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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
IN MEMORIAM: LOUIS LEGARDE BATTEY
At the last annual meeting of the Association a
special committee was named to pay tribute to the
memory of Captain L. L. Battey. This committee has
submitted its report in the form of resolutions which
follow:
“Resolved, by the members of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association of Georgia, in annual convention
assembled, That we pay formal respect to the memory
of our late beloved fellow-member and helper, Cap
tain Louis LeGarde Battey, who gave his life for his
country in the world war.
“In his death we have lost one whose early life
gave promise of a distinguished career that bade fair
to shed lustre upon the records of Catholicity in
Georgia, a promise that was maintained in his heroic
and glorious passing at the head of his brave com
pany in the terrific struggle of the Argonne Forest,
October 11, 1918. Fortified by those graces Mother
Church has provided for our last journey he passed
as a good Catholic should to meet his God Who has
promised fitting reward to “the good and faithful ser
vant.” As a son he was a model. Of brilliant men
tality he used his singular gifts well and earnestly; a
champion of right and the enemy of wrong at all
times.
“In his passing from among us we have lost a good
friend and member. He died as he had lived, a
knight sans peur, sans reproche.
“Resolved, further, That a page of the minutes be
devoted to his memory and that the sympathy of this
Association be formally extended to his bereaved
mother and members of his family, and that a copy
of these resolutions be transmitted to them.”
“THE COLLEGE MAN IN BUSINESS”
(From America.)
In his recent book, “Succeeding with What You
Have,” Mr. Charles M. Schwab, the steel magnate,
denies emphatically that he ever said, as the papers
reported, that he was “opposed to a college educa
tion,” that he “despised learning and believed the
time spent in getting it was wasted.” In fact, Mr.
Schwab’s real opinions about “The College Man in
Business” are quite different from those commonly
attributed to him. For he writes:
“I am not against a college education. I have never
been. Whatever may have been true in the past,
there is no doubt that today industrial conditions favor
the college man. Old crudities are disappearing;
science is dethroning chance. Business is conducted
on so vast a scale that the broadening effects of
higher education, gained through proper application,
write a large figure. . . . Higher education has
its chance, when the college boy has mastered all
the minor details of the business. Then, if he went
to college with serious purpose, and studied hard and
systematically, he has the advantage of a thoroughly
trained mind to tackle larger problems, a mind which
should be broader and more flexible because of its
greater powers of imagination and logical reasoning.
Real success is won by hard, honest, persistent toil.
Unless a young man gets accustomed to that in school
he is going to have a very hard time getting accus
tomed to it outside.”
Though the trained mind and cultivated taste that
his college course gives the studious youth will after
wards be his best equipment for achieving success in
commercial and industrial fields, no less than in the
professions, it is also true that the young man who
dawdles through college and lets slip the opportunities
of disciplining and enriching his mind, generally
brings to the firm that subsequently employs him the
same lazy, lackadaisical habits that characterized his
years at school. It is certainly better for boys of
that kind to enter business early in life. There is
then some hope that they will acquire habits of in
dustry and application.
Some years ago a well known judge was asked why
more of our Catholic young men do not rise to posi
tions of prominence in the business world. “Because
they keep their eyes fixed too closely on the clock.
They have their hats on the moment five begins to
strike, they are out of the office before the hour
has ceased sounding, and they do not give a single
thought to their business or their employers’ interests
till nine the following morning.” And a young man’s
habit of promptly and completely dropping work at
five o’clock and donning a dress suit for an evening of
pleasure has its drawbacks, attests Mr. Schwab. “I
happen to know several able-bodied gentlemen,” he
writes, who got such a habit so completely that now
they are spending all their time, days as well as even
ings, in dress suits, serving food in fashionable restau
rants to men who did not get the dress suit habit
until somewhat later in life.”
INCORPORATION.
After consultation with the other officers, President
Rice has felt it wise to have the Association char
tered and has named Mr. Thomas F. Walsh, Jr., a
committee of one to draw up the necessary papers.
In addition to other significance this means that the
Association can now legally receive bequests and other
benefactions. The Association will also be placed
under the patronage of St. Paul the Apostle.