The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1918, Page 18

he Three Decades Of Opportunity > eo FIRST DECADE, YOUTH, FROM 20 TO 30. Mn the First Decade the Wise Young Man Lays the Founda- tion of His Business Life—The First Stone He Should) Incorporate in the Foundation Is a Definite Desire for a PLAN - Definite Big Job. By Joseph Fr -— he ia In the second decade of his carcer, between thirty and ‘ % a wise young man lays the foundation of bis business lif, 2% i In the second decade of his career between thirty and oe <a forty, he erects the superstructure. Between forty and, sy 8) fifty—and many years longer, if he is a real success— 9 ae he lives in and uses the edifice of achtevement which he Dy fat has raised stone by stone, timber by timber. ae What are some of the stones which he should {noor- a sty, porate—and which he should reject—in shaping the a foundation of his career during the first ten yeare of it? ¥: In my judgment the first and most important acquist * tion for the young man who wants to succeed {s a vision, a clear, sharp, detailed impresson of what he wants to be, where he wants to go. He must not vaguely desire nm success. He must hi definite desire for a definite | “SSerises dig job, and if he can’t “see” his job at once, let him DB “experiment tilt he finds it. .. It ts nothing agninst 2 young man Detween twenty and thirty that he Shanges his line of work once or £¥en several times, provided the rea- fon for the change is not silly grouch or grudge wut rather an hon- 4 est endeavor to find the sort of work ) Which most appeals to him, in which he can find completest self-exprea- sion. cess has made several casts and fina! ly caught his hook in the particular| branch of business or Industry which calls out the best in him—then let him cultivate stick-to-it-iveness. He must not be diverted from his real work by disagreeable features in its environment. For instance, many a _ Young man imagines his boss has a | gradge .against bim. In most in- stances this is sheer imagination, but | even if it is not, the thing to do ts to hang on to the job and by sheer efficiency and energy beat down any pousibie prejudice. Dominate your environment, young man, do not be dominated by it. Dit- ficulties, rebuffs, disappointments, bard work, long hours, oriticiam when you expect praise, team mates who set a pace too fast for you and who make you or be your undoing, There are two lines from Rudyard Kipling’s “If which ought to be chiselled in the mind of every young man—and young woman, too-—— “and bold on when there is nothing in you Except tho Will which ‘Hold on!" Of course, sticking to {t does not swmean sticking in a rut, the viscous quality of which holds fast and Jown {oo many men. It is obvious that the worker between twenty and thirty must know his own job. But that is mot enough. He ought to study the Joe of the fellows who work beside hhim, the jobs of the fellows just ahead of him, I do not mean that he should play petty office politics and schome to capture these jobs from their hold- ers, Tut there are always likely to be ehanges in every business; men are ill and go away, they take service with f& competitor, as the business develups sto you i’ they are transferred to other flelds. J) phen the line of other workers must ~ be moved along, “higher up" positions must be filled. And the young nan Who has practiced preparedness, who pohas studied the business intelligently and learned how to do work outside his| !# courteour and well dressed is at mpecific duties, is the young man who| ¥4¥8 preferred to one who Is awk } mebts with favorable consideration] ¥4Fd and uncouth ay Fane when promotions are in order whose clothes, jook as if ho. salon: ‘The reason why many young men by ini Sutin deh. iorehen arlene q stand. still—and, of course, standing | onestiy. exactly. efficiontly—-tha f still between twenty and thirty be-1 14 secure the strangle hold on Oy 1) comes equivalent to retrogression- iv| tv in the first decade of busi Decatise they neglect self-devolopmeat. | \ite, They weem quite satisfied with life it} oo nn only they have a job which yieids them what they consider a decent live- Whood. After school days are they strive for no further mental di Velopment, but are content to devote what leisure they have to social pleas ures, sports amusements ous kinds, They jike to fo that their job is secure. They # walary ts not raised, expenses increase as time govs on, Lil they give no thought to seif-improve: ment or to plans for bettering their ‘Tet Buch men lack ambition “=. mumber of wants | > tent when those wants are gratified. T am tempted to way that a good Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co @een Kohoot of Commerce, New York University; President Alexander | $ Hamilton Institute; Author, “Business and the Man.” | HE three decades of opportunity, the three periods of a man’s life in| which elusive Success le pursued, caught