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January wayne oaks 
Volume 10 Number 4 
The Business Men’s Association 
The value of the Business Men’s 
association of Beverly and vicinity 
has never been more clearly evinced 
than at the banquet: Monday of last 
week. While the masculine mind 
may enjoy for a while the quips and 
brilliants of eloquent after-dinner 
speeches after all is said and begun 
there is nothing that takes better 
than something ‘‘solid.’’ A small 
fee will purchase a vaudeville ad- 
mission, but humor’ to be of real 
value at an after-dinner ‘‘good 
time’? must be an accompaniment 
and not the whole thing. The bus- 
iness men’s association has become 
a potent agency in the commercial 
affairs of the shore and the annual 
dinner is an event of interest. At 
this year’s dinner, the admirable, in- 
forming and acceptable address re- 
celved unanimous approval, proving 
after all that there is nothing which 
takes more, even at a banquet, than 
sound sense, clear and informing 
address by men who know how to 
do things. 
The address by Mr. Timothy J. 
Byrnes gave the business men an 
opportunity to hear the other side 
of the railroad problems: The an- 
nouncement that the only thing that 
stood in the way of a more efficient 
railroad service for Beverly was the 
attitude of the legislature. It is ev- 
ident that it will not be long be- 
fore the necessary approval is given 
by the people. 
The two. striking 
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elements in the addresses of the eve- 
ning was the emphasis laid by Mr. 
Byrnes on the importance of public 
service as a personal duty as shown 
in his praise of Mr. Mellen, and 
Senator Schoonmaker’s warning 
against the popular outery against 
capital. 
These two qualities are much 
needed in puble and private life. 
If every man could serve in the 
chosen position he occupies, the 
world would be making greater 
progress and life would afford 
greater rewards. The bane of em- 
ployment in these days is that cor- 
porations, firms and organizations 
are receiving day service. instead of 
personal interest and activity on 
the part of the employees. With an 
esprit de corps thoroughly inspiring 
an organization, a business enter- 
prise or an organization success is 
assured. The picture of the Presi- 
dent of the company serving the 
interests of New England may. ap- 
pear ideal, but Mr: Byrnes has_re- 
vealed an uneseapable truth when 
he says that service not salary is the 
inspiration and end of life. It is a 
pity that such an attitude, to labor 
and life cannot permeate every walk 
in life. Perhaps that is the reason 
why some are at the top of the lad- 
der and others at the foot. Service 
is victory. Man does not begin to 
live until he has a life purpose. 
Opportunity and Ability 
These are two much misunder- 
stood words. Many men ° like 
Micawber are waiting constantly 
fer something to turn up, which 
after all is only another: way of 
saying that one is waiting for an op- 
portunity. There is no doubt that 
opportunities and favorable situa- 
tions such as inheritances, good 
friends and influential connections 
are contributing elements in per- 
sonal success; but success is not ex- 
plained in the terms of opportunity. 
Ability must seize opportunity and 
reap the reward that it offers. Op- 
portunity may come to men in ey- 
ery walk, but not often. They are 
usually made. The recognition of 
an opportunity is a large element in 
life. Countless thousands walk the 
earth, blindly, without purpose, 
discontented and unhappy them- 
selves and casting shadows where- 
ever they go. These same individ- 
uals lament their fate, laud their 
abihty and blame their opportuni- 
ties. The error is a common and 
elusive one. The opportunities are 
lying at hand, but the eyes are blind 
and real ability is made evident by 
the power to create as well as to 
seize opportunities. Too many men 
have wasted their lives in desultory 
labor waiting for the bonanza to ap- 
pear, when if they would only look 
about them they would find their 
opportunity —as the hero of Haw- 
thorne’s tale did—within his own 
hfe and privileges. Ability will 
create opportunities even if. it be 
true that opportunities develop 
ability. 
After life’s work is done the testi- 
mony of man must be that not 
genius but plodding is the price of 
victory. Genius ought always to be 
defined as the ability to labor with 
steadfast purpose, illuminating hope 
and cheerful energy. 
perfield learned this 
secret, so 
David Cop-. 
Dickens reveals the great character: 
of fiction, when he writes: ‘‘I never.’ 
believed it possible that any natural. 
or improved ability can claim im- 
munity from the companionship of 
the steady, plain, hardworking qual- 
ities, and hope to gain its ends.’’ 
There is no such thing as such ful- 
fillment on this earth. Some happy 
talent, and some fortunate oppor- 
tunity, may form the two sides’ of 
the ladder on which some men 
mount, but the rounds of that lad- . 
der must be made of stuff to stand ~ 
is no such * 
substitute for. thorough-going, ar- 
wear and tear. There 
Abil- 
and 
dent and sincere earnestness. 
ity is required to recognize 
seize opportunities. 
The difficulties in the pathway of 
life’s suecess may 
compensations than first expected. 
Life is full of strange compensations 
reveal greater’ 
and where man walks in ease he_ 
loses in power, and where he strug- 
gles for victory he increases his. 
often 
strength. Difficulties are 
stepping stones across the stream of 
worry and lead to the shore of sue- 
cess. Real ability consists in recog- 
nizing the opportunities which lie 
beneath the obstructions in the way. 
Nature and life never closes one’ 
door without opening another. A 
New York farmer found his dairy © 
Ile had brains- 
Ile discov- 
profits dwindling. 
enough to investigate. 
ered that it lay in a poor water sup- 
ply in the pasture. The surface of 
the water was covered with an irri- 
descent film and the cows refused 
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