The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-04-15
BUSINESS.
The Most Honorable Pursuit I'm Which
Humanity can Engage.


The medieval mind fingers. The
odors Of dead ideas cling to modern
thought.
1t is still the easy way to gain a
reputation for being a superior per-
son, to speak of oney-makine as
low.
AS the endowed set of Europe re-
fer contemptuously to Trades People.
and blood is supposed to be bluer as
your ancestors who did useful work
are more remote, SO there seems to
be notion abroad, even in America,
that the woman whose time is occu-
pied in dressing and undressing, and
the man who devotes himself to polo,
golf, travel, club life and dawdling,
and also the artist, literary person, or
musician are of higher class than the
man or woman who manufactures.
trades or earns wages.
AS a matter Of truth, however.
there never has been discovered. since
the days when Adam delved and Eve
spun, anything worthier, filter or
nobler for a human being to engage
in than Business.
Business means you are doing some-
thing for which mankind is glad to
pay you money. -
! Laying aside all forms of gambling,
luck and gift, when you make money
you are responding TO the need of the
world and Of your times. You are do
ing something humanity wants done.
There are striking exceptions to this
rule, but it is a rule none the less. .
The world will be a deal better of
when every person over twenty-one is
in Business; that is, doing work and
getting paid for it. -
All the classes that are not doing
that now are riding on humanity's
back and We would be vastly better
off if we could drop them. .o
! Indeed, the problem of the future,
in economies, is to eliminate the
drones.
We are solving it slowly. The par
son who gets decent salary is bet
ter than the one who subsists on
charity; Caruso sings well, Ysaye and
Kubelik are great fiddlers, and Wilson
is capable president, and none Of
them are spoiled by being, we'll paid
hired men. They are all Business
Men. They are employed by the Peo-
pie. And the people are the noblest
Of Masters. a,,-
What the world needs is not more
leisure, more endowment. and all
that; it needs to get Business SO ad-
justed that it is a pleasure. As..,.
| To turn Labor into Craft, to make
railroading fun, to make conditions
of work SO agreeable in factory and
mine that to toll there is man.s
game, to made trade an adventure,
that is the worlds want. .,.,.,...
And the average man likes to work,
if he gets fair wages, cheerful SUR
roundings and fair play. A hundred
million people with nothing to do
| would develop into a colossal Bedlan,.
Harry G. Selfridge, who owns a
prosperous department store in Lon
don. being interviewed upon the oc-
casion OF his purchase Of all the
shares in his concern held by others,
| uttered some sound philosophy. He
said 49,.
the least by the change. intend res
olutely to pursue those high ideas OF
commerce that have always been be-
fore me. 1t is a greater delight to do
business today than it ever was in tho
past, because business is shedding cut
the disagreeable attributes that once
belonged to it. Business is now car.
ried on, not to amass wealth for
senseless. unethical boarding, but to
brire; into play the highest forms OF
intelligence and morality and to diffuss
as much sunshine as may be among
all the people, whose combined loyalty
and labor make business possible
DR.. F:ank Crane in Atlanta Journal.