The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-09-01

own lulLldI1Vo ana your encourage
ment.
The average boy of thirteen to if
teen has education enough to start
him; but, If you and your boy plan
on banking for his career, he should
have striven little harder than the
usual lad to get hold Of arithmetic
Addition and subtraction and multi
plication and division-they count, and
count big, in banking. and the young
fellow that can figure and knows
ground work Of arithmetic pretty well
has great advantage over the others.
Bankers complain bitterly over the
difficulty Of finding boys that can
readily compute the simplest sums
and do figuring that schoolboy Of
twelve ought to achieve without diff
Guilty
When your boy seeks his first job
he should call on the prospective en-
ployer himself, and not send a letter
Of application, written and rewritten
the night before, and altered and ap-
proved by all the members Of the
family, till all the originality is taken
out Of it. For the banker will learn
all he wishes to know, and he can
soon discover in little talk If the boy
is fundamentally honest and is bright.
After the boy has been inquisition-
ed and finally gets his job-it's up to
him.
If he observes and asks questions (of
his associates and friends; not of his
employer), and spends his spare time
reading and studying the things he
finds are needed In banking business
generally, his promotion is as sure as
life. Ut is unnecessary to say that he
must be honest; for that is requisite
to advancement in any employment.
And he will be a big man in the
community-as bankers always are.
If he has ambition for society, or the
chamber of commerce, or to partici-
pa in the substantial development
of the city, and to be on important
committees, to be consulted by the
city fathers when they are consider
Ing grave problems, to have his opin.
ions on commerce and the times and
the welfare of the city quoted in the
newspapers, to be sought by the
churches, and to be one of the lead
ers in every public enterprise-in
short, to be looked upon as one of the
pillars, the solid, important men where
he resides-if he has this laudable am
bition, he could not attain it, short of
something out of the ordinary or
sheer luck. anywhere more quickly
fhov, h1 oh
His financial future. of course, is as
sured; for, If he is in earnest, his job
Is safer than in any other of the usual
lines OF endeavor, and his earnings
and the very atmosphere OF his calling
insure him well-kept old age. Who
ever heard of a banker in the poor.
house?
If he wishes to become widely in
terested in public affairs, the entire
gamut of ambition is open to him; for
his reputation is already made and he
will be sought. When there is popu.
lar protest against abuse of public
affairs and loud call for a business
administration" the way for the bank.
er is clear, and he can be alderman
land, of course, chairman of the
finance committee in the city govern
ment), or mayor-and it is not so far
to the presidents cabinet as secretary
of the treasury, or to the United
States senate, or to other high gov
eminent place.
And all this is open to the ordinary
bright boy.
Copyright, 1910. by the Associated Lit
erary Press.)