The Perennial Romance of "Risen From the Ran Page Mr. Horatio Alger. The Standard Oil Company of Indiana has announced the appointment of three new directors. One of them began with the company 35 years ago, the other two started out as office-boys. This, as every lad knows who brings in water to the boss in lily-cups and announces his visitors, is what office boys are for. They are born to rise. It is only a very lazy and immoral office boy who can fail to become director or president or sales manager. Logically, of course, the vast majority of them must be bums or loafers, sit ice there are about 15 times as many of them as there are directors.
Perhaps some sociological actuary will compute for us the average office boy's expectation of presidency or directorship. If the office boys who did not make good (as directors) would only organize, they could run the country. Then in a burst of injured pride they would reverse the process, so that one entered the economic hierarchy as an ink-well cleaning director, and presidents would be ailling grandmothers for the sake of an afternoon at the Polo Grounds. Then at last would be written, by the Horatio Alger of those days, a great American book, called From President tio Office Boy.—"New Republic."
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