Middletown transcript., 1895-07-27
MIDDLETOwN, DEL, JULY 81, 1885.
BEST EFFORTS PAY.


eff l were getting more salary l
would do better work for my en-
ployer," was the substance of a re-
mark made by youth of Middletown
a few days since to several listening
and apparently interested friends. 1t
is a sentiment that will never pay. 1t
will not pay the employer nor the en-
ployed. The young man or young
woman who acts on such proposition
will never make trusted employe nor
an efficient one. 1t is not in the ma
terial. and an employer always finds it
out. sooner or later. No honest young
man or young woman, or older man or
older woman, can afford to render less
than the best services bargained for,
though the compensation may appear
Inadequate. To do otherwise is TO
form habits that are detrimental to
character and prejudicial to better ef-
forts under more favorable circum-
stances. To do ones best at all times
is duty to self first, and to others Sec
ond. The youth who begins by slight
ing task or rendering a half-hearted
service, because the pay is not as much
as desired, though it is what was bar
gained for, will never attain to proti-
cheney in that particular rank and runs
the risk of contracting slip-shod habits
that will follow into other and perhaps
more remunerative occupations. In
difference to ones work never pays,
and least of all does it pay the young
man or young woman who hopes to
win success by unaided efforts. We
thought of these things when we
heard the remark quoted and we trust
these lines may fall under the eyes OF
the author and at least start series OF
self questioning that can do no harm
and may prove great blessing.
Who are the men and women to-day
who stand at the head Of their profes,
sions and callings in life? Go asks
them of their early efforts and learn
from them the pathway TO success
Who are tie men and women whose
names are recorded upon history's
pages as having accomplished some
thing in life worthy of record? Turn
to those pages of history and there
learn that the best efforts were made
under the most trying circumstances
and often without appreciation but
there was no relaxation of endeavor,
nor would anything but the best results
possible satisfy the young heroes and
heroines, then unknown and unacknoW'
lodged but even more true then than o1
their later years. To attain to the
eminence which so many of the same
ability but of less character have en-
We'd, has cost hours of the most patient
labor and of continued best efforts
The TRANSCRIPT is not given to en-
phasis, to italics, but it would impres:
this idea upon those Of its young read
ers who are ambitious and hopeful thai
1t is only the best efforts that pay
Those efforts may fail again and agair
but when the work is taken up il
should be with the determination tt
do ones best, and failure never follows
such an one. There may be disap
pointments many and misgivings mum
berless but success always crowns one'I
best efforts faithfully and perseueringl'
made.
While these lines are written with ;
definite object in view and hope tha
they may do good where the seed ma!
fall here, we feel that they are gener
ally true and applicable outside Mid
dletown as well as in it, and if thos'
who have thought without giving ex
preston to the idea, "If my compensa
tion were better 1 would work NOR
cheerfully," will consider that whil
such thought is both natural and for
givable, yet it will not pay to harbo
and enlarge upon it. Render to Casa
the things that are C@sar's and rende
him full and adequate compensation
with your best efforts and it will b.
found that as the years 60 by the proc
of our text will appear-BEsT EFFORTS
PAY.