The smallest of small businesses had no real problems, as of last week: Junior Achievement Inc., with 200-odd member manufacturers staffed and run by 14-to 21-year-olds.
Junior Achievement's somewhat pompous title matches the humorless tone of its national house organ, Achievement (mostly written by J.A.'s elder statesmen), which sags from too much uplift about working hard to succeed. But J.A.'s kids have always been anything but ponderous. Founded 24 years ago by Horace Augustus Moses (head of Strathmore Paper Co.) to teach business methods to adolescents before they went to work, J.A....
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