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10 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.