The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-11-26

be taught.
Training the young for business
life should begin in the first grade
and whether consciously or uncon--
sciously it does begin in the first
grade, and this emphasizes the care
and painstaking necessary in pre-
pairing for the work of the teacher.
"In training the young for business
responsibilities the two things OF
greatest Importance are the lessons
of fidelity to principle and the i'm
portance of competency in some par
ticular line. How many OF our boys
and girls approach the threshold OF
manhood and womanhood with
deepseated knowledge of the import
ance of unwavering truthfulness and
unswerving fidelity to trust? These
elements entering into our lives form
a brotherhood with the mountains
and seas.
Competency aud Trustw orth1ness
"The cry for competent and trust
worthy men and women goes up from
the four corners of the earth; the de-
mand has never been supplied. Com
petency and trustworthiness form a
product eagerly sought after; every
avenue of human industry stands with
open arms and bids it welcome. 1t IS
not on the by ways seeking employ
ment; it is on the highway leading to
success. Competency and trust
worthiness. proven and established,
are what the word success was in
tended to imply. Capital all over the
world stands waiting for the compe-
tent and worthy.
Impress the young with train
ing for business life with the import
ance of being competent, of knowing
how to do some one thing well Ordi-
narily the employer is not particular
about the young man knowing wheth-
er Dover is on Jones creek, if Talla-
hasse is inland or Albany on the Hud-
son. What interests the employer
most is to know that the young man
knows how to do some one thing well
and is trustworthy, or if he does not
know how to do some one thing well,
to know that he possesses the ele-
ments of reliability and is willing to
learn.
Teach Value of Time
Impress the young with the i'm
portance of being Industrious. Teach
them the value of time; if all the
wasted time were to be paid for at
the rate of ten cents an hour there
would not be money enough in the
universe to meet the first pay day.
Teach them to be active and to keep
uppermost in their minds that COM
potency and trustworthiness coupled
with activity is the fulness of success;
impress them that Indifference does
not point the way, that competency
and trustworthiness form the only
product of enduring worth.
Teach them not to depend upon
ancestry, church affiliation or frater-
nal unions but to ask only to be meas
ured according to their fitness.
Impress them that seed sown for
future success that yields to the
quickest returns is not always the
most enduring. Teach them not to
be impatient if men do not seem to
take their measure and form an esti-
mate quickly, to patiently continue
their efforts at character building
assured that in the funess of time
whatever of merit they possess will
be measured and understood to the
utmost limit of their environments.
Make known to them that the stamp
of unftness, of unreliability placed
upon a young man is worse than the
brand of Cain, and it is the one thing
impervious to the ravages of time.
Nothing But Merit Counts
''See to it that the young men
whose developing minds are intrbsted
to your care do not enter upon the
responsibilities of life without being
thoroughly impressed that ultimately
nothing but merit counts when the
public is forming it's estimate. We
may dissemble for a time but at the
most unexpected moment we are put
to the test, the curtain is drawn and
our true character is revealed, and
this is just as sure to come as
day follows night.
Teach them that shoulder straps
do not make general, avoirdupois
does not make a man, nor grammar
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