Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
HABITS MAKE THE MAN

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 HABITS MAKE THE MAN
 Experience has demonstrated that life is largely a matter of habits; that habits, whether good or bad, are perhaps the sole arbiter of mans for tune. The saloon habit makes the drunkard; the card-room habit, the gambler; the pool-room habit, the pool shark; the racetrack habit, the defaulter. Another habit almost as destructive to success is the idling habit-the habit of taking things easy" whenever the opportunity of fers. Innocent enough this habit ap- pears, but the man that practices it finds himself inseparably linked to hard work and low wages. Some un- seen tie binds him to a lowly posi- ton. He does not see the connection between idling and low wages. He does not realize that taking things easy" will make advancement come hard
 On life's highway there are two paths: First, the path of pleasure and idleness, which has for it's goal udlu NOIhY lON NdStS, anu d pun LII old age; second, the path of study, of better conditions of employment, involving shorter working hours high CT wages, and everything that tends to improve our social and working conditions.
 Which path are you treading? You must choose a combination of idle ness, pleasure, and hard work, or habits of study and a life of ease and emolument There is no middle of-the-road way. Your choice must be either pleasure today and hard work and low wages hereafter or study now and a life of ease and better working conditions in the fu- ture.
 Just as habits of idleness and pleasure mean hard struggle and failure, so good habits work in the opposite direction. The best habit we can cultivate is the study habit. This does not necessarily mean that we should deny ourselves all recreation and devote all our spare time to study Just a little time devoted work wonders in a short time. In a year it should win you promotion and bigger pay.
 It was the habit of devoting a little time each day to study that enabled Harvey Brakeman, a working carpenter of New Kensington, Penn sylvania, to qualify to earn an in come of s50OO a year as an architect; that enabled Harry M. Moxely, of 564 Prospect street, Cleveland, Ohio, a farmer boy, to become a demonstra- tor of chemistry at a well-known college of medicine; that enabled M. $. Haise, a poorly paid clerk, of Dal- las, Texas, to become a bridge de- signer and contractor doing a vol ume of business amounting to s2O0,000 annually; that enabled George Row land, a miner, of Martins Ferry. Ohio. who could not work a problem in multiplication, to become a civil and mining engineer with an income of S2SOO a year; that enabled w. H. Co., ing, a section hand, of Dalhart, Tex, to become a division roadmaster at a salary of $500 a year; that enabled c. c. Leek. of 2I Center street, New Haven, Connecticut, schoolboy, to become a sign painter, with earn ings of $500 a year; that enabled F. w. Trotter, a poorly paid stock keeper, of Monticello, Illinois, to be- come a window trimmer at a salary of s30 a week; that enabled George W. Richardson, of 2181 w. 24th Place, Chicago, Illinois, to become manager of the Dearborn Light & Power Company, of Chicago, at a salary of S2500 a year; that enabled J. H. Lane, of Bessmay, Texas, a laborer in a lumber yard, to become a shipping clerk at a salary of $16O a month; that enabled William Nal thaner, an apprentice mechanic, of Green Island, Troy, New York, to become master mechanic of the Northern Division of the D. & H. R. R., at a salary of about $25O0 a year; that enabled Harry G. Davis, of Kingston, Pennsylvania, a miner earning $40 a month, to become su- perintendent for the D. L. & w. Coal company, at a salary of $500 a month; that enabled Earl D. Sur rock, a helper in the plant of the Townsend Gas & Electric Company of Port Townsend Washington, to become general manager of the com pany at salary approximating $2O0 a month; that enabled Charles F. Clark, of Louisville, Kentucky, em- ployed at salary of $10 week to become an ad and show-card writer at a salary of $35 week; that en- abled thousands of other I. c. $. students located in every country on the face of the globe to qualify for easier, better-paying employment.
 Gan we. not induce you, too, to adopt the study habit; to devote just a little of your spare time each day hereafter to the requirement of sal knowledge? Or wiz you be content to eke out the re- mainder of your days in a lowly position? The difference between no education and education is the diff ference between hard work and low wages and better conditions of em- ployment and higher wages. Which Is your choice?
 For circulars of information on POS different courses of study apply to the Scranton school representative at Davidson's Cash Store, Feb 18th to 18th.
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