The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-27
AnOpen
Letter


Just at this time many of you
are on the point of starting to
school or college. To you who
have fully determined upon the
school you will attend and the
course of study you will pursue.
we have nothing to say, except that
we wish you success in whatever
course of study you undertake.
There may be some, however,
who are undecided If there be
any that read these lines, we ask
you to consider for a moment your
life work.
Are you going to enter some
profession; the law, the ministry.
medicine, dentistry or one of doz-
en- other lines of endeavor? IL
SO, business course will be of in
estimable value to you. If you do
not feel that you can afford to
spend the time and money neces-
sary to carry you through a four
years high school course, a SINH
lar period in college or university
besides special or technical
course. we would unhesitatingly
recommend a business career.
This is truly commercial age.
Upon the youth of today will fall
the burden of conducting the most
gigantic business enterprises that
the world has ever known.
Absolutely in no other field are
there such vast opportunities as
in business. Every man should
have a knowledge of business
methods. The earlier In life one
acquires a knowledge of business
principles, the better business man
he becomes. There are a few
vastly wealthy men who have Sc
cured their knowledge and means
in the bitter school of experience.
The stings of early misfortune
have made of them demons of en-
ergy, whose grasping nature no
amount of material wealth can
satisfy. Opportunities such as
these men had are now no longer
open to the uneducated or the I'M
skilled. Other opportunities just
as great are lying all about us,
but they respond only to the well
trained mind. Every avenue ex-
cept manual labor is closed to
him who cannot use his brain.
Brain power is superior to mus
cular energy and the trained mind
is superior to the unframed. Bus
mess men have neither the time
nor the patience to take the
bright boy from the grammar
school and train him to do the du-
ties of an office assistant. He
must come to the office we'll pre-
pared to do those things for which
he desires to be paid.
There is no surer method for
rapid promotion In the business
world than through a thorough
business education. A knowledge
of bookkeeping, shorthand, type
writing and business practice COM
bined with a level head, a sterling
moral character, a willing hand
and tireless energy, constitute
greater asset than material
wealth unaccompanied by the
above qualifications.
"a bumptious colored person,
wearing a derby tipped over one
eye and cigar in his mouth point
Ing to the northwest, walked into
a hardware store and remarked:
Lemme see your razors.'
1.-THE clerk smiled pleasantly
and asked: DO you want razor
to shave within
Nav said the customer, for
social purposes
"An education for social pur-
poses isn't of any more service
than a razor purchased for a like
use. An education which merely
fits one to prey on society is a
predatory preparation for life Of
uselessness."
Young men and young women
you can make no mistake by Sc
curing a business education early
in life. You make no mistake by :.
learning all that your time and
means can afford. II you must
make your own way In the world
and IL you wish to be self-support-
ing, self-respecting and independ-
elt, see the writer of this article.
Arrange to begin your business
course on Wednesday, September
list. The school that is best pre-
pared to fit you for successful
business career Is located in the
Chamber of Commerce Building,
Corner of c and 9th Streets. Ia
coma, Washington. l1levator SER
vice is maintained for both day
and evening sessions. A cordial
welcome is extended to all young
persons between the ages of fifteen
and fifty, who wish to become