Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-11

The things that 60 to make up good
business man. in the popular mind, are
the establishment Of great Industries and
enterprises. coupled with the aecumuia-
tlon OF money by the individual.
A careful review OF the history OF busi-
ness men who have made success along
these lines shows that tho majority sac
rifced their health and their lives to
their business. In the last and final anal
ysls, therefore, these we're not good busl-
ness men.
Tile best musician Is the one who can
bring the most sounds into harmony.
Tho superior artist is the one who most
successfully can harmonize colors and
reproduce nature. The best business man
likewise Is tho man who can best mar
monlSe or balance the affairs uhder MS
control.
The man who from a cheap tin store
founded "The Fair In Chicago and AL
lowed the business to dethrone his rea-
son and send him to his death before he
was 80, could hardly be considered a
good business man. Measured on TINS
same scale Marshall Field was not a
good busineEs man. President Roberts.
who arose from the ranks OF a car wheel
moulder to the presidency OF the Penn
syIvanla Railroad and died at the age
OF 20. was not a good business man. IL.
A. Lozler, who made millions Of dollars
out OF the Lozer bicycle works and died
MT middle age while eating his break
fast, was not good business man.
SUCCESS EMPTY WITHOUT HEALTH.
The accumulation of money and the
founding OF great industries Is only one
requisite and by no means the most
important one to the good business man.
for what profiteth man to make seven
figure fortune, to put In motion million
spIndles, chain continents together with
cables, flash his silent voice over oceans
and continents on currents OF common
air, make the oceans billowed bosom a
commercial highway, transform the OK
cart into a palace and set II on wheels
and hitch II to the lightning, build sky
scrapIng structures OF stone and steel,
trnnsfX human figures and faces ON SEN
sitIzed glass, direct the methods of bur
rowing into the earth for coal and gold
Until his name Is known around the world
and his fortune is n power In the land
what boots 1t to Know all these things
and glide hlindly into the shamhles of
unrest and disease, or furnish a fashion
able funeral at As?
The RELIGIOUS fanatic who robes him
self in sack cloth and eschews the razor,
the food crank who cries out. back to
nature" and takes to grass, the one
idea social reformer who breaches on
the curb and the business man who al
lows his business TO become his abso-
luate master and governor, are in reality
all in the same class. The unfortunate
thing is that the business man sits
him down and weaves about himself the
mesh of a prison. Every year puts In
n new bar every month a new bolt, and
every day and hour a new stroke that
rivets around him what he calls busi-
ness until he feels and really thinks
he cannot escape.
A GOOD BUSINESS MAN.
A good business man Is the man who
can direct the wheels of industry, who
can draw trial balance between HIS
income and his expenses and who can
measure his own ability on the yard
stick of endurance
He Is a good business man who gives
as much study to the laws of his own
physical organization as he does to the
final wind-up l doubt II he would not
consider himself better business man,
fat broke and in good health at 90, than
soJourning In n sanatorium with million
at his call but out OF the fight at 20.
IT is truly unfortunate that the gem
eral laws of health and hygiene are not
more universally taught and understood.
We learn that best with which we are
thrown In most frequent contact
The business man would absorb enough
information on these subjects TO extend
his period of longevity and usefulness
many years II they were taught In our