Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1905-05-14

>, conduct your business as
M ,,, II ought to be conducted?
swer TO the question from the
: ,ho is beginning to make the
ant 10 his family and near
gH2& cnoht TO contain a good deal
hlied advice Tor the young man
net quite sure that he is Old
: ! for the problems which he has
nd Few cid men admit their
itv comes from a lack OF knowl-
and experience: rather from
,sica1 deterioration which leaves
5| with unsteady legs and lax re-
tative powers from business
and worry. On the other hand.
young man banks upon his leg
hes his capaicty for losing sleep
Y Soptinlism and his energy. says
NJ Rowland in the Chicago Tri
is we'll enough. perhaps, that the
|SE with all the physical ene!Ey
I'D not have all the knowledge
|It experience of the business world
combination would be irresisti-
But should the man with all the
|SS wledse fall out of the line because
x&a lack of muscle, any more than
Young man should lie down be-
co he lacks experience? Literally
han is lust as old and just as vouno
|5 he allows himself to be, and the
H. hreciation CT this truth will go far
- ard a solution of the difficulties of
man who is too young. The fact
all stubborn conditions is that the
I lnc man does not become old soon
kcueh. while the old man allows him
IN to get too old and to stay that
~.
#The young man who may have an
&1,ndance of animal spirits good ma
&re. energy and optimism is inclined
stay young too lcng under present
RnditiCns. Too many counter at
factions appeal to him. tallirS his at
entions from the everyday conditions
fhich he needs face if he would trav-
II toward success. His course in the
kchools already is shortened for the
host part and he may step into the
|arness of business or CT the profess
Eons quicker and more easily than
before. But he has younger head on
i'm. with perhaps overdevelpoed legs
ind arms. when he is compared with
he man his father was at that age.
Wore tangible things beckon his
-outh away from the business world
O which he aspires than beckoned his
ather. and stepping into the harness
# business earlier than his father
It'd. the necessity for cuftivatine az
,'der head should appear to him as
business proposition not to be neg
ected
It has been discovered that the
rava!ing salesr.a ans r2cord breaking
lays lie on the sunny side Of forty
ears; after fertv years old lie loses
he initiative thet prompts catching
he earliest trains and st2y;ng tr the
st one with s promising customer.
t is not Sc nuch that he eat -
hysically take up the activities that
'nce made him a record. but that *
aental lassitude interferes Wits his
eeing the necessity for such ac5ivi-
res Should TIE young man at tWer..
y-thrae have al the knowledge, so
.riety and appreciation Of the things
lat may be his naturally a. fifty.
What an advantage he would have IN
he selfish race Of success! Yet a
,ood deal of this is possible There
s never a reason why the expert
noes of the father may not be baud
d down 70 the son. provided there be
mutual intelligence AMI the prcper
plrit developed in the father. Ger
ainly the capital possessed by the
Cung man toward & business career
hould be in having q father who ir
very sense is a good business man.
A father who is a good business
nan can not fail to have appreciated
'ositions, conditions. opportunities,
I'D the whole category Of possibiIi-
les which fall to the average man
n retrospect after he has passed over
hem. Looking back upon these,
where is the father that does not see
is mistakes? Il have observed that
bout every five years pass through
period in which wish that I might
ave done something radically differ
TT to what have DONE said a
riend Of the writer. "Tnese pc.
iods began with me before had
cached my majority. Even then I
'egan saying to myself, We'll, I am a