Show r CHARACTER CREDENTIALS I BY JOHN JOlIN A. A JAYNE E I Just the other evening e here appeared In the tho Leader an advertisement t that read lead rut M follows tollo Wanted A Wanted A young man mean between 17 Ii and 16 IS to learn a n. between 0 tI wholesale business Apply and 10 No 1948 1945 Bring menda At Friday morning there e a a. number of or applicants applicants In Mo the thea hallway a yah tiC of f the building waiting to confer cofer with Mr Blank relative to the position At Att AtI t li I o'clock there thero about 20 0 young oung men mono some of or thorn them ni as fire fine looking as one would find in a ton ten days days' Journey others of or th them m tho the exact o o. o pos to toOne Ont Ono by ono one these c young men were received Into the office of ot Mr Mr Blank who ho personally met each of or them and gave n e them the tho following list of or questions questions ques ques- which thc they were to answer full tull name naino What hat Is your What t Is your our age Where here wern you OU born 1 Are Arc your our father and mother fn livings living By Dr whom were you ou last employed 1 why h by did dill you leave leavo your last place of or employment t Do you OU attend church church If If so co FO what Have lIa you OU had experience In this line lino of business Do you oU rc regard yourself as ns absolutely hen honest Tell something of oC your our habits habit Gho tic tae names of three people to whom we can cnn refer A pretty stiff sUt list of ot questions you say SL Yes a a. pretty prett stiff list But Mr i Blank knew the kind of ot a young YO man ho wanted wonted and he wanted wonted the tho kind of or ofa ora a young man ho wanted At length all of tho st waiting young men had b been en received and each of or them had been told toM that If the they needed the they would receive notification Inside of 48 hours yours tours Then Ihen be began nn tho the work ork of or examination of ot tho papers with the tho questions and answers Out of tho the 20 ro- ro tIed filed and examined 14 wore cast Immediately aside for tor luck lack of or neatness neatness neatness neat neat- ness In bad spelling and inability to grasp p tho general situa tion Of or the r remaining six two were retained re retained re- re In the as 1115 genuine literary curiosities In li t th way of grammar rhetoric and anti general appearance Then n letters wore were Ire sent pent out relative to the tho r remaining re re- I four or telephone calls ma made e. e thon the four Cour young men were asked to call at a 1 very early hour on tho the second clay day following Of or tho the four thus summoned summoned sum sum- monell one failed to respond ono one came with eyes eyo j well blacked and marks of ot ofa ota a nights night's carousal showing aho in his Isis face Cac r the third 1 came with clothes hes though he came from a good home In tho the East Enst End while tho the fourth was tho only one whose whoso face and hands were wen clean clenn whose nerves wore so steady stead that he could write without wavering wavering wa wa- I vering look 1001 his Isis prospective employer In the face tr without faltering and whose general appearance showed that he believed ed In caring curing for tho the en engine I of or his hiM lirA life and took good care caro or ot Its roundhouse that Is Is the clothes teat protected his engine This young oun m mn n was given ghen the position Since then it has hns been learned by his hilt employer that the young man had been tram tramping tho Uno streets looking for Cor work for tor a con cont consid considerable id- id erable lime time that he had worked for Cor his board and room In a restaurant and lodging house on Fourth avenue enu but had hall kept himself strictly clean h hall all 1111 of or his experience so O that when Lao Ino tho opportunity oCer offered his letters of or recommendation recommendation rec rec- personal appearance handwriting and air of or general Intelligence Intelli gence renco strictly coincided ed ono one contradicted tho the statements of or the tho other It Its It's s too early In the business experience e of or this young youn man to state with an any degree of or exactness ox the tae kind lelnd of f a business man he ho will make He Us may find that Mr Blank and ho cannot 1 nr- nr monize That Thal tho rho business Is distasteful distaste distaste- ful rul that ho he can do cIo better In other lines JInes But It Is la dollars to doughnuts that this young oung min man will make a notable notable nota nota- ble success In his life lito wherever where ho he goes for he carries the tho credentials of ot ofa ota a sterling character right with him Ills creen credentials aro are these A good clean for well body An eye e that looks a n man ratan squarely In Inthe tho the face nee penmanship that Is plain and andle le legible face ruco hands and shoes shoe clean nn Language that Is 19 chaste ne spelling spoilIng that thatis is faultless It is possible of or course that a man may lave have l 6 all of or these credentials credentials cre cre- nn and bo be a s ha bad man for tor a man moo In nay may a smile mile and be villain still Yet Yot tho the majority of or business men will tako take a n chance on the tho clean young man rather rathor rath rath- er or man Lana the unclean It pays a young man to keep himself attractive o o arid and neat Thero Is s a aa a way of or presenting ones one's own personality no so that It Is a mans man's best credentials Opportunities Op Ope aro not nol so 80 plentiful Just now that a a. young oun man can cnn afford to tone ne neglect lect his possibilities up Into tho rho tholine line hue IIII of or probabilities and from that up to actualities whore ho ae 0 has privilege of or showing tho rho kind of ot stuff of oC which ho Is made made- |