Whcrr Enthusicrsm Mcly Do

(This ed,itori.al first appeored in these coluruns in 1925, and i.s agai,n reprinted' by request.)

Success is often due less to ability than to enthusiasm.

The world makes yvay for the man who believes in his mission. No matter what objections may be raised, no matter how dark the outlook, he believes in his power to transform into reality the vision wh'ich he alone has seen.

It has been well said that all the liberties, reforms, and political achievements of society have been gained by nations thrilling and throbbing to on€ great enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand, until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.

No barrier however forrnidable, no obstacl,e however insurmountable it may seem to the timid or the fainthearted, can bar the way to any man possessed of enthusiasm for a high ideal. Never before in the world's history has the man fired by enthusiasm had such an opportunity as he has today.

It is particularly the age of young men and young women. The world looks to them to be interpreters of new forms of youth and beauty. Secrets, jealously guarded by nature, are waiting to reveal themselves to the enthusiast who is willing to devote his life to the work. Inventions, foreshadowed today, are waiting for the passionate patience of enthusiasm to develop them.

Indifference is the opposite of enthusiasm. Indifference never lands armies that conquer, never models statues that live, nor moves the world with heroic philanthropies. Enthusiasm it was that wrought the statue of Menon and hung the brazen gates of Thebes; it fixed the mariner's trembling needle upon its axis, and first heaved the great bar of the printing press. It opened the tubes of Galileo until world after world swept before his vision; and it reefed the topsail that ruffled over Columbus in the morning breezes of the Bahamas. It has held the sword with which freedom has fought her battles, and poised the axe of the dauntless woodsman as he blazed the pathway of civilization. It turned the mystic leaves upon which Shakespeare and Milton inscribed their burning thoughts, and sustained and soothed the heroic soul of Thomas Jefferson in his declining days.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything that is great. Without it, no man is to be feared. With it, no man is to be despised.

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United States Plywood Corporation reports that its consolidated net profit for the six months ended October 31, 1956, was $4,985,300, after estimated income taxes of $3,608,600, compared with a net profit of $5,923.700, after income taxes of $5,253,400, in the corresponding period of 1955.

Consolidated sales for the six months ended October 31, 1956, were $103,333,000, compared with $101,472,000 in the corresponding period of 1955.