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Show Howie About: Making a Fortune Problem for Stenographers Reading By ED HOWE HOW Is u fortune made? In seven out of ten this Is the process : A young man finds himself with a wife on his hands, and a family of children coming on. (How universally chlldreu keep coming on !) He works and Haves with a view of providing for them. From an expert workman he becomes foreman, superintendent, proprietor In a small way, and works long hours. Ho discovers that the more reliable he Is, the more he helps In community affairs, the more hts business prospers. In course of time his little business becomes be-comes n big business, If he continues to manage It well. Finally, along toward to-ward old age. he becomes well-to-do; occasionally rich. And at forty, fifty or sixty he Is more reliable than he was at twenty or at thirty, when a small business man, foreman or superintendent. super-intendent. There Is nothing In the general belief that as soon us a good workman Is advanced, he becomes more careless In his morals. A man In Florida, separated from his wife, employed a woman as his secretary. sec-retary. One day when the secretary came out of her ollice she was shot and killed by the wife; five balls were fired, and although women are supposed sup-posed to be poor pistol shots, every one was deadly. Was the trouble between the husband and wife due to the bad acts of the secretary? If the secretary secre-tary was actually an honest woniau, seven newspaper readers out of ten, and the twelve Jurymen to be called later to decide the case, will believe she was not. It Is an exhibition of human unfairness that the millions of good girls who study stenography at business colleges must consider. Books, newspapers, magazines and pamphlets have become so numerous many say they are a pest. Still, In the stream of print Is all the wisdom the race has accumulated, and all the good writing; the problem Is to find It In the pile of rubbish. I have a friend of reasonable taste who Is an enormous reader. He gets his start In selecting books of possible value by belonging to book clubs In New York, and has accumulated a great number of such selections. I lately visited him, and came away with ten he specially recommended. Only three of them actually interested me. although I looked over the others, and found some curious things In the process. Books are like men: so many of them do not amount to anything. I know an old fellow who walks occasionally, occa-sionally, for the benefit of the exercise exer-cise and fresh air, and during these walks he looks straight ahead, that he may see as few men as possible, "The English." says a Canadian writer, writ-er, "seem to have a world perspective, a world outlook and world philosophy, unequaled by any other people on earth." I neither deny nor accept the statement, but it causes me to wonder Just how much truth there Is In It I should sny France and Germany are close rivals of England as possessing, on an average, the wisest and most efficient ef-ficient Inhabitants. Up to the time of the war Germany was crowding England Eng-land for first place; since the war France has shown Itself smarter than either of its rivals. The United States is entirely out of the competition, not because of lack of efficiency, but because be-cause lack of common sense has become be-come our national misfortune. Some say the island of Java Is the Garden of Eden so far as ease of making a living Is concerned, and that the rule of the Hollanders comes near being the wisest and best. Denmark, Sweden, Norway, should be considered In picking pick-ing out the country best managed. Switzerland, although It has far better scenery than soil, has long attracted attention as specially well managed so far as public affairs are concerned. In reading sea stories I have observed ob-served that when there Is a strong wind, a good captain drives his ship, and takes risks. Occasionally he meets disaster from driving too hard in a roaring gale; at best the decks, the cook house and life boats are afloat, and the sailors get little rest. The best captains take chances In everything, to get along. Still, a man who drives his ship In a hurricane, to make up for the days he Is be calmed, must have sound judgment; sound knowledge as to the strength of ropes, masts and sails. In my home in the conntry I have heard no show commended as much as "Of Thee I Sing." The show has not come within two or three hundred miles of me, but travelers to the big towns have seen it, and told me of Its unusual cleverness. The writers of the play have made a great fortune. Soon we will be hearing of their yachts, their strings of race horses, of their being sued for alimony. Can anyone doubt they have won their distinction and money honestly? Any poor man who abuses them because be-cause they do not divide with him, or charges we need a new form of government gov-ernment because these men have succeeded. suc-ceeded. Is unfair and mean. These men spent many a day and dollar in drilling dry holes; now that they have struck oil, they are fairly entitled to all a gusher may bring in . 1933. B1I Syndicate. WNU Service. |