and held fast, may be compared fitly to the evolution of a house. i} But after the young seeker for suc- | where the ench Johnson (The New York Bening World) viee to begin at the bottom of the lndder, A young man once came to me and said, “I want to go into finance.” He didn't know a thing about tt. He was A collece but he did not hesitate to enter the employ of a firm of brokers at $8 a week. In eight months he was earning $30 a week and knew almost graduate, 18 00) much finance as his employers, At the end of two y ‘s and w half he went to London to take charge of the newly lished branch of a certain great New York bank. To-day he is mak- ing between $50,000 and $75,000 « year, and he is still in his thirties, Between twenty and thirty a young man should saturate himself knowledge about the business he in- tends to make his life work, He should familiarize himself with every kind of activity that his business calls for, and the best way for a man to this knowledge is to go “throwsh the mill” himself and perform all of {te tasks. That of Many of our most successful business in one the reasons why men hav ttained their distinetion; they began as poor boys and oy means of their foree, their braina, their chars 1 up to tho top, ntain. their post- tion because they know exactly what to expect from all The son or nephew of a successful man is not to be congratulated if he fe taken into the buyiness and given & “noft" place, He misses a most important discipline, their emplay Enthusiasm, while Instinct mense help it 1s almost an with young men, ts of un to them because it is the most dynamic of all human quoall- ties, In a sense it in the ideal scended on earth to battle with r alities, Men its origin and easily surrender to iis influenc The man of real enthus fasm puts his soul into his work, wd ho Man without enthusiasm achioves instinctively recognize muceessful must LOOK successful By that ' do not mean he should & overdressed, but he certainly shoud f getting on, A youth wh« over certain may grumble now and then because thyir for thelr family Phey Dear a very close resemblance to ani- Mals of the field; they have a definite and are fairly oou- WASN'T A DONATION. | | EFERENCE having n mad 7 r Con esaman Bur f Po] eh ite ponies ap 112 Van Butters entertained at their town house ) 1) eli is ri last evening. The guests climbed the porch Ty Who butcher siared 40 oblige can and were announced by the butler as they soft- | the customer watched him ax heeled their way into the second-story windows, For sawed and ch “Just a Salary for 4 young man is a handicap | are"—— Father than a help. He is likely to be- | gome too contented, without the epur | terjected “Of & restricted Income to prick the| kind And it is cer | oes true that most of the positions you a Tpides of his intent, ing g004 salaries to men in the| : "arly or middie twenties are more or |butcher, denying wha ‘Rees of @ “dead-end” character, There - m@ueh truth in the homely old ad- ing for posed the cu being ed Du wanted, isnt 8," ar "Oh, no, I charge of generosity | with anything + more than a mediocre career. The young man who wants to BE he well dressed, A young man who} is careless about his looks, priding himself on not being a fop or a ser lessen = hi by | he cut ou're pay- Philadelphia Telegraph, JED FOR THE DAYS, SOON TO COME, The key to this picture of the giant transatlantic passenger airplane will be found in the accompanying ar ticle. | nee | Three Planes With a Wing Spread of 420 Feet, Power, Accommodations for 85 Passengers phase of its development daily, has \s up and undreamed of possibilities as to what its future motors of 1,600 horsepower each, save 2,000 which all, opened new the central motor, horsepower, or, In is of 10,000 he K will bring. power, The bull, containing the pas-|¢@uilibrium; L, compressed alr pump] that such an advertisement might be-|work for women defectiv two Close upon the heols of the battle} #ehKer compartments, is built on a|®"4 reservoir for use in forcing}come @ famillar sight, and that not) getting to New York and tho oppor- planes and bomb carriers came the | stream-line basis, resembling that of [fel to all motors under pressure; {many yeary hence: tunity to choose a brand new tsm mail planes that have been in ser.|® sulphur bottomed whale, and is], petrol fuel tanks; N, lubricating /7RANSATLANTIC AERIAL Time| from the thousand-and-one varicties vice for months past, then men be-|9FTanged to accommodate eighty-|°!! containers; O, motors in armored TABLE. always waiting to be warmed over an to talk of a flight across the| five People besides a crew of fifteen| nacelies; P, radiators of motors; Q.|reave Battery Park, N. ¥. City, 7A. 3¢,[!" the community kitchen of reform. | ocean, and almost in the same| men @ total of 16,000 5 fuel supply lines with stopcocks; R.|Arrive at Newfoundland......6.20 P,M.