Show YOUTH AT A disadvantage younger men are ineffective in obtaining credit as well as in the control of workmen christian girl president of the standard parts company of cleveland 0 says in the american magazine when a man of noticeably youthful appearance goes to a cautious banker seeking to finance even the soundest kind of a proposition his line of argument Is discounted before he says a word by his youthful looks the banker Is afraid of being carried away by mere boyish enthusiasm and Is on his guard if I 1 were much under thir ty five and had a tiptop business scheme to finance I 1 would get an older man of established reliability and conservatism to present it for ime to the bankers youth Is not always so good either cither in the production end of a big business handling a force of men and getting the work out of them in the first place the runn man who Is bossing the job should have brive occupied nil all the lesser lesner jobs between him and tile the bottom rung of the ladder tills this requires time and furthermore men do not like to work under a boss who looks too much like a mere hoy boy no matter how smart or gr capable or experienced he may be it that he be be as old ng most of them but lie should be old enough to give an impression of maturity ohp the average workman care much whether the boss bosq is thirty or forty hut but it might make a difference whether he Is thirty or only twenty |