The Alaska daily empire., 1915-07-17
LlTTLE JOURNEY 70 REXAlL DRUG STORE
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 (NOTE The last Of the Little Journeys ever written by Ebert Hub. bard. ond one of the last articles he ever wrote was hls article on ihe' Rexali stores. in which te developed the story of the growth Of an idea when it has enthusiasm and right principles behind it rbe article in know of no business organization that SO completely mirrors the new time in which we live as the United Drug Company
 lt has @ chain of seven thousand agencies thot circle the globe.
 They are known as 'Rcxall Stores Hero is a business concern that Is doing something besides doing ousi- ness.
 One general purpose onimates and inspires an Of these agencies. Aud Chat Is the Desire to Serve
 Here business and beauty blend. Good VIII. industry and economy-and prosperity comes as natural result. The man who founded this concern is young man yot-hasn't turned forty But he has seen the evolution 1f great ideal.
 He has seen beautiful dream take tangible form and become a commer- cial success beyond the dreams of avarice.
 It is very certain Chat Louis K. Liggett. when. in Nineteen Hundred Three. he called forty druggists to. gether. and laid before them definite plan of cooperation in business, had TO idea of the extent Go which the plan would expand
 "Get your principles right said l Napoleon "and the rest is a matter 1f detail"
 Louis K Liggett set his principles right A great wave of light was -oreaking over humanity. Liggett saw that light. We began to take on com ed us were found to be baseless. Life l nonsense The fears that had haunt ! we discovered, Is largely what we make it
 i. We work from the complex to the simple. and the obvious Is the least thing we know We have what we give. we keep that which we pass out ! The treatment we give Co others comes back to us again Cast th, bread upon the waters and it shal return to you shortly-buttered.
 These truths in modern times seer irst to have been uttered by Emerson but they got into the air. Young Lig sett, the travelling salesmen, sensec breathed them in.
 He was in touch with umanity.
 He knew the great throbbing hear of mankind.
 The contrast of the old with what ! might-be took hold of the heart o Liggett
 Shabby stores had discouraged tho ! drug business and pushed it Co yer, low ebb
 The turn of the tide came wher Louis K. Liggett. that travelling sales man from Detroit, had a big idea one that was SO big that he did mol know how big it was. and ne doesn' know yet.
 Louis K Liggett was no poet n, ! dreamer. no reformer, no moralist II am not sure that the subject o ethics came in at all
 He was simply successful bus mess man. and in order to be stil more successful he incubated hi. idea: and SO the forty druggists gath cred together and Mr. Liggett ex plained the idea. and sa he explained it the subject grew plain to himself
 Liggett was luminous. possibly vol luminous. His enthusiasm ran over and inundated everybody He swept Che forty druggists off their feet. He met ihe bubbles. questions and quirks with Liegett logic He said one man in a town handling one line of goods and this a line that is not sold through obbers. can control the trade so as to make for himself a living and more. Without this cooperation, Liggett