| And so they were married, “Popper’ |breath plans were forthcoming, But|!"s 700 pounds for supp! graphophone or music box; 8, drink-|Leave Newfoundland 5.40 P. M.|Yearner carne down handsomely, The {not us a mere fight undertaken | for the eighteen-hour run, ing water tanks; T, staterooms; U, at Queenstown 11.10 A.M. | Dulifellows took a duplex apartment in “the light of @n experiment,| ‘The cut which acs hull; V. main exhaust for all motors: | +12 Noon least of the Park and Cuthbert was they went beyond that ana de-lart ich accompanies thisly, partitions of light fibre-wood . P. M./ tree to give up the job on a New York 7 : \ article shows @ cross section of the} eomposition; X, insignia or flag of | Mileage ..+++seee Miles| paper on which his hold always had veloped plans for a@ machine intend-| aerial liner, and the key letters c or-leountry under which plane ts fly! |Time of Trip.. +31 Hou ous and wr his ed to cross the Atlantic in a business | respond to the follow! seals le tla apeael Le testis tage sd nde | Aerial liners Btheric, Wave Crest) been rather tenuow bd boa Vas capacity, carrying enough passen-| Cross section of the 10.000 Hyp] ee cereureter and ignition |civer Lining. Accommodations lmited |sreat book, unhampered by base ma gers to make it @ profitable commer-| rransatlantic Airplane, yee = P. | ayste n to insure synchronjzed action |ty g5 passengers. Baggage—maximum ;terialistic worries about the butcher, clal enterprise. fa algpat AL tial ad dohhireed 7m stem/of motors and a proper and constant|29 pounds. Avimals not conveyed.!the grocer and the rent. In due tim carer + main plane und mixture of the explosive agent at all] Trunks and effects forwarded by fast|the novel appeared, creating # littl The det of this ship are de aft stabilizing planes from & A-5- 1600 HR MOTORS B-i-2000 HA MOTOR Six Huge Motors of 10,000 Total Horse- and a Crew of 15 Incorporated in the Design for This Proposed ‘Ocean Liner’? Planned to Fly From New York to Lon- ! don, a Total Distance of 3,456 Miles Over the Selected Route, in 31 Hours. consumed from Tank M, the water nk % ig transferred to Tanks erve a state of longitudinal , to pre: } . forward water ballast tank; Z,|the article which As the fuel] posed trip. A 10,000 H. P. “Ocean Liner’’ of the Air WHEN TRANSATLANTIC FLYING ACCOMPLISHED FACT, AND PASSENGER SERVICE A REAL POSSIBILITY. WILL BE AN The proposed course will be fom! withstanding “Popper's millions Y Newfoundland, | mulated in the wholesale meat bus Where a landing will Be made to take] iness, was not #0 much sought as on the last needed supplies, then @lneor hyskier sisters by the rising au- & small beginning in the)serlbed in the December Electrical) propellers; D, stairways; FE, braces, when men looked on in| Experimenter, and are, to say thé|etfussing and stays; F, aerial for York City to f scorn and contempt, the|least, gigantic in their proportions | wireless apparata; G, ventilating sys- has steadily, and with 1 fantastic in thelr conception, tem; H, baggage compartment; I, dd bounds, pushed itself for- here will be a dining room, state|kitchenette, with muffler stove|straightaway for Ireland, where the ward as one of the greatest factors | rooms and other accommodations for} heated by exhaust from motors; J,| Anal landing will be made at Queens- of modern life and business, It has] the convenience of the passengers in|combined lounging and dining room, | town, steadily refused to be held within | the hull, which will be supported by|@lso used as main cabin and saloon;| The following is an extract fro: confined limits, but has leaped all| three planes with a 420-foot wing|K. describes the pro- boundaries and, passing a new]spread. It will be powered with six | Pear water ballast tank, Possibly it reads like an|when Cuthbert idle fancy, but if one looks back and] on the horizon, bringing with him two remembers the rapid development of| glorious the air machine he can well believe! away from Minneapolis and her great ‘steamship service to destination, You Read Them—The War Has White Striped Cover—Read On. Copyright, 1018, by ‘The Prose Publishing Co. (The Now York Evouing World HARMING feature of metropolitan social life is C the epidemic of er wavelets which are inun dating the works. No urban evening is com- plete unless some member of our leading families is leading a cop by three | Full dre the winter shirt and an axe, eap: ot a red under s for season consi LL over the works and suburbs our cotillon leaders are hiring taxicabs apd robbing banks, They hav rob the bank in order to pay the taxi driver. complete list of fashionable assemblage consult near- est police blotter Slelgh Riders’ Association will be held on the Newark mud flats to-morrow evening. There Will be more hop than midwinter, Tickets, one berry, Including bail and allbis, | ber dip just inside the Tombs last evening, Tho dipping wan very good, although the event Was marred when the host discovered the guest of NE annual midwinter hop of the Sixth Avenue HE