Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-01-26 | Page 8 | Uncommon Sense

UNCOMMON SENSE o SENSE 0 o SENSE o 0 oBy By JOHN BLAKE At sea men rate according to the their Ir known ability Shipped as a sailor a a. man tells hi his Is rating and nd If he can establish It I Is s assigned to a corresponding position ri From that time on until he secures secure S Sa a better rating his pos position Uon Is fixed d dand and the work that a a. man of his ex cx experience experience ex- ex and knowledge ought to b beable be beable e able to do Is assigned to him Shipmasters whether they are of f the rapidly vanishing sailing shi ship class dass or r commanders of of ocean ean greyhounds grey grey- hounds or high officers of the nav navy are governed in their dealings wit with h the men under them by ratings They make malce few mistakes And t the ie discipline of ot the ship goes alon along g smoothly beca because se each man Is allotted d to a. a certain sort eOrt of a task task task the that Lt he is known to be able to perform n satisfactorily It is not only on n shipboard that relations relations re re- re lations are considered They play a avery avery avery very important part in all lif life The term second rate applied to a aman aman aman man in any calling almost instantly picks him out for what he Is or is or at lea least t for what the world believes him It Is a a. tag a label that he wears weare which although It may be Invisible to him Js s plainly visible to the world To change that rating for tor a a. higher on one Is a vety very difficult business The world gets used to adopting an opinion of the- the abilities of or any person I that it considers at all I Th Tho business world that is held as a a. third or fourth rate busine business must work many times harder to succeed and propsper than one that is ranked at first rate i There Tere are a few houses In London and New York which have been known as first rate houses since their foundation These are largely exempt from the strenuous competition impose imposed im- im im- im pose posed on others Now and then however one of ot them gets a little too de dependent on Its ratIng rating rat rat- Ing and lets lete go t tho o many holds on oct jt and the second rate house next door steps Into its Ha place Rating b by commercial firms by nations na na- na b by y human beings must be earned But they are re not permanent or final A poor rating can be substituted by a LL food gooc one after years of time and arid much work In overcoming the Inertia of public opinion It will be rem remembered that Napoleon Napo Napo- l leon eon did it and so have havo many have many hundreds hun hun- of other men Ant Ami in the tho years to come coma it will be lOpe lone again many times In every evely generation gen- gen laUon as alOng as the world last aSt Copyright 1923 by John Blake