The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 30, 1918, Page 7

i —s3 | Tre ‘D | | 1 1 | iT MUNVOVAVAUUAUAEAUAUAUAUAUA AAA STAR—SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1918. PAGE 7 In a Country Like THIS, Success Is EASY—if a Fellow’ll Only Gome Clean—and PLAY the GAME They were sitting in the “Amen” corner of the hotel—the young drummer remarked that “it wasn’t EASY to SUCCEED any more— that the game was becoming stiffer all the time.” “Boys,” said the oldest man present, “T’d like to say something about this fickle dame they call success. I haven’t much time. Going east on the next train—but maybe I can give you the high spots be- fore I go. “What I’m about to tell you is TRUE. It happened to ME. I know what FAILURE is—and what SUCCESS is. I’ve been thru the mill. “In a country like this, success is EASY —if a fellow’ll come CLEAN and play the GAME. “I guess I wasn’t much different from the average—maybe I was a bit more easy-going. Anyway, most of my life I dubbed around with the boys, making a good-natured fool of myself, working no harder than I had to, quitting on the tick of the clock, grabbing at holidays like a gormand—and going a little stronger all the time on the booze. “Knowing what I know now—I deserve to spend the rest of my days in sackcloth and ashes, for the years I’ve fiddled away. “At fifty, I was selling cigars back of a counter for a few dollars a week. On my fiftieth birthday I started early to lunch, but instead of esting, I found a quiet corner and sat down all by myself to think it over. ‘Tm not going to say what I thought that day, but something came to life within me. I FOUND myself. “T had been a shoe-clerk once—so leather looked good. It doesn’t matter WHAT a man does so long as it’s HONEST. A determined man will succeed at anything. ' “T saw the — Shoe company that afternoon. They had ‘no va- eancy.’ I hadn't expected any, but I made them move over and make room for ME. I got them to say I might stick around for a few weeks, to observe the factory side of the shoe business. “Early and late I wasthere—without pay — doing anything and everything they’d let me do—in the office, in the shipping-room, all over the plant. “They stood for me that way a month, then they placed me on thé pay-roll, “They didn’t give me much—just enough to have me feel author- ized to make myself useful. I could see I was an experiment to them —I was to myself. “Everybody behaved toward me at first as tho I had escaped from Bloomingdale—but after awhile that wore off, and they went out of their way to put me wise to things. “Next they let me make a trip on the road. New territory—my expense. I had had a few dollars in the bank. There wasn’t much left—and I was betting every dollar on myself to win. Did I work on that trip? I worked like a demon—and sold SHOES. “More time passed, and I was made a regular drummer. Then the senior road-man quit without warning, and they wired me to take the territory until they could pull themselves around and assign a regular man. “They never dug-up the regular man. “Last year my commissions amounted to more than $18,000; I’m ahead of that this year, and still three weeks to go. “CAME THRU on the shady side of fifty: Could have done it at THIRTY just as well. “If only some kind soul had walloped me one, and woke me up twenty, YEARS ago! I’d have been a MILLIONAIRE today! “By the time a fellow’s wise enough to know how to LIVE, he’s old enough to DIE—and look what a lot of expensive experience goes to the grave with him: “Just time to make my train—bye, bye, boys—good luck.” The Names Listed Below Represent Practically Every Branch of Seattle’s Great Industries: American Savings Bank and Trust Co. Cental ity L Coal Co. Groceteria Stores Co. ight Dept . € Hanso1 Ames, F. G. City Messen ger & Transfer Co. Maftirmas Sastas Weeks. Ames Shipbuilding Co. ea vag Hendricks Manufacturing Co. Augustine & Kyer. Col Azuma Bros Col Backus, M. F. Cor Barton & Co, yg i Belknap, C. C., Glass ( Crane Co. Bemls Bros. Bag Co. aor gg: erat Co, Black Davis, Jol 0. ai Aitons Oo oe Dexter Horion National Bank, The. Boldt’s Restaurant & Bakery Co Eldridge Buick Co. Bon Marche, The, Elliott Bay Yacht & Engine Works. Virs Bonney-Watson Co. Bradner Co., The. Brown, Rogers. Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. or . Co. n v Great Western Smelting & Refining atti : : ‘0. . Green, Joshua, M itennial Mill Co, Griffin & Co, Mehlhorn, August, J: Metropolitan Building Co, Pa Mitsui & Co. . in, a. jeacham & Babcock Shipbuilding Co. ir. (COPYRIGHT, 1917) nald Shipbuilding Co. 0. it Association. idge & Dredging Co. avigation © Zz. s & Trust Co. United Coal Sales Co. Wakefield, Lee H. Sea ey Railway Co. Sloan Shipbuilders Corporation,