The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1904-01-22
Does 1t Pay:

kuy . W ttO WIN SOurIaCutiOtoSN
Probably not. If you are working
solely for money. -. .-4. a
There comes 20 US for instance
a certain current-topics review
for teachers ahd students This
paper boldly makes everv> claim
that the Pathfinder can make. 1t
assn mes to contain 1.-The important
events of the week in condensed
and explanatory form, for teach
ers, students aud all busy people"
etc
Yet strictly there is not a single
line Of original reading matter in
the paper-except publish er 3
assertion that the circulation has
doubled ia the last year The en-
tire paper is made up of common
boiier-plate matter which. Is
thrown together by the ton in New
York and furnished To country
weeklies for a song. One of the
tirst-page articles is headed !:
Hanged Herself in Garret," etc.
Yet there is a paper with which
apparently thousands of presum-
ably Intelligent teachers are per
fectly contented. 1t is obviously
fake, but ii seems TO serve the
purpose. Now the question is.
what is the use of the Pathfinder's
labriously working out CON
scientious riview and analysis OF
all the wards doings, weighing
every item, phrase and word, set
ting up the type in its own office
and producing altogether Il com
paratively original'paper. when it
could get boiler-plate all ready
made. at cost of only few cents
a page, thus doing away with MI
editorial work, type consumption.
etc.
We state our own case because
il is more familiar TO us. But
everyone has this same question to
meet: Does it pay TO DO work
cohscientiously?" We all of Us
have our chances to cheat the
world. every day We know where
We can slight our work and then
cover ii up SO it may never be
noticed. La money sense this
may pay" We all see about us
people who are succeeding" by
just such methods. 1t does not
take very smart people to impose
on the world. Some of the most
successful money-makers and
money keepers are people of n
very low order Of intellect, not to
say morality. Any common fell
low who sets out to be rich can be-
come so in this country.
The trouble is that the world
measures your success in dollars,
and in order to prove that you
amount TO something" you are
almost forced TO go into money
making You can never convince
your friends and relatives that
you are ''doing well'' unless you
can display the cash to show foI it.
There is constant pressure on
you from all sides urging you to
get more The desirability of diff
ferent positions is GAGGED almost
entirely by the salaries they
bring.
But this is not all there is TO
life, and there are many in the
world on whom this truth has
dawned. Why is il that our
teachers do not strike? They get
on the average about ms much pay
a. day la borers. They could make
more money in other ways. Why
/ is ii that our preachers are SO I'M
complaining, when so many Of
them get less money than the coal
commission declared To be living
wages for a coal mineI? Why is il
that all through the country there
are here aud there solid people
who cannot be induced Ia Join in
the rush for money.
Ut is because there is con
seriousness abroad that somehow
the dollar is not the true standard
after all; that thare is satisfac
ton in doing work we'll no matter
whether ii pays" or not: and that
work into which love and devotion
enters does not 90 unrewarded.
even though the money-changers
may undervalue Pathfinder.