To Make Headway, Improve Your Head.

If The World War [i] Demonstrated Anything It Was That Government Ownership Is Fraught With The Gravest Dangers And Usually Leads To Disaster. Take Britain. The Two Problems Which Have Caused The Greatest Trouble Since The War Ended Have Been Transportation And Coal. The Government Seized Both Industries When The War Broke Out. It Got Them Into Such A Hopeless Mess That It Does Not Know How To Turn [in] Coal; The Government Now Realizes, It Took Hold Of The Tail Of A Wild Animal And Is Afraid To Let Go.

Talking Things Over Has Its Place In An Organization [but] So-called Conferences Are Being Grossly Overdone. One Executive Stops At The Desk Of Another To Tell Him, Perhaps, About The Wonderful Score He Made At Golf On Saturday Afternoon. This Chin-chin Immediately Becomes A Conference, And Neither The Office Boy Nor The Telephone Operator Must Disturb Either Gentleman. More Idle Gossip Is Indulged In At Many Business Conferences These Days Than An Old Wives' Sewing Circle Would Be Guilty Of.

The Human Being Who Lives Only For Himself Finally Reaps Nothing But Unhappiness. Selfishness Corrodes. Unselfishness Ennobles, Satisfies.

How You Start Is Important, But It Is How You Finish That Counts. In The Race For Success, Speed Is Less Important Than Stamina. The Sticker Outlasts The Sprinter.

I Resolve For 1920 To Sit Down All By Myself And Take A Personal Stock-taking Once A Month. To Be No More Charitable In Viewing My Own Faults Than I Am An Viewing The Faults Of Others. To Face The Facts Candidly And Courageously. To Address Myself Carefully, Prayerfully, To Remedying Defects.