Show I Made Job Men I IBy By JOHN BLAKE SLAKE The man wh who was ask asked d if it he could play the violin vio yb- lin Un and replied that he did lid apt know for the reason that he never had tried provoked a smile from his listeners Y Yet It is possible that he might have played the violin at least acceptably by trying and trying hard for ten or fifteen years Jobs very often make men as well as break them S But for tor the war wal between the states General Grant would ha have 0 remained in In obscurity for the rest of his life fe He had given ghen up the army abandoned as a useless useless useless use use- less asset the training he lie had received at the United States military academy and retired to private life to conduct a little tannery The war made an asset of an education that would have otherwise proved useless The emergency developed the the latent g genius in Inthe inthe the great soldier and his training enabled him tomake tomake to tomake make the best use of It General Lee equally talented and trained In the the same Institution would have been heard of had there been no war For he was a leader in his part lart of the country Grant wo would ld have ve disappeared and outside of Ms his own town and his own family wo woul would l 1 have been forgotten Many a man who who through some accident Is shifted suddenly Into some som important position as astonishes astonishes astonishes as- as his friends by filling it with shining shining- suc sue cess On the other hand many a man who is given n such an opportunity makes a dismal failure of It The made job-made man has always some preparation He has thought about the work that he ma may have to do studied it and been in some meas measure re trained e for it it or he cannot possibly make good Take a half-educated half lawyer r or the sort who spends most of ot his time In petty litigation and put him in charge of a great case and he would be sure to make a dismal failure of it Far abler and better better better bet bet- ter trained men would overwhelm him But give ghe the same Iame fighting chance to a young oung man who In spite of a small practice had toiled tolled over his work who had poured over cases and studied their conduct by eminent men and as soon as his own faculties were sharpened sharpen d by contact with his mental equals he would acquit himself bril- bril I know a young oung theatrical manager who all his life thought he would like to produce a a. play But Buthe Buthe Buthe he was moderately successful In another line and did not venture to abandon It for something with which he had no practical e experience However he continued to read and think about the theatre to go o. o to plays and watch the audiences audiences audi audi- I as well as the Actors At last a chance presented itself He lIe went Into theatrical work He lie was successful almost overnight overnight over over- night and is now one of the most Important of managers S SIlls Ills His friends marveled mar that he could do this But Buthe Buthe Buthe he did not He lie had learned how to do it He was wasa a made job-made man but he was a self made man before before before be be- fore he found the Job that gave e him his big op op- op- op Copyright 1925 by the Bell Syndicate Inc |