The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-15

posed. The business man, or those en-
gagged In business, sucn as the butcher.
the grocer, the clothicr, and the manu-
| factuTer, DO not succeed by merely
serving customers by tying up bundles
OF goods which they may desire TO pur-
chase, but their success lies In the
close attention paid TO the smallest de-
tails OF every transaction The sue
cessful business man studies to know
how to buy. and what to buy, and In
what market he may be the most sue
cessful. quality, OF course. being con-
/ sidered. Then he considers his ex-
penses, and how he may avoid any
needless waste OF time and money.
He next displays his goods TO the best
possible advantage; and then notifies
the public Of what he has TO offer.
There are thousand and one minute
details that must engage his attention,
If he is ever successful. He must
make these things his principle con-
Germ and let them occupy his time
and attention" Otherwise ne will be
miserable failure, for no business
Will run itself.
Now, it occurs to us, that union peo-
pie can learn n good lesson here, if
| they will just do little good horse
sense thinking, and take the trouble
| to do a little investigating on their
own account. There are many people
who possess themselves OF an idea,
one that Is laudi5le, II studied out In
detail, but In its crude form is some
what distorted and out OF shape, and
they bring it to the union meeting,
and II IL Is not accepted forthwith
and in toto. they fly off at tangent,
and denounce those VINO counsel mod
Grafton. Many grand and glorious ideas
have been flung to the four wins be-
cause their authors have been too mar
row minded OF too stupid to put tho
into practicable shape
The successful artisan gives his un-
divided attention to his employment,
not merely doing what his hands have
been taught to do, but using his brains
as well. in order to discover how he
may do it better, and in shorter time.
He makes IT his chief concern. while
the man who does not give attention
to the seeming useless details, plods
along in tle same old way, at the
same time old pay, and after a few
years, when he is laid on the Shelf"
we offer our sympatnies in abundance
for his misfortune. and most of 1T
caused by him not having used his
brains. And this same rule will apply
to unions in dealing with their employ
ers. Many times trouble has resulted
from hasty actions and immature
plans. whereas, if time had been taken
to so into details, and the other side
Of the question had been considered
sufficiently, much more could and
would have been accomplished and
that without so much ill will, and with
much less suffering When we learn
to transact business in business way,
when we learn TO inject correct and
sound business methods into all of our
transactions, instead OF so much wild
foolishDess and senseless gable, we
snail stand pre-eminently the power
behind the throne" and not until then
need we expect to come into the her
itage that is justly ours
Christianity teaches the ''brother-
hood Of man." but it does not mean
by that that one man may sneak
around and steal the job OF another,
by an offer of less wages.
We are too prone TO wait until one
is dead before we think to say some
thing good of him. Let us say the
enjoy them. We are OF the opinion OF
a minister who once said: II would
rather have an ounce of 'taffy' than
pound Of ep-l-taph-y.'