The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-21
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR
THE MAN OF FORTY.FIVE
Representative Employers Say He Stands Good Chance
for Success as the Younger Man, and Is In Some
Respects More Valuable


Wise men of the East have promul-
gated their views for many moons about
the limitations of the period Of use
fulness in the modern mans life. The
age of IS is the barrier they raise to the
individuals march toward success. If
a man has lived to this age, these wise
men have asserted, without attaining a
fortune or position of responsibility,
he need never more hope to attain it,
for his accumulated years will keep him
from the goal. 1T is an age of young
men, they have proclaimed, "and sue
cess must be won while one is young or
the elusive dame who grants the Iaurels
OF individual attainment will become
more slippery than eyer Figuratively
they have poured cold water on the
ambitions of the man of IS and told
him that they were useless; that if he
had not realized them at that age hope
deferred was but hope lost and could
never be regained Thus have the wise
men of the East spoken frequently and
often, but what have the wise men of
st. Louis to say on the subject. That
is matter that more vitality concerns
us than what the men in New York or
Boston may saw Hitherto they have
said nothing, but now they speak IN
no uncertain tones and with almost one
voice declare that, though this may be
an age of young men. the older men
need not lose hone, that individual sue
cess is always possible while one has
health, strength, and the most vital thing
OF all-opportunity.
Would you give man of y45 work
II he applied to you fer it and you had
an opening in your establishment ?" do
you believe that man who has reached
IS without attaining success still has
chance to win it?" and do you be-
heve that man who has lived to the
age of IS. finds then that he has been
in the vocation he has fol-
lowed for a quarter of century and
embarks in another occupation has a
good chance to win advancement, pro-
viding he has ability" were the three
principal questions asked nearly score
of business men. and. speaking in a
general sense, they gave an affirmative
answer to each interrogation. With
practically one accord they classify the
assertion that a man has reached the
limit of his usefulness in the business
world at Is as absolutely false, and not
few believe that man only attains
the period of his best work when he
reaches that age In St. Louis, there
fore, there is reason for the business
man, his clerk or other employee to hope
for bettet things in life at any age.
providing he has health, strength and
energy. These are the things that
constitute the desideratum in business,
according to the local view, and nothing
else. Fortune may come at any time,
/ but this rests on opportunity: and. given
that, the. energetic man, even though he
may be 90. may win wealth just as
readily as the stripping; nay. probably
even more readily, for the years of ex-
perience that are the older mans por-
ton serve him in good stead here and
enable him to recognize lurking oppor-
tunity much more easily than the young
man whose eyes are so often dazzleo
| by dreams of the future that he fails
to see the ladder by which he may
quickly reach them intruding itself into
the present
Murray Carleton, president of The
Carleton dry goods company, has posi-
tive views on the questions propoundet
him. Would l give man of IS EN-,
ployment in my store if he sought i
and | had an opening for tim?" he said
l" Certainly. provided he was worthy O.
a place in business house I woulc
ask the same things of him that
would ask of a younger man and nothing
more If he satisfied me that he wa
honest, energetic and willing to worl
he would have an opportunity. if | wa
in position to give it to him. Ag,
cuts no figure if a man is capable o
bearing his burden That is the onl.
thing. Can he. will he work? II he i
not able to do as much work as
younger man then he must give wa,
to the younger man. A business hous
is no eleemosynary institution and i