The Irish standard., 1914-07-25

Business offers to the young man
the greatest opportunity of any of
the gainful occupations. Success is
practically guaranteed. The ability
to work hard and with enthusiasm
are the essentials. Generally speak
ing, the young man with money and
influential friends starts out under
handicap for he is likely to depend
upon them, and as result will put
about eighty per cent. of his effort
into his work. The young man whose
future depends on his own effort will
put full one hundred per cent. into
his work. Any man familiar with
business will cite numerous cases
coming within his observation of
young men who have started at the
bottom and steadily climbed to the
top with no other assistance than an
enthusiastic application of their abil-
tiles to their work. OF the one hun
bred and sseventy ranking officials
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, one
hundred and sixty-three started at
the bottom, striking example of the
opportunities that are open to a
young man in business.
The development of the young
man is due to the makeup of the
business itself. The railroad man,
the banker, the manufacturer, the
telephone man, every man in bust
nsss is performing service without
which the world could not go on. Inn
agine business halted for a day and
the contemplation of only a few Of
the results will impress upon the
mind of every one the fact that busi-
ness is service of the highest type
to humanity. Business has expand
ed because the individual employee
has been recognized, because every
wide-awake young man in it knows
that reward and recognition are al
ways in sight, because the men who
are developing and have been deve-
Hoped by business. know that bust
ness is service.
A few years ago, policies were
carefully guarded; an employee was
but a cog in the machine, working
for and toward an end of which he
knew nothing. Today, an open,
broad-minded policy is pursued, not
only toward those to whom business
must account but toward it's en-
ployes on whose success its very life
depends. This attitude of business
spells success for the worker, be-
cause it instills enthusiasm and de-
velops loyalty, which are pri-
mary qualifications The boy
who started at three dollars
week and is now the presi-
dent of one of our largest banks will
tell us that this is the attitude of
business; that business is fair and
that it has expanded because every
intelligent, honest and enthusiastic
act of every employe counts.
Experience shows that even under
the same ownership, there will he
the keenest competition between two
plants because of the intense pride
employees have in doing better work
than their rivals. 1t should be
borne in mind that business is not
for the chosen few. Its field is broad,
for it takes the unframed man and
educates him. It reaches out for all
professions, for the arts gradutes,
the engineer and lawyer, as we'll as
for the untutored office-boy. Bust
ness gives postgraduate course to
the college man, and trains the man
who has not had the advantage of a
college course.
However, business is not a one
sided game, for the young man must
play his part. Business can only lay
the foundations, map out the way
and foster the spirit that leads to
success. The actual results depend
on the effort put forth by the indivi-
dual. He must put enthusiasm into
his work, for small ability with great
enthusiastic energy will accomplish
more than great ability without the
power Of enthusiasm. The young
man must work hard, think hard, do