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Show THE SKELETON KEY. H Life is so full of false platitudes flj ibout how to become successful, it Is 1 i wonder that any one ever manages B in succeed at Hj We tako a rising generation, to jHj whom life is a curtained mystery, and H befuddle them with wrong directions H ror reaching success, then wonder K why the average person ends life H ibout three months removed from tho Hl uread line. The young man going into the B oriel, has an inflated idea of the pos B lbillties of success. Ho has had H Jrilled into him the false notion that H -very bod can become president, that Hj he top of the ladder is big enough R o hold every one, that every man is H I potential John D. Rockefeller if he H eras the system and (ollown cut-and H irled rules. H Yet all grown up eventually know B hat theap are Fallacies- thai many of I our greatest successes are creatures of chance. Why not be honest with ourselves and admit this, also let tho young into ' the secret Instead of misguiding them! The young man is told to "work , hard." Yot hard work often leads to failure. It all depends on what the hard work is applied to. A Hercules could work himself to death, making fire pokers out of wax 'But his efforts would be neither use-J ful to society nor profitable to himself. him-self. Misdirected energy Whnt the young man needs, first of all. is to find the work to which he is best suited. And then to use. til J brain. Try to devise a way ot doing I the old thine more quickly and eco-1 I nomlcally. For iiiui;inre, the humble ni.'iki r of ! Shoelaces could become a millionaire I by inventing and marketing a shoelace with a metal tip that wouldn't keep 5-lipninB: off. The man who watChei the clock is universally condemned Yet the man who is speeding bis work, trying to j cram more productive effort into a SOl time, has to watch the clock. An efficiency expert, lecturing Jun- ' lor clerk, said, "As I eame into the room. I saw the secret of success on the door. What was it .'" He expected expect-ed to hear, "Push ' A wise bov said, "Pull." In a sense, th wise boy was right. The platitudes tell us lint pull doesn't count. Uut we all know that cultivn-j tion of Influential friends often is a short-cut to success. The greatest lesson that can be. learned by tho young tuan. jusl strlk ing out for himself, is that this is an ago of specialisation and that tho j average man must find his life-field ! and start pelting training in it before j he is 25. Many or the platitude that held good t gem ratlou ago havo been vetoed ve-toed by modern life with Its automatic i machines spurred efficiency, economl- . cal production, specialization and con- j Bervatlon of energy. oo |