The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-01-03

We shall not moralize in this article
ON morals. Enough has been said re-
Gently upon the subject Of dancing,
card playing, theater going, wine bib
bling and wfiskey drinking, to last for
a season. We wish in this article to
address the youths and young men Of
Columbia and adjacent country upon
practical business question.
Prof. j. Ed. Ford, who has recently
established q preparatory school for
boys, and who is giving eminent salts
faction to his patrons, announces in
this issue that he will begin a night
commercial school. to teach business
bookkeeping and commercial arith-
metic.
Now young men, you who have had
the misfortune to stop the day school
too soon, and who are now engaged
in business of one kind or another,
as your friend the Herald wishes
to advise you to take advantage OF this
opportunity to qualify yourselves for
the practical business duties of life.
Book keeping as profession is a
good one but whether you ever intend
or expect to be professional book
keeper or not, you may want to keep
YOUR own set of books some OF these
DAYS, and then you will want to know
how. Whether he keeps them or not,
no man is capable Of running bnsi-
ness of his own. unless he knows how
his books ought to be kept. You do
not expect always to be clerk. Some
day you hope to have q business OF
your own. Now is your time to pre-
pare yourself to make that business q
success. IF you ever expect or hope to
open up little drug store, or dry
goods, or grocery. or hardware, or
clothing house, yon will want to be
able to keep or superintend the keeping
of your own books. You will find it
much cheaper and far more satisfac-
tory, than turning over that important
branch Of your business to another.
Then you will not have time to 90 to
night schools: now you have. Then
your responsibilities will be greater
than now; then more urgent demands
will be made upon your money and
your time. NOW is the only time in
your life, perhaps, when you can pre-
pare yourself for the sterner, more ex-
acting demands that competition will
require Of you when you become the
responsible head Of some business con-
Germ, whether it be big or little. Won't
you take the advice Of friend. and
accept this opportunity nowf
If you ever attempt to run bust
ness Of vour own you will need it; II
you are ever called upon to manage q
business for another, you MUST have
it.
The time you waste these long win
ter evenings doing nothing, or worse
than nothing. and the money you
waste on parties and theaters and night
suppers and such things, if given ener-
getically to study at this night school
for four or five months will be the
best capital you ever invested and will
bring you large and compromising in
terest all our life.
Take our advice. young man; stop
idling away your time and wasting
your money, and attend this night
school.
just one word to the employers OF
these young men. If they are willing
to go, encourage them. If you have to
do little Of their work, do it; ii it
inconvenience you little, stand IT.;
don t hinder the boys, but help them;
don t sacrifice their future to your pres
emit gain. And even from a selfish
standpoint, their nights spent this way
will make them more valuable to you;
for a boy who spends his evenings at a
night school is worth more to his en-
ployer than one who spends them at
cards. or the theatre, or loafng about
the streets