The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-29
GETTING ON IN THE WORLD.

/ want to have word with young
men. l am going to talk about
work, for in my opinion that is the
first word for young men who want
to be or do something in life. And
young men are full of aspiration.
They are looking out into this great
world of ours with eager eyes. They
see noted names in the newspapers
and ask questions. They read the
story of success and their pulse
quickens. The thrill of life is in a
young man s. blood. The successful
example puts a spell upon him and
he wants to know the secret.
But here is his first danger. The
young man who is looking for the
secret of success makes me think of
the little holes which saw in the
sides of the mountains out at Cripple
Creek. They were dug by men who
were looking for gold, and did not
find it Don't GO around digging
eor the secret of success. Go to
work and keep working.
Some years ago / read a remark
made by President Dwight which
greatly impressed me. He said that
the majority of men use only small
part of their powers. had been a
worker from my childhood, but !
took the remark to heart. felt
that it could so easily be true, that
the powers of human spirit are so
great that we hardly realize how
much of it we are letting go to
grass.
Another observation also keeps
calling out to me-"We shall pass
this way but once" We can't
travel the road again, and the years
glide away so quickly. And there
comes that warning note from the
Master Himself, "The night cometh
when no man can work"
We must work. This is the law,
and the law is more important than
the secret in fact, we know what
the secret forces of nature are when
we know their laws. My observa-
ton of men is that those who accom-
plish much are workers. When l
talk with them 1 find that they are
up early in the morning and get a
good start.
It is perhaps unfortunate for young
men that there is now so much aglta-
ton for shorter hours. say this,
not because I am opposed to an eight
hour day, but because so much of
this agitation conveys the impression
that work is bad thing, or hard
ship, and that the less of it the bet
ter. Eight hours Gay make only
one-third of the time, and the man
who works only one-third of his time
will never have the whole of success.
Work is not a bad thing. 1t is
good thing. Really and truly I
think a man can get more fun out of
work than out of anything else, GER
tainly more satisfaction.
A young man should like work,
and the way to cultivate liking for
work is to find what we are best fit
ted to do. A fish likes to swim and
a bird likes to fly. They are in their
element. A deer likes to run, it is
built that way. I pity the young
man who is not made for his job,
When 1 was a boy and drove horses
to a plough they were sometimes
troubled with sore shoulders. We
usually found that it was because
the collars did not fit them. 1t is
much the same way with boy or
young man when his job does not fit
him. 1t chafes him, makes him feel
sore. An older man gets hardened
to it. But this does not mean that
a young man is to indulge the fancy
that some other young mans job
would fit him better. 1t simply
means that he is to know himself and
what he has the most natural talent
for. A man who has struck the
calling for which he is best fitted
seldom complains of overwork. A
man who is in the wrong calling is
always overworked- He is tired be-
fore he begins and he makes lot of
other people tired.-Ex.