The evening world. Newspaper, August 21, 1919, Page 16

URSDAY, AUGUST 21, 191 ‘The Four Cornerstones ~~. of Success - ‘IV.—OPPORTUNITY. | Hunity Offers. Itself to Men in Proportion 4 to Their Ability, Their Will for Action, Their) — Power “of Vision, Their Experience and Their i. ‘Knowledge of Business.” By Joseph French Johnson oi i Deon of New York University School of Commerce, President of Alez- * ander Hamilton Institute, Author of “Business and the Man.” @oazip Two Striking Fall Styles. - FORETASTE OF FASRION’S DESIRE FOR UNUSUAL EFFECTS By Neal R. O'Hara Copyright, 1919, by TM Frese Publishing Co, (The New York Bvening World). ON'T know whether it's Cover charge comes next. You're D daylight aving, but taxed so much a head. And that something’s happened to puts you so much behind. Don't night life on Broadway. There's get anything for the cover plenty of night, but no life. Yes, charge except the bill. You're decreasing, that the good things of the earth have indeed—plenty of nights—365 of taxed for just being there, | Maciih Rida’ iglcceipnesd \y- Siheth: ands thet hews : . 7 stata ‘em a year. But the life ts only “We're here because’ we're comers from now on must be satisfied with scraps is fod nate a alam att eal ho et hocar dt hich Bere Be. Was \eenriegeed Delany ti NNN! Q after. the cover charge was discov- You can get a bite to eat on ered. Broadway, but you've gotta go You now order a stiff drink of to Kansas to get a bite to drink. ginger ale. Yup—ginger ale's Of course it’s a snakebite, but it caught up at last. Used to be a gets results. Results come .in chaser, now it's the whole thing pints and half-pints. Ain’t any itself. And when you get the snakes on BroadWay though. Or check “you find it's not only any guys that see ‘em. Nope— caught up—it's GONE up. »Soft a souse that wants to see snakes drink palaces get as mu¢h for s has gat to take a rattler co | round as Jess Willasd. But Kansas. P when the ginger ale's served. corn Laat ks clustka bea sabe. Lotta folks have -just discov- you can still make it a chaser, I ag Mrsriagn vate tes sitet dace eoilicd Ub tac: tae Goncee : i : \ ered Broadway is an orphan All you gotta do is swallow your aly hase tegen oad then war- | Of opportunity, like that of happi- H . 4 é 4 ‘ | child. And the guys with a disappointment and then gulp y Feealiat enclodden. On ac. | "ees Uea ia ourselves, ‘ thirst wish the child was in the ginger ale. it of the rapid changes takin, | Ne youth who wishes to become a London. But Broadway IS an "Bout time now for the show | Sudan’ bulk “esed. khavel’ tat: to orphan—hasn’t any last name. | to begin. Spotlight sizzles and Daited tates the great (make 4 start. For him the very Don't know whether it belongs | .eight non-union chorus girls in wealth, the consumer's ion hye sh ae _ pad eh gp Wh to the Street or Avenue family. come on in union suits.-Or may- * power, the broadening of ma: Hee fs ieee When Broadway was born, it be the suits are noiunion—you hei: train their hy to-day tn”wur- | Ot thelr pee ioe pays syed 004 just wandered from one end of | can't see the buttons, Girls sing opportunities much more 2 the city to the other—and it what they call jazz music. Call country store, by selling’ newspapers, tractive than any never got any farther. That's it jazz because it contains all OUNG men trying to get their start in business should have @ fairly ia? Clear idea of what opportunity means. They are too prone to think {7m that their chances of getting a good start depend upon “pull” or luck. ‘The notion that business opportunities are relatively ment that corporations kill opportunity, On the oon- trary, they create opportunities. Many of the success- ful business men of to-day who have great executive) ability and-have ‘accumulated fortunes were lifted from ) obscurity by the needs of corporations. If the necedsary statistics were collected by the Cen- ‘pus Bureau, I have no doubt we should discover that a | majority of our successful business began life 8 Door boys and worked up to the top, not in of corporationg but because of the op- he “portunities opened up to their abilities by the ‘GArporate form of business control, | Sega Scop BREE by taking subscriptions to magazines, formulate a law |Y Sting as agente for mayufac. | i s, follows; Opportun!