Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-10-28
WILLIE'S FATHER
ON STRENUOUS LIFE
Cyrus Holmes Makes Some Observations on Lone.
SOnleneSS and the Charter Member
of the Blister Club

| that fishing and swimming are the two
best tanning agencies in the world
In your last letter you made some
complaint about your foreman and the
fact that your salary was not growing
in the same ratio as the work you are
supposed to accomplish When 1 fin
ished college and started in a bank
as clerk with a weekly compensation of
IS, l thought the world was looking
upon me with disfavor and according
ly wrote a letter to my elder brother,
advising him of the fact My employ
ers were not the best natured fellows
while on duty and my lot was deprived
of everything that had the scent of
roses. But the advice received from
my brother was good, and l pass it on
to you.
He gave me to understand that my
duty YVES to work and keep at it from
half an hour before opening time until
and the other members OF the force
had gone home. He said that what
ever l thought of the president didn't
matter, because the president prob
ably wouldn't change his opinions for
the pleasure of pleasing me. His adj
vice was to work hard enough so that
the man who made out the pay checks
could not get along without me, and
in that case he predicted successful
career.
Some day you will understand that
employers are hiring men for what
is in them and for what they are able
to accomplish, and not because they
want to please a friend They are
after the man who wants to learn all
there is in the business, and if this
happens to be a little more than the
employer knows, 1t is still to your adj
vantage. When you reach the point
where you can tell the foreman how
to run the ranch at a less cost and
with larger returns than he can do it.
you will have his job and he will be
receiving your orders Until then you
will have to occupy a subordinate
position.
/ don't mean to say that this rule
have seen employers so near sighted
that they paid their best clerks the
smallest wages and let the favored
ones get the rake-off. But these men
were bad examples of success, and the
fact that they soon lost their best men
and went to the wall because the fav-
orites stole all the profits shows plain
y that there was a screw loose in the
wheel of the institution. A
man who is not experienced in the
principles of his business
needs a guardian the same as a man
who is lacking in mental capacity, and
unless he gets one he will soon be call
ing on the courts to put him into
My trouble lay in not taking the
advice of my brother. 1 dabbled along
n the banking business and learned
he routine of my work but when l
became anxious because the president
would not let me take care of the loans
md did not ask my advice on large
business matters, | thought he was
Unable to see a good thing and accord
ngly resigned.
But here is no use for you to
make this mistake. If you try to learn
calculus before learning the first prin-
,iples of algebra it may prove disas-
rous to your mathematical education;
md if you think you can run a wheat |
'anch before you have worn corns on
'our feet you are bound to make a
allure. A few corns on your hands |
will do no harm to your capacity to
earn when you return from college, |
md if your feet take a half size larger |
hoe next fall than they did last it |
won't make much difference except in |
our dancing. 1t is just as necessary |
o hit hard with your brain as with |
our fist If you expect to get any
where, and in order to make a good |
moving at both you need all the |
trength you can muster. No boy ever |
ut enough ice to interfere with the |
efrigerator business till he got his |
myers caught in the cog-wheels of ex- |