Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-03-31
BUSIN ESS
The Most Honorable Pursuit in Which
Humanity Can Engage.

The Most Honorable Pursuit in 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 superior person,
to speak of money making as low.
AS the endowed set Of Europe refer
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 a no
ton abroad, even in America, that the
woman whose time is occupied in
dressing and undressing, and the man
who devotes himself to polo, golf, trav-
ell, club life and dawdling, and also the
artist, literary person, or musician are
Of higher class than the man or wo-
man 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 span,
anything worthier, filter or nobler for
q human being to engage in than Bus
mess.
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 doing
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 off
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.
Indeed, the problem Of the future.
in economics, Is to eliminate the drones.
We are solving it slowly. The par
son who gets decent salary is better
than the one who subsists on charity;
Caruso sings we'll, Ysaye and Kubelik
are great fiddlers, and Wilson is cap
able president, and none of them are
spoiled by being we'll paid hired men.
They are all Business Men. They are
employed by the People. And the peo-
pie are the noblest Of Masters.
What the world needs is not more
leisure, more endowment, and all that;
it needs to get Business so adjusted
that it is pleasure.
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 a mans game, to
make 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 Bedlam.
Harry G. Selfridge, who owns pros
porous department store in London,
being interviewed upon the occasion OF
his purchase of all the shares in his
concern held by others, uttered some
sound philosophy. He said:
My plans have not been altered in
the least by the change. l intend res
olutely to pursue those high ideas or
commerce that have always been be-
fore me. 1t is a great delight to do
business today than it ever was in the
past, because business is shedding out
the disagreeable attributes that once
belonged to it. Business is now car
ried on, not to amass wealth for sense
less, unethical boarding, but to bring
into play the highest forms Of intelli-
gence and morality and to diffuse as
much sunshine as may be among all
the people, whose combined loyalty and
labor make business possible.-Dr
Frank Crane in Atlanta Journal.