. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. rised to learn that graft in office inthese towns is almost unknown. The time-honored custorn of grant-ing valuable franchises for street carlines, for waterworks and electriclighting privileges to private syn-dicates—humorously enough dubbedpublic service corporations—is notmeeting with any favor in the Can-adian West. The graft and the lob-bying which is connected in innumer-able instances with the granting offranchises in America, is singularlylacking in this new country of thenorth. The passive indifference whichcharacterizes the attitude in whicht
. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. rised to learn that graft in office inthese towns is almost unknown. The time-honored custorn of grant-ing valuable franchises for street carlines, for waterworks and electriclighting privileges to private syn-dicates—humorously enough dubbedpublic service corporations—is notmeeting with any favor in the Can-adian West. The graft and the lob-bying which is connected in innumer-able instances with the granting offranchises in America, is singularlylacking in this new country of thenorth. The passive indifference whichcharacterizes the attitude in whichthe towns and cities south of the linetreat such vital questions is also en-tirely absent. The capitalists fromthe United States who regard West-ern Canada as an especially invitingfield in which to grab franchises, willmeet with a reception which will con-firm their belief in the old myth whichwe all learned in the geographies ofour childhood—that Canada is a coldand barren country—which is a myth,indeed, in every sense but Even Temperament as a Business Asset By Clifford T. Little in the Grocers* Magazine An even temperament is one of thebest assets for any business man. Take a man who has what we callan even disposition and put him along-side the man who goes off thehandle at slight provocation, andhe will win out every time. Force and activity are essential tothe success of any man. Add an eventemperament to natural force andability and you generally have astrong man. The man who loses his tempereasily, who is always finding faultwith his employers or his employer, isat a great disadvantage. The man in business who can al-ways control his passions, who neverallows himself to become sour orcrabbed or go off the handle, thealways serene man, is the man every-body wants to do business with. The story is told of a SupremeCourt judge who sat on the bench26 years, most of which time he wasin physical pain. He had been wound-ed in the Civil War. The woundnever comple
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