The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1917-06-01

hods, that we hardly knew whether
this world was safe place to live in
or not. We looked askance on every
man who had accumulated a fortune.
We felt that something was dark and
bad in his past somewhere. / re-
member reading about the United
States Senate. There was so-and-so
from Texas,-the Oil Trust owned
him. There was so-and-so from Wis
consin, the Railroads owned him. And
so on, all there through some unholy
alliance. All city governments were
corrupt. All laws were passed from
evil motives, all business was yoked
together in a vast unseen network,
formed and fostered to exploit the
nation. A business man was a being
without a conscience, like a slot
machine-you gave him a nickel and
he gave you nickel's worth of
goods. If he took your nickel and
gave you nothing in return, he was
successful business man.
All this criticism of business did
some good, but we have come to real
ize that it overplayed it's hand. The
greatest force for righteousness in
the United States today is nothing
more or less than the once maligned
business. Certainly business is the
greatest force in America working
for temperance. The young men of
half a century ago were pretty heavy
drinkers. The young men of today
have given up drink, not because they
were argued into it or scared into it,
but because they know it destroys
their efficiency, and cripples their
progress in business. Business is the
greatest ally and promoter of honesty
Business has taught that honesty is
the best policy, and millions of young
by first being made better business
men. If we get to the top of great
business enterprise, nine times out Of
ten we will find an idealist. We will
find man who has long ceased TO be
interested in mere money making,
who is staying In business because Of
what he wants his business to do for
his employees, his community and his
country. The time is past when the
young man who goes into business
needs to feel that he is making sell
fish choice-A choice that cuts him
off from service to his fellow men.
"Be not slothful in business" says
Saint Paul. Many man building a
big business in America has as by
product of his building strengthened
the characters, and lifted the ideals
of hundreds of his associates land
helped in the regeneration of whole
community.
Perhaps Henry Ford is the best ex-
ample of this class, but Michigan fur
nishes many others. When it was
announced that Charles E. Johnson OF
Muskegan would become president
and general manager of the Universal
Valveless Four-cycle Motor Company,
hundreds in his own home town, rush
ed to invest their savings in the COM
pany and the stock set aside to be sold
at par was Immediately heavily-over-
subscribed. When a man makes good
to that extent that his own people
those he knows as a man, and not as
name to which distance lends en-
chantment,-follow him to the limit
of their means and invest thousands
of dollars on his judgment and his
reputation as man, that man stands
for something.
What wonderful thrill of pleasure
it must give man to know that a
whole city-his own city stands
solidly behind him, because he has
made good as a man, as well as in a
business way, and the number of such
men, the idealists of business in
America is increasing very fast.
But in discussing Psychology in Bust
ness we must reckon with the women
folks also, especially the Mothers
1t is an interesting thing to remember
that the whole process of evolution
has been devoted to one single accom-