Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-24

Southern and Western cities and the busi-
ness positions there. He has family of
children, and limited capital.
Right at the start ! must say that get
ting job, or a business opening of any
kind, is a personal, individual matter.
There are no general rules that point the
way. If man has $1,000 to invest at 5
or 6 per cent, there is a certain science
in it, and it does not take great deal of
expert knowledge to set down few rules
that will keep the $1,000 fairly safe. But
when man puts into a business not only
a fair sum of money, but his time, educa-
ton, training, and enthusiasm, he expects
great deal more than 5 or 8 per cent, and
it is much more complicated problem
Advertise in the Newspapers
WHAT might be called conservative in
vestments are made pretty much the
country over, and you can judge them all
by recognized we'll known, and simple
standards. This young man wants to go
into business in Southern or Western
town, and there are thousands of them.
To keep in close touch with business con-
ditions and opportunities in all of these
places would be a superhuman matter.
But there are ways of getting informa-
ton. should say that one of the best
ways to start would be to insert small
advertisement in one of several news
papers that run what are called business
columns State lust what you want,
how much capital you have, and where
you want to go. Then, when replies begin
to come in, ask your local bank to write
to a bank in the town from which the let
tiers have come, to learn the standing of
the parties who have written.
Another method is to write to towns in
the section of the country which appeals
to you, for such information as the local
boards of trade are in position to fur
nish. There is hardly an inhabited spot
in this country so small that it does not
have its own Board of Trade or Chamber
of Commerce, ready to help the new
conner in the business field. OF course,
excessive enthusiasm of local nature
must be discounted a little.
Then, too, every railroad has an in
dustrial agency which will gladly furnish
full information about business oppor-
tunites along it's line.
How the Federal Government HELPS
PUT most important of all is the iDfor-
nation that various departments of
the Federal Government furnish freely
and in great detail. For information con-
corning any conceivable branch of farm
ing, the Department of Agriculture will
send full instructions as to the best sec
ton of the country for that particular
crop, complete details as to methods, also
instructions as to marketing, and now,
believe, even general information as re-
CARDS financing the proposition.
If the man in Lowell wants to know
about any particular industry, manufac-
turing or commercial, he should write
to the Department of Commerce, whose
many bureaus constitute vast store
house of business knowledge. OF course,
the government can not answer vague
question like "Where is there business
opening in the West for me?" But if any
citizen asks, What about the pottery in
dustry in Oklahoma City? Is there any
chance there for me?" | am willing to
assert that this random question could
and would be willingly answered by some
bureau in the Department of Commerce.