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VOL. LVII. N o . 3 Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman BUI at 373 Fourth Ave., New York, July 19,1913
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Harmony a Vital Necessity.
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ANY a business house with good possibilities ahead and exceptionally good men in charge
directing its destinies has come to ruin through lack of one vital principle—harmony.
No group of men can be eternally warring between themselves and expect to success-
fully cope with progressive and virile competition. Plain, common sense argument is
always conducive to good results, but jealousy and petty bickering result in nothing else but defeat.
There is nothing more conducive to the development of business health and strength than har-
mony between the directing forces, and there is nothing that makes for the development of health
and strength in the individual in a greater degree than harmony.
There is nothing more destructive to business plans than discord, and there is nothing more
destructive to physical health and strength than discord.
No matter what it is that you want to do, conditions must be harmonious—that is, if you are
to perform your best work. To be in a discordant environment is to minimize the good effects of
everything which you undertake. If men sit" down and spend the best part of their day in bicker-
ing and discord they fall far short of accomplishment.
A great many people who wonder why they derive so little benefit from their work could, if
they would, trace the matter back to the conditions of discord existing all about them.
Not improbably sometimes it begins at home, where members of the household have become
victims of the haggling habit, and who would rather spend their evenings in criticising other people
than in devoting it to educational conversation.
The man who lives in a discordant environment is rarely if ever able to cast the burden of
irritation entirely from him after he has closed the door of his house behind him. As a result, he
takes this spirit of discord into the wareroom, factory or office, where, without knowing it, he imparts
it to all with whom he comes in contact.
Go into an office or factory in the morning, and when the proprietor enters and passes a cheery
good morning to everyone, he immediately throws good nature, spirit, life—a glimpse of happiness
if you will—into the morning's work; but if he comes in with a well-defined grouch on, it is reflected
in the feeling of everyone about him. He imparts this unconsciously to others, and they absorb it
unconsciously.
If good work is to be done harmony must prevail, and that is just as true in the business as in
the social world or domestic circle.
Let an emplo3 r er be peevish or irritable, or .inclined to fault-finding, and sooner or later he will
disrupt his entire force of employes. There is no doubt of this, for 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 touch with it.
Have you ever entered a house and instantly guessed that a*quarrel had been under way before
your arrival? It was not the attitude of the people in the house that told you the story—it was
not the expression on their faces, for they had taken pains to guard against the discovery of their
trouble, but the air was charged with irritation and discord—you felt it.
In the same degree you enter a place where a kindly feeling and love and perfect harmony
reign. You sense the peaceful environment the instant you are brought within its influence, and
you like to visit such a home.
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