| Show I Hours of Business Are N Not ot Your Own 1 It Is' Is JOHN 1011 ANDERSON TA TAI I the From From a l newsy on street street to the presidency of oC a large corporation is not a had bad record 1 for forn to if H that record any n man to point be he a record of or honest and au 1 fair fall dealing deal deal- ing Ins all lon I along the line mores more's the honor duo Its owner Walk Vall up and down tho ho streets of ofa ofa ofa of the special notice a city taking names of men that appear on the sl signboards sign signboards Get In touch boards o over er tho ho stores old on and 1 let lel him with some tell you the story stor of the rise riso and the progress of or man many of the men mon whoso whose names you ou are arc looking at nt on the tho sign boards You will bo ho to know risen from of them have havo how many the tho ranks of the newsy Ono of or these men the story of who whose e life Ufo rends reads like a fairy tale talc is to hold hoM our attention today to 1 Cl His Ills father Cather vas stas vasa a a. carpenter a no goo good 1 workman but like some others of his trade a hard drinker Ills mother was a godly godl righteous sort of oI woman who because died at an life was too hari hard for fOl her hOI With the home broken by early carly age d tho the death katiE of oC his mother time the boy was WiL practically thrown out on the streets his own liv liv- at a tender n age e to earn ing trIg His first l work worl was selling papers for Cor being small for tor his age lie lw could find Ond no one who would give ghe I e him hint regular regular regu regu- lar tar employment Ills Ilia first re regular position was with a. a furniture f dealer mn made him hint his hostler From that he rose 1010 to bo ho the owner and proud possessor possessor pos pos- sessor of a horse and anel delivery ery wagon wn on At t the age of oC 2 21 I 1 he lie tool took a n course o In bookkeeping afterwards linding Un a n position as shipping clerk cIerI with a n. large InT e with which he ho remained In house 10 t cr le responsible positions until the concern went out of business Following ln timEs this he took a n. position as es I auditor with a largo large lar o corporation remaining re rc- re- re malnin there them until he found his hia way clear to to purchase enough stock tock in an nn embryonic corporation just starting starling in iii word of authority author author- to give him u u. S ity ib It in iii the conduct of or its affairs With With the passage of oC the years ho ro rose c higher until tho timo corpora corpora- corporation und md still Hill higher now tion Jias changed Us its numo muno and his name is now nosy the tho first on tho the sign signboards boards bill Mil a and ml totter loiter hood heads Tu t the r day he ho was asked 1 to give In a sentence th tho secret of oC his success s. s ThIs Tills was his reply When I II I first went to lo work for fOI another man manI I realized that m my hours were ero not myown myown my myown own that they belonged to m my em em- Knowing that many called so-called successful sue suc business men have o pet mottoes mottoes mottoes mot mot- toes that they regard 1 as ns infallible rules leading lending to success an and wondering wondering wonder wonder- ing lag how this this particular particular man mun had worked worked work work- ed his rule inquiry was made among the tho mans man's former ft lends friends What hat follows follows follows fol fol- fol- fol lows Is Is In itt lJ part hart rt their testimony Ho lie worked as if IC he really enjoyed his work worl Ho lie was always on in fact he made it his boost boast tutu that thai for years cars ho was the first to arrive o and the last to leave tho the store lIe Ho attended strictly to his own business and anel never went gadding s aroun around 1 tho the place He Hc worked 1 systematically ener- ener and took look or seemed to take tako a n great greal interest in the business This hl from the tho man with whom ho he n nas the relationship relation relation- in was as so long associated ship of oC c to employer this Ibis 1 man mannow mannow now no being president of one of tho the banks Ho always paid 1 strict attention attention attention atten atten- tion to business an and 1 I knew that I could trul trust t him These testimonials from flom living men relative e to a living man arc are valuable They rhe are not epitaphs on a tombstone They ar are arc not funeral eulogies over o a dead mans man's casket Tho They are aio the earnest earnest earn earn- est eat expressions of sane men relative to a a. sane sano and energetic man In this case man end his motto have hao worked ed In harmonious the elevation elevation eleva eleva- ac acy Tho Time result has been beams tion of of tho the man his elevation In the thc business world and In the th e estimation of oC his associates associate His motto la is a good goal ono one for tor youns 0 mon to think about Boiled Dolled down for forthe the limo tho l thought lt of young oung men lOon it says saja Your hours of oC business are not 11 0 own own It means that a Cl young nan man to succeed succeed suc sue must consider himself last lalit anc nn 1 his employers employer's interests first Jh t. t He lic must not keep his hl eye e on tho the clue or 01 his thought on his pa pay envelope For J the man who works work honestly h In and the hanth hanl t of or the clock will go o round quick enough h an and 1 his hl 1 pa pay a envelope will care I for Itself Honors HonorIS come cOins in this world orld to those who h deserve them in thelong tit the lo long g run Success crowns crowns the tho e effort Cort ol or him who ho Is Ls willing to work for tor it walt wall for ol It ii and watch for It |
