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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
FACING THE TO-MORROW.
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if they would, easily trace the matter back to conditions of discord existing all about them.
Go in some business establishments and you feel instinctively a lack of harmony. It is the
force in the air. You know that discord exists there and that the business is not successful.
The man who lives in an environment of discord, whether it be at home or in business,
is seldom able to cast the burden of irritation from him. It is always with him, and this spirit of
discord he invariably imparts to all with whom he comes in contact.
If efficient work is to be done, if To-morrow is to be fruitful, harmony must prevail, and this is
just as true of business as of the social world.
Let an employer be peevish or irritable, or inclined to be fault-finding and he will disrupt his
force of employes as nothing else in the world could do. Such sentiments, whether expressed or not,
are contagious.
If you are at all sensitive to existing conditions you can sense the discordant character of your
environment the minute you are brought in contact with it.
If you wish to develop your strength—if you desire to accomplish success in business and
happiness in life and are anxious to foster the finer feelings, you must endeavor to create around
yourself this kind of atmosphere. You cannot depend upon others to do it. It must be done by
yourself, and in all places, in the office, and in warerooms where you meet other persons.
And, as we are facing To-morrow—the New Year—why is it not w r ell to bear those thoughts in
mind?
Are we each and all doing our part to make the most out of our present environment? With
harmony comes a keener liking for business, because it gives back more. In other words, it returns
the kind of treatment which it receives. If good it will return in kind. If bad, the results are in like
proportion.
And so it goes in almost everything else in this old world of ours! We get back usually fair returns
for our investment, either in courtesy, friendship or appreciation. If
we are short on any of the essentials, the returns to us are abbreviated in
just the same manner.
"Our deeds still travel with us from afar,
And what we have been makes us what we are."
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