The Newtown bee., 1894-01-12
Editorial Ink Drops.
THE YOUNG MAN IN BUSINESS.

 COLLEGE Edward W. Box, the bril- EDUCATION liant and successful editor UNNECESSARY Of the Ladies' Home Jour REQUISITE FOR nal, writes in a highly inter SUCCESS? esting and profitable style in the January number of tho Cosmopolitan, which by the way Is one of the best numbers this magazine has sent out. On the subject of college education, Mir Box writes, and we quote his language entire: "l know there are thousands otyoung men who feel themselves incompetent tor business career because of n lack Of early education, And here might come milf choose 10 discuss the subject, which l donot the oft mooted question Of the exact value of a college education to the young man in business, Far abler pens than mine have treated of this; it is certainly not for me to enter into here. But will say this , young man need not feel that the lack of a college education will stand, in any respect whatever, in the way of his success in the business world. No college on earth ever made n business man. The knowledge ac quired in college hos fitted thousands of men tor professional success, but 1t has also unfit ted other thousands for practical business career. A college training Is never wasted although have seen, again and again, fv' thousand dollar educations spent on five,hun dred dollar men. Where young man can bring college education to the requirements ot practical business knowledge, it is an ad vantage. But before our American colleges become an absolute factor in the business ca pacites of men, their methods Of study and learning will have to be radically changed have had associated with me both kinds ot young men, collegiate and non collegiate, ,and must confess that the ones who had q better Knowledge of the practical part of life have been those who never saw the inside of a col. lege and whose feet never stood upon cam pus. College bred men and men who never had college advantages have succeeded in about equal ratios. The men occupying the most important commercial positions today are selt made, whose only education has come to them from contact with that greatest col lege Ot al, the business world. Far be it from me to depreciate the value of a college educa ton. I believe in its advantages too firmly But no young man need teel hampered be- cause ot the lack ot it. If business qualities are in him they will come to the surface. II Is not the college education; it is the young man. Without it's possession as great ant honorable successes have been made as with it. Men are not accepted in the business ,l m the knowledge these imply"
 In closing his article. in the Cosmopolitan Mir Box gives few rules to govern action which think so highly of as to print entire Just take them in Here they are:
 Get into business you like.
 Devote yourself to it.
 Be honest in everything.
 Employ caution; think out thing well be fore you enter upon it.
 Sleep eight hours every night.
 Do every thing that means keeping in good health.
 School yourself not to worry; worry kills work doesn't.
 Avoid liquors of all kinds.
 1T you must Stnokei smoke houerhtely'
 shun discussion on two points-relgion ant politics.
 And lastly, but not least: Marry true woman and have your own home.
 That Mir Box is well qualified to act in tho capacity of an adviser Is evidenced by his re markable career. Of Mir Boks early history the Cosmopolitan remarks: "Mr Box wal born in Holland, from whence his family re moved to this country when he was five. Be ginning his career in the office of the Westerr Union, he subsequently, entered the service O a publishing house and later achieved thu position of advertising manager with Charles scribner's Sons. This position he retained until he was 25, when he accepted the difiicul and responsible position of editor of the La dies Home Journal. He is now part owne in the famous journal to whose success he ha so largely contributed, and in addition to thi is, with his brother, proprietor of 8 prosper ous syndicate press agency"