"CAPPY RICKS" HAS NO USE FOR COLLEGE MEN

"A man to be successful in business, and especially in the merchant marine business, should start to work at 16 and not at 24, as most college graduates do," said Captain Robert Dollar, owner of the Dollar Line and the original of Peter B. Kyne's "Cappy Ricks", in an interview yesterday.

"I graduated from the College of Harvard Knocks myself," he said, with a twinkle in his eyes, "I started in as a Freshman at the age of 11 and my education occupied the age of 11 and my education occupied the greater part of my life. contrary to general opinion, I did not start in to 'follow the sea" but devoted myself to the lumber business on the Pacific coast.

School Education Enough

"I have always believed that a good school education was sufficient for any business man. This statement of course, does not apply to professional men with brains can learn more things of practical value in two years of hard work than in ten at college.

"A college education makes a man unwilling to begin at the bottom and unwilling to begin at the bottom and work up after he has graduated, and that is the only way in which to become a really good business man. In the merchant marine, a man of 24 should be able to hold a responsible position and should not have to begin at that age. This is equally true in any other occupation, so that college really robs a man of four or five of the best years of his life. It is a mistaken idea that education will ever make a fool sensible!"

Visited 462 Ports

Captain Dollar arrived in Boston on Monday, on the President Hayes, one of his ships, from a business and inspection tour of the world that has taken him to 462 ports. In China, he penetrated the interior in a trip from Pekin to Hankow, a distance of 600 miles, despite warnings that he might encounter difficulties arising out of the oivil war.

In speaking of this Chinese trip, Captain Dollar made the following remarks in a true "Cappy Ricks" vein:

"There's an awful lot of trouble in China now," he said, "but it's mostly in the newspapers. I asked one of the reporters why he didn't tell the God's truth once in a while without embellishments about murdered missionaries and tortured travelers, and he replied. "Captain, the God's truth wouldn't interest a soul."

China Good Business Field

"I found that the thing that bothered me most in China was the terrific heat The officials were all very courteous to me, and seemed to have a good opinion of Americans in general. Commercial trade and the merchant marine are all flourishing despite the war of which I personally saw no evidences China and the Pacific trade at present offer a promising future to the American business man."