Tuosday Dullshevik! Club held thetr Decem- New York Society Notes The Above Head May Not Suggest a Solution to the High Cost of Living, but the Paragraphs Below Have a More Pertinent Bear- ing on That Ever Popular Pastime, as You’ll Discover When Which May Explain Why the Underworld Is on Top Now—A New ‘‘Who’s Who’’ May Be Published Now in a Black and BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER > Turned the World Upside Down, honor trying to stretch an octave on the Warden's dollar watch, C leading the cotillon at the opening of the Jazz- bush National Bank last evening. This was a novel affair, invitations being engraved over skulls with lead pipes. ‘The favors consisted of bonbons load- ed with T. N, 1, and nitro-glycerine, The bank vault was kicked for a goal when a guost carelessly dropped 4 bonbon near the combination. The guests were driven away from the festive affair in the municipal Mmousine, ENTRAL OFFICE men accused Jack Zapp of HE Van Stupids and the Gazoop-Smiths have re- T newed their ancient feud, which at one time threatened to wreck the Bertillon system. It seems that Patricia Van Stupid originated the quaint custom of wearing Colonial mittens during {nformal afternoon assassinations, Patricia attended all of the most prominent society ballyhoos for years and never left a fingerprint for the bulls to work on, Gus Gazoop- Smith, the boob who pulled the famous faux-paus of ordering his Japanese Chauffeur to wait outside the Tombs for thirty days, met Patricia's grandfather working his alde of 42d Street and promptly kicked the old man for a row of adobe huts, The old bird hauled off and knocked Gus for a row of Bulgarian garages, Fortunately, Gus 18 an old college cellmate of Patricia's uncle, and thrives very well on municipal cooking, Both Gus and the old man whl take their alr filtered through two-inch {ron bars for the neat sixty evenings, | TUESDAY ‘Husbands Copyright W up his impressions of us by Since that time, that M. Clemenceau other. due almost entirely Wilson, and not at a (Sas me HOA GaeRLey Serre to in the New Republic What are our intelligenzia? why? The answer is easy—they elect Napoleon at his coronation took the scrown from the Pope and placed it jupon bis own head. If you will think of the names attached to our most ponderous magazine articles, written ‘apparently in photographic dark | [rooms where no fatal ray of light is ever permitted to penetrate, you will )be able to identify the self-anointed sovereigns of American public opin- jon, But even then you won't be able to reconstruct them from the text,| and at any rate you don’t know their wives, Meet, then, Mr. and Mrs, Cuth+ bert Dullfellow; she was a Miss Yearner, But, of course, you know of her great work for woman defectives [before that rising young sociologist met and married her while lecturing in Minneapolis on “The Constructive Attitude Toward Capital and Labor" (represented always as “Heavenly | Twins,” parted only by a little fam- lly tiff which model tenements and a few more factory windows must. cer- tainly settle), She was the eldest Miss Yearner, you know, and, not- tomobile manufacturers and reform | candidates for District Attorney who might have been regarded as the logi- cal aspirants for her hand, Miss Yearner was dangerously near thirty Dulifellow appeared possibilities: One, getting furore among the critics, for not portray truly the life thoughts of @ representative young man? Covering a period of twenty years In the man’s life, it contained perhaps ten pages altogether about his courtship, marriage, adjustment to marital conditions and the birth of DECEMBER 17, Phrase, it was quite true. | profoundly despite 1918 and Wives We Know By Nixola Greeley-Smith 1018, by ‘The Preae Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World) No. X.—THE INTELLECTUALS HIN Clemenceau, the Tiger of France, returned many years ago to his native land after a period of exile in New York, he summed saying: “America has no good coffee and no general ideas,” the coffee percolator, In Its own slow penetration from se@board to seaboard, has freed us from one, at least, of these aspersions And surely the fact and others lately found us so ready to die for quite the most general of general ideas, that of a universal democracy, must wash us clean of the Yet when M. Clemenceau spoke that memorable That it ie not true to-day ts to the genius of one man, Woodrow 1] to the self-conscious and lumbering performances of those arch comedians sometimes referred the American “Intelligenzia Who are they? Who elected them? And ed themselves. Pourquoi pas! his children—not one word about his emotional experiences prior to mar- riage, and perhaps 300 closely printed pages of his thoughts on capital and lubor, strikes, collective bargaining and the future industrial millennium, Persons who had road George Moore's “Confessions of a Young Man” and his later trilogy of masculine expert- ence were