Dollars and Sense

When you cut a melon, your friends will come with eager mouths and sit under your shade tree and help you eat it. Few of these friends would respond to your call for help when you were working in the hot sun raising that melon. Many people accept the dividends and benefits of friendship but give you a cold shoulder when called upon for assessments of friendship. The world is full of young men whose objective is snaps. They are looking all the time for what they can get and not what they can give. To forge ahead, you must give value received. You can't draw out all the time. The employe must do what he is paid to do and "then some," for it is this "then some" or plus that gets your salary raised. The employer and employe must realize that each must make profit. It is because there are so many ingrates and so many four flushers that so few succeed. This book will be welcomed by those who are square, ambitious and patient. It is not theory. It is not preaching. These chapters will be old friends to you, and you may read a few minutes or a few hours. You may read and re-read as often as you wish, for you will always find some new truth impressed on you every time you read. Keep this book, carry it with you, and you will be benefitted. Worry and fear will fade and peace and courage will grow within you the more you study these pages. The writer has "been at it" for 32 years. He has had successes, failures, joys, sorrows, and experienced the passions, the problems, the difficulties you have experienced. Since the age of ten years he has been upon his own resources and the 32 years since then have been years of study, working and playing, all blended into a happy life. The jolts, set backs, sorrows, worries, fears and discouragements are the things which made him strong. They were experiences. Smooth sailing doesn't bring out the stuff one is made of. It takes shadows to make sunlight appreciated. It takes reverses to make success. It takes hard knocks to polish you. This is a book of experiences, not one of theories. There is no attempt to make this a literary effort. All the writer hopes for or cares to do is…