The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-13
THIS CENTURY Is ONE OF WONDERS
Full IMPROVEMENT IN THE
METHOD OF CONDUCT.
SPECIAL TRAINING
BUSINESS MAY NEEDS PARTdCs
ULAR LINE OF TRAINING AND
THE BUSINESS COLLEGE -
MEETS DEMAND. k9

The greatest revolution in business
methods ever known has como
with the twentieth century. The pen
has given away to the typewriter: the
automobile is rapidly displacing the
horse: the adding machine Is relfev-
ing machine-like clerks, and moderD
filing systems are placing information
before managers with the rapidly
and accuracy hitherto undreamed OF.
All lines Of business are undergoing
such changes as to almost reduce them
TO a science.
John Wanamaker, one OF the coun-
try's greatest business men. once said:
"A young man who starts out at this
time will stand little chance without
business training"
Theodore Roosevelt said; Tho
average man who must earn his Hive
lihood should be well trained to do
so, and he should be trained to feel
that he occupies a contemplate po-
sition If he does not"
All the industries, as now conduct
ed, require specialized training and
technical education of the men who
manage them. In fact. the education
required to successfully manage
modern business Is such that 1t al
most reduces management to a pro-
fession.'
Every young man who enters busi.
ness cannot become a captain of In.
dustry'' any more than every young
man who enters politics can become
Gladstone Bismarck. or Lincoln:
but of one thing there is a certainty.
that every properly trained young man
who gets into business is moro suro
of securing a comfortable living than
at any previous period in the worlds
history. There are more chances for
advancement and the remuneration
is greater, and the Anal result Is more
satisfactory than can be secured in
any other line Of human activity. con-
sidering the education and ability re-
CURED.
Graduates of business colleges
have paying positions always awaiting
them said Ebert Hubbard. They
do not have to beg. borrow, steal, nor
stand in the bread line"
Thomas A. Edison asserted that
there are too many doctors and law
yers now in this country, that the So
cial organization 10 growing top
heavy from overload OF them; ana
James ]. Hill claims there is great
need of capable business men.
The opportunities that are near US
are also near our neighbor. there
FORE there is competition, and he who
achieves the greatest success must
know as much as or more than his
neighbor, and not only know. but
know how to make practical use Of
his knowledge. He who does not
make the most of the opportunities
within his reach must 60 down be-
fone his neighbor who does. and be
sooner or later relegated to the
ranks of the army Of incompetents.
Business men have no time to train
their Office help. The time Is past
when a boy may hope to go into an
office without education and training.
and hope in the course OF time to
become the office manager. or, per-
haps a partner. Such training IL the
province of special schools-Business
colleges.
AS such. conditions actually exist.
is II not we'll for us to consider wheth-
er or not we should prepare ourselves
to meet them. also consider the out
look after we have made the proper
preparations?
John D. Rockefeller recently said
that he could make use OF eight young
men that very day at $4,000 per
year, II he could only ind the man.
Right now, while this article IL being
written. there are certain bills before
congress which, II passed. will call
, for a large number Of men on saIa-
ries ranging from $4,000 to $4,000
per year: and there is doubt in the
minds of some who are most inter-
ested whether such ability as required
can be obtained at those figures. Tho
United States Civil Service commits
sion Is constantly sending out circu-
lars to business and technical schcols
urging them to insist upon more
young men and women preparing
themselves to enter the civil sersdce
at salaries ranging from $500 20
$4,000 per year. Are not those VINO
secure such position abundantiy re-
warded for a few months or even
few years spent in study as q prepar-
alton for their duties?
why are there not enough people
| to fill these positions? Do you ever
hear OF an untitled demand for doc
tors, lawyers, or other professional
men? No: 1t IL only in the profess
sion" of business that there IL m 4n-
sistent demand for more men and
women.
| No nrst-class business college o.
/ Richmond is able to ill one-half the
local demand upon 1t tor IT. oTadM-s
a4es The calls are coming from All
sides and daily. The whole matter
! liz resolved into one big question:
why can you not send VI enough
oface=help a. The AneNoe
is simple: Not enough young men
and women are Interested" The
world owes no one q living. Every
one owes the world much for the sup
port received from 1t. That debt ca
be discharged only by making ~
I OF the talents possessed by tho indi-s
viduai. II you have nothing to givo
the world has nothing for you. Re-
sources equal liabilities. and Il you
have no resources there are non In
BILE to you. The world II looking f0S
men and women who can do ACnle-
thing. not for those who want . 3o6ss
The man who knows his businesa thees
oughly ID In demand. and will not ~
unemployed. He will command t.
| highest salary for tho kind Of oeEs'
vices he can render. B, MI IN
! Women are now a-iargs factce
I the industrial world. Some Of tA1
are receiving salaries that would a1o(E
almost fabulous to the average yo0N
I man or woman. All the world M
I lContinusd on sscoaA SaoeJ n