The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-31
What Chance Has a Clerk
in a Store?
The Chance to Know Human Beings Learn Business,
Become Independent and Rich

future rich powerful and useful men of
this country are working clerks IN stores.
Thousands of young that in future will be ndepen-
dent well equipped able themselves
ing in the stores side by side with the young men,
The boys and girls of this country should realize that
modern store is the modern business college
What man woman needs to advance in the world and
succeed business supplied by conscientious work in the
wen-managed store
To succeed you must your fellow see them
and study them in the STORE you nowhere else
Their weaknesses displayed their curious dispositions
revealed.
The young woman standing behind the counter.
attentive observing can learn more of human nature
week than the lawyer learn year young
clerk has twenty clients in day The young lawyer
IN month.
The customer eagerly shopping off guard you the
real and undiuised human nature You humanity is
succeed business you learn how deal with
human beings It is not only that which within you that
gives but that which in ohersand you must learn
to understand it. and so far need it, must learn to
get it.
Business is the art of persuasion the art of making
friends, the art of producing good impression.
These you learn in the modern store nowhere else
Fathers and mothers of intelligent boys and girls should
realize that what the daughter needs be equipped for
the worlds battle is knowledge of the world and the people
In it.
While working in the that knowledge is obtained
safely The young worker the girl especially works under the
eyes of those interested in her welfare and development
She in contact with and of the outside
world under right conditions They something she
there supply it. She goes home her work
from her work to her home. safely and regularly.
Suppose you wanted your daughter learn bust
ness which really learn commercial methods and human
nature and suppose that friend said to you
take your under my direction and observation
will bring him in contact day with dozens Of different
types of cznsthe rich the middle class the classes
with whom deal later in fe his own
him acquainted with values with merchandise with
methods of salemanshp with the Importance of regularity at
tenon poteness All this will do day after day giving him
opportunity become finished merchant And while
teaching him will pay him. and will look after him
carefully long he is in my charge give him the op
pOrtunity that lacked when corresponding to
quickly and learn quickly all that business life is
You would readily accept such offer would you not for
your son, for your daughter?
That is the offer held out by the of the good we'll
managed store today.
Every such store business college to the ordinary
business college what real newspaper is school of
Journalism You learn something in business college
something in school of journalism But to be business
you must be in business to be newspaper be
newspaper.
Somebody said that drop of salt represented
whole Pacific since only made Of such drops
wemanaged store represents the whole world of business
store is a business world
Young and be attentive ambitious your
store work, and will come