- in proportion i will for action, rs of farm implements, After & youth-has discovered opportunity near at home and has profited by it,’ any right to complain of opportunity. On the are the business conditions with profit, an the other side in able to call the prbf just received a letter from “h-young engineer in 4 Western Stuts @ man’s next opportunity lies not far from him. . A man must not expect to find op- portunity @f any kind if be has not the,will for doing and for savrifice. Hack of his will must be intense deyire, not just a milk-and-water wish or longing, The desire must be “$9 consuming that |t impels him to act and do anything and. every- thing that can posslbly help him to conquer, ‘The man who waits for an oppor- to Now York. 1 tumty or a job to tura up, who leans it he had better and seek a con- has friends and is) heavily on his frionds expecting‘them to find an opportunity, who dog, not use every moment of his time and familiar human woak- jevery ounce of his enérgy.and ability ourselves as pot be- right place, We are seeking what he wants, lacks (he will for doing. Kven if bib friends get him then he will be/ft for lurgér oppor- { tunities in other places, but as a rule ;- Evening gown of iri- escent sequins and S Oates So Fce] Paris has indorsed the why it’s an orphan. And it used to be the Great White Way. Until they pyt a white ribbon on it. When they Pinned \on the white ribbon, it was good night for Broadway. That was June 30, And they haven't had a good night since. You can still see SIGNS of life, but they read like this: “Cabaret closed” and “This loon will open as a soda foun- tain.” A few cabarets are still open. Some of em are open to sus- picion, but so long as the bar- keeps ain't open to conviction, the grog sleuths let ‘em alone. Cabarets charge for every- thing now. Walk in and the hat girls charge for your hat. Also charge for it when you walk out. Not only polite to tip your hat to the girl—you've got- ta tip the girl for your hat. You start for a table and the. head kinds of music trom A to Z. ‘All we know is, jazz is tough on the drums—snare and ear, And that it pleases all kinds of drummers —whether they play with, or peddle in the sticks. But if they have- jazz in heaven, we don't wanna play « harp. Wild night on Broadway is now about over. Final course is the check. Everything’s added up and multiplied by the wait- er’s number. Total Mboks like the score by innings, with runs, hits and errors. Except that no errors are rectified. Cabaret check now affects patrons the ‘way cabaret sec used to—makes "em otagger. So you stagger out on Broad- way and start for home, It's hard to walk when you're stag- gering, but you can't ride— waiter got your last dollar, So you bump along and go to your home, suite home in a Broadway Hes in, some distant place, ' portunity for which he. is, fitted, he if we Could only get thera | does not throw himself heartily: into NOT A BOLSHEVIST— his work. Tho waiting or Micawber | quatity gives, great. comfort to a lasy a MERELY. A MONKEY soul, but opportunity never shows it , her face. A young mun in quest of ‘his Aret Groen] cape, and it. will ve ccc] prominent in the fall fashions, This frock bead fringe. ‘The heavily embroid- ered storks of many. epee waiter holds you up. Usually hotel. . for five dollars. If you don't And that’s night life as she is come through, he holds you up did on Broadway. Best informa- for an hour and a half. Might tion is that the other guys now Job or of @ better one than he now holds must realize that he himaelf nust “rich colors shown on is sand taffeta with as well pay. You are now seated at a table. active after dark on Broadway are the robbers in the cabarets. the front of the skirt and train were for- merly on a wonderful Chinese robe. black satin stripes and the cape is of black satin lined with sand georgette. wo after it, and go after Jt. hacd, | Business is a gamo, and men must Rot expect to fill poditior.s for which they have not proved tueir fitness. ‘The more a man has learned about business, through study and experi- gnee, the keener his insight is into opportunity and the more likely he TWO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM| * By Herman J. Stich : te > 4 ‘Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Bvening World). js to avail himself of ‘an opportunity ‘ \ Too Busy. successfully. ‘ : : 1, & . + EE culturists will tell you being overworked, his churlish- Pie big Mey Bey tite p bran ‘ot fi ¥ 5 B that a red clover blossom ness, mumps, dumps and dol- you analyse carefully the career of drums, makes us cry out for the the man who seems to have been born eighth of a grain of sweetness natural species when the human Tucky you will @nd that he'hias earned — and that the bee must*gather | variety ts about! he took’ every, precaution te ausea|4tOoW New York Feeds 2,000,000 Lights in an Afternoon Thunderstorm) 270%, 04, sine ver | pody exeont the person whe te fifty-six clover heads to make body except the person who ts against evil chances, OW the world’s largest city meets the lighting emergency when an _| be provided over the normal daily