Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-23

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boys, (thru their fathers) and young
men, in particular, that in choosing
business career they do not demeall
themselves; and to impress upon their
minds the fact that there is as ample
opportunity for developing the higher
mental faculties as can be found IN a
professional life.
SECONDHAND principally, wish to
insist that the standards of ethics III
the business world ars as high as any
which are set for mans adoption.
say principally, because no man ~
really successful who does not adopt
high ethical standards as his own; and
success Is the ultimate for which you
are all striving. Success of bust
ness, as truly as Of a professional life,
means the formation and development
OF character--nor the mere piling up OF
dollars.
"The most unsuccessful, and hence
the most unhappy man imaginable, Is
the one who has accumulated great
wealth, and while SO doing. has COM
pressed his mind into the narrow con-
fine which mere money getting pre-
scribes, and has permitted his soul to
wither and parch under the scorching
rays Of glistening gold.
All Want to Make Money.
MANY years ago there lived, or ratn-
er existed, In Chicago, a man whose
entire life--his waking thoughts and
his sleeping dreams-had been devoted
to acquiring and boarding money. In
his old age he became very i'll. and al
last the physician deemed it his duty
to acquaint the patient with the fact
that his illness would prove fatal. The
oil man rose on his elbow and said:
Doctor! Why, doctor. can't die; this
Is going to be tile best year for max
ing money Chicago ever saw.
I'VE are all, perforce. money makers.
No prudent man determines his pur-
suit in life without considering, pri-
marily, his ability thru such pursuit to
provide for the temporal wants Of HIM
self and those dependent upon him.
The theological student has faith that
he will receive for his sermons and his
pastoral work enough money to sup
port himself and any family the good
Lord may send him, or he would not
pursue theological course. The law
student confidently looks forward to
the receipt of large and frequent re-
tanners followed by his presentation OF
large and frequent bills, or he would
find Coke<and Blackstone much less IN
ter,ssting authors than they now seem
to him. The medical student dreams OF
the day when the efficacy Of his pills
and potions will be acknowledged by
numerous prompt paying patients, in
surfing him comfortable living during
his years of strength and activity, and
a competency for old age, or he would
throw physic to the dogs :
Active, Earnest Men Never Retire.
''Business means work. If, at any
time, in any section Of this country,
there has been felt by any class of in
telligent people a disdain for those who
engaged in any kind Of honorable
work, that time has been relegated to
the past. The great demand Is for
something to do; not for that some
thing. which, providing for present
wants, will insure a condition of idle
ness or even leisure little later on,
but something which will prove con-
genial, elevating, helpful life work. The
active, earnest men of today never re-
&c
constitutes their recreation and pleas
ure. The steel wears to the weld; 1t is
not consumed by rust. Torpid brain and
fabby muscles never brought their
possessor real pleasure. In the, life Of q
business, man, there Is ample oppor-
tunity for exercising the faculties OF
tho mind and the muscles of the body.
Abilities will not be shelved in the
counting room to grow musty, or bur-
led in the warehouse to decay. Bust
ness opens It's doors widely to men
who really desire to engage in effective
work. 80
'.Business-real business - pertains
to the exchange OF the worlds COM
modities in all Of Its ramifications. 1t
is the living principle of every legiti-
mate transaction from the making and
selling OF shoe strings to the funding
of nations Indebtedness. 1t fur
nishes the motive power which moves
the machinery OF the world It Is in
dispensa;ble to every branch of in
dustry in which man Is engaged. From
the very planting OF seed in the soil
to the distribution OF the product in its
ultimate form for consumption, bust
ness has dictated, and for the most
part, conducted every movement From
the opening Of the mine, the output
follows THE channels marked out and
controlled by business. thru the mill
and the factory the warehouse and the
shop, until it fills the place for which
It was destined, whether that place he
a child's toy or a great railway sys-
tern.
tern. $50
Distinguish Between Real and Illegal.
1.-THE commerce between the north
and the south OF our own country since
the war Of the rebellion, has done more
to encourage proper relations between
the people Of the two sections, to de-
velop good will and good fellowship,
and to establish lasting peace, than
the enactments Of congress, the eff
forts Of the executive, and the patriot
ism Of politicians combined. You do
not demean yourself by choosing a
business career, nor do you retard your
intellectual growth by such a choice.
TN discussing the ethics Of business,
this paper does not recognize any re-
lationsl1ip between real business and
iillegitimate transactions which en-
deavor to class themselves under It's
good name. The blood and thunder
tales OF cheap story papers and yellow
covered novels, which fire the mag
ination Of youth, are not literature,
but mental poison.
4sThe professed healing of disease by
,n-vSfario,lS and hidden methods ia not