Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1900-09-04
Mr.. c. B. Rouss As Magazine Author

Mr.. c. B. Rouss AS Magazine Author.
In the September number of the Met
fopolitan Magazine. just issued, Mr..
Charles Broadway Rouss, the New York
millionaire. contributes an excellent arti-
Gle on The chances for success of the
modern young man. AS the article is
inspired from the real experiences OF his
own life. it is doubly impressive and in
teresting. Mr.. Rouss says:
The young man of the period, gifted
with enterprise, thrift and honesty, has
precisely the same chances for success in
business life or the professions that his
father or even his grandfather had. Ex-
isting business conditions are to-day
practically the same as those of fifty years
ago. 1t is the custom of some persons,
know, to assert that competition has
lessened the opportunities of the modern
young man, bHt in my opinion this is
distinctly miscouception of present day
affairs. Every successful commercial en-
tefppise of the Homent has been devel-
oped through competition. The spirit of
rivalry engepders higher standards. shar-
pens the wits, creates new openings, and
urges the truly ambitious to new and de
sirable goals. Without such incentives
there would be nothing but stagpation
in the business world. Rvery intelligent
youth should appreciate the fact that to-
day, with numerous new avenues to sue
CESS. opened TO him in electricity, applied
SCIENCES. mechanics, and new lines of
trade, there is greater competition than
ever before, butalso greater opportunities.
The multiplication of trades and in
dustries had brought about the evolution
of new young man, different from his
forefathers only in the greater variety of
ways in WHICH to earn IA livelihood The
environment and thought Of his day have
moulded this new youth after a fashion
suited to the future demands to be made
upon his brain, heart, and hands. He
must keep clear head amid the rush
and clatter of modern business life; he
must have sufficient moral stamina to
Withstand such alluring temptations to
sudden wealth as the Stock Exchange
and the innpmerable get rich quick
schemes which lie across his path. Lee
gitimate enterprise is the only foundation
upon which he may safely build his future
and his fortune.
a young man must be content not only
to grow rich slowly, learning day by day
his lesson of thrift and enterprise, but he
must be willing to make a modest appear
ance, to live economically, and be ever
alert to the best interests OF his employer.
These are old-fashioned precepts but
they are eternal and appropriate to all
conditions of men. Punctuality, con.
scieptiousness. and genuine desire to
give the best he has for little money al
the beginning, are rare qualities, but yet
they are the best capital youth can pcs.
sess.
Much is said of the crowded condition
of the cities and the stream of applicant.
seeking to fill every known kind of vacan
cy. In every large city there has alwaY.
existed condition of congestion in the
labor market; the unemployed have al
ways outhumbered the employed. Thii
state of affairs isfnevitable for the reason
that the drones in the busy hive of tn,
world vastly outnumber the workers
Brains are never at discount. Success
is strength physical, mental, and moral
AS things stand in New York today,
consider the city golden Mecca for tn
young man who is willing to work, wal
and endure with cheerfulness. Their
exists no such thing as luck; when on
WINS in the race for the dazzling priz
Success it is through concentrate
and intelligent labor fortified by strengt
of character and that splendid America
: quality which we term pure grit"