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Show Bj Dorothy Dix 1 alks j I SELF-STARTERS AND OTHERS i, pQROTiiY Dl. ilx- Woj'ld's lli-int Paul j There arc OI:l(' people who are self starters. There are others who have to be cranked up In order I make them go. The most Interesting and mytteri- ous lliiue; In the world is that little HH quirk in Ihe human brain thai gives to an individual (he ability to see even a ttn chick open in the door j UH oi opportunity, and the initiative to HH get his toe into it, and the strength and energy to push hit way'! through. It is what makes generals ; out of -old.- : in Ihe ranks, and j merchant princes out of office, boys, j and great writers and actors 'out of'i boys and girls who grow up on lonely PHP farms in remote places, where they have none of the co-called advantages j of education. ttjH Run over the lisi of il people who 1 aro doing the big things in the world , today, and you will tind that (hey arc jBfl the people that one would leasl have PIH expected to be doing tlicui A Welsh Sl miner and a school learner arc nt Hli the head of the most powerful gov- j ernments in the world. Two poor : country lads who started life Le-B Le-B tween the com furrows of the middle B west are contending for the pre.-i- , H -l-ncy of the l'i.iu-1 la:--. A H trained butcher bs I br conic the great- est inventor that ever lived. Our J richest man earned his first money i by sweeping out a store, and sleep- ; lng behind the counter. I know a man who is worth mil- ' HB lions. He landed in this countn with ; onlj ten cents in his pocket. He -'tBB could not speak Knglih He was H. " barely able to read and write in his own language lie a(ipaieniy dli-rWffl dli-rWffl fered in no way from t he hundreds of , . ? j immigrants with whom he came over, PH yet he live In a palace, and rides feij by them in his limousine as they 1 aJ sweat and toil at the manual labor ' IBS which they are still doing. This man was a self starter. So i are all the others who succeed. They ' BDfl have islon. They can Bee the thing 'hat is to be done, and they have! the pep to go and put a punch in j their work. They'are yot afraid to take risks, or to trust their judg- I Xobody ever has to tell the man i and woman who are self starters how I lo do things. They know it for ii.. tnselvi - Vnd if one waj falls. I they can always think of another, because be-cause they are simply bound to go Thais what they were made tor But, when all is said, if nature doesn't 1'irn us out self starters, we are not to be blamed for it Those who never see their chances until I they have sotie by, are IK) more responsible re-sponsible for their lack of Foresight than Is a blind man for not being fable to see his wa along the street. . Those who have rickety judgments, and who decide every problem wrong, are as much to h" pitied as the ciipple who BtUmblea and (alls over every obstacle. Even the lazy and listless, who do (heir work half-heartedly, half-heartedly, are probably as little to be censured as are those who are , .born wilh a physical weakness. Ii Is a pity, though, thai parents j jdo noc study their children, and realize this diiferor.ee between them, :that some ol thtm are self starters and others must be cranked up. This would save ft lot of people from he coming failures, lor, aftei all, I he I Cranked-up car goes very satisfactorily satisfactor-ily when once somebody has put it 1 In motion i The boy and girl who can think Of new ways to play, who are always inventing games, aud who can always offer a different explanation for their raids upon the cookv j;ir. need no! help They are self starters, and ; will get away under their own' : power. But the boy and girl who always follow, and never had in their play; who always say, "what can I ilo now1", "where sha!l I go now'', who i have not Ingenuity enough even to invent a plausible lie need to be i (lefinitely trained for some one spe 1 1 if ic occupation i life. They are the ones who mui be cranked up and set in motion by some hand from the I outside. They have no powei w ilhin i themselves lo achieve things. Left to Iris own'deviccs, that kind !of a boy driirs around from ill-paid !Job lo ill paid Job, because he is' never Worth much ot an emplover'sj money. He has not tlie initiative to go to night school, or a technical school, or to learn how lo do his job Irorn those aiuon whom he ' works, as the self starter boy has. Or if he Inherits a little money, -he starts a business with ii and goes broke within a year or two, because it is impossible for him to compete with the self stutters. These boys, however, might h.iv,. achieved success if their parents had recognized their limitations and had ; ihem trained to do some particular line of work well, for their very lack of enterprise makes iheni invaluable . in places where patient, methodical ' . J. drudging and attention to detail is necessary. Every young man starting out to seek his fortune does well to appl) iho acid test lo himself and find out Whethei he is a self starter or not, and if he is not. to hid h his Wggon to a big firm, where some fi- ' nancial genius will do the cranking and pull him alone, to prosperity. He will make far more money than he ever will in living to yo his own way alone. The woman who has daughters will not need lo help the self starters get married. Thev are born with the come-hither look in their eyes that makes even dead men get up and follow them, but there aie othei daughters who will make admirable wives and mothers, who need all the help lhat a managing mother can give them if they are ever to own a wedding ring. These girls do not know how to ' make the most of their looks oi their accomplishments, they do not ! know how to Jolly men along, and mother must supplement their deficiencies de-ficiencies by pretty clothes, and good eats, aud making her home so at- j tractive that young men like to come ' to il without reasoning wh It's a great thing to be a self starter; and the next best thing is to ! have someone to crank you up and get you along, if you aren't. (Dorothy Dix articles appear in this paper every Monday, Wednesday and! Friday ) I |