The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-03-19
GET-RIcH-QUICK IDEA
RUINS 1nANY YOUNG MEN

1t is pretty good wisdom to keep in
the harness until you have demonstrate
ed that you are capable of pulling a
heavier load, or a more profitable one.
Recklessness, impotence, lack of pluck
and a desire to run before they have
learned to wolk causes failures in
thousands of young men. A great army
of ne'erdo-welis has been organized
in the United States during the past
ten years of young men who are burn
ing up with an all consuming anxiety
to pluck the golden fruit of endeavor
ripening on the boughs of universal
plenty before it reaches maturity.
The average twentieth century
young man is inoculated with a dan
gerous malady, a mad race, horse fever
to get there and win before the race
is fairly begun, writes DIR. W. D
Moody, in the Workers Magazine. The
atmosphere everywhere is surcharged
with ''get-rlch-quick' opportunities
that seem open on every hand to make
a fortune at a single stroke.
The first principle of success lies
in the power to stick to a thing, let
come what may. And yet that is inst
what thousands of young men try not
to do. Their predominant aspiration
seems TO try and get a large salary
without first acquiring the experience
to back it up. One in a Thousand, per-
hans, makes a lucky strike, but the
800 who play the game of life as they
would a game of hop, skip and jump,
generally find themselves enlisted for
life in the army of ne'er-do-wells.
Then, again, there are MANY capa-
Bile and idustrious young men who de
vote their energies to commonplace
ends. with positions that could easily
be made to yield larger returns from
their lapors, who have little idea of the
successful results that may be produc-
ed by constant application to instant
duty. Failures may be due to lack
Of natural ability, or adaptibility, but
they are more often due to the lack
of intelligent application.
There is a natural tendency when
unusual results are attained by the
really successful man to suppose sue
cess is due to some peculiar or espec-
tally favored location, that the good
things are not for us, that the golden
harvest is far away somewhere, in
someone else's yard. Young men feel
ng disposed to seek the bag Of gold
at the end of the rainbow may well
ponder over the story of the old Per
sian who sold his little hillside farm
and wanderer far over land and sea in
in vain search for diamonds. finally
dying a pauper in a strange land. as
the stranger watered his fiocks at the
well on the hillside farm found a pecu-
liar pebble in the little brook, which
proved to be the first of a wealth of
gems such as the old man had gone
To seek.
The opportunities at the present for
young men to succeed are far super
Tor to the opportunities of a decade
ago. The needs of our great CONNER
cial machinery multiply with our own
growth, and he is a fortunate young
man who has learned the value of
brains and ersecerance. The cry of
employers everywhere is for intelligent
and industrious young men, who are
willing to stick to the house in the
confidence that they will win out in
the end.
No race is won until the wire is
reached. Young men who use up all
their energy in the first dash usually
end by breaking on the course, and
there is nothing to do but start all
over again. Too many experiences of
starting over again in the race for
business success exhausts energy and
brushes out hope. The average pres
ent day young American is the vic
tim of extravaganza, due, perhaps, to
the great prosperity of the times.
Times are good, work is plenty, SAL
aries are high compared with fifteen
or twenty years Ago..
The present day inexperienced youth
just out of school entering a whole
sale establishment. scorns a salary of
fer Of less than $40 or $12 a week
At the end of the first year he wants
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