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HOW TO GET ON
A Business Series of Practical
Inspiration
m.
BEST METHODS
by Thomas J. Barratt
Managing Director for 50 Years of Pears'
Soap and Chairman of the Company
I T is a mistake to think
that good qualities
alone will enable a
man to prosper.
Thoreau, long ago,
dreamer though he was,
saw through the insufficiency
of this gospel of
goodness as an equipment
for success in a world of
struggle and practicality.
"Be not merely good," he
said, "be good for something."
To maintain this is
in no sense to deprecate
goodness or any of its component
elements; but over
and above the cardinal virtues—if
ever any man was
saint enough to possess
them all—for success there
must be present in a man's
nature a forcefulncss of
character, a capacity
forging ahead, and a
persistency of pur­
for
pose that can surmount
obstacles and
make rough places
smooth in his arduous
course toward h i s
.ssc
The Shirker's Motto: "Labor as Little as
Possible .
HEALTH AND BRAINS
These two essentials
come by nature, but many
a fragile frame has been
safeguarded and tended to
a condition of strength by
good sense and care-—the
strenuous Roosevelt, for
instance; while in regard
to brain it does not cease
to grow until senility sets
in. Physical health and
mental power are so
closely allied that only in
abnormal cases are they
dissociated. But, with
Juvenal's oft-quoted
"mens sana in corpore
sano" realized, or as
near as may be, the
process of successequipment
can go merrily
forward, for, as
has been well said, "If
a healthy body con-
^ tributes to the
health of the
mind, so also a
. healthy mind
keeps the body
w e 11." Both
body and mind