| Show When by JEANNE FAMOUS SONG WRITER WAS NEWSBOY P PEOPLE EOPLE who are able to help others express happiness and those who amuse us always have a chance for success tar far out of proportion to circumstances of birth or environment so rightly the world sees to it that persons who can drive away care have no financial worries irving berlin was born in russia in 1888 the youngest of eight children his father a cantor or psalm singer in the village synagogue brought the family to new yorks east e tenement district when irving was tour four years old the boy loved to sing but his first jobs were as a newsboy and a telegraph delivery boy his was the depressing life of the slums child street fight ing swimming in the dirty east river dodging traffic I 1 in n the streets at play at fourteen he left home to sing in saloons tor for pennies the patrons tossed to him he was in the chorus of a musical show was a waiter in a chinese restaurant and a singing walter waiter in a couple of night clubs up to this time the happiness irving berlin brought to others was limited to the few people who could see and hear him his voice was not unusual enough to bring him to the top rank of entertainers then he started writing songs the first one brought him only 37 cents the next 25 but thereafter he advanced rapidly he worked often 4 3 A until two or three in the morning and by the time he was thirty six songs had been published under his name including such world known hits as down on the farm doln it my wile has gone to the country and alexanders ragtime rag time band PRESIDENT WAS laundryman ORK Is a habit and to those who acquire it it becomes fun relaxation coming through the kind ot of work done in analyzing the lives of successful men and women we usually find that they got the work habit early in life and never lost it herbert hoover was a worker he was born in 1874 in west branch iowa the son of a blacksmith his father died when he was six years old his mother when he was nine and he went to live with an uncle who operated a quaker academy in oregon herbert earned his board by doing odd chores feeding and currying the horses milking cows and tending the furnace all of this was in addition to his regular school work and as if this were not enough work tor for a young boy he studied english literature and his tory outside of school hours later in salem oregon herbert worked as an office boy for his uncle and went to night school until he had enough credits to enter leland stanford university he worked his way through by acting as clerk tor for the registrar and handling and delivering the san francisco news on the campus later he started a laundry agency calling for the bags ol of soiled laundry and delivering the bundles himself in in 1893 herbert hoover got a job with the united states geological society he had natural ability at 5 Z 7 engineering that together with tha habit of work gained rapid progress for him lie became nationally known as a successful engineer and a business man in 1928 he became president of the united states herbert hoover was born with no silver spoon orphaned early he had bad to fight fi for fo dypry balt ot of knowledge tor for every opportunity but herbert hoover was born with the habit of work and he had the good luck to keep that habit his reward was success service |
