| Show THE essentials OF GREATNESS E nive hive been thinking about the mn men v whom item the world calls great find and wondering how many of them will be so regarded half a century front from now dow in these days of widespread wide vilde spread and instant publicity any wan man who dore does something spectacular and gets his picture into the neus newspapers papers Is acclaimed by the unthinking as a great man lie he may have done nothing more important than to go up in ili a skyrocket sky rocket or sit on oil ft a flagpole but a world does not discriminate I 1 enate between notoriety and greatness 1 we would hardly try to list t lie men of 0 real greatness now alive but we lie think there Is it a critical test it aich if applied would eliminate ninny many bhore agard ari them thein dehes as great men we do ile not t find many enshrined in history it as great men who were not equipped with milt certain qualities af of character that had L v athing I 1 to do with the positions ln in illich chance or fate placed them it Is somewhat increasingly t alie he fashion among the lie young to sneer at tile the old fashioned copybook copy ropy book maxims of con duet duct bati Bat there Is only one sure foundation of character that will stand the test of time and that Is adherence to those very principles honor integrity truthfulness ful ness diligence thrift sobriety modesty I 1 may be old fashioned virtu virtues but they arc ace still soll the only rules it life u melt can lead to real greatness it Is a mistake to believe that themen who rise rie to the top in great affairs do so by chicanery and dishonesty itis one of tile the commonest of errors to think that a man achieves sue success vess without working harder and more faithfully at whatever task he has in hand than do the lazy and envious around jiani him and we lie have never neve r seen a man whom nebel leed to be on the he path to greatness who lie spent his money recklessly who pasted u asted his hib energies in dissipation or tillio sought I 1 self advertisement the ve deiy few men of great grent affairs fillol who have haie been disclosed in these recent times as men of no character fire are tile hn glaring exceptions if all leaders of business awl Ind industry kieft ere crooks there could be no surprise A at the disclosures of the offenses of a 11 lC lorenger or an casull men like those ahen their true character Is disc disclosed loed get into tile the hea headlines dianes because they are different front from the general run nothing can call be more destructive to in character than to tall fall into the lie belief that it Is useless to strive since lugli high places can call he be won lien only by trickery wo we feel that the alie failure of the lie senate investigation to disclose a single act ot of dishonor on the part of the house of morgan should go a long x way toward offsetting olti setting the shock of tile the disclosures of less hollo honorable rable conduct on the part of bankers like mitchell find and harriman Harrl man |
