Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-05-18

IeAperlence. The speaker was Mr. tn.
Gus Tuttles the president of the Eos
Ton ana Maine Railroad. He kindly
consented. at our request, to reduce his
IeNtemporaneouS counsel to writing.
here it is:
am asked to say something in the
nature OF advice to representative
oouy or the business men of New Eng
'ahd. You are to be-some of Won arc
'"uay-the business men of the next
."c!'y-hVe years of the city of Ros
| '"". Nhat are some of the things
'i'at ought to ask you to consider?
| among the first, l advise every man
| VINO Is forming his character for a
BUSINESS lfe-and very few men do
| 'Ihs uhtll they have reached the age of
| 'hir'y-iiVe or forty years-tO cultivate
| me power of observation. You will
ma men tumbling through life. falling
over stones and sticks every day, but
| never discovering that there is any,
th'ng IN the way of their progress until
thcy bump their noses against the OBJ
struction. When q man passes
I'M ougn Il street. he ought to see every
'hing of Importance in that street. and
To cultivate the habit of finding out
why 1t Is there and what it Is for
Let every man in public or private
business. whether he is working for
himself or for another. n little more
than fill the position he occupies.
When he does that and has established
the fact that he can little more
than fill that position. a wider one will
open to him. and then he will have an
opportunity to 4 little more than fill
that. and he will go onward and up
ward until he finally reaches the
highest step in his profession or call
ing.
Establish methodical habits in your
business as well as in your private
life. II in the office of business man
You find him stirring up n desk heapcd
with papers; to find the particular one
he wants. you can make UP your mind
that he must have exceptional ability
IL he is the most successful man in his
class. Have n place for everything.
ana everything in its place." in the
broadcast cense.
Another important thing is personal
cleanliness. The man who adopts the
habit Of physical cleanliness is more
than likely to be morally clean. and l
would prefer to see one lean toward
fastidiousnesS rather than to be
slovenly in his habits. DR.. johnson
was 4 great man. but his we'll known
SlOVcnly habits added nothing to his
greatness. and | think he would have
been Il more agreea BILE companion ana
associate to his friends if he had been
4 little less slovcnly in his personal
habits.
Cultivate decision of character in
everything; the ability to say Yes" or
to say No and to do it on the spot.
The man who takes too much time in
deciding things. fearing that he may
decide wrong. will get ahead slowly. il
at all.
Do not ask too much advice of
friends Learn to form your own
opinions and to make your own de-
cisions You probably know the man
who Isl continually running about
among his friends asking their opinion
upon some project that he has under
consideration: you also know that
whatever advice he receives is of the
most pcrfunctory kind and is worth
little or nothing. Such men seldom
succeed.
Cultivate ard develop the habit of
re- aiding good books ana of thinking.
There are few men vino cannot find the
time rnr1ewherc in each twenty-four
hours to read something that an ADLER
person as put upon the printed page.
You viii have TO do with the employ
ment Of Others. Exercise great deal
of charity and leniency toward their
mistakes and errors. You may find
that y Young man in your employ is
leaning toward the wrong fork in the
read. and has perhaps passed little
beyond it. and there may seem to be
good reason for your saying that you
want him no longer in your service.
DO not do that until you have found
out whether he has gone so far De-
vond the wrong fork of the road That
he cannot be brought back and put
right.
Above all. be patient and be piOd-
der. Patience and ploddng will, as
rule accomplish anything IN TINS
world There is occasionally SKY
ricket whose success seems to disprovc
the truth of this advice. but he IS
pretty apt to have the proverbiai Stuck
attached to him.
Remember that money is not every
thing. yct-although the love OF IL Is
nronerIv called the root of all evil
I am sure tnaI tHe utSiIt " So i'ioiiNS
| for proper uses is the foundation OF all
commercial and social advancement.
| To make money is laudable. To olIgi-
NATE that which gives employment TO
| =, large number of persons where none
were hitherto employed is making
money in the commendable sense.
| To accumulate money for the mere
| pleasure of having it is another ana
unite different thing; but remember
| ,bic Won should not expect to make or
| accumulate as much money in hNe
wears as your fathers and grandfathers
did in forty.
This illustration of how to reach
vo,ng men with good ethical counsel IS
worth consideration and imitation. IL
| NAV will not come to n church service,
norhans they will come to churcn
r,ub If they will not come to hear
minister preach. perhaps they Will
come to hear layman talk. "A great
MANY men will regard this counsei
coming from a successful business man
| who would not listen to 1t II IL came
from 2 clergyman. We are glad o. the
| ,ormission to introduce Mr.. Tuttle 10
,a,sar circle that that of the Old South
| Cl,,h We advise any young man VINO
roads this article. and who is not TOO
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