Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-11
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wear. The young clerk has twenty
"clients" in a day. The V9o'E law
yer one in a month.
The customer, eagerly shopping
is off guard; you see the real ana
undistinguished human nature
Won see humanity as it IS
To succeed n business you must
Iaarn how to deal with human pc
mos, 1t is not only that which IS
within YOU that gives success put
45a+ which is in others--and you
must learn to understand IT. ana
So ia ras you need it, you must
learI to get it. oe
Business success is the ART Oh
,arslation. the art 0 tmaklhg
friends, the art of producing
good impression ~.
These arts you learn IN the
modern stare as onwhere else
Fathers and n;ohters of mtellI-
cent boys and girls should realize
that what the son or daughter neeuS
to be equipped for the woric
battle is knowledge of the worId
and the people in it.
While working in the store tnaV
knowledge is obtained safely. Inc
vounp worker, the girl especially,
works under the eyes Of those IN
terested in her welfare and de-
velopment.
She comes in contact with men
and women of the outside worlu
under right conditions. They want
something; she is there to supply IT,
She goes from her home to her
work and from her work to her
home, safely and regularly.
Suppose you wanted your son
or daugter to learn a business,
which IS really to learn commercial
methods and human nature, ana
suppose that a friend said to you:
81 will take your son under my
direction and observation. l Will
bring him in contact every day
with dozens of different types OF
citizens-the very rich, the mid
die class, the classes with whom ne
must deal later in life, on his own
account. I will make him acqualnt-
ed with values, with merchandise,
with methods TO craftsmanship, with
the Importance of regularity, at
tention, politeness. All this l will
do day after day, giving him the
opportunity that l lacked when l
was young-opportunity to see
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 is the offer held out by the
owner of the good, well-managed
store today.
Every such store is a business
college. 1t is to the ordinary
business college what a realsnews-
paper is to a school of journalism.
You can learn something in bust
ness college and something in
school of journalism. But to be
a business man you must be in bust
ness, to be a newspaper man you
must be on a newspaper.
Somebody said tina ia drop of
SIT water represented the whole
Pacific Ocean, since it was only
made up of such drops.
A well-manager store represents
the whole world of business and is
the best place for a business edu-
cation, for, one good store is
business world.
Young men and women, be at
tentive and ambitious in your
store work, and success will come.
The clerk should loo kon hi
JOB as a PROFESSION for it il
a profession to the alert, indus
trious and conscientious one. II
the lazy and inefficient, it is
job and nothing more. Tn,
modern store is probbaly the bes
place of all to study human ma
ture, to know men and women
to see their frailties and appre
ciate their better qualities, an,
no man will be a success in lif
who doesn't know human nature
Clerking is applied salesman
ship, one of the largest and on
of the most important of all pro