The Go-Getter

A Story That Tells You How to be One

By Peter B. Kyne

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DEDICATION

THIS LITTLE BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAD CHIEF,
BRIGADIER-GENERAL LEROY S. LYON, SOMETIME COMMANDER OF THE
65TH FIELD ARTILLERY BRIGADE, 40TH DIVISION, UNITED STATES
ARMY.

HE PRACTICED AND PREACHED A RELIGION OF LOYALTY TO THE COUNTRY
AND THE APPOINTED TASK, WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE.

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I

Mr. Alden P. Ricks, known in Pacific Coast wholesale lumber and shipping
circles as Cappy Ricks, had more troubles than a hen with ducklings. He
remarked as much to Mr. Skinner, president and general manager of the
Ricks Logging & Lumbering Company, the corporate entity which
represented Cappy's vast lumber interests; and he fairly barked the
information at Captain Matt Peasley, his son-in-law and also president
and manager of the Blue Star Navigation Company, another corporate