Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-29
Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowlesl

WV, CcIl yOu, SOu|yOu We spent
eight years in the grade schools, four
years in the high school, had special
tutor for another year to get you
ready, and have put in four years in
the university. OF course this is all
right. You aren't spoiled yet and if
you have your head set to it good and
hard to take up profession after
while, all very well and good! But
look ahere-I am just right now send
ing away-yes, see these checks-a
hundred dollars each to two of your
brothers. One of them has been prac-
ticing law for four years and Doctor
Witherspoon has had his sign out for
over two years. They're both writing
to the old man to send them money to
pay their house rent. The only ones
don't have to put up for right along
row are Ned, who took up electricity,
and Sam that's a mining engineer
and neither one of them right now is
making as much as my average travel
ing salesman
"Of course say, if you want to be-
come professional man, that's all
l
yers and doctors get only few grains
of corn that fall through the cracks;
the business man owns the crib, full
of ears. I've kind of got this profess
sional man idea out of my head. 1 had
It good and hard when your older
brothers were growing up-but if you
want to do something of that kind,
but Jr>
you know, I've kind of got it into my
mead that business man is a pro-
fessional men. Why, my buyer here
in the silk department must know a
whole lot of things technical things
at that, too-and l don't see why he's
not just as much professional man
as the fellow that yanks tooth out of
your head. Why, my travelling sales
men are professional men. They have
to study their business. 1t has cost me
a good deal of money to find out that
the young fellow starting out on the
road has whole lot to learn.
Now, maybe you would like to take
up a profession that none of your
brothers have stopped to, and become
business man. Of course I say if
you wish to do any one of these other
things and don't agree with me, you
shall have that liberty and I'll spend a
thousand year on you for four years
more. But, before you do that, I'm go
ing to have my say for just a little
while. l want you to spend at least
one year in the school that I've been
going to for half century. 1 want
you to put in little study in my col
legc-the University of Hustle.
The "Higher Education"
'It seems to me that this so-called
higher education, which is little more
or less than the reading of good books,
should he the pleasure picked up in
leisure hours of the business man
Why, I've seen one of my friends here
III Chicago get into talk with lot of
professors on subjects of history, re-
ligion, philosophy and literature and
r,early skin them in an argument; AMI
I'm shot if 1 don't believe that he has
a better education as you call it, than
any professor l ever met. And you
know that your old dad himself isn't
such a SLOUGH when it comes to books,
Ell son?
But, here! This is Monday morn
ing and two days mail to go through.
You run along out now and see your
mother. You can take one days vaca-
ton with her, but tomorrow morning
You show up here with me, at eigh.
o'clock. One of my travelling men has
just told me that the young man who
packs his trunks has got wise and is
going to 60 out on the road on his own
hook for another house. He needs a
good. live boy to help him along, ar d ]
guess I'll just turn you over to him fol
Il few trips"