| Show What Is is gance Arrogance Besetting Sin of of Early jEarly Prosperity Sense Prosperity Sense of Power Run Rum Riot Writs Lord Beaverbrook nY ISY BEA I Following highly Interesting and Instructive articles on Health Success Success Success Suc Education and cess Gambling Money Ioney Lord lArd Beaverbrook famous British publisher writes of at of Arrogance Arrogance Arro gance defining It U as the besetting sin of young men who have begun to pros pros- per The articles have created widespread widespread wide widespread spread interest In Great Britain LO LONDON DO- DO May 7 what 7 What is arrogance arrogance arrogance arro arro- gance To begin with It is the besetting besetting beset beset- Un ting sin of young men who have be begun begun begun be- be gun to prosper by their own exertions In the affairs of the world It Is not pride which Is amore or less Just es estimate estimate estimate es- es of ones one's power and ties It Is not vanity or conceit which consists in pluming oneself exactly on the qualities one does not posses Arrogance Arrogance Arro Arro- gance Is In essence something of far tougher fibre than conceit It is the sense of oC ability and power run riot the feeling that the world Is an oyster and that In open opening In Its rough ed edges es there Is no need to care a Jot lot for the Interests interests Interests Inter Inter- ests or susceptibilities of or others A lo L I- I ICO CO CONCEPTION A young oun man who has surmounted surmount d his education gone out Into the world worldon on his own account and made some pro progress re s In business Is the ready really prey of ot the bacillus of arrogance He lie does not yet et know enough h of life t to to re realise e ethe the price he will have to p- p py y In he the future for the brusqueness of or his man- man or the abruptness of ot his proceed proceed- ings He m may y even e t fancy c that It Ik U is only ni n necessary s to be e as rude as Napoleon Na- Na n- n to acquire all the gifts of th the emperor This conception Is altogether eth ether er false though It may be pardoned to youth In tn the first rush of success The unfortunate point Is III that th In everyday life the older men will not in practise confer this pardon They are annoyed t by the presumption the n newcomer new new- w- w comer displays and they visit their wrath on him hm not only at the time of ot t the hl offense hen heno but for years rears lr afterward j rt lt At tO the moment o n this attitude jt t crit criticism and hostility the masters of ot the field show to the aspirant may no not b N be bew w without Its advantages advantage if It teaches eaches him that Justice lusth f moderation and ir co lr- lr tesy te y are are qualities which still possess merits t even ven tor for the rising your man If IC so so we may thank heaven even for our enemies coin COLT oF OF T. T The us usual al prophecy for for- curbing ar- ar youth on these these- occasions t th sure aure pre prediction l Uon that th t be come oma me a b smash As An a matter of fact It is ex extraordinarily extraordinarily ex- ex rare for a man who has hat conquered the Initial difficulties of ar success In money money making making If his work is honest to come to disaster None the less If It the young man hears these theno ancestral voices prophesying war and shivers a little in his hll bed at night he will be b none the tho worse for fot the cold douche of ot doubt and enmity I Indeed so lon long as youth keeps its Us head It will be the better for tor the successive successive suc suc- hurdles which obstructive age or even middle-age middle puts in its pa pat h. h A few stumbles will teach it care in approaching the next Jump lump The only real cure for arrogance Is a a. check not check not an absolute failure for tor complete disaster Is as likely to breed the arrogance of despair as supreme su supreme su- su preme triumph Is to breed the arrogance arrogance arro arro- gance Banco of Invincibility In A setback U Is th the best cure for tor arrogance It would be a false assumption to suppose that temporary humiliation or mistakes can rid one definitely and finally of ot the vice I am de describing Arrogance seems too closely knit Into the tho very fibre of or early success The hand first experience of youth Is III not sufficient to effect the cure cure and and it tray may be that no years and no experience will purge the ml mind ml of this l tendency When hen lOUt Pitt publicly announced announced announced an an- at 23 that he would never take tak anything less than cabinet rank he was waa undoubtedly undoubted arrogant He lie became premier ore ore- mier at 24 U But age and