Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1910 — MEN THAT GET ON. [ARTICLE]

MEN THAT GET ON.

Thoae Not Afraid, bat VOur Courage Malt Be Mixed with Bralim. “Some men,” said a business manager, according to the New York Sun, ‘are afraid of responsibility, some men welcome it; either sort of .man may be good and useful or bad and harmful, according to his special development. • “There are timid men who need somebody always to lean upon, but who under guidance are faithful and effective workers; and then there are men afraid of responsibility who are always irresolute and Ineffective, who never can be prodded into anything but the dullest of dull routine work and who must always stay down close to the ground, men of small account. “Then among men not afraid to take you find some who are too cocksure about it, ready to settle any question that comes up to them right off the bat, big or little, going ahead, jauntily, slapdash; not a good sort of man this to have at a responsible post. “Also you have the man not afraid who thrives on responsibility and enjoys the increase of power, but who is cool and clear-headed, a man of keen and true discernment who knows instinctively and logically what is the right thing to do and then fearlessly goes ahead and doe? it, a man of brains and courage. A rare combination thl3, and the man that possesses it gets far. “For courage is the manly attribute that men most admire; we’d all dearly love to be courageous, to dare; and the man of courage plus brains, the man not afraid to take the responsibility and who has also the downright ability to make good we cotton to, and him most of us are willing to follow and obey. He can have what he wants in this world, and if he should want it he can have the biggest pair of wings in the world to come. “If you expect to get anywhere don’t be 4 afraid to take the responsibility. But really to get on you want to mix your courage with brains."