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Show SMILES, VIRTUE AND GUILE 8mart Young Man of Big Business Haa No Personality or Soul, ' Gays Writer. ' Modernity has bred a kind of pers, who Is equivalent to that virtuous village vil-lage boy of pious reading appreciated bo affectionately by the Sun In n ro-cent ro-cent romlnlBconco, I mean, the bright young mnn of big business. Ho 1b tho "grocer's boy" of these largo times, faithful, Indefatigable, cheerful, clever, sociable, pleasant, tedious. He 1b forever for-ever on tlmo or ahead of time. His elders by ono generation have somo-what somo-what of a military silence, will nnd poise nbout them. Forbidding they nre; thoy can frown, A certnln contempt con-tempt is their pride. Hut tho bright, rising young mnn of big business is "Molly smllos, vlrtuo nnd really guile. , He Is n conservntlvo In his 20s. which means thnt he Is n knave; worse, Indeed, In-deed, than tho fool who Is rndlcal in his nge, I detest that smart young man of big business. He hns no personality whntovor, no soul. He 1b bred of sya-tern sya-tern and method and Bdenco, all of which shrewd things were invented by his savage elders to kcop those Inferior In-ferior ones down, nut now tho rising ris-ing young mon nre bringing overy slavish characteristic up with them into power. I enn soo what Is going to happen to them, Those trndo union bludeonlBts will smash much of tho pretty mechanics on tho predominant Just now In capital. The ruffians have personality nt any rate. A wiser Btato would see to it that its universities bred gentlemen for leisure, shrewd men for activity and powerfully willed mantors for power. That thin and baeo idoal efficiency is batching a raoe of simpletons, H. IU in New York Dun |