JONI 20, i9ac 



The Horists^ Review 



55 



Are You Helping Somebody 



Up The Stairs? 



Some years ago a baby boy had infantile paralysis. It left him with one side 

 almost paralyzed and he always dragged one foot. When he was five or six 

 years old he heard his older brothers talking. They said that he would never 

 be able to go to school and that as long as he lived they would always have 

 to support him. He determined that he would go to school; that he would 

 support himself, and that he would amount to something in spite of a lame leg. 



The next day he started to school. He got there all right, but someone had to 

 help him up the stairs. When he went to high school there were two flights of 

 stairs to climb. He graduated with honors, but was never able to climb those 

 stairs by himself. Someone alw^ays had to help him. He is now^ a leading 

 citizen and Mayor of the town in which he lives. His brothers don't support 

 him. He supports his mother and helps to support them besides, but he says 

 that he never could have done any of these things if somebody hadn't helped 

 him up the stairs. 



I guess all of us in the Florists' business are the same way. From the very be- 

 ginning somebody was always helping us up the stairs. We learned very few 

 of the things that have made us successful all by ourselves. That little trick 

 in mossing a design, a new way to make a shower bouquet or a funeral bunch, 

 a more efficient method of potting plants or killing bugs. These and a thou- 

 sand other things somebody else helped us to. 1 wish that I could thank the 

 Swede that first showed me how to climb up on a glass roof to put in a broken 

 pane. The only way that we can pay our debts to the dead is by service to 

 the living. 



We ought to have no secrets in our profession. We ought to help not only 

 those who can help us in return, but the man or woman who is just starting into 

 business. They need advice and help and encouragement. We often have un- 

 fair competitors that sympathy and understanding would make into en- 

 thusiastic co-workers. 



Let's make our Conventions helpful this year. Let's arrange for more teach- 

 ing and training among our own employees. Let's tell how we grew those 

 extra fine roses or cyclamens. Open up to our neighbors about our cost and 

 collection systems. Let's help somebody up the stairs. 



TTiat's what we're going to do at — 



THE BIGGEST, BEST AND BUSIEST STORE IN THE WEST 



321 East 4th Street LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 



WE CLOSE SUNDAYS 



