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Show WHAT IS BUSINESS? In these days of sneering at men who have made a success of industry or branch of human service until it is called Big Business, the question arises, What is Business? To begin with the management of a household is business, and a business fit which thousands of women succeed, where men fail with the same problems to meet. The care with which a woman buys all her supplies and the manner man-ner in which she employs labor and makes both ends meet to keep wthin her income is remarkably good business. It has given occasion for the saying that has become a world proverb, that a woman can make a dollar go farther than a man, a criticism of a great deal of public business. It is a fact that in the management of farms and lines of business busi-ness in which so many men fail, they have not followed the same careful methods of women in the household. Good business means no unnecessary expenditure, not having two persons "employed on a job that can be handled by one, or having hav-ing persons for several different job that could be handled by one person. The application of these simple principles, which are used by almost any woman in the land in the management of her household, would put most corporations on a paying basis and would make local and federal government less of a failure than they are. |