AMERICAN BUSINESS MEN.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12911, 27 February 1906, Page 3

AMERICAN BUSINESS MEN.

In the course of an interesting interview with ilr John Hall, the representative t»i a gigantic hardware proprietary iu the United States, a South Australian pressman records the following utHraJxcs :•

" Now, I have a great deal of evprrieuce with young men, and I wans u» s.iy tfc**. the generation coming on t -li.iy :'»"c b:«*ger and greater morally, liiiy.-IciHy. o=.» mentally than their futiMrs. " Uf "course. I am speaking of the American ycK=gman. As a class it is true Jo .say that he does not drink, smoke or rhc.v. and that is because he is beginning to fin.*: that ha has not time to do so. and also fulfil the mission for which he has b;cn sent he:e. He is finding that anything that tends to stimulate his brain h'scW takes away his vitality. He finds ihnt the young man who does not drink and smoke has .the better chance of succc;oir,g in business than the one who does. In the generation which has passed the aneducated mac was in Ihe mnjeritv. Nowadays the co!!*tie-bied man is taking his place, and is becoming a factor. The college man in the rnst w?s ,v lawver or a doctor. N-\v we find hia: :-i bu>irc-s In every mercantile pursuit ihai | ( : iW i Q ? •*.ian makes a success more qukklv he cause he has been taught to think log'icallv. and to draw conclusions. We reeken that a young fellow will take his degree at about 21 years of age. lie comes right into the business and commences nailing cases and rolling trucks. But there U no need for him to stay as long at this as those who went before him ; and so by the time he is 25 he has probabhgot as far as he can in that particular place. The President of our ccmpnuv is quite a, young man—,*ly 32. At "ihc same time it is quite an "error »o imagine that there are no old men in businas* jr America. J. J. Hill, Sage. Rockefeller" are ail old men. Hard work, and plentv of it does not kill. It is dissipation, at 20 that tells at <JO. The reason whr there ais so many young men in business is.th.at there are not enough old men to go round for the many positions which have to be filled! lam always trying to impress upon young men that thev have no right to dissipate early in life." Thev have a work to,do to push this old worfd along—onward.and upward.