HOW TO MAKE MONEY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19465, 28 April 1925, Page 4

HOW TO MAKE MONEY.

LECTURE BY MISS HALLAM. The Art Gallery Hall was packed last night when Miss Alfaretta Hullam, the eminent psychologist, delivered the seventh of her series of addresses. The subject was ' How to Make a Million—Honestly," and it proved as interesting and entertaining as the previous lectures. The speaker commenced by saying, that she supposed they all thought they could make money. God had placed them in a commercial age and on a commercial plane. They all had a financial phase to their personality, but if they had a weaic financial phase they would not be a unifying personality. She had found some people who had much to say about it being wrong to make money, and that a person who did so had done it dishonestly, yet that person, was probably hoping a rich relative would die and leave him some money. She had many reasons to believe that it right to make money. They had an idea in the past, that righteousness and the power of making money honestly did not go hapd m hand. That was not so. It was possible, and they were beginning to find the truth oi the matter through the new psychology. Ihe same law that woula make a person poor would make him rich if constructively used. Because they had been ignorant of the law and its operation, they had been using it destructively. It was knowledge they wanted. She was of the opinion that an individual who could not make enough money for the needs of life could not to a good husband or a good, citizen. It had often been said that money was the root of all evil, but abject poverty was working out more unhappiness and producing more misery in the homes and lives of the people than could be attributed to money. It was the love of money which was the root of all evil, ana there were those people who made money their god and worshipped it and forget everything else. She had found it was right to make money, and to do that they all had to begin. u , The average person, continued Miss Jdailam, possessed the poverty complex. J hat was not to say that a person had insufficient to eat or little to clothe himself with hut it meant that he did not have enough money. There were a great many people who ' had that complaint, but not understanding it they had been looking out lor someone to lay the blame on. The fust essential to making money was to find tlieir place in the world and gel the big idea, and then set their goal and go for it. Many people to-day were sticking where they were because they wore afraid they would not have a position if they moved on. The next step was to specialise along the particular lino of success; to learn all there was to know, and they would then be in a position to handle any proposition. The third essential was to see. and grasp opportunity. « was all about them—so close at times that people failed to see it. The speaker quoted at length from the work of I)r Russell H. Conwell, the American, who conducts a college, and teaches hundreds of young men through the money he earned in giving lectures. She also dealt with several Americans who commenced life on a few cents and who subsequently 'became millionaires. In conclusion, Miss Hullam said that every person had the talent, the power, and the ability to make a great success of life, and to achieve the ambition that was theiis. They had to have self-confidence, because the fellow that thought he could was the one who would got there. ... The speaker was warmly applauded at tno close of the address. The subject for ibis evening will be ‘'Getting Rid of the Tyrants in Your Life.