Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1920 — MODERN MAN OF BUSINESS [ARTICLE]

MODERN MAN OF BUSINESS

Wins Success With Ideas That Would Shook the Very Soul of His Grandfather. A business man tells, in Peoples Magazine how he commits suicide at stated Intervals. “I die every little while, he says. “I pretend that the end has come and I ask myself what I am doing that some one else could not do just as well —or better. Since I contracted the habit of killing myself off, I have dropped one kind of work after another. Keeping in mind that* I may drop off any minute, I have understudies ready not only for myself but for the other important men. Weare sll unnecessary. The result is our business never was better. We are all principals. Every one of our men carries ’a marshal’s baton in his haversack. The men under me seem to keep on saying every little while, •Here, you, get out of the way.’ And, in self-protection, I scramble up to a higher place Und all the rest of the men move forward at the same time “Not only do I share authority, but I share profits. The T idea of business went out of our place years ago. Now it is always- ‘We.’ It hurts me every time I hear one of our men say ‘I will do this or that’ when speaking with a customer. He is supposed to say ‘We will do that.’ The ‘We’ spirit is what we have cultivated because we have realized that T is a pretty small Individual. “So, my advice to' my fellow business man is to commit suicide every little while. If they do the job honestly and in a workmanlike manner, they will find themselves constructing the ladder that will land them in heaven, not after they are in the grave, but right here on this good old earth of ours.”