Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-07

There is one thing want you young
college men to remember as long as
you live It is this:
Whenever you observe a group or
men ordering in the drinks, swilling
down the beer. trading chimney-sweep
stories, splitting out the profanity, be
very sure that these men are rarely
or never Big Business.
They will generally be found to be
bunch of small-place Nobodies jigging
along on their way to Nowhere. Big
Business is sitting out there in the car
with good books and good thoughts
and keeps itself away from that kind
of society.
Big Business is nearly always Real
Religion.
If you have time to sit down awhile
I will try TO tell you how proved this
out last summer 1t was wild chance
that only a harum- scarum fellow like
me would have taken.
Some friends motored on from Chi
cago and we Joined them here at
coatesville in an automobile trip thru
New England, visiting schools and col
leges.
We came to one college where those
in authority were rash enough to ask
us to address the student body. There
were five Of US in the party-W1liiam
Peterson, Andrew Stevenson. James
Hardin, Of Chicago; Charles Huston
and myself. Of Coatesville. There were
between four and FIVE hundred bright
young fellows who made up the audi
ence that filled the chapel.
When the rest Of the party who
were the real orators Of the aggrega
ton got thru, the audience was about
"all in" The president Of the college,
in. spite of my protest. then turned me
loose.
| "You poor talked-to-sleep fellows" /
said, II pity you. Indeed. do; but you
need not be bothered with me very
long. My stunt will consist OF but
three parts: A preface. two PROPOSE
tions, and a game you all can play.
| One or two fellows on the front row
woke up.
The Preface.
The other day one of the big Allan
tic liners had its hundreds OF peace
full passengers thrown into great ex-
citement by the startling cry OF Man
Overboard!,' One poor fellow who go'
crazy drunk in the liners grog-shoi
and drowned himself at sea attracted
more attention than the one or two
thousand sensible people who let the
stuff alone and kept sober and attend
ed to their own business.
So in the business world. The goot
linen attract so little attention that TIT
world forgets that Big Business is al
most all in the hands Of cody men
Those other fellows who are seen play
ing with the devil are not the Dbl
bosses" am going to prove this. Blu
to begin with I want you to assent t
two propositions.
The Two Propositions.
First.-Any concern that can affort
, to nav as much as $4,000 for singh
full page advertisement for singh
time in a big magazine, and then ais
IN mt It in a whole lot Of other maya
!, zines must do a tremendous big bus
;! ..ass 70 afford to pay 50 much TO
. publicity.
And any advertiser that can affor'
!. to put big sign boards along all tn
railroads. and cover all the dead walls
from the Atlantic to the Pacific mus
have a "slungin" big business to stan
the enormous cost
) second.-The man who can swing
/ business of this sort is certainly n
Miss Nancy milk-sop or man wit
one foot in the grave. you'd better- be
rood for you're going-to-die SHADOW
/ but a fullblooded up-to-date specime
4 of American manhood.
= see you all agree to these axioms
New HSre's the Game.
4 challenge any of you. either Il;
professors here on the platform or yo
1 students down in the audience, to nam
, me a single one of these Big Bust
J nesses outside OF rum and tobacco this
I can. not tell you what kind Of re
{ !uR1uo work the head Of 1t 10 engage
; "a. a. soon % you catch me I VIII .