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VOLUME 57 — NO. 6
FEBRUARY 5, 1969
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Among the Native Indians during the frontier days, fleetness of foot was a highly prized skill. The young boys, eager to attain speed and endurance would ask the older men of the tribe how to achieve their goal. The elder Sioux would tell them to go out into the prairies every summer and cover their hearts with the colorful dust from butterfly wings. (Any man who ever spent some time in the fields chasing butterflies during his youth, knows what that meant). Naturally, the boys who caught butterflies summer after summer became the fastest runners. If you aspire to be a "front runner" in life insurance selling, remember well the lesson of this little story: You learn best by doing — or, there is no substitute for activity in the field.
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Enthusiasm Is A Wonderful Word, but more- — it is a wonderful feeling. It is a way of life. It is a magic spark that transforms "being" into "living." It makes- hard work easy . . . and enjoyable:There is no better tonic for depression, no greater elixir for whatever happenS to be wrong at the moment than enthusiasm. No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anythiig to fear from life. All the opportunities in the world ... and they
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility. I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world." —John F. Kennedy • Some people are in such a state of perpetual worry that the sight of a cheerful man upsets them. are as plentiful today as ever despite what people say, are waiting to be grasped by the people who are in love with what the y are doing. • • The World Today Is Looking for men who are not for sale; men who are honest, sound from center to circumference, true to the heart's core; men with consciences as steady as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right if the heavens totter and the earth reels; men who can tell the truth and look the world right in the eye; men who neither lag nor flinch; men who can have courage without shouting it; men in whom the
courage of everlasting life runs still, deep, and strong; men who know their message and tell it; men who know their place and fill it; men who know their business and attend to it; men who will not lie, shirk or dodge; men who are not too lazy to work, nor too proud to be poor; men who are willing to eat what they have earned and wear what they have paid for; men who are not ashamed to say "no? with emphasis and who are not ashamed to say, "I can't afford it." • Here Is A True Army Story. It has a good message. The mess sergeant was passing out dishes of apricots to the chow line. To say the least, the job was very boring, so he decided to experiment. He asked the next few men as they came by, "You don't want any apricots, do you?" And 90 per cent of them said, "No." (He was supposed to get rid of them). Then he tried a more positive approach: "You DO want apricots, don't you?" Approximately 50 per cent answered, "Uh . . . yeah, - I'll have some." The line was moving and he was not moving them fast enough. However, he then tried a well-known selling technique and started asking, "One dish of apricots, or two?" And in spite of the fact that soldiers . are not supposed to like army apricots,