Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1909 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

• Railroading as a Field For the College Man. By EDWARD H. HARRIMAN, Railroad Financier. X Copyright, 1908, by Brown Bros. ; COLLEGE EDUCATION WILL BE A GREAT HELP TO U THE MAN ENTERING RAILROADING IF THE MAN <> I I <> IN GOING THROUGH COLLEGE HAS KEPT THE U !■■■ U FOUNDATIONS OF HIGH SCHOOL LEARNING ;; J 1 ;; FIRMLY FIXED. ON THE OTHER HAND, IF HE ” O HAB NEGLECTED HIS HANDWRITING AND FOR- < GOTTEN HIS ARITHMETIC IN HIGHER MATHEMATICS NOTHING COULD BE WORSE FOR HIM. IF, HOWEVER, HE STILL RETAINS THESE ESSENTIALS HE HAB A GREAT ADVANTAGE IN THAT HE HAB A BROADER VIEW OF THE WORLD AND A GREATER KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO LEARN. •t M « The high school boy has the advantage in that all the FIRST ESSENTIALS of good work in railroading are at hia fingers’ ends. For instance, take the making of a simple statement. A statement should be like a picture—something that can be taken in at a glance. A high school boy will draw such a statement with perfect accuracy and clearness, while a young college graduate will draw it in such a way that it is a puzzling scrawl. Thus college education is IN THE BEGINNING A REAL DISADVANTAGE, and in every case the high school boy'does better work than the college man for the first few years. However, as the college man has overcome these habits and has GOT BACK TO FIRST PRINCIPLES he will go ahead much faster than his less educated rival. His mind is naturally better developed and MORE CAPABLE OF GRASPING THE FINE POINTS of the business. On the other hand, the high school boy ; being younger, is more adaptable and has not in most cases the irregular habits of the college man. NO MATTER HOW WELL EDUCATED A MAN MAY BE, HE MUST START IN RAILROADING AT THE VERY BOTTOM. 1 A railroad man has no fixed home. He is like a naval officer, always at sea, and, moreover, he is always working to the limit of his endurance. It is the hardest life and yet one of the most pleasant. It cultivates an insight. It TEACHES A KNOWLEDGE OF MEN and in this way is the BEST TRAINING FOR ANY PROFESSION. PULL CAN NEVER CARRY A MAN FAR IN RAILROADING. IT 18 HARD WORK AND APPLICATION THAT COUNT. MANY A MAN STARTS OUT WELL, BUT, LACKING THE STICK TO IT SPIRIT, WHICH IS SO PRE-EMINENTLY ESSENTIAL, FALLS INTO OBSCURITY. '

Great Disasters Upbuild The Spirits of Men. By the Rev. Dr. LYMAN ABBOTT of New York. IN a great disaster like the recent Italian earthquake the spir itual benefits outweigh the physical evils. , THESE CATACLYSMS AND TIDAL WAVES ARE UP* BUILDING THE SPIRITS OF MEN TO RICHER, RIPER AND MORE ENDURING EFFORTS. THE FACT THAT THINGS ARE TRANSIENT AND TEMPORARY MAKES BETTER MEN. R at tt Already we have a new sense of kingship. You read how the king and queen immediately went to the aid of the unfortunate peasants. You also read that immediately—in that fraction of a half second—the thought occurred to the peasants to TURN TO THE ALMIGHTY. Skeptics laugh at their falling on their knees in prayer, at their procession with the cross, but through their tears the peasants saw more than the laughing skeptic—they saw THE ETERNAL SPIRIT. In that half minute more than 100,000 died. Many more have passed away between then and now. Despite this phenomenon we should still assume this to.be an orderly universe. Nothing material remains. LIFE, SPIRIT, FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE—THEY DO REMAIN. They are eternal. k R R r THE SPIRIT THAT PROMPTS—THE SPIRIT OF INDUSTRY AND ENTERPRISE—WILL REMAIN TO PROMPT THE SURVIVORS TO GREATER EFFORTS.

Laboring Man Seeks Only His Fair Share. By WARREN E. STONE, President of the International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. CHERE is no necessary strife between capital and labor; neither is there any fundamental strife between the capitalist and the laborer. CAPITAL IS SIMPLY LABOR SAVED AND MATERIALIZED. The great fundamental principle in fixing the wage scale is often overlooked. If capital could be brought to realize that a certain portion of the, wages paid to labor stands for the exhaustion of the principal—for the WEAR AND TEAR OF THE MACHINERY OF THE MAN—then I think capital would have a better understanding of the true ground upon which rests the claim of labor for more compensation than merely enough to exist upon. No thinking man will deny that every business must make good its depreciation, its wear and tear, before it has any profit. Precisely so it is with lafyor. The ENTIRE CAPITAL OF THE WORKINGMAN IS THE BONE AND SINEW OF THE MAN, the muscle, energy and brain power, which day by day are being worn out and consumed until eventually he is used up and goes to the scrap pile of commercial industry as so much wornoiit junk. M W. W “BUT,” SOME CRY, "THE LABORING MAN WANTS ALL OUR MONEY.” NOTHING 18 FURTHER THE TRUTH. GIVE THE WORKINGMEN FAIR WAGES, FAIR LIVING CONDITIONS, ANO THEY W|Lk.. DUPLICATE THE HEALTH OF THE WORLD IN -»-,5 :«<■.. '