The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16
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We are known by the company we keen
Ii you keep company with with the rowdv
cement you are put down as such. Iftha
intellectual You are considered in that
class.
Nothing has so much influence over our
iiVes next to the company we keep as what
we read. Parents do you provide your
children with good, clean reading matter
Gould we do away with the sensational
reading, murder columns, and the like. we
Deieye there would be a great falling off in
The criminal calendar.
FatherS where does your boys spend
their Sundays. Just out with the bovsp
You might better sacrifice your SUNDAY
nap and amuse your boys and be with
theln Tor 1t will not be half as hard to keen
them right as it will be to reform them
"hen they have gone wrong. Don't leave
IL all to their mothers to do. Boys look to
tiieif fathers for sympathy as he was once
boy like themselves. Lead your boys in
the right way. Don't send them.
The increasing demands of business
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WHO 90 not indulge i'll vices like gambling
drinking, cigarette smoking and the like.
make 1t necessary that we see to it that our
boys do not form those habits if we would
nave them successful business men, 1t
mas been found that these practices great
~ impair the efficiency of the men and
lessen their usefulness to til cir EMPLOYERS,
Parents if you have sons looking forward
TO business career, in fairness. warn
them that the first step to failure and igno-
mlny Is taken when a habit is formed
which will disqualify them for profitable
employment
Not long since we heard lady denounc
ing all partaking of the communion from
the same cup, and advocating the individ-
nal cups from sanitary standpoint. Yet
she wore SKIRT long enough to take up
every microbe from the ground or walk on
which she trod. Consistency thou art
charm"
Not long since we saw the statement that
the mistakes and bIunders of inefficient
help had cost an employer $25, 600 veal.
Never was time when there was more of
| demand for efficient laborers. than now
young men and women with force, energy
| and purpose, trained to do something
| and DO that something we'll Never was
there time when any one could fit them
| selves for profession better than now.
Managers and superintendent every
where are hunting for good people to fill
| all sorts Of positions. Yet it is almost i'm =
possible to find skilled help for any profess
| sion. There are hundreds Of applicants
for every vacancy, but they are either dis
| sipated, rude or grutf in manner, afra id of
work, or Of working more hours than they
are paid for, or lack thorough education
or training
When any of the above are given a posi-
| ton they fail to hold it and so go tramping
from store to store, or shop to shop, office
to factory, wondering why their lot is so
hard, why they cannot hold a position,
when the fault is in themselves They do
not fit themselves for their work.
First, choose something honest and hon
Orable, then be a success at it. Ttmatters
not SO much whatyou dolas, Can you do it
well? Better be a successful dish washer
than a poor dressmaker, or a successful
! hod carrier than a poor doctor. Have an
aim in life and strive to reach it. Hitch
your wagon to a star" if you want to;
better have your aspirations too high than
not high enough.