The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-10

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were y our on 81 "a contriburio you are
/ to BE commend ed AZ IN III gh ly for
| that&alone. md "A the As progress yen
have made here and the wo-k yoI.
| & re dom for the community merits:
It:3c sympathy and cooperation Of Al
| tie people IN Cur c.r3--and you a~es
Of these small rooms, you ought to
have a splen.--I Y. NJ. G. a. building
OF your. own-properly equipped and
| up-,odate in every particular. And
| doubt not you will have it in the neal,
! future In this era of strenuous bust
ness activity and large achievements,
| the young man is very much In ev1-
| dence; in the gigantic business enter
prises of to-day, it requires the vigor,
| the energy, and the courage Of the
| Young man to plan and contrive and
execute: and in the past few years,
| he has been placed at the helm OF
great industrial projects. of marvel
GUS engineering feats, Of stupendous
financial consultations, with results
as remarkable for their successful
termination as for the difficulty and
delcacy OF the undertakings. the
young man in a community who pos
sesses this kind of power and ab1l-
| ity is an asset of which that whole
community should be proud; the
| young man who has the power to
make OF himself SO valuable an as
set for the material welfare Of the
| community has also the power to be
| an asset i'll the column OF moral re-
sources, and it is expected of him that
he shall be; for he never had been
| possessed of these powers Of heart
and brain. but for the fact, that he was
| made in the likeness and in the image
of Cod
Now lust a suggestion with respect
| to some of the essential elements OF
true manhood. and the qualities that
| should be cultivated by the young
man who would aspire to be counted
by the community as one of its gen
| uine assets 1t goes without saying
that the first three essentials are hon
es1y, industry and sobriety; falling
| III any one III tlIeSS tAt'i A''bt~.'' '-AA
| in slight and seemingly trivial partic-
ulars. is TO fail utterly, even before
| the real life struggle is fairly begun
| Loyalty TO your employer anu devo-
! ton to his interests is a quality far
too important to be as frequently
overlooked as it is; the young man
| who attaches more Importance to the
amount of his salary than to the skill
and Intelligence he brings to the per
formance of has duty, will be an under
! ling and a clerk when his hair is
tinged with gray The young man
who at the first stroke of the clock
that sounds the quitting hour, PUSHES
from his task with no thought as to
the condition in which his work is
| left will wait for many, many years
before he is called up higher to eXer-
| else responsible supervision over
any branch of his employers business.
| The young man who thinks that he
| knows better Than his employer no"
the business should be conducted,
and explains it all to his friends at
the expense of the time he should
be devoIing to the task assigned him.
Will probably never be called into the
directors room for his counsel, but
in later years the story OF the fatal
plumbers made by a certain proml-
nent business man, once his en-
ployer, will be by him recounted over
and over again to the loafers, sitting
on the empty boxes at the corner
grocery. The young man who gets
busy with his fellow workmen, aS-
| gravatins and eXaggeraung, the
wrongs which they all suffer in COM
mon, both real and imaginary, and
who insists that all labor shall be per
formed as per schedule fixed by or
ganization rules, and that wages and
| compensation shall likewise be as per
! schedule based upon fixed averages,
thereby making it possible for the
! slusgard and the incompetent 10 re-
| ceive the same remuneration as the
sllillful industrious workman, or rath-
er keeping the compensation Of the
industrious and ambitious toiler down
TO the level of the average or STAN
dard fixed for the idler. that young
man will probably never earn and
| never receive more than an aver
| age wage himself.