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Show ra- n Uncommon Sense JOHN BLAKE II ' O H SWELLED HEADS you will 'find victims of swelled heads on every bench In the park, in every bread line, In every poorhouse, In every Jail. It is an easily communicable nnd a deadly disease. The only cure for It is a severe Jolt, and sometimes It Is the remedy that success Is made of. Remember that a little success Is often easily come by. Sometimes It Is due almost wholly to luck. Sometimes Some-times It follows advancement through favoritism, which Is probably the worst thing that can happen to anybody. In any event, no success can sur-tvlve sur-tvlve a swelled head. If In the early years of your career you find yourself well ahead of the fellows fel-lows who started with you, look out. (You have still a long way to travel. If you are satisfied with yourself, tie sure you will never get any better. And If you don't get any better you Will soon begin to go back. Authority cannot safely be entrusted to any nian till he shows that his head will not be affected by It. Once let him begin to make bad use of it, to domineer, and to bully, and he might as well bid any further progress prog-ress good-by. Remember always that big men never get the swelled head, or If they do get a slight attack they soon recover. re-cover. If you have begun to think that you are "doing pretty well thank you," and to pity the poor devils who are not as bright as you are, stop and take stock. Don't think about the men you have passed, but about the men who have passed you. Consider the important men of your acquaintance, and of history. his-tory. Read their biographies, and note how they continually struggled to make themselves capable . of bigger and better work. There Is no time to get a swelled head when a man Is really going tip. It Is the chap who stops to admire himself who falls victim vic-tim to conceit. If you are as great a man as Lincoln, Lin-coln, as Shakespeare, as Napoleon, puff and strut all you please. But the chances are you are not. And until you are perfectly sure that you are, keep on trying. The study of big men will give you less time to admire yourself, your-self, and thereby save you from a malady that Is absolutely fatal to any Important success. (Copyright by John Blake.) . |
