The Washington times., 1924-03-01
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
The Durable Satistactions Of Business.

Of Business.


Strangely enough, this has about in spite Of
all literature and preachment to the contrary. Never
before has SO much been poured out upon
money maker Never before have there been such
lions OF envy against the criminal rich Novels plays and
poems have displayed the and wretched soul who
devotes himself entirely to business.
This should be good illustration Of how little after all
literature influences ne For today young men are
contemplating entering business than in any other
preceding day in history.
Today even women have been captivated by the same
IDEAL and there are tens Of thousands Of them actively in
business and occupied with something else than merely
raising babies sweeping floors and carrying slippers for
The Of this is that business not essentially
making it is essentially service And service the
most normal wholesome and happy condition Of life
have just finished reading Of Oppenhems novels
love Oppenheim, for he is an excellent writer and has
distinct creative genius But curious reflection came to
laid the book down. Neither the hero any Of
the other principal characters of the book had
stroke Of work in their lives They all belonged to that
superior set in England who live dead money, the
class sometimes called gentle The few minor characters
who worked Jewish pawnbroker ignorant porters
clod-lke housemaids
But the sort Of civilization that Oppenheim depicts is
rapidly passing Indeed the loafers Of the world
We discovering that the greatest human interest is
in work. and that happiness adventure and beauty the
children OF work, and not the children Of idleness.
Summing up the durable satisfactions Of business we
might mention few of them as follows
~ The pleasure of Service. Of all forms Of human
happiness the most dependable and durable and the
one less liable to leave dark brown taste in the mouth
the effort to be of to somebody.
Even the little CHILD IN the home is happy
when he is made to feel that he is ''helping Mamma
Responsibility does not always bring worry. In fact to
the normal person. it is stimulus, and makes life interest
ing
The business man, than any other type of man.
feels that he really mnsterng the needs Of his fellows
~ The business knows that he is producer and
not merely consumer.
The producers the beavers of human society," those
consumers who produce nothing the rats
(3) The business feels that he has q reasonable
for being alive. He is helping along He is doing
part of the world work.
Of all those world-weary companers who wonder why
they born, few of them engaged in any useful
occupation Most Of them loafer And they hardly
to blame for it is difficult to what oafer has
for living.
~ The business lives closest to the truth.
The truth is not found in philosophical essays and the
theories Of professors in the university Truth what will
work. Truth secretion Of experience. Truth cannot
be obtained by those who seek directly but to those who
honestly the world truth and abides az COM
panion.
81 REFER of course, only those who are engaged in
business that Of to their fellow men, not to the
gamblers any Of those who make profit by panderng
to the perversions of their fellows
And perhaps the most durable of all the satsactons Of
business the knowledge that the foundations of every
permanently profitable form of business the foundations
OF life itself For real in business rests upon the
old timetried policies Of honesty, JUSTICE good will help
fitness and square dealing.
Nobody but the fool who is led asray by specious single
instances believes that he build abiding business sue
upon dishonesty Of any sort.
Copyright 1894 by The Mcclure Newspaper syndcatsa