The Americanization of Edward Bok 15. Đây là một cuốn sách rất ý nghĩa, dễ đọc và hàm chứa nhiều bài học hay về phong cách sống, về quản trị cuộc đời. Có những bài học có thể áp dụng cho cuộc sống hiện tại của mình. Đặc biệt là câu chuyện kể về việc Edward đã thành công như thế nào khi nỗ lực xây dựng tuần báo The Ladies Home Journal và những bài học về cách tạo dựng cuộc sống cho riêng mình: Hãy đơn giản hóa mọi khó khăn, nghiêm khắc với bản thân, quyết tâm. | The electric power companies at Niagara Falls were beginning to draw so much water from above the great Horseshoe Falls as to bring into speculation the question of how soon America s greatest scenic asset would be a coal-pile with a thin trickle of water crawling down its vast cliffs. Already companies had been given legal permission to utilize one-quarter of the whole flow and additional companies were asking for further grants. Permission for forty per cent of the whole volume of water had been granted. J. Horace McFarland as President of the American Civic Association called Bok s attention to the matter and urged him to agitate it through his magazine so that restrictive legislation might be secured. Bok went to Washington conferred with President Roosevelt and found him cognizant of the matter in all its aspects. I can do nothing said the President unless there is an awakened public sentiment that compels action. Give me that and I ll either put the subject in my next message to Congress or send a special message. I m from Missouri on this point continued the President. Show me that the American people want their Falls preserved and I ll do the rest. But I ve got to be shown. Bok assured the President he could demonstrate this to him. The next number of his magazine presented a graphic picture of the Horseshoe Falls as they were and the same Falls as they would be if more water was allowed to be taken for power a barren coal-pile with a tiny rivulet of water trickling down its sides. The editorial asked whether the American women were going to allow this If not each if an American should write to the President and if a Canadian to Earl Grey then Governor-General of Canada. Very soon after the magazine had reached its subscribers hands the letters began to reach the White House not by dozens as the President s secretary wrote to Bok but by the hundreds and then by the thousands. Is there any way to turn this spigot off telegraphed the President s secretary. We
