Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-10
DON'rBE A CLAM.

The Philadelphia lines gives the ioiioW
ing very entertaining editorial that applies
very well to Wheeling:
There are more clans to the acre il
Philadelphia than in any other great city
10 the world. They are everywhere; il
business; in housekeeping; in small ira
ding; in society; in politics; inadvertisiDg
in churches; in short ia everything. VIZ
do more things and say more things be
cause somebody cid or said them before
US, or because somebody else does or says
them now, than any other community o.
equal intelligence in the land; and wher
progress does begin anything, ii is only at
ter il has run its career to climax else
where. 1t is not tlat'ery to say it, nor &c
think it, but it is the truth. The clam
rules; don't be q clam.
This is the most intelligent and progress
i've age that the world has ever known, and
there is no city in any country where there
is larger average of intelligence than in
Philadelphia. We have more educated in
dusry than can be found in any other
community; we have more homes in pro
portion TO population than any great city
of the earth; We have liberal and progress
i've newspapers; We have abundant energy
and capital in our business channels; but
the clam rules; don't bs a clam.
Even prominent business houses aiming
az cosmopolitan trade, yet follow the old
village plan of making their business
kuoFn to the public They start out the
season By an appropriation for advertising,
and they expeEd jast 80 much and no
more and no less, regardless of the busi,
ness yicissitudss which may vary the
intelligent necessities Of trade; but their
fathers did it; Others who are compel
ing with them do it, and they must do it
also, while the unknown man, without cap
Ual OF established business, wisely strikes
the tides of trade and outstrips them in snc.
cess and fortune. The clam advertiser
often wastes money by advertising when
he should not advertise or by advertising at
the right time in the wrong way, while the
man who strikes for success crowds the
quickened currents OF business and rests in
the business calm. The clam still rules;
don't be q clam.
Of the fortunes nov made in business,
not one in fifty is made in the old regula-
ton wsy. and most of them are made y
he entire creation of the busInsss that
gives them wealth. Old houses which sd-
here to old methods, 90 to the vail. They
die OF the dry rot. Their capital
shriuks, their sons shriok, and finally
their business shrinks cut of sight.
while some sweep-boy who had 20 rack bis
genius to live, creates business aud creates
fortune by following the varying tides OF
commerce and trade. The clam is jolly st
high tide, and the business clam is equally
Jolly when business booms and none can
miss it; but when the tide Gibbs, the clam
lies still waiting for the returning tide, and
the business clsm lies still snd waits for
the business tide that never comes. The
world does not 60 backwards, nor does it
stand still; but the clam does; don't be q
clam.
There is one safe rule to escape the
shsckles and the destiny of the business
clam. That is-advance with the ad
vancement of everything, and advance in
the front ranks. Ifyou can do anything
better to-day than it was done yesterday,
do it, regardless Of what Jour father or
mother or grandparents did. Don't eat,
or work, or saw. or wash, or sweep, or sell,
or buy or walk. or ride, or talk, or do
anything else IN any way simply because
IT has been done in that way, or because
others do it. If there is better way, look
for it, and when you find il, don't lie still
like the clam for the tide to come along;
but go for the tide st'iIe it early, stay with
it and get sll out of i; that it can give
Have Only one rule in business-thst is to
reach business whenever and wherever it
comes in sight, and don't inquire how your
fathers reached il, for they and their meth.
DDS have passed away together. The clam
still rules in Philsdelpbis, bat that is for
tuuste for the men of the future Who know
better now. Don't be clam