The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12

It's wonderful--the confidence it in spires In an employer when he realizes that his employe is pulling ct the same end of the rope that he fs pull Ing at in the way of making a success of the business. Again. the poor young man after business hours is more apt to try to improve himsslf than is the rich young man. The rich young man feels that he has no need of improv- Ing himself in the way Of education. the right kind of a poor young man feels that he must And that is just the spirit which Is going to make him succeed. To study Is one of the guar antees of success--a young man ID these twentieth century days should have at least one or two foreign lan- guages--they help a great deal
 And then there's the temptation of drink. The rich young man Is called upon to face it all the time. and now often does he shun 1t? The poor young man has not this constant temptation unless he seeks 1t out Beware or strong drink I say 1t to all young men. Remember, corkscrews have sunk more young men than cork jack cts will ever save. have never dis- charged man for keeping sober
 CryiIity Plays Big Part.
 The poor young man is more apt to have 6. civil tongue in his head than the rich one. Necessity makes 1t SO. Always be civil, is not the poor mans twenty shillings as good as the rich mans pound7
 Benjamin Franklin. when anbassa- dor at the French court. said to the young man: .sThe last time I saw your father he received me in his study. As was leaving he showed me a short way out of the house. crossed by a beam overhead. Suddenly he cried. .Stoop! Stoopl I did not understand what he meant until I felt my head bump against the beam. He was a good man who never failed to give good advice. You are going he said, and have got to go through this world. stoop as you go through it. and you win miss many hard bumps I have never failed to be impressed with this lesson of humility"
 Now to get back to the disadvantage of the rich young man starting in life. To begin with, he is less likely than not to start in on the ground floor. He doesn't start the same as the poor boy. So he often starts half way up and never gets any further. Why? Be- cause he never gets the necessary groundwork. Eventually his pay Is even less than that of his fellow men who began at the bottom.
 Of course. all rich young men don't make this foolish start in life: some have sensible parents. I know many cases fin which the parents have insist ed on their sons beginning at the bot tom and working up. In some cases. even. they pay large premiums to em- ployers for just this advantage. But even this doesn't always work-too much money in youth has spoiled the boy.
 Out in Ceylon. where employ many thousands, we have class of rich young men who are popularly dubbed "creepers." These are young fellows whose parents have paid premiums for them to start in some business and learn 1t. But the general result of this superintendent always. of course lis that the young man chucks up the job in year or two, loses the prem iufn, and goes home again to start once more somewhere else, at something fresh, perhaps. The poor young man cannot afford to throw up a position just because he has tired of 1t; the rich young man doesn't care.
 aCreepers, Follow same TreIIis.
 The result Is usually the same. These 'creepers" gradually drift into the life of the broken down swell, knowing It, tie of all. they know nothing about earning money, only about spending 1t. Hut how different would the young man born poor treat his opportunities! Keeping green the memory of his days of struggle, be would lead a sensible, useful life when money came his way, knowing how to spend 1t properly and enjoying it all the more because he s8 one oi My Hobbies is thaE tlis young man In Commercial life snould always bear in mind the great pleasure his success will bring to his mother. think that is brought home more to a poor young man than to a rich one. I really feel that if a young man takes his mothef's advice and studies to inn prove his position for her sake he Is already on the high road to success. To the fact that when I was poor did everything to get ahead more to please my mother than for any other reason I owe everything. And that's not bad advice to give young men nowadays. either.
 As a young fellow, I always had in mind to improve my parents condi- ton. made that my study and my goal. I'm sure that is what brought success to me- Bear this in mind nl- ways-anything that really pleases mans mother is sure to be right.
 A young man. despite all this. can't help being born rich. suppose all, youngsmen wish they were. too.A Per, haps, the more sensible among them wouldn't If they realized the disadvan . tages of wealth when one is young. It breeds lack of appreciation of others; 1t tends to extravaganza: it deadens effort; 1t does not lead to the proper understanding of men; 1t chokes of the realization of the sufferings of the poor: 1t destroys knowledge of the val ue of dollar; 1t dries up human sym pathy.
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 Don't forget to vote for that Big Lot of Fireworks, Boys. You chm vote once every day--Open to all boys under I6 years old.
 Look at lem in our front wond0w. They are free to the Lucky Boy at 10 o'clock Christmas uOrning.
 This at the Sign of the BlE Gun