pe gett FRIDAY, FEBRUARY Ca | BRUCE BARTON SAYS: than _ He dictatorial, with age. gives his young associates | wide discretion, and expects” they will lose some of his money His technique of wisdom is unusual. | || | | | Once a ne What’s Unusual “What's He cesses. you cena eeengedi cee here ears llgRDA SiG ed ae a a so his | unusual about ask. never mentions. his He mistakes. aan he calls young men together, opens up the newspaper, and, selecting Some item from the financial page, reaches back into his experience and proceeds: to tell a ‘Story. | . that?” ee week more. imparting suc- talks only ‘about his Ons “T note that everybody of im- Mistakes should not. be regretted; they should turned no man making into profit. He be says that should be criticized for a mistake once, given for making the same mis- take twice. He says that highly successful men are especially vulner- able because they tend to be surrounded with people who tell them the things they like to hear. He won’t keep in his office anyone who _ hasn’t guts enough to disagree with him. He is not different, of course, . from the best practitioners of any trade, profession, or sport. No one of them kids himself that he can be good all the time. Learned From Losing Bobby Jones, golf’s all-time greatest, told Grantland Rice: “I never learned anything from the matches I won; all that I know about golf I learned from portance is predicting a very the matches I lost.” : prosperous 1950,” he remarked When Brand Whitlock was recently. ‘Perhaps they are right; I hope so. But whenever _ elected mayor of Toledo, he wrote to Tom Johnson, famous you find that everybody is Cleveland mayor, and asked his agreed as to just what is going advice. ‘Decide quick,” wired | to happen, that’s the time to. Johnson, “and be right 51%.” Start to wonder. I learned that Young, greatest pitcher Cy in 1929. It cost me plenty.” in big league history, hung up a. _ He has a bundle of shiny red, record that has. never been ‘green and gilt stock certificates, - every one of them once a “sure > equalled. He pitched 874 games. How many victories does it take thing,’”’ every one now worthless.. Each provides the text for a morning chat. Regret He says that to make a man a world champion? How many did Cy win. Five hundred and eleven— Silly more, regret is half. Is silly | or for- but not much more, than Copyright, King Features Syndicate, Ino, | made and prosperous—has tried to become more humble, rather | Ps Seg Make and wasteful. One of my friends—70, self- | in the process of making im a Bled ie} lel ede _ By BRUCE BARTON NI CS es | (alee SUNDAY, 24 reser fanned joel Nt Dee a Mistakes We | gee gee RE _ Material for Our SuccSupply ess be fe 2h FEBRUARY 26 inelastic ila a ee