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Show ADVICE BYPATTEN Good Habits Young Man's First Essential, He Says. Wheat King Teils Beginners in Business Busi-ness Career What They Need to Be Successful in Life. New York. Here is the advice to young men of James A. Patten, the Chicago wheat king who recently loomed up as a power in cotton. For a young man intending to start out in life and adopting a business career, the first essential is .that of good habits. The modern employer as a rule, soon drops a young man from hi; pay roll who does not possess this requisite. "He should perform the duties required re-quired of him, no matter in how menial men-ial a position, as a second essential, with the utmost willingness. If he should see any opportunity for improvement im-provement in the lines of his duties, je should suggest the same to his employer, em-ployer, for nothing pleases the employer em-ployer so much as the fact that his employe is workinj for his interest and a young man following out this line, as a rule, is advanced when opportunity op-portunity offers. "I have had many applications from young men to enter in my employ, but I have observed that not one man in a thousand is fitted to enter into a stockbroker's office or the grain trade and meet with success, for the successful suc-cessful speculator seems to be endowed, en-dowed, as a rule, with ability that all men are not favored with. "I have sometimes thought it was a handicap for any young man to be heir to a great fortune, if it is his intention in-tention to enter into an active life that requires much personal attention, atten-tion, for, as a rule, success depends James A. Patten. upon the young man himself and not upon the influence his father may have created for him." "When will you retire from the activities ac-tivities of business?" Mr. Patten was asked prio.- to his departure for home. "Not very soon," he replied. "I am good for many more years. To-day 1 met a man 92 years old selling puts and calls on the market. Business is his very life. We Pattens are long livers and 1 see years of activity ahead, if 1 have my health. "Retire and live abroad? Not if I know myself. I have been in Europe four or five times, but each time 1 came home with a higher opinion of my own country. "Then, too, I like Evanston. My relatives are all out there. 1 belong to that part of the world. I am satisfied satis-fied with my present home near- Chicago Chi-cago and I am never going to change it. People in New York don't really live, for they have not the home life and if you want me to tell your boys how to succeed best, 1 should say for them to locate in some place where they can have proper home life." |