Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-07-18
"Out For The Coin"

Give me young man with Ideas
and l am willing to back him to the
! inish,' said a prominent real estate
| broker, whose Offices on lower Broad
way are like a beehive. by ideas /
| don't mean a purpose, a single aim,
/ altho that is necessary, too. A man
may have as mis- purpose the acquisi-
! ton of wealth, and he may get there;
| but | doubt if he makes the real sue
cess that is achieved by the young
man who has nerve enough to want
to do thing we'll for the sake OF 40
ing well. know this SOUNDS like a
lecture, but | have had a serious illus
! traction of my point and the last chap
ter in the story too place this after
noon.
About six months ago a young
man walked into my Office and an.
rounced he had come to New York
to seek mis- fortune. He was the son
Of an old friend Of mine. His father
and had been boys together in Vir-
ginia. He was serene, confident OF
success.
/ think New York is the place for
young man. he said with a cneer.
ful smile. Thomas F. Ryan came here
from Virginia, and you know what he
has done
Il might have said | knew whom
Ryan had done but / didn't interrupt
him till he had blown himself out
What can YOU dog l asked.
Anything was the reply. AZ
least l am willing to try anything.
am out for the coin
Perhaps l am a bit old-fashionel
but it didn't seem to me that the
yodng man was stepping on the TIRES
| hold of his business life with the pro-
per reverence. In my experience the
man who has in mind the pay rather
than the desire to be best, is like;y
to be continually hunting a job.
If You are just out for the coin,
as you put it, why lont you turn con
fdence man? suggested. 1 hear
that is paying vocation, in spite of
the risk it involves
"'Oh, l mean and good job, he re-
joined I am willing to earn all I
can get
The men that get the good jobs,
l said, are those who can do a partlc-
ular thing better than any one else.
Yes the young man blithely in.
terposed, l know everybody has to
have a graft.
'Grart!' I roared. Graft, did you
say? Do you think all bushes men
are bunco steerers and shell workers?
! it strikes me you have a peculiar
point CT view for a youngster who
even aspires no higher than to follow
in the footsteps of Thomas F. Ryan
Il said some other things, too, but
( the young chap appeared so taken
aback at my irritation that | felt
ashamed. thought his trouble might
not be fundamental, and so far as mis-
slang was concerned, l did not mind
that as it was. inmy opinion, merely
a superficial defect.
well, that young man was a hope
less case. He threw up the first job
because it didn't pay enough. He
| didn't earn his salary at that, and he
! lost the chance of advancing limsen
/ with the concern by which he was
| employed. Inside of six months he
! had been mixed up in eight different
| schemes which were to net anywhere
! from $4,000 to 100000 quick
money. He was at home part of the
time and not once did see linn pick
up d book. The only thing he ever
read was the sporting page Of an
evening newspaper. He had not one
ambition as'qe from getting rich, and
he wanted TO do that in a hurry.
What was the result? ,4He he
was here he had five different posi-.
tons None of them paid very much,
but employers don't come up with
big salaries simply because their en-
| ployees like money. Finally he got
out Of work He also got hungry.
gave him some money occasionally,
| but one week while | was out of the
city he got hungry and pawned suit
of clothes belonging 10 a young mal
who had a room Lext to mis- in cheap
boarding house. There was no arrest
| paid SLIP to redeem the clothes and
bought the young man a ticket to his
Virginia home. He was bright, well
educated and industrious. He did
not smoke or drink. That looks as
if he should have been a winner
doesn't it? The trouble with him
was thai his point of view was all
wrong. He was out for the coin, and
this very defect is likely to counter
balance all his good qualities and put
him in a felon's stripes. New YorS
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