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THE SEMI MONTHLY MAGAZINE SECTION
A Magazine for your Reading Table
The Exceptional Employee
Orison Swett Marden
"M"X. CABNEGIE says: "The most
• LVJ ' valuable acquisition to liis business
that an employer can obtain is an ex
ceptional young man. There is no bar
gain so fruitful."
By the exceptional young man Mr.
Cardegie means the one who is always
looking out for bis employer's inter
ests, the young man who keeps bis eyes
open, who is always trying to make sug
gestions for improvements in the busi
ness, who is always studying for some
better, simpler, more efficient way of
doing things.
Never before was there such a de
mand for the exceptional, the resource
ful man, the man who can think, who
can devise new and original ways of
doing things, the man who can grasp
the needs of the situation and solve
them with his own resourcefulness.
Napoleon said that his soldiers
fought so well because every man car
ried a field marshal's baton in his knap
sack. In other words, every man in
Napoleon's army expected advance
ment and icas prepared fur it.
The principle of advancement, of
growth, of progress, is the same whether
in employer or employee. Business
grows because of enterprising, pro
gressive, pushing, Up-to-date methods.
Promotion for the employee requires
the same pushing, vigorous, alert
methods.
If you want to be advanced, you must
be dead-in-earnest and enthusiastic
over your employer's business. You
must go to the bottom of it; study it,
get a comprehensive view of it; know
just as much about it as possible. If
you intend to take up the same line of
business yourself, your present oppor
tunity of observation and study will be
of untold value to you. At present, you
are really an apprentice, being well
paid for your work, besides having the
opportunity to learn the business.
Enterprise Pays
WHEN your employer finds that you
have a lot of enterprise, that you
are trying to learn as much about his
business as he knows himself, he will
begin to think that you are made of
promotion material. But if he sees that
your ambition is just to get your sal
ary and have as easy a time as you
can, you will never attract his atten
tion, except for a possible blacklist.
An employer wants no dead-wood
around him. He wants live wires. He
wants employees who have ambition
enough to be willing to pay the price
for promotion.
The first thing the successful em
ployee must realize is that he is really
working for himself. Every bit ol'
work he does heartily, honestly, thor
oughly, is developing his own capacity.
making him a bigger, broader, more
capable man. If be robs his employer
CONTENTS
COVER DESIGN-"BOY WANTED!" . . CHARLES A MACLELLAN
Pag-c
EDITORIALS—THE EXCEPTIONAL EMPLOYEE . . • •
ORISON SWETT MARDEN 2
ROUGH ROADS AND ROUGH RIDING TO THE WHITE HOUSE . .
CHAMP CLARK 4
Illustrations bp G. W. Harting
THE QUEST OF BETSINDA-SUE HANNA RION 6
Illustrations bp Frank V'er Beck
NOVEMBER JOE: WOODSMAN DETECTIVE . HESKETH PRICHARD 8
THE CASE OF MISS VIRGINIA PLANK
Illustrations bp Percy E. Cowen
WOMEN WHO COUNT .... 9
Illustrations from Photographs
HOW CANADA DOES IT ELLIOTT FLOWER 13
Illustrations from Photographs
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of time or energy, be is robbing him
self more, because be is practising dis
honesty, and cultivating a weakness
that will slowly undermine his charac
ter and destroy his reputation tor trust
worthiness.
The men who have done great things
in the world have been prodigious work
ers, particularly during the time when
they were struggling to establish them
selves in life.
Young men who are sticklers for
hours, who are afraid of working over
time, who want to leave the office on
the minute or a little before, who are
always a little late in the morning;, or
who take their employer's time for their
own personal uses — such employees
never get very far.
Leaders in the Making
IF YOU want to be something more
■ than tlie average worker, you musi Aa
something more than average work, tt
you expect to become an important
figure in tlie world of Commerce, a cap
tain of industry, instead of a common
soldier in the ranks of tabor, you must
put your shoulder to the wheel and
push, and push hard.
It is astonishing how many young
men are trying to get a living without
hard work. Jt does not seem possible
that so many people could live off one
another without really producing any
thing themselves. Everywhere we see
young men looking for easy places,
short hours, and the least possible work
for the greatest possible salary.
Even if it were possible to get a liv
ing with a very little effort, you could
not afford it. You could not afford to
coin your brain into dollars, to make
dollar-chasing the ambition of your life.
There ought to be something larger in
you than that. There is something in
you that will not be satisfied with this
sort of a life, something that will pro
test against selling yourself so cheaply.
You can not respect yourself unless
you are doing your best, making your
greatest effort to bring out the best
thing in you.
The Next Issue
(The next issue will cuntain the first
instalment of a two-part article, en
titled "The Drama of My Life," by
Ivan Sarodny. Mr. Narodny was one
of the leaders of the last revolution
ary movement in Ilussia. He was feijM
for four years in solitary confinement
in one of the terrible fortress-prisons
of St. Petersburg, and hie vivid ac
count of his experiences is one of the
most remarkable human documents
ever offered to the readers of a pop
ular magazine. The fiction features will
include "Mcd Blood," by William
Marcus MaiMahon.)
