The Washington times., 1917-08-24
What Chance Has a Clerk in
The Chance to Know Human Beings Learn Business
Become Independent and Rich.
a StOre?

Hundreds of the future rich, powerful and useful men
of this country working as clerks in stores
Thousands of young that in future will be inde
pendent well equipped able to take OF themselves are
working in the stores side by side with the young men
The boys and girls Of the country should realize that
the modern store is the modern business college:
What woman needs to advance In the world
and succeed in business supplied by CONSCIENTIOUS Work
the wel-managed store
To succeed you must know your fellowmen You see
them and study them in the STORE as you can do nowhere
else.
Their weaknesses displayed, their curious dispOs
tions revealed.
The young man or woman standing behind the counter
alert attentive observing learn more OF human nature
in week than the lawyer could learn In year The
young clerk has twenty clients IN day. The young
lawyer one in a month
The customer, eagerly shopping is of guard, you
the real and undsguised human nature You humanity
asitis.
To succeed in business you must learn how to deal with
human beings It is not only that which is within you that
gives success but that which is in othersand you must
learn to understand it, and far you need it, you must
learn to get it.
Business the art Of persuasion, the art Of
making friends the art of producing good impression
These arts you learn in the modern store nowhere
else
Fathers and mothers of intelligent boys and girls should
realize that what the daughter needs to be equipped
for the worlds battle is knowledge Of the world and the
people In it.
While working in the store that knowledge Is obtained
safely The young worker the girl especially works under
the eyes of those interested in her welfare and development
She comes in contact with men and women Of the out
she is there to supply it. She from her home to her
work and from her work to her home safely and regularly
Suppose you wanted your sea or your daughter to learn
business which really to learn commercial methods and
human nature and suppose that friend said to you:
II VIII take your son under my direction and observa-
ton will bring him In contact every day with dozens Of
different types of citizens the very rich the middle class
the classes with whom he must deal later in e his
account will make him acquainted with values with mer
chandise with methods Of salesmanship with the import
of regularity, attention poiteness AL this will do
day after day. giving him the opportunity to become fin
ished merchant And while am teaching him will pay
him. and will look after him carefully long as he Is in
my charge give him the opportunity that lacked when
was opportunity to quickly and learn quickly all
that business life is.'
You would readily accept such an offer, would you
not for your son, for your daughter?
That the offer held by the owner Of the good well
managed store today.
Every such store is business college It is to the or
dinary business college what real newspaper to school
Of journalism. You learn something in business col
lege and something in school Of journalism But to be
business you must be in business be newspaper
man you must be in a newspaper.
The store is oportunity it is the whole world in
small compass with its eageness its envie its bargaining
its avshnes its economy Within few hundred yards the
intelligent store empoye has within reach all that makes up
business success
Somebody said that drop of salt water represented
the whole Pacific since only made up of such
drops
A weu-managed store represents the whole world of
business and Is the best place for business education for
one good store is a business world.
Young men and women, be attentive and ambitious in
your store work. and success will come.
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