A DEFINITE CHIEF AIM^145One of the greatest tragedies of this age of struggle and money
madness is that so few people are engaged in the effort that they like
best. One of the objects of this course is to help each reader to find
his or her particular niche in the world's work, where both material
prosperity and happiness in abundance may be found. To accomplish this
purpose, the various lessons of this course are skillfully designed to help
you take inventory and find out what latent ability and hidden forces lie
sleeping within.
This entire course is intended as a stimulus with which to enable
you to see yourself and your hidden forces as they are, and to awaken
in you the ambition and the vision and the determination to cause you
to go forth and claim what is rightfully yours.
Less than thirty years ago a man was working in the same shop with
Henry Ford, doing practically the same sort of work that he was doing.
It has been said that this man was really a more competent worker, in
that particular sort of work, than Ford. Today this man is still engaged
in the same sort of work, at wages of less than a hundred dollars a week,
while Mr. Ford is the world's richest man.
What outstanding difference is there between these two men that
has so widely separated them in terms of material wealth? Just this-
Ford understood and applied the principle of organized ~ort while the
other man did not.
In the little city of Shelby, Ohio, this principle of organized ~ort
was applied for the purpose of creating a closer alliance between the
churches and the businesses of a community.
The clergymen and businessmen formed an alliance, with the result
that practically every church in the city was squarely behind every busi-
nessman, and every businessman was squarely behind every church. The
effect was the strengthening of the churches and the businesses to such
an extent that it has been said it would be practically impossible for
any individual member of either to fail in their calling; the others who
belong to the alliance will permit no such failures.