"WO years ago Floyd E. Brickel was a clerk in a bank in Akron, Ohio. Today he is the secretary of the million dollar United Savings and Loan Company of Cleveland. How did he do it? Was it "pull"? Was it luck? Let Mr. Brickel tell you in his own words. Three Successive "When I first went into the banking work," writes Mr. Brickel, "I saw a big opportunity to succeed and determined to do it. I saw that the officials of the bank had a considerable knowledge of law and it seemed to help them immensely in their everyday work. So I enrolled in the Blackstone Institute for training in Modern American Law with its application to the Administration of Business. "One day I was doing some work which threw me in contact with the president of the bank. The knowledge I showed in handling several legal questions surprised him. He said he thought every business man ought to know law. "A short time later the Board of Directors elected me Secretary and General Manager of the bank. 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Of one or two languages we can say that they are always something: Italian always melodious; Spanish always mellifluous-a language of love. But English is not always anything; it is what we make of it. That is why the English-speaking writers and orators show a greater variety of style than those of any other language. Some call English clumsy. Indeed, a clumsy mind can make it seem so; but the language itself is solid as a heavy beam of steel, and flexible as a Damascus sword-blade, which could be bent double without snapping. What writer has such strength and majesty as Shakespeare, and such lightness in his tender passages, sonnets, and lyrics, or more exquisite delicacy than Shelley and Swinbourne? Some of Shelley's lines seem like language melting into music. Any individuality or thought or emotion can find in our language expressions that fit. We have the grandest language in the world, capable of more appropriate uses than any other. For this reason, and because the people who speak it are the most powerful and aggressive, ours will some day be the prevailing tongue. There is the language; help yourself-you can have of it what you choose, and it is your own fault if you do not select a rich and full vocabulary for your daily use. It is a very good plan to read periodically a few pages of the dictionary under different letters, marking the words that seem good to remember. You can not thus select the best words, however, for the true way to learn their value is to learn it in use from conversation, oratory, and books. Good use of words gives them a much wider meaning. We can tell from one's conversation what kind of people he has grown up with, lived among and imitated. If one is not fortunate enough to mingle with persons whose language is pure, then nothing is left but to study the best writers and speakers. (To be continued.) T IF YOU HAVE BOTCHED 1920 HE mill cannot grind with the water that has passed." Nor can you do anything with the time that has gone by. The sand that has run through your life's hour-glass cannot run through again. We can do nothing with the past except to profit by its lesson. If it has been painful and bitter and hard, that is all the more reason why we should let it go; why we should not any longer allow it to mar our lives. It has certainly thwarted us, pained us enough already. Let us put it behind us now and begin again. If you have botched 1920, if you have not succeeded in your undertakings, if you have been a failure in the past, if you have been humiliated by your mistakes, your shortcomings, the paucity of your achievement; if you have been foolish, wasting your time, your money, your life, do not drag these ghosts over the ID New Year line to haunt you and mar your efficiency for another twelvemonths. Don't let the past sap any more of your energies, steal any more of your time, destroy any more of your peace and happiness. As Kipling says, “There is for you nothing irremediable, nothing ineffaceable, nothing irrecoverable in anything you may have said or thought or done." There is no past so black or so bitter that it cannot be redeemed. Do not let it sap any more of your energies, waste any more of your time, destroy more of your peace or happiness. Live in the here and now. Let this be the bugle call for the New Year. Live your life fully, completely,. richly. Do not make this a mean, stingy, povertystricken year. Pack this year, not next year, with all the good things you can command. TO-DAY'S THE DAY DLENESS never won distinction in the world, and never will. The world does not owe us a living, but every man owes the world work. God made man for employment and we cannot dodge the issue. The Road to Recognition. A MAN may fight fiercely to hold his own in business; but he does not need to fight to get ahead of someone in the elevator, or up the car steps, or at the post office window. 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