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LV. N o . 20
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 373 Fourth Ave., New York, Nov. 16,1912
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M.OOPER SEAK.
"Down The Ringing Grooves Of Change'
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URING the past few years we have witnessed many changes in the business policies of the men of
this and of other countries.
We have seen some men hold fast to the old methods, believing that because they suc-
ceeded years ago they would hold good to-day, and we have seen other young and aggressive
men adopt what the unchangeable ones termed iconoclastic methods, and we have seen these progressive
men forge to the front and create great business organizations.
In this industry there have been many changes. Men who were comparatively unknown ten years
ago to-day occupy positions of great strength and power.
How have they accomplished this?
Surely they have not followed the beaten paths of old—they have blazed new trails and in the end
have developed new and vast enterprises.
There is a lesson in these material changes which should be learned by every aggressive man.
The shattering of political conditions and theories has gone on with the same rapidity. The man
who is down to-day may be up to-morrow.
The Jap, the little despised brown man of the Orient, met and rolled away the glacier-like advance of
the Great Russian bear.
The Boers shattered the notion that nothing could stop "the thin red line" of England's troops, and
now comes the destruction of the Terrible Turk.
Generation after generation of war correspondents have described the Turk as the greatest soldier
on earth. For five hundred years he has terrorized Europe, but now the Turk seems to have been easily
vanquished by a few sharp knocks from the Balkan allies.
The Bulgars the Turks a few years ago amused themselves by spitting upon, and the Serbs are the
people who for three centuries did not have the courage to get up a decent rebellion; but now they are
able to look the Turk straight in the eye and they see him run and the sight is vastly educational.
Another proof that because a nation has the reputation of being strong it is not invulnerable by any
means.
Sometimes men who are reputed to be absolutely invulnerable in the business world show great weak-
ness when placed in competition with advocates of the new school.
They are routed from supposedly impregnable positions as easily as the Turks have been defeated by
the very men whom they despised and spat upon a few years ago.
There is a lesson to be drawn from all of this and that is, that no man or business house can afford to
rest upon laurels won.
There must be every effort put forth to maintain and defend a position, for without alertness and
progressiveness business houses will crumble.
There is no halting on the vantage ground won. A great reputation for business accomplishment
may be lost through lack of progressive management.
Great enterprises of to-day are tossed into the business scrap heap of to-morrow simply because they
are out of date and useless.
Political parties which break faith with the people are crumpled up in defeat at election time. We
demand better service and will have it, better to-day than ever—and wise political leaders realize that.
The world never halts. The man who rests in fancied security should
recollect that rest is another name for rust. Then to the scrap heap.
"Forward! Forward! let us range
While the great world spins forever
Down the ringing grooves of change."