The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-19

upon whom they may lean; the stress. wear
and tear OF business to-day need men OF
good health and strong constitution; the
American push and energy that is put into
business means that we are crowding into
eight hours what formerly was accom-
plishd in perhaps a week 1t therefore is
necessary that the young man must do moth
ing that would impair his health.
"A great many of our boys who returned
from the late war came back aggressive and
sef-reliant. The military training they re-
ceived and the experiences they had helped
them wonderfully to attain that initiative
that is required to-day in all classes of bust
ness. To them particularly say that there
is great opportunity II they will but use
their talents Alright.
Commerce and business to-day rank
with the professions. This was not so many
years ago. 1t has come to be recognized
that business is the forerunner of culture
and higher civilization. Railroads connect
one extreme with the other and make men
know another better; culture. civiliza-
ton and refinement follow.
Our aid to stricken Europe within the
last few years is best exemplified by the
fact that it required ships of commerce to
carry aid and succor. thus wing thousands
of lives, so that commerce and trade to-day
are considered as respectable and require
equally as high q plane of intelligence as
any of the professions
"A young man who is fitted to fill an inn
portant place must learn to obey first be-
fore he can command A good soldier
usually makes q good officer. If these young
men will cut their garment according to
their cloth and live on a plane common
surate with their income they will find ready
welcome in all big business enterprises,
which are badly IN need of this kind of
assistants. The opportunities are here; 1t
Is theirs to reach out and embrace them"
Company, paper products, thus re-
plies:
"The questions you PROFOUND touch not
only a deeply interesting problem of the
moment. but one by which the future will
be shaped and the countrys status In the
commercial affairs and moral standards In
the world will be determined. 1t Is with the
young mon that the responsibility for the
country's welfare rests. and since we pro-
ject all manner OF engineering works for
the future and conserve the lands resources
for the benefit of later generations, IL Is
patent that we now know what the young
man of the times Is going to do with his
heritage whether II Is in the form OF money
property or brains.
MY experience In business began with
the close of the civil war, just as the youth
and fresh blood Of the country is nislsIng
its beginning or continuing its uninterrupted
business development at the close of the
great war The nation had to go through
that wonderful period of reconstruction
which history fixes as the period In which
the great inventors. inancers and factory
builders began the work which has reached
its pinnacle to-day. 1t was in these times
that Edison. Westinghouse. Bessemer Car
negie, Morgan Hill and host of other rest
less leaders opened the resources of the LAND
and provided opportunity for the millions
that we're TO come.
THE success OF their achievement Is II
ratio to the toll patience and stress b!