experience tempered his supreme haughtiness leaving at tho the end a a. residue residue- of pure self confidence which enabled him to bear up against blow after blow Inthe in inthe inthe the effort to save the state Ain AID TO 10 Arrogance tempered tempe by experience and anft defeat may thus produce In the end the most moat effective tyPO type of ot char char- acter But It seems a pity that youth should suffer sutter so much In the aftermath aftermath after after- math while it learns learn the necessary It leu- leu lf- lf son sons But Dut will youth youth listen listen to the advice advice ad ad- vice of oe middle middle age age For every man youth trample tramples on In the arrogance of or his successful career n tt hundred enemies will spring up le to clot dor W with h hh an Implacable r dislike lI the middle of h his hie life A fault n of rf manner a d deal dal al pres pressed ed too hard In Inequity inequity equity the abruptness by which the th theold theold old gods god are tumbled out t make room for the new all all these are ar treasured treas treas- treasured up liP against aa the successful new nt comer e In n the e very heat of t the men take ak no mo emo more Z reckon koo oC of 11 these I things than than 0 of hand band a t band batUe baW 1 J 7 It J Is JM the after aCter recollection on the no part of the tho vanquished d that heeds the sullen resentment against the arrogance of the conqueror Years afterwards aft aft- when all these thins f thesS Hm seem to have passed awa away and the tho very reelection ree ree- lection of ot them Is III dim In the mind of the young man he will suddenly be from struck i Ck by an for unlooked m or l blow den dealt It a strange strang-e or or even a friendly quarter r. If lie J will stagger as s though nit hit from Ift behind w with th a stone on and exclaim Why did this I m man hit lt ar me fn suddenly v from the lark dark Then searching search search- ing back In the he ne wm n will remember chamber or of his mind pome come long past act of or arrogance conceived arrogance conceived of at the time merely as all an exertion of ot le legitimate I power ai and and ability h he will realize that he Is paying In maturity for the Indiscretions ot of hIs youth IT VITAL ITI I UI CP lie III mayy ma be engaged d In ln some scheme for tor the n he-n benefit of a people or a n nation nR- nR tion in which f. f there Is hot the fastest faintest te trace 0 of self He lie may even be anxious lo to keep t the peace c che with an all men In the e- e pursuit t of his aim But he may he be compelled to Jay look with sorrow Por- Por row J w on the wreck of his Idea and pay p-iy the default aUt for r the antagonisms of or his youth it iti Is s n not perhaps in the na nature nature na- na ture of at youth to be imo tr-imo prudent The THo Iamo ame seems stems everything everything- the penalties either nIl nl or remote tC But If Prudence prudenc ever Vr was vital In the earl early years It Is In i the avoIdance of those unnecessary oary anIt an ta which It its train arrogance brings br in It J might be supposed that middle middle- age ws was preaching ff to youth o on a sin I ln It had l outlive That is not S fie the case Unfortunately fined arrogance 7 Is not confined con con- t to any period perlo of life lite But nut In early age it Is a tendency at once easy to tor forgive lve most and to 10 cure Carried Into later years ye-au with no perception of the fault hult It becomes incurable int Into th than n I that ati It l usually y turns turn Its possessor ore orse a mixture of bore and fool foul 11 wrapped r rt up in the mantle B of h his Own self esteem st m the sufferer f fails ls catch the drift or of round ond him or to put himself In touch with the opinions of or others His Hla chair In any aV room Is s soon surrounded by hv vi Va- Va Th The rant Ant vice seats has hair or by hy na patient sufferers in fact turned Inwards and corroded the mentality Far better better bet bet- ter er the enemies and the mistakes mistake youth g sh than tha this h f mal final assault b 3 of or withIn fortress t the of J inner r calm fn and o the mind f The e arrogant m raan mail n c can be friends f jends with others nor what Is wrote still be friends with himself The i Intense In- In tense concentration on self which 1 ih 1 8 mental me habit brings 8 not only disturb S Sany any rational Judgment of ot the tha values s o 0 othe othe the outer world but poisons nil all sanit calm and happiness at the very source of or being It is hard to shed sh arro gance fiance it is more difficult to be hU hum ble It It Is worth while whilo to make malto the the the- at attempt tempt a |
