The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-06
RtSfR SPEAKS TO
R, B. C., STUDENTS
Former Member of Legisla-
ture Tells What Business
World Demands.

county recorder of Tippecanoe county,
addressed the students of the Rich
mond business college Friday.
There are no two counties in the
state that are more alike in population
tax duplicates and citizenship than
Ttppecanoe and Wayne counties, and
no two cities more alike in these re-
spects than Richmond and Lafayette.
] came down here this morning on a
train OF the Pennsylvania railroad sys-
tenn. That Is the greatest railway sys-
tenn In the world, but ! say the great
est railway system ever in the state OF
Indiana was the old Underground
system. which used to have SO many
stations in Wayne county," said Mr..
Reser.
1T used to be that the people of In.
diana were considered ignorant and
uneducated, and books were written in
what was termed the "Hoosier dia.
1ect" to illustrate this idea. But that
day has passed. Former United States
commissioner of education, MIR. Hanes,
in several Of his reports. gave Indiana
credit for having the best common
school system of any state in the I'm
lon.
Il am little bit old fashioned in my
ideas Of education. for instance, | be-
lieve that no young man or young
women can ever be considered we'll
educated who habitually misspells
common ordinary words. l know a
lawyer in Indiana who spells. God Al
hot q
him but he would not like to have
his stenographer spell it that way. A
boy or girl who can set down a col
umn of figures, units under units and
tens under tens and add the column
quickly and as accurately has an &C.
complement worth something. for
more than half of the mistakes in
business computations are mistakes
in addition. Learn the per cent
method Of computing interest and stay
with it. The place for the young lady
to have the youn man call, is not at
the office or to telephone her there.
but at her own home.
Il once heard an old Quaker woman
give a sermon that had in 1t much
quaint philosophy. she said. There
are three things l very much wonder
at The first Is why boys will throw
clubs, stones and brickbats up into
trees to knock down the fruit. If they
would Just let 1t alone 1t would come
down itself after awhile. The second
things that l wonder at 1t that men
will go to war and kill one another.
II they would just stay at home, they
would die themselves after q while.
And the third and last thing l wonder
ut is why the young men are contin-
ually going after the young women. II
they would just stay at home, the
young women would go after the
young men after a while
1.-THE twentieth century is now be-
fore us with all it's hopes and it's OPP
portunities. Go forward then, young
men and young women of Richmond,
and each one do your part to make
the twentieth century. as 1t will sure
ly will be, the grandest in human
achievement Of all the centuries of
the past.
MANY of the things l have spoken
Of are little things, but little things
have always been important. 1t was
the kissing Of goose that awakened
the Roman army. and saved that inn
perial city in ancient times. 1t was
the observation Of a spider web that
gave the first idea Of suspension
bridge: 1t was the observation Of a
swinging lamp in cathedral that
gave Gallileo the first idea of pen
<lulum for q clock. Little things are
important.
II always feel like taking off my
hat to any man that can do any one
honorable thing and do it we'll. In
the early days there used to be a
man in my county who could make a
better axe handle than any man in
the county, and that man was a sue
cess.
"Stenographers occupy cOnfiden
tial position in the office They should
keep inviolably secret the business OF
their employers not that he is doine
anything wrong. but no man likes tc
street. We hear a great deal now
a-days about stenographers being uset
In the courts to give testimony
against their employers. OF course
stenographers are subject to the pro
cesses Of the courts, the same al
other citizens. but my advice to stem
ographers Is to turn your notes ovel
to your employers to whom they be
long and let the courts get them o.
him, II ut all"