to all mankind, "We did not set this Government up in order that we might have a selfish and separate liberty, for we are now ready to come to your assistance and fight out upon the fields of the world the cause of human liberty." In this thing America attains her full dignity and the full fruition of her great purpose.

OUR DEBT OF HONOR TO FRANCE

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

[The following is a part of a letter from Mr. Roosevelt, dated April 17, 1917, to Mrs. Story, president-general of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The letter was an appeal to this patriotic society to give its support to the American Society for the Relief of French War Orphans. The appeal met with instant and enthusiastic response.]

You and your associates are the direct descendants of the men who fought our Revolutionary War. Side by side with these men stood the soldiers of France under Lafayette, Rochambeau and their fellows. It was this aid of French soldiers, combined with loans of French ships and gifts of French money, which made possible the success of our struggle for independence. The service which France thus rendered to us was declared by Washington, on the morning after the victory at Yorktown, to call for "unalterable gratitude." This service was of such vital character as to constitute a debt of honor which every American should regard as a sacred obligation, to be repaid whenever the opportunity arises.

That opportunity has come now, under such circumstances that in paying our debt to France we also render the greatest possible service to humanity as a whole. France is fighting to-day for her very existence as a nation.

she is fighting our battles as well as her own.

More than that,

She is fighting

for American ideals, for democracy and civilization, and for the reign of justice among the nations of mankind.

SERVICE LEADS TO SUCCESS

FRANK A. VANDERLIP

[From the New York Sun, January 28, 1917.]

YOUNG men, you are under no handicaps because of the time in which your career is placed. I believe I can give you the most unqualified assurance of that. I see the situation from the point of view of membership in executive committees of important corporations, and if I know anything at all of business and industrial corporations I believe that there has never been a more insistent call for well-trained, energetic men of character, ability and initiative, and that the world has never been ready to pay greater rewards or offer so many prizes for especial distinction as is the case to-day.

I speak from a considerable experience in the search of men of exceptional qualifications to fill places of great importance, and there is no fact clearer to me than the fact that our industrial and business life to-day is rich beyond anything that has gone before in opportunity for men with ability, industry, imagination, and character.

There is a theory entertained by many that we have reached a time when work should be less urgent than in other days, when men should have more leisure, that their hours of labor should be shorter and periods of recreation longer. If you hope to gain one of the prizes of life, do not adopt that theory for your individual guidance and practice. It may be true for the man whose day's work is solely made up of an expenditure of physical effort; there never was a time when it was less true of the man who hopes to make an intellectual success of life. I have often said to young men who have asked advice about their work that if they hoped for a large measure of success they must make up their minds to do two full days' work each day.

Now, just one more thought in regard to those qualities which

make for material success. To forget yourself is more important than to remember any single thing you have ever learned in your lifetime. Do not worry about your personal relation to a piece of work, but give the deepest attention and consideration to the execution of that piece of work. Never mind whether you have what you regard as your full share of it; never mind whether you are getting what you feel to be your full measure of credit; have the single purpose of getting the work done, of seeing that every proper means is employed to do the work better than it has been done before, and forget yourself, the credit you will receive, the relation you personally occupy toward the work, and if you will do that I give you my word you will have accomplished for yourself the greatest good.

You will not be unwatched. Men will have an eye to your capacities and characteristics, their observation will be far greater than you guess, and when that overseeing eye finds the man who is interested in the job more than in himself, that man will be marked for promotion and for larger things.

Make up your mind to serve. It is service that receives reward; it is by service, forgetful of self-interest, service for the sake of accomplishment, that you will gain the greatest material rewards. It is by service to society, by recognition of rights more sacred than any that are personal to yourself, that you will gain an attitude toward life rich in permanent satisfactions.

It is by intelligent service, free from self-interest, in the political activity of your time that you will justify the great gift of citizenship which has been bestowed upon you.

OPPORTUNITY IS PLENTIFUL IN AMERICA

CHARLES M. SCHWAB

[From Succeeding with What You Have; Century Co., copyright, 1917.]

For thirty-six years I have been moving among working men in what is now the biggest branch of American industry, the steel business. In that time it has been my good fortune to

watch most of the present leaders rise from the ranks. These men, I am convinced, are not natural prodigies. They won out by using normal brains to think beyond their manifest daily duty.

American industry is spilling over with men who started life even with the leaders, with brains just as big, with hands quite as capable. And yet one man emerges from the mass, rises sheer above his fellows; and the rest remain.

The men who miss success have two general alibis: “I'm not a genius" is one; the other, "There aren't the opportunities to-day there used to be."

Neither excuse holds. The first is beside the point; the second is altogether wrong.

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The thing that most people call "genius" I do not believe That is, I am sure that few successful men are so-called "natural geniuses."

There is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works to-day who did not begin at the bottom and work his way up, round by round, simply by using his head and his hands a little more freely and a little more effectively than the men beside him. The fifteen men in direct charge of the plants were selected not because of some startling stroke of genius but because, day in and day out, they were doing little unusual things -thinking beyond their jobs.

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Most talk about super-geniuses" is nonsense. I have found that when "stars" drop out, their departments seldom suffer. And their successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.

The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration here.

I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.

I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not. Misfortune has many cloaks. Much more serious than physical injury is the slow, relentless blight that brings standstill, lack of advancement, final failure.

Captains of industry are not hunting money. America is heavy with it. They are seeking brains - specialized brains — and faithful, loyal service. Brains are needed to carry out the plans of those who furnish the capital.

The man who attracts attention is the man who is thinking all the time, and expressing himself in little ways. It is not the man who tries to dazzle his employer by doing the theatrical, the spectacular.

If a young man entering industry were to ask me for advice, I would say: "Don't be afraid of imperilling your health by giving a few extra hours to the company that pays your salary! Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls! Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves."

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Nothing is so plentiful in America as opportunity. are more jobs for forceful men than there are forceful men to fill them. Whenever the question comes up of buying new works we never consider whether we can make the works pay. That is a foregone conclusion if we can get the right man to manage them.

All successful employers of labor are stalking men who do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them. These men have no difficulty in making their worth felt. They stand out above their fellows until their superiors cannot fail to see them.