should sit down and
makr mu an accurate list of these.
ll.’ should study this list until he
is positive that it is light, that it
represents only those things that
a c neces-oiy io himself and Io his
I imilv On. of three results will bi
befo ■ him. (ii Tim appropriation
Is beyond || te amount In earns. (2) I
or it i- .’.in., p, it. leaving no mar
gin. (3 I or it is below it and ae
i ilally dm - e.i v < him a margin.
• If be finds that he is living be
yond his ineom. m even within it.
bls duty is to begin again mid re
apportion his expenses so as to
lo.’ie margin, for the future is
only S’, m. when a margin exists.
It mac b- ever si. .small. Iml it pos
itively must evi-.i. m he is skating
on no so thin Ibn I be is in eon -
slant -'.mgei of breaking tlnmigh
ami drowning himself mvl his love.)
Thor, is required of him noth
ing less than actual - mirage. brav
ery of the highest kind, to give up
things he Iris |i. iiiu|>s accus
tomed to. and t<. establish the mar
gin he must have, hut jf he is so
ri yus and manly he v. ill do it. His
position now is this He earns a
definite amount. Every time the
contests of the pay envelope is dis
tributed there is something left fol
ilw savings bank, or for life itisur
rime, or for both.
11. ba now put lo im.m.-.|i >f
fairs in order. It has occurred to
him that anything’ a man can not
afford is really’ a waste, and waste
is the most expensive of all habits.
Extravagance is exceptionally ex
pensive. Earnest men are unani
mous tn their denunciation of it.
Mr. Theodore Roosevelt has said:
“Extravagance rots character:
train youth away from it. On the
other hand, the habit of saving
money. . while it stiffens the will,
also brightens the energies. If
y ou w ould bi- sure tlfat you are be
ginning right, begin to save."
Hive cents thrown away for a,
thing one does not* need is all the
money a dollar can earn in twelve
months, invested at five per cent.
Hut five cents placed in the sav
ings bank daily, amounts in fifty
years, to marly $3,000. A dollar
bet on a game and lost cannot be
'■arned as interest in one year on
a sum less than S2O. Small sums
saved daily even for so short a
time as ten years, accumulate im
pressively. Ten cents saved daily
for ten years amounts, at four per
cent, to nearly $450. fine dollar a
week placed in a savings bank
continually for fifty years amounts
Io over SS,OOO.
These illustrations should give
one faith in the power of a little
money io reach considerable sums.
IE IT IS CONSTANTLY SET
ASIDE. John Wananiaker. who is
said to have started in life on a
!■ n-dollar-n - w ••• k salary, say s.
Difference Between Spending
All or Saving a Part.
'The difference between the
clerk who spends all of his salary
and ihe clerk who saves part of
it. is the difference. in ion years
between the owner of a business
aiid the man out of a job."
And Andrew Carnegie, whoso
success in accumulating money is
known to everybody, thus speaks
of ilw losses that the improvident
man must suffer:-
'Th!' failure of the man who does
not save his money is due not only
to the tact that he has no money
with which (<• take advantag<- of
the Opportunities that come in the
way of every man. but also, and
particularly to tin Im't that such
a mnn Is not abb- or fit to avail
himself of thes- opportunities. The
man w ho can not and does not save
money an not and will not be
mi thing *l’ • north n bile.”
THE HOME PAPEzR
Dr. Parkhurst’s Article
on
Civilization in Man Is t-v
Not Lasting
---and— 'jjf
Our Reversion to Former
| Types
'Written For The Georgian
By the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst
r l'' HIS is the time of the year
* when a good, many people
are leaving home, or, it had
belter be said, are leaving the
place where they are accustomed to
stay, for in some cities there is not
very much of the home idea left,
and what is called home is for the
most part simply the part of the
town where one where one
takes his meals and where one
keeps his trunks preparatory to
going into the country or going
abroad.
And even those who are so cir
cumstanced as to be unable to ab
sent themselves for any consider
able time, stay away as long as
they can and do not return till they
have to.
It may be Paris, it may be Coney
Island, we all remain where we be
long as little of Hie time as we can.
