The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-01-05
Idlers VS.. Hustlers.


We saw half a dozen young men stand
ing on the street corner the other day,
and every one of them was out of job.
1t is bad thing to be out of job, and
VIC sympathize with these fellows.
Some of them get work occasionally, but
they don't seem to hold their jobs. We
have known many good, honest fellow
to be temporarily idle, and we hope that
these young men may soon get good po-
sitions. The question with them is,
show can get work." One of the best
ways in the world to get work is to go
to work. Don't wait for work to come
to you. Don't loaf for single second if
you are out of a job. The worst thing
that could happen to mans reputation
is for business men to see him standing
around idle.
In this day and age it is one of the
easiest thing in the world to get work.
Every magazine contains the ads of
concerns that will helps young man get
a start in life by giving him instruction
at home for a nominal sum. The adj
writing school, the sign painting course,
the card writing course-Red Oaks
merchants are sending out of town to
respondence courses in drawing, engin-
eering, shorthand, and almost any
known art or science, all are taught
successfully by mail and are, therefore,
within the reach of every young man
who earns any salary at all. Now we
don't believe that there are half a dozen
young men in this town who are avail
ing themselves of any such privileges as
these. No wonder there are so many
loafing around out Of a job. This is a
day of specialists. Prepare yourself for
some one kind of work, no matter what
it is, and you won't have TO hunt a job,
it will hunt you. Get a move on your
self, you street corner loafer, or you
are going to be everlastingly left. The
world is filling up, and the day will soon
be at hand when the men who have pre-
pared themselves for something will
have monopoly of the good jobs.
AS said above, the worst thing that
man can do is to gain the reputation
of an idler. Red Oak merchants who
belong to the Merchants Association
each have little book in which are re-
corded the names Of the dead beats of
this vicinity. 1t is an interesting addi-
ton to any Red Oak mans library. A
man whose name appears therein need
not ask for credit at any of the stores,
because he will not get it. Every NOR
chant in town also has another list of
names thai he refers to occasionally.
1t is all in his mind, perhaps, but it does
him good service nevertheless. 1t is a
list of the names of those men and boys
whom he has seen on the streets of Red
Cak. At the head of the fist are Gle nixl
fustrious, honest APPEARING ones, and at,
the foot are the ones who are usually
found standing around looking for a job.
The main questi2q1n5, in every ones mind
should be to get to the head of the list
The chap who does his work the best
that he knows how, and gladly takes
the advice of ones who know how; who
is willing to do q little more than his
employer requires of him; who is never
found with disreputable associates, and
who, when be is waiting for r job,
hustles while he waits-that chap will
never haye to wait long for good posi-
tion. For such young men we have an
ardent admiration.-Red Oak Express.