not prepared for what they could not help feeling to be dispro- portionate representation of a young man’s interests and thoughts. But, of course, they were wrong. At that time the greatest American autobiography. “The Education of Henry Adams," had not appeared, and no one had formulated com- pletely the fact that woman, as a power, does not exist in American life or American thought. They could not know therefore that Dull- fellow really did not think much about women any how. Cuthbert Dulifellow does not bother with fe- niale creatures of flesh and blood to- day since it ts #0 much easier to in- troduce at rare n intervals iu his novels of men the rubber stamp figure of our chronic and decidedly ssary anaemic heroine of fiction, Mra, Dull more pleased, for her to re psychological the expensively drar She fellow is the always easy these it is peniae in Ve patterns 1 silhouette of ay never had u 1 believe this the fact that sho & For, ay if Dullfellow not that be of his bad taste” are getting on in Whenever un of note—of urse, I mean of millions what could I “sociological luncheon,” tb to be among the guy has gtown a bit pontifi ber own soul. moment's jeal is constantly te she herself asks you, should wander, would merely an eviden: The Dullfeliows New York. else inean? Once universally kind in ments, because universally cautious, to-day he permits himself to depre- cate FB ort W. Chaimbers's “commer. t and Tarkington's “superficial ity."| He won't be able to writo @ well as either of these men w n he gets to heaven. But what does that matter? He Is learning how to be an intel- lectual, The recipe is simple Be dull. Be mediocre. Be assured Be sex! And learn to patroniae publicly every man and woman you suspect of being your better, U. S. Holds Record for ‘Dabo world in destroyers, built or| building. This information Rear Admiral Griffin gave the country to-day in his annual report, recording achievements of the past war year, T= United States Navy leads the | M: ‘1 of the report is technical, but} its substance is @ story of success in| big things, With about 275 do- stroyers building, Admiral Griffin nos this to nay of the destroyer standing “In ships built and bullding, the United States has now a larger force of destroyers than that of any other navy. “This Increase has not been grad- ual, but has been attained by giant} strides within a year, The diMculties encountered in such unprecedented progress have no parallel in warship construction anywhere at any time,” | When the last 150 destroyers were ordered, a 28-knot speed was contem- plated, but before contracts were let it was decided the speed should be 35 knots, This meant doubling the num- | ber of bollers and increasing the! amount of forgings, Makers of the| latter were far from keen to handle the work, but the tasks were under. | taken, even though an unprecedented amount of work already was under | Actual expenditures of the bureau for the fiscal year 1917 were estl- mated at 44! 003, whereas the fiscal year 1918 expenditures were $283,742,- 767, ‘This represented more than three-quarters of a million dollars ex- penditure per day, “Binoe the United Btates became a | belligerent, the magnitude of the en- | gincering work of the navy, both mechanical and electrical, hax boen— | not only in ite notual amount but in | the rapid dovelopment of facilities for | its execution—without a parallel, for the same period of time, in the his- tory of the world's Admiral Gritiin navies,” pays A birdseye view of the bureau's activities may be obtained from tho fact that the navy {s operating 570 t guard, regular navy vesse lighthouse and kindred ships, verted merchant craft, and 247 vea- sels for army and navy transporta, tion, There are under construction at navy yards 376 combatant and auxiliary v nd tugs. The navy has about 210 radio stations. Admiral Griffin reveals that 8 antl- submarine were developed during the war, and that radio, tele- graph and telephone apparatus for communication with airplanes have been remarkably developed. devices Touching on oil land development, the report makes this significant comment on the California reserve: “Development of the naval reserve land has progressed so rapidly in the past few years that unless legisla- tion is passed shortly the entire re- serve must be commandeered,” phd oc SOME SENTENCE, THIS, COUT MASTER GLEN LUKENS S last Friday evening took ten of his scouts out for @ bike. and al: being equipped with eats and blan- kets, they sought a shady nook along the Minnesota River in Renville County ,and after a few quict hours Spent exchanging ghost stories the bravos proceeded to lay them down to peaceful slumbera, but betweer Mosquitoea and spooky nolses,” with 4 capturing of a coon thrown tn, the morning aun found a bunch of sleep. Jenn, wearled boys whom It took two days and two nights to recover thelr composure, but they are going again phon, 80 never mind,—Jtedwood Fouls