Evening star., 1916-11-12
Il Few Kind Words for Business

filled our youthful minds with so much distressing nfor-
nation that we hardly knew whether the world was
safe place for us to step out into not.
We looked askance all the fellows in college whose
fathers had made money To be sure the fathers seemed
decent enough old codgers when they visited at the
fraternity house But felt that something dark
and bad in their past somewhere
We wouldn't have been walking on the street
with John d. Rockefeller for anything.
remember visiting Washington and looking at the
United States Senate. felt as If were visiting sing
Sing.
There was So-and- SO from Texas: the Oil Trust owned
him. There so-and-So from Wisconsin, the rail
roads owned him. And
III there through some unholy alliance all blot and
disgrace to their country.
All city governments corrupt all laws
passed from evil motives; all business yoked to-
gether in vast network formed and fostered
to exploit the nation.
A business being without conscience
intelligence, like slot machine. You gave him nickel
and he gave you nickel's worth of goods.
If he took your nickel and gave you nothing in return,
then he a successful business man.
Running magazine very easy in those days.
All one had to do to take down map of the
United States and place his finger any spo-say
Owosso, Michigan Then call in writer and say, Get
the train and out and what is rotten in owosso
Undertaking did good but have to
realize that it overpayed its hand
In fact, believe it could be shown that the greatest
force for righteousness in the United States to-day is
nothing more nor less than the once much maligned
BUSINESS.
Certainly Business is the greatest force in America
working for temperance
The young Of half century ago pretty heavy
drinkers The young of to-day have given up drink
Not because they argued into it scared into
it, but because they know that it destroys their efficiency
and cripplcs their progress in Business.
Business is the greatest ally and promoter of Honesty.
And more and more have come to feel that Honesty
is, after all, the cornerstone of all the virtues.
have business man refuse to sign document
that contained the tincst little misstatement msstae-
that probably would have been detected, and
would have meant thousands of dollars in profits to HIM
| have whose time is worth thousand
dollars day spend half hour editing single adver-
tisementso jealous he of his firms reputation for
making false claim eXtravagant assertion.
Business has taught that honesty is the best policy:
and millions of young have been made better citi-
by first being made better business men.
Nothing has impressed me than this: Get to
the top of big business enterprise and nine times
of ten you will find an ideaist
You will find who has long since ceased to be
interested in money making, who is staying in
business because of what he wants his business do for
his employees, his community. and his country.
do not say that Business is perfect. Far from it.
But | do say that the time is past when the Young
who goes into business needs to feel that he is max
ing selfish choicea choice that cuts him off from serv-
ice to his fellow
"Be not sohfM IN BUSINESS" said St Paul, "ervent
in spirit ~rring the Lord"
Many man. building big business in America, has,
byproduct of his building streng hened the char
acers and lifted the ideals of hundreds of his associates
and helped in the regeneration of n whole community