Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-10-03
DOsNOT
ACT ON
IMPULSE
HOwland Gives Advice to Young Men
Against Acting Hastily
(By John A. Rowland. }

Young man, whose advice are you
taking as you work your way along
the road which leads to your ambi-
tion?
It is taken for granted that every
young man. according to his tenn
permanent, Is asking advice some
where OF those with whom he comes
in contact. Quite as naturally IL
may be accepted that the young man
is not asking his way along which
he passes smoothly and successfully.
It is when he is In the dark of diff
culties-- reel or imaginary-that he
is most likely to turn somewhere for
a confidential talk which prompts
advice. OF whom are you asking
light?
There ig a subtle weakness In hui
man nature in time of trouble or of
doubt which prompts the victim Of
distress to go TO some one who is
In mood to share his pessimlsm.
Men who have grown gray in expert
ences of the world have not learned
the folly of the impulse. II Is some
thing against which the young man
needs to prepare himself.
There are frictions and sorenesses
and disappointments along the whole
road of life. These are necessary as
the accompanying comparative ex-
perie noes against which pleasures
and contentment may stand in true
worth. But until the young man
has accepted these worries as inevi-
table, he ls likely to dlstort them
out OF all true proportion. He will
see tragedy In what Is a mere an
noyance.
IL IL when tho young man Is dis
turbed by these influences that he is
most disposed 10 seek the conf
dences OF some one who will share
his mood with him. Here lies the
certainty of his mistake. no matter
II he does or doesn't accept the ad-
vice OF that person who In a like
position IL experiencing the same
distress which Is his.
One OF the last possible clrcum-
stances which a doctor would choose
for his patient who Is seriously III |
would be to have that patient asso-
ciated day after day with other per- |
sons suffering from the same iil. |
Recognition OF this imposslbllity by |
physicians making u speciality OF |
tuberculosis has been one of the |
leading factors I'm developing the |
"home cure" for the consumptive. |
The health resort environment \
which brought scores or hundreds OF |
those ailing ones together. far from |
home, more than countorbalanciny |
favorite climate Exchanging |
symptoms under the depresslons OF |
homeslckncss was shown to be fatal. |
Yet II IL Just this course OF pro.
codure which thousands of young |
men are taking In order TO relieve |
themselves % the small dlstresses
OF a business career which is In It's
Infancy The blind leading bllud IL
wisdom In comparison. Can NOR
bid Jones be of possible beneflt In
his judgments rendered 10 morbid
Smith?
"Why didn't YOU come 10 me be-
fore you decided on this mover" has
been the discouraged question Of
many an employer when Young
man OF promise, suffering from dis
has told that employer
of his intention 10 leave.
There N all the kecner regret In
the inquiry II II has come 10 that
employers knowledge that his man
Ia leaving him largely through the
III advice which that young man has
got from fellow men immeasurAbly
his Interiors in caliber. II comes 10
that employer with keen sense OF
the helplessness OF his own position.
In most businesses IL Is essential
that all grades of men be associated
among the beginners. Time only
can be depended upon In the neces-
sary wedding processes which shall
determine the successful few among
the many. II Is tho beginner who Is
most susceptible to the Influences OF
bad advice from his associates. IL
Is the beginner of mediocre callber
who Is most prone To give the bad
advice. And the processes go on
aud on.
Let the young man who fnds
among the small worries OF
his environment stop and take stock
NJ himself ana his position. II In
the beginning he could feel that he
was choosing wisely the field OF his
opportunities. surely he cannot so
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