By constitution, we dwellers in
great cities are all tramps. Even
people who have elegant homes to
live in and comfortable beds to
sleep on will lock their doors, for
sake their beds and go rushing out
into the woods for the fun of camp
ing out.
Difficulty of Living Down
Inherited Impulses.
It is a reversion to the original
mode of living when our ancestors
roamed through the forests and
dwelt in tents, huts and caves. It
is difficult to live down the im
pulses that have descended to us
from the habits of centuries ago.
The original savage keeps creep
ing out in us. We are constantly
on the verge of becoming wild men
of the woods again.
A few centuries of civilization
nave hard work battling against
the hundreds of thousands of years
that our race lived through before
it struck civilization.
It takes old momentum a long
time to wear out. It requires con
stant struggle to keep from drop
ping back into the hole that man
kind has crawled out of and that it
is homesick to fall back into again.
It is the same with man as with
brute beasts. I met on the cars the
other day a man who had along
with him a Siberian dog. The ani
mal was gentle and could be safely
played with by a little child, "but."
said the gentleman, "there are spots
of wolf in him. and were 1 to let
him run wild in the woods for six
months all the savageness belong
ing to his ancestry would breakout
in him. and he would have to be
shot or eaged."
In man or beast civilization is
not a permanent quality. It is
against nature and becomes extinct
unless constantly renewed. We are
kept respectable by restraints.
cSb Shirtwaist Days &?o
By (’HESTER FIRKINS.
i T T THETHER pink or white or blue.
\ V Whether prim or peek-a-boo,
Here's a welcome unto you,
Pretty waist!
*’f all summer comers blest.
You're the brightest and the best;
Every wintry clothing post
You've effaced,
<’ll, but aren't we glad to be
k'rom those "ladies, suite" sot free.
And the ugh. crochet.'
Pony coat!
As the May-time flowers save
Country glade from Winter's grave,
So you give the city pave
Summer's note.
It is for that reason that going
off in the summer and breaking
loose front our accustomed sur
roundings involve* an amount of
risk.
We are likely not to come hack
in as good moral trim as we were
in when we went away. There Is a
sense of wild liberty experienced"
by any man when he feels that lie
is looked upon by people that do
not know him.
Human Beings Held in Place
Like Bricks in a Wall.
Like bricks in a wall. «e ar*
held in position In part by the hu
man bricks that we are wedged in
between. It is unpleasant to fall
below the expectations that others
have concerning us, and those to
whom vv e are total strangers have
no expectations regarding us one
way or the other.
They will not be surprised, there
fore, if we behave well, nor any
' more w ill they be am prised if we
behave badly. People who are good
Christians when living among
Christians easily turn reprobates
i
when let loose among people of the
other kind.
It is true to creed, that "once *
saint, always a saint." but it does
not always seem quite true to fact.
Clamp a steel spring and It will
retain its enforced shape so long as
the clamp is on. but remove the
ctamp and it will fly back to the
form that it was in originally; even
after a thousand years it will fly
back.
There is a great deal of efficacy,
therefore, in clamps. Going away
from home and from usual sur
roundings and people is. therefore,
dangerous, for it means removing
some of the clamps.
Much of what we commonly sup
pose to be our virtue is simply the
unnatural and enforced shape in
which we are held by external
pressure. There has recently been
published the story of a person
who had been dead for five min
utes, but who was resuscitated by
mechanical pulsation.
Goodness Not Altogether j ’
A Matter of Artifice.
That shows what forces operat
ing from without will do for the
body. They will do somewhat, the
same thing foi the inward man and
create in him a condition of arti
ficial goodness.
That does noi mean that good
ness is altogether a m .er of ar
tifice. but only that goodness at its
' best is more m loss infirm, and is
much more dependable when ex
isting in circumstances that are of <
a kind to encourage it and to keep
it in good spirits.
Trim and dainty, tried and true.
You are democratic too;
For the Many, like the h’n
Hail your fame.
At her factory machine
Sadie wears you; Fashion> queen
In her gleaming limousine
Does the same. ,
•TO *
" elcotne. little Summer Waist!
Though they say you're not straight
laced.
Let such pedantry be placed
Out <ff view f
1 hie and ' harming new and neat, <
AV hat has Earth that’s half so street
Save the girls, who bless the street.
WEARING you’