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Self-control is necessary to successfully work with people. It is the first virtue taught by Socrates necessary to make the other virtues effective. Not only does losing one's temper make enemies instead of friends. but it dulls the mind and gives your opponent an advantage over you. When one person is furious and the other cool, onlookers are very likely to suppose that the man who keeps his temper is right, even though he is not. "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad!" In his novel "The Laughing Man" Victor Hugo writes: "Wind, hail, the hurricane, the whirlwind---these are wild combatants that may be overcome. . . . but nothing is to be done against a calm; it offers nothing to the grasp of which you can lay hold. " The man seeking to work in harmony with other people is modest and moderate. He does not exceed what is necessary in discipline or in praise. Successful human relations are essentially the result of a complicated use of all these principles we have talked about. Every man must play the game within his own particular field and according to his own personal qualities and ideals. . There will be understanding, nonunderstanding and misunder- standing in every human relationship of two or more people. The art of working and getting along with people lies in applying fundamental ideas of these four principal virtues---Consistency, Sincerity, Courtesy, and Friendliness. ******** USING NATURE L. B. Dodds Information Supervisor, General Headquarters Public Relations Office, Mountain States Telephone &: Telegraph Company, Denver, Colorado Mankind, since the very dawn of life, has been attempting to use the sun for his benefit. But as compared to man's advancement in other practical sciences, his Success in utilizing the vast supply of solar energy has been pitifully inadequate. Rlrtunately, however, man is either insatiably inquisitive or so insensitive to prior failures that he keeps right on experimenting. - 19 -