business load, A wireless storm an- one pound of honey. There are naturally continually out of Has the man of middie age alre afternoon thunderstorm, plunges New York into darkness is nouncgr gives first warning when the storm ts two hours distant. A thas peerage Ni geste ltl exhausted opportunity? fetta’ graphically shown in the pictures here reprinted by permission gong rings at frequent intervals as the storm approaches, Banked fires sixty blossoms to each clover bi ie , D nee I Gepends on the man. Bom ©} from the September Electrical Experimenter. Two million electric are co up, gigantic reserve generators are started, next the auxil- head, and into each blossom the jeaf to sense and reason, sulky, <i “saead ah Sakoces - a ater Mghts may be turned on practically at once, Anti within one hour's jaried, then, as the storm hits the city, extra feeders are called into bee must insert its proboscis cankered, sour and surly! Early five an ¥i} time before that moment an increase of nearly 200,000 horse power must lay and presto,"the clty is fully Hghted. " in hig crusty career he shoul their minds are on the future, not the AN ? Las) p y separately. In order to accumu: ip y should contains less than one- OVING picture directors often have made monkey® out of movie actors, but there's only movie actor they've made out of the face that looks out at us above picture, we consider that past; they take no pride in what they have accomplished, but are ti Jor more work and bigger tas still have vision and ambition, men of this sort, if they have guarded their health, opportunity offers ite biggest prizes. Can a man prepare himself for op- portunity? Can « man of average in- tellectual ability hope ever to fit him- self for large opportunities? Both these questions can be answered pos- itively in the affirmative. There is practically mo limit to what a man “Joo has one advantage over oil 4 accomplish in business if he only NOYSTEM OPERATOR late one pound of honey the bee must perform this operation sixty times fifty-six thousand, or three million, three hundred and sixty thousand times. And for this prodigious expenditure of labor and energy the bee re- ceives no reward, not even bed and board! 2 And yet there are a lot of men whose names ought to be manni- kin who earn all of life's com- forts and many of its luxuries have been chained in an fmpreg- nable little cage with a few other lobsters and crawlers for company! We wouldn't mind the hard work kicker so much if he him- self was the only one to suffer from his perversity, But his crossgrain often creates an at-/ mosphere which tempts us to attempt to demolish ‘some of his spots of irascibility. But it's a hopeless, thankless job—he re- mains what he is—a she wanton lump of “cussednés The normal, héMthy, ambi- tious man has no time to kick against being overworked, He's too busy making honey! whose perpetual grievance is of the screen. He'll never have Wil Here are the things he must) that they are overworked! They ite eleven secretaries to read and 4: Work, study, read, think, observe i ‘over bis mash notes, or epend ~8"d then more work. nurse a grouch, they're a walk- pAi.50 every week for postage to mali Brains are tremendously important . { f _ ing arsenal of cynicism, pessim- ik adtographed photos to smitten tn business, Yet an ordinary brain 4 \ f ism, and irritation; a w r Should they ever produce a dominated by the highest type of 0 j 4 flock of mosquitoes would with- eailed **The Broken Chain,” we character may win first prizes. out a qualm yield the palm to 406 jn the part of tlie Therefore, let the man who wishes to INSPECTING DYMAMOS | BERING SUA ay oe, one of” these, cantankerous, RING RUXI GEW, link, and we have met ex- prepare for opportunity put his TURBINES: STORAGE oe STATION IS A SCENE * spleenish, grouty grouchers! » Ald im the parlor Bolshevist brains into harness and, if necessary, BATTERIES ETC. IN OF GREAT ACTIVITY Crabs are pesky reptiles, but WRAL I0R OWA englly “double rebulld his character, ‘This any man po ph Sayed THE LOAD RISING 100 “ il pgencios arlsing shuts con: an do. Hence opportunity te poten: ERN POWERHOUSES | BANKED BoUees ON ADVANCE OF THE E RISING } the crabbedness of the critter | par, uae oeclded In firor of leo. ‘DURE OW ORDE) THE PULOT BOARD . Matty srithin the Feagh of all. ae OPERATOR. R . e - - who's forever complaining about trolley ‘ay di } a tn TROLLEYS FOR EDINBURGH, we ‘The city of Edinburgh haying taken © over all its street railways, now opar- ated by cables, a committee of ex~ perts has decided in favor of eleo- THUNDER STORM GETTING UP STEAM WIRELESS SIGNAL FOR THE POSSIBLE USED IN ALL MOD- EMERGENCY INTHE A SWITCH AND OBTAIN THE DESIRED LIGHT — ‘ ‘ f RA Re ee i