According to the American Ideal, the man who is sure to succeed is one who is continuously ``keyed up to concert pitch,'' who is ever alert and is always giving attention to his business or profession. As far as the captains of industry are concerned, such is not the case. They devote relatively few hours a day to their strenuous toil, but they keep a cool head and a steady hand. They are always composed, never confused, but ever ready to attack a new problem with their maximum ability. They <p 206> follow the injunction of Christ expressed in His Sermon on the Mount: ``Be not therefore anxious for the morrow.'' Of all the nations of the world, Americans are supposed to be the hardest working. We have attributed our industrial success to the fact that there is a bustle and snap to our work which are not equaled in any other country. But recent students of the industrial world are now telling us that even in the case of day and piece labor this characteristic is frequently a weakness rather than an advantage. They say that the American product ``suffers from hurry, want of finish, and want of solidity.''-- ``Industrial Efficiency,'' Arthur Shadwell, Vol. 1, p. 26. _In the great middle class of American society, there is a lack of repose and an absence of relaxation which astonishes foreign observers_. They tell us that we are wild-eyed and too intense. Dr. Clauston of Scotland is quoted as saying:-- ``You Americans wear too much expression in your faces. You are living like an army <p 207> with all its reserves engaged in action. The duller countenance of the British population betokens a better scheme of life. They suggest stores of reserved nervous force to fall back upon, if any occasion should arise that requires it. The inexcitability, this presence at all times of power not used, I regard as the great safeguard of our British people. The other thing in you gives me a sense of insecurity, and you ought somehow to tone yourselves down. You do really carry too much expression, you take too intensely the trivial moments of life.'' The late Professor William James of Harvard makes the following pertinent remark concerning the overtension of Americans:--