STRAIGHT TALK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 15 April 1907, Page 4

STRAIGHT TALK.

HOW TO ATTAIN SUCCESS AND AVOID KAIUUIE. THE MAIN LINK STATIONS KOil SUCCESS. SIDINGS TO BE AVOIDED.

I Mr IVti-r Kcary is tho recognised IcJminpion hilkor" to the young nuiii of to-vlay. hi dia'el, l'orccful words, he [io'ius out to tliom, plain and jdciinilc. tin- roail io the shining country iof success—the road that runs from tile niaiu station called "Ol On or (Jet Out'' I past the stations of "Are Von a Lol>-f-ierf "Don't (Jet Swelled Head, - ' "Don't Niop Over/' and "Making Things limn,'' Mr Kearv knows what things are wrong in the imik<Mip of to-day's young men, ami he talks to them without mincing ma Iter*, using good com-mon-sense argument, for the purpose. When they ask the successful young man of to-morrow the reason of his success. he will s;;y, "Oil, IheiV wis a fellow called Keary wrole Ulis and ihat. nnil It hit me hard, I can tell von—so I just lmekh'd to. ami -larlcd in on workgood aud strong. I took t!»*• t'oad lie showed, and I won out all right." The following extracts are some of Jie suecess-hti'dords from "Mr Keary's latest hook, "(Jet On or (Jet Out.'' a shillingsworth of which every father should Imy, and every young man read.

A MOTTO WHICH 00-UI'jTHIN'd. The man vlio w only earning liis wages, and not perhaps doing that unless lie is watched and forced into il, gets tired out sooner or later, and deserves it.

The fault of many of the young men who lose, situations in this way is that if they ure not born tired they acquire the habit, lliey not only slow up, but they stand still. They will not put a barbed wire fence round the situations they hold. (HOT OX OR GET OCT. Don't, be afraid of that phrase. It's the whole of the ten Commandments of nusincss rolled into live small words. Happiness will follow its line march. (jet oil or get out. Be the ph'lfisopher ami the conqueror of work and industry.

TALENT KIfiVKR: TACT (IOLDEJv Talent is never so good a thing to have as tact. Try to cultivate tact and observation and counnonsense.

You have, hoard of a handy man. Try to have a handy mind. Think insiM yourself. Thitfk as von think other people are thinking, or ought to think. ITliink thai very few really do think. Think that the great mass of people don't think except on goose lines. Think of the quack-quack line of of 'thought and talk in other people, and anticipate and circumvent hoth. When you see the other clerks in your oflice waddling along, and most people around you waddling along, have a look into their mental range of vision. WHEN NOT TO TALK. Your tongue is the lag that tells 'the viiiue of your miml. If you can't talk loftily, if yon cannot talk intelligently, if you cannot talk profitably, then keep your month shut. la'[ the people talk wisdom and folly, you try to lieeil the good and the had in both. LOBSTKLiN LICKT IX THE H'ftCll. A lobster, when left high and dry on the sand or amongst the rocks, has not sulllcient instinct or sense of energy to work his way back to the. sea, hut waits for the sea to come hack for him. If the sea tloes not come hack he remains where lie is and dies, or gets caught and killed, although just a little ell'ort would enable him to reach, 'the waves, which are perhaps tossing and tumbling within a yard or so of him. ARE YOU A LOBSTER? The world is full of human lobsters. Full of men stranded 011 the rocks of human business. Full of mjn who haven't the sense or energy to try and get some sense or energy. Full of men who are waiting for something or somebody to do something for them, instead of doing it for themselves. In America —the land of slang and vulgar wisdom —they say of a man wiio is no good. "He's a lobster." That i/I out. the worst label a mail can have. It's his finish. It's his epitaph.

Look over tile li-t of the names of men wlio have been successful during the last; fifty years. They have not for the greater part been sons of rich men. They have been men .just such as yon. The greater part of them have been men with an iron will, who have started at the hot loin of the ladder, who have developed their moral strength and character in exactly the same way in which an athlete develops every muscle of his body—by constant exercise and training. (JUT A MOVE Oj\ t YOU. yianv thousands of young men b< in situations at this moment 'that fret their -souls and retard the inclinations and ambitions in them. To each of these I say, "Get out of it!'' If you don't get out, sooner or later such a post is going to put, you out. It's no use sitting still and whining. Why should any man come to von and say: "Here is a different, occupation for you at double the salary you are getting?'' Tt is your business to go to the man who has these things to give away and say you want them and prove that you deserve tliem. You won't get them any other way, and tile sooner you learn that tile hotter for you. ' LOOK GLAD TO BE ALIVE. There is somebody somewhere wlio wants a man something like you. You've got to find him. But don't go looking for him with a black hand around your hat, and a wet pocket-handkerchief in your hand. (lo out looking for him with a clear, glad eye. The besetting sin of many young men is that, thev expect- success too 'early, and get despondent and slack in the looking for it. They begin as hoys with boys' ideas. They become men whilst, 'they are thinking ami acting as hoys.

Ami then the boyish man, if he ha* had sense enough to go on. suddenly filial* somethfmg iu him—h;» ''j^econfT wind"—which make.s liim a mannish ho v.

That is the time when hope ami lin.nl work can ho realised at their full value. FKNCK VOl'lt ,1015 WEU, IN. In business you want to keep on giving as much attention to yourself all day long as you give to vour low] house, and your postage stamp collection, and your picture postcards in the evening.

Too many young men in this country are working for what they think to be a sure weekly salary. Too many young men have a sore thumb at. tile aflieo, and a hand that doesn't hurt at home.

Your situation at tln» ]>i'os<'iil inmnenl Ls iMsicr 1o ltisc than a tlnvo-pi-nny l»il iii the pnekol Unit lias a hnlr in it. Oueo you ;;ot it filiation vou ,want to put a liarbed-wiro fence around jit. i As a rulo you get slack ami j(. :Don't do that. It's tomfoolislmoss.