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Show ,Do you think enthusiasm is greater than laughter? ii i i TM$ accuracy rftUw $QtiFt. department It for co-JtSi co-JtSi "CvAi operation in (nforma-fe7)OSf (nforma-fe7)OSf "" on the rnrmin I5 .r-k "-- v f ea'y errors ami MiPCsJ 2JB frlenttt of forethought, ul J)f Go 5 to reduce mutually ex-V ex-V 1Q52 pentlre mlttaUt. It is Apy,cy for mechanical, com-"""".Nr com-"""".Nr mercial and profei- 7 - ilonal people; the in dividual employer, employe and customer; and consists of extracts taken by permission from th copyrighted Utters, the lectures, notebooks and libraries of Earl 21. Pratt, Oak Park, Illinois, He is hunting the whole world oter for Information of every day use to you, and he regrets his Inability, personally to reply to contributors. So far as possible he wishes to have in this space the very idia you would like to Jlnd here, l'ou are at liberty to send Mm any suggestion you may care to. Hi collection collec-tion was started in 1X12 and now contains un-piiUlshed un-piiUlshed information dating back to 1190, with sysfemattc plans extending to w.?. Your short story of some example of forethought given to hlinjnay prove to be your most valuable gift to others. ( Men, Methods and Work. Tho manager, for a very successful mp'noy maker, said that ho worried over tho big things, while his omploy-pr'worrled omploy-pr'worrled over tho llttlo things. Tho manager got along with tho employes and tho details better than tho proprietor did, but tho proprietor got along .with tho wholo business much be'tter than tho manager could. Somo men can keep anything running run-ning lovely if somo ono olso will only seo that pay day Is passed In good shape. .Tho man nblo to attend to pay-day requirements might rattlo tho wholo concorn if ho wero to seo to llttlo things. A man ablo to mnko a hundred dollars dol-lars an hour may bo ablo to hire for a hundred dollars a month a man who can do somo things better than tho omployer can do them. Few aro ablo to got a living doing just what thoy want to do, and very few aro willing to limit tholr efforts to tho things thoy can do tho besL Ono man told mo that moro mon failed in his lino of work for lack of ability to handle men than for any othor or all other reasons. Fow men know how to interest, animate,. educate,! 'andAkepp onJgoodj ,itorraBw,itUvv'tUoumonJBW'nTn?"' tho moro you know tho moro in tho background you havo to go, duo It may bo to having moro knowledge than skill. In ono case, of an unpopular foreman fore-man going on a vacation and a popu-lar popu-lar workman taking his placo for tho day, tho product was ovor twonty per cent moro than usual. If ton thousand mon of all kinds should find themselves out of work, ono might create ideas, anothor exo-cuto exo-cuto thom, another organlzo and man-ago man-ago tho others. Somo could do somo parts of tho do-tail do-tail work twice as well as somo of tho others could. Orio would bo a good buyer of material ana anothor a good collector of accounts. Somo would win honors and somo .would get disgraced, but thoy would finally drift or climb, fall or jump, to positions Just as wo find thom to-dny. Only this difference tho successful might make bettor uso of tholr success and tho failures profit by tholr expensive ex-pensive experiences moro than thoy have been doing during this century. If this possibility wero to bo accomplished ac-complished tho noxt century would bo moro thnn a hundred years ahead, and tho common humdrum llfo would bo quito ideal. If our host intelligence wero to accompany ac-company our every action much would bo dono. Wo all know why things aro not bettor than thoy aro. Questions. Can you report something which was flno in theory but a fizzle in practice? prac-tice? What Is your remedy for serious trouble duo to foolish sport? What havo you learned by exponsivo experience? What do you want to know which you would bo willing othero should know? Aro you willing to Join us In building build-ing lighthouse thoughts on life's dangerous dan-gerous rocks? Aro llttlo errors tho sources of big mistakes? Can you recall a laughablo laugh-last laugh-last ovent? N Havo you a record of a fakir's funny reasoning? How could tho nccldents you know about havo been provented? Havo you spoken to a stranger whllo thinking him nn acquaintance? Havo you been injured whllo watching watch-ing to seo if somo other person would got injured? Can you think of a good illustration of profitable polltonoss? Old or now or both. What nro two or throe of tho difficulties you have ', to contend with in your work? Lending Money. Years ago I read that a young man. should be satisfied with a' low and safo rato of interest and tako tho ndvico of thoso moro experienced to not know it all. I havo been very fortunato in not losing money lent to frionda. Frequently Fre-quently I glvo small sums to old friends who aro now deadbeats and i wish to borrow for a fow hours or days. I never get such sums back and nover expect to whon I let it go. But whenever I havo lent ?50, more or less, to a friend and expected It back it has como. I think this is duo to my uso of a discriminating judgment beforo lending. Onco it cost mo a good deal over a thousand dollars cash to disobey dis-obey my bettor Judgment and go into a side-line business with a friend. I did not get tho counsel of thoso to j twhomI .should havo gnno, anrt.'Ifcro'iMtt.u ' IfuaodWttoj;bwiiyjwn"f09llnBBI'"SB,T If was "roped" in by talk. ' |