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Show LEAKS The most disastrous things In all business are the leaks. A magnlflcant business may dwindle to nothing If leaks appear and are not stopped. And an otherwise fine character may be emaciated through its leaka. The little carelessnesses of discourtesy, discour-tesy, unkindtiess, thoughtlessness, and shiftlessness go further than one thinks. You look some men In the face and see their manhood actually leaking from their face. We trust people largely from firs, impressions. You look into the eyes of somu men and you sea an overflow there - of honest strength, wholehearted-ness, wholehearted-ness, and cleanliness of mind. But nothing leaking away. The shrewd physician looks for the leaks the first thing. If a patient won't tell him he finds out by Investigation. Inves-tigation. He examines the heart, the lungs and other parts of the makeup make-up of his patient. In examining a business the profits pro-fits are secondary to its leaks. For no profits will long withstand leaks. The packing Industry kept at It until they eliminated! every loss In the by-products until they now say that they utilize everything but the "squeal" of the porker. And mabe some bright mind will make use of that some of these days. The time will probably be here when most of the wires used in communication com-munication will be done away with. Simplification always does away with leaks in business and I believu that this rule may apply to life 1L-self. 1L-self. If we make it 'Simpler we aru 1-ess liable to make a hard job of It. And thus we are fortified against much that we lose in leaks from complications. com-plications. It's a good thing to call a convention conven-tion of your own personal resources every once in a while and say to all that is within you: "Stop that leak." |