| Show fA A Fortune to Share By VASH YOUNG SPEECH MAKING Upon invitation of business groups 1 I have been told of my fortune in New NewYork York Chicago Pittsburgh Louisville Cedar Rapids Des Moines Wichita Denver Oakland San Francisco Francsco Los Angeles Sacramento Santa Barbara San Diego Salt SaIl Lake City and many 1 I other smaller places In aU all of these addresses I told of my fortune to share and th the address seemed to go over well except in Salt SaIt Lake City my home town where it was Wa a frost Speakers tell me that is not unusual A man goes back to his old home high with hope Through the year Car he has built up a romantic concept of the old place He remembers its streets its people and all the good times he has had shad there and andin in his folly he imagines lic hc has been as much in the minds of the town people as s they have been in his But this rarely is the case Move away and the old home hometown town forgets you Why sh should uld it not forget you You left it it and it has been busy with others Bothers who remained and with new new- comers corners A friend of mine went home after an absence of several years and bursting with sentimental eagerness he he started down Main street streel From Front a distance he saw an old acquaintance approaching ng and he lie almost ran to meet this resident grabbed his hand and told him how glad he was to see him again Yes yes said the resident I 1 oj haven't seen you oU in some time Have you 1 0 been away ay I It was something like that with me meIn meIn In fn Salt Lake City They did not even even know I had gone away nor did many of them know I had come back Which is ii as asit it should be A city would be a anice nc nice mess if lifts its people spent their time remembering and talking about unimportant persons who have drifted off oU looking l oking for greener green pastures pastur THE SERIOUS ELEMENT There arc are many angles to this game One surefire thing is for the speaker to tell stories in which he is the goat Good natured self ridicule always gets a aT laugh Descriptions De Do- of experiences similar to those had by every member of of the audience is good stuff stull too for forit It gives authenticity to a speakers speaker's remarks But these elements will no not of them therm A selves make a speech a success M Most of my talking has been done within the last two years when I I. I c could be sure lure that many persons in front of me were up to their cars ears in trouble They needed a laugh and they needed to recall recall re re- re call pleasant advent adventures of their own but they needed and wanted something to take home with them and chew chewon on for lor a while In all humility I say that my fortune shared with others seems to have baye done good for lor after each addre address ad ad- dress diess with but few exceptions I have re received d scores of letters and when the talk has been broadcast by radio the number has mounted into hun bun If It my ray experiences arc a a true guide people are hungry for affirmative tive thinking for happiness for ways out of gloom It is not I they are interested in in nor noram am sin I of any use to them but the ideas I try to express I Ican can n say this mi because these ideas are EDt cot original with me inc I am nothing more than a talking machine with a record on it IL In this day of s sophistication tion actual or imagined old fashioned virtues old fashioned qualities are often laughed at by the sma smart boys but we must live by these same ancient qualities or disintegration will be our our lot Very frankly I 1 say that never have I thought of anything which was in the slightest original Any person In ln the world who will will free free himself of self consciousness self think of himself as the the agent for the promotion of long established ideas can do as s well or en betel better bet be ter tel than I do doas as a a. public speaker That's a fact Seldom have made I-made a speech without with with- out acknowledging my d debt to my wife This is not a sentimental gesture nor no noris noris is it a trick but a sincere and merited giving of credit where it is due Mrs Young was was brave enough to dance a amerry amerry merry dance with me that night when I went home and told her Iwas out of ofa ofa a ajob job jOO and had less less' than to keep Us supplied with necessities Not a moment did she he dought and never has she doubted Most of us I I. I sus suspect t I are wife made mad men That is why the I little tributes I I. pay to her have been so well received That and the fact that that that-in in the groups before which I 1 have spoken n salesmen have have- predominated and every salesman knows that that his I wile wife can make him himor or ruin him The sales manager for one of ot the great national na na- na Uon l enterprises has said that he regarded re reo re- re the wives of his men as more important t than the men inca themselves When one of his salesmen is falling failing down he often visits that mans man's home and talks with th his wife THE mE SALESMAN'S WIFE Selling Isn't easy on the men engaged engaged en en- aged g-aged in it it and it is much less easy on their wives In many vocations thew the w woman comes first in such matters as the he buying of clothes and if either husband or wife must do without it t is the he man who wears the old rags With salesmen this is not likely to be the case for a salesman must make a good appe appearance rance When his income is small his wife wile must slave at home in n order that he may dress dress' well eat eatwell eatwell eatwell well and entertain otherwise he will not rise in his company He plays got golf before she docs does for golf gol is 8 a apart apart part of his machinery for making con con- acts He remains remaL downtown with the he boys while she remains at home with the children This is almost standard procedure for young oung sales sales- men They are arc free spenders too free They wear clothes which cost more than their salaries seem to jus jus- lily They are arc the first to come out with straw hats in the spring and with felt tel hats in the falL They must be abreast of the times or ahead of them When the family Income Incomes Is s small there is only one way the theman theman theman man can live Jive as a a. salesman must or oras as ashe he thinks he must and that is for forthe forthe the he wife wile to b be a hero at home The saving element clement in inthis this situation is that once a salesman starts up once his income rises to adequate figures he lavishes money on his wife wile He tries to o make up to her then for nil all the hard lard years she has known for he more than any other person in the world knows how she has saved the pennies jennies in in order that he might earn the he dollars When salesmen applaud what I say about my wife I 1 know that the applause is not for either of us but for their own wives who that very minute arc are attending to duties at home Frankness I 1 find is ic one of at the finest elements clements in my ray address I never try to disguise what I have to say nor to coat it with sugar I 1 am proud Droud to be the medium for the expression ex cx- of ideas which seem to me essential for the continuity of ot life There are arc as many ways as to happiness happiness hap- hap iness as there are roads to Rome and no doubt the people who find lind nothing in my plan of ot life lite have worked out for themselves plans that are equally as good I hope this is the case But be it ever so true it does not weaken my obligation to share with other average mortals like myself this great fortune of ot right thinking which came to me when the theOld theOld Old Did Vash Young turned his toes up to the daisies and took with him the debris of life lite which had made him so unhappy and so unsuccessful Saturday In Here and antI Here Hereafter Here Here- after alter Vash Young tells you what rc rc- ligion means to him Copyright 1933 1933 by Vash Young Published by Arrangement with The Merrill Bobbs-Merrill Company |
