The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-06-10
w. C.. T. u. COLUMN.
BY MRS. N. L. HOBBS.
For The Professional Meas Profit.

Fuf nc rfotrssfo1ai hS1 s'~
AS q professional man, what will
best serve the purely selfish interests
of your profession? Assuming that
you pursue it to insure a livelihood,
to support your family, and gain a
competence. what will most certainly
guarantee these results?
Undoubtedly the well-being, the
prosperity, Of those upon whom your
profession depends. Doctor, lawyer,
preacher, teacher, editor, dentist, art
list, stenographer-whatevery you are,
whatever professionally you do
your best return for service, your
best possibilities for service, will be
found where moral and material we'll
being nost widely prevail.
The sheriff, the constable, the po-
lliceman, may thrive aud get gain
where poverty and crime dominate /;
but their calling does not rank as q
profession; no protest. IN pros
pers because of them, unless,
probably, the lawyers. Even the
law, at its best, thrives not because
OF sheriffs-it uses them as a con-
venience, and they prosper because
OF the law, which it is their duty to
enforce.
True professions, honest callings
professional in their character, are
never prosperous where prosperity il
uot general, where poverty rules and
the poor man abounds. tits the well
to.do community, the thriving state
that offers gain and success to the rea
professional man. Your sell inter
est, then, lies in promoting the ma
Iterial and moral conditions OF mer
with and for whom you serve. fo'
cannot separate the material an'
moral conditions. President Roos
evelt said truly, in q speech at Ban
gor, Me-, on the 9th OF August
1902:
"Msterial prosperity without tn
moral life toward righteousness
means . diminished capacity for hap
and q debased character
The worth Of q civilization is th
worth Of a man at its center. Whe
this man lacks moral recitude, ma
Iterial progress only makes ba
worse, and social problems sti
darker and more complex"
. "a diminished capacity for haI
: piness, and debssed character,
. are poor foundations upon which !
build professional success. Onl
Iby peryersions Of professions
effort to the levels OF criminality
, can such effort be successful wheI
-ldebased character furnishes constsr
> occasion for crime.
1.-THE man who lives simply an
q Justly and honorably, whether nc
'sor poor, is q good citizen" so d
re clared President Roosevelt in th'
Bsngor speech. "a man to be
r. good citizen must first be Q goo
lbread.winner, a good husband sr
>, father" the President further d
clared.
such utterances by the head
this Nation were 6tly made in
~ state which has barred the dram
H. sbop out for half q century. "
i good citizen must first be goo
bread.winner;" and upon him I
professional man may build succe
that will be sure and lasting.
savings bsnksare better eviden
Of good citizenship than dram.shoE
Rread winners pstronize such bank
= ldram.drinkers do not. 1t is up
.nhreadwinners that the doctor, !
md prescher, the teacher, the edit
OH slil and all the rest must depend. !.
"Fifty years ago there were n
= sav;nUs banks ia Maine with depc
I ia Of less than $4,000 for 1000
| people; today there are llS ssyln SAW
| Institutions, with sl3,OOO,OOO
| savings" al,
| bresdvinner cannot be matched
/ snv state where beer compe
| legally with bread for the bread'w
/ ner's earnings. .,
l Increase Of population, with
/ crease Of prosperity, will ins ure 6 s
| times to the professional man.
/ two lines oiincresss must run pa
i ,sI M Mere increase Of populsti
/ NAV ma furnish more work for the Q
!! tor and the midwife, but with
certain pay for both. Increase Sc
. prosperity is greatest ana 81
Tp .hera YOU find the largest per-
I'D. ,sgs Of sober bresd-winners. /,
I'm In Is9S, Quincy, Mass, had :
. seventeen years without q aI
Ind sssSf sbop. During that time its pop q
snv sion had grown from lO,s55 TO 70
. '..' - GAO. Gao its Valuation from ~ ,56V
!. :. ~ s19 .2S6, ,S32 its savings banl
/ "A. post iroms17S,s5O TO sac ,oso'
.naIlts depositors in savings banks
- ? $50 70 7,411; and its NUMB mo