Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Club Men of Louisiana, in Caricature, 1917
Book contains kindly drawings, by the Asso ciated Cartoonists of people with phosphorus plus. Kiln their heads is commonsense, and in their hearts the good-cheer that spells success. (eno man who is not adding to the wealth, the happi ness, and the welfare of the world is herein included. Ithis is a little art - gallery of American Princes, and the American Prince is a man who is fifty-one per cent right, fifty-one per cent of the time; who does not make the same mistake twice in the same year, and who makes two grins grow where there was only a grouch before. Gno Piker can break into this art-gallery. We pick our people, and thus do we produce with pen and ink a Hall of Fame. F_'the great men of the world are all dead, or else they live a long ways off. I The big men now are workers, businessmen, hustlers, the boys who are onto the job, and who realize that the only way they can help themselves is by helping others. Qwe live m a wonderful time, and the greatest discovery of modern times is that truth 13 an asset and a lie is a liability i915 Once the great men of the world were warriors, destroyers, men who were endeavoring to get more out of life than there is in it. Today businessmen are supreme. I And business now is not only a way of getting your bread and butter, but business 18 a profession. All good doctors, dentists, lawyers, and teachers are busi nessmen. Business is human service. Qzwe used to hear a man say, I am not in business for my health! But we now realize that a man who is not in business for his health has n't much health or much business. Q Then we can all remember the time when the gentleman with the alfalfa on his submaxillaries would make this statement, Oh, I am going to make my pile and retire from business and enjoy myself. (iwe now know that any man who does not enjoy himself in his business will never know what happiness is. Ethis book is an Honor Roll of some of the big boys who are making the wheels go round, who know how to work, laugh, study, play, and who flavor all with love. Land thus do they make the world a better place for being here $7380 here 's to the hands that work, the brains that think and the hearts that love! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
