Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-03-10
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o the average man the
banker is is a thing apart,
,EMA sort Of superior crea-
Y i9 y ture who moves on an
y other plane-always CARRIED
!, = 80 in apparent richness, with
look of prosperity. seh-possessed.
shrewd, able The rest of US simply
look up to him, that's all.
AID so the boy looks up to the
bani messenger or the bank clerk
the one that comes out of the forbid
ding portals. with a black package or
a sachel in his hand and an air of
aloohess that makes the envious
youthful observer sort of gasp.
An yet that same banker and his
messenger are not so far above us,
after IL They are not different it is
W. tht are different-we have clothed
them an atmosphere somewhat like
that Which we draped round the man
that ypre a silk hat and a frock coat
when fe were ten or twelve and lived
in thccoutry or a small town.
ANYBODY can be a bankerl Your
boy isan ordinary boy. say, OF thir-
teen e fifteen, and you have dreamed
dream about his future, and some
how, gu have wondered if-no, he
could lever be banker-a banker
is so Rr out of your comprehension.
So 70 dismiss banking and banker
from Dur calculations. and decide
that IL youngster shall be a civil en-
gineer, or a school teacher, or take
& job helper to the family grocer,
Or somthing.
But both you and your boy have
!. the riht kind Of nerve, you hold a
brief Tx with him and then he goes
Of trablingly to ask the minister of
the clrch where his mother attends
and b goes to Sunday school for a
letter elling what fine honorable,
: alnbitus young fellow he is, and
l low l. is bound to succeed in any
4 thing \ attempts. Then he gets an
other finn the family doctor, and one
or two BIN the wise men he has seen
with hiFather-then he goes to the
= bank itsf.
: And ore there? Well, he finds
r that it 49, so hard to get a job after
a all. Thatame aloorness that seems
II to surroun the banker has apparent
A ~ kept t9aboys from applying for a
ipi, hecf. &. Il has tho o--'i.'-4--s-
5, ,lo"n-lo in3vidual from keeping his
I. n@t Old when he euters the impressive
g uoor"ai. me cashier of a prominent
n metropolitan baQk expressed 70 me
( me otAer day his Nonderment thst his
institution couldn't get enough bo,s
q They don't pay much at the Start
, Of course-only s1o or so moth
t (~ere talking Of big city banks). hut
, ms Is to boy Of thirteen to fften.
' anl after a year managing a feathr
. MUSTER. or pushing the lever Of a coli
I colnting machine, or running errands
, hegets $25 to $50 Then he must have
f. a bond, because he is a messenger
!. AMI goes out collecting drafts and
, chicks on other banks, etc; but tbs
! bank furnishes this, and there is nc
! boher about it at all
hen, after two years or 10. q, i,
, assistant or head messenger, and may
, &c as much as S125 a month. And
! iron there, if he is bright enough to
, wok out of the messenger rutland
the average boy is-he goes into the
receiving teller's cage, or the book
keqlng department, or the discount.
or ne collecting, and gets. not s125 a
moth, but only $50 or $50 a month.
Que a drop in salary, it is true, but
!, theambitious boy will make this tenn
po1ry monetary sacrifce-and Won
vii encourage him to do so-that he
ma not remain messenger all his
life but will open up before him an
ocapational vista that has at it's end
a Ink presidents chair.
HIS next step, maybe, is receiving
tellr Itself, when he will be Maid
sonPtlmes as much as $500 a year,
or assistant in the paying teller's
bodh at as much salary (the paving
tellr gets more than the receiving),
andpn as paying teller, then assistant
easier, then cashier, then-vice-presi-
den or president, or anything as big
as tie young banker has in him.
lfyour boy has position as teller
by ae time he is thirty, ne has gone
on fetty fast-but not more than a
ialrf bright young man ought to-and
by We years later or, at the most.
whel he is forty. he is sure to be well
alo1gand highly regarded in business
circles, Cashier at thirty -five: salary
$4,000 up (referring to large CITY
banks) a big man-this is not at all
remarkable for the ambitious boy can
surely et there. From there on one
is simpf realizing the aims he has
formed the meantime through tic