Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-19
GET A lob.

Its a fine thing to be a '09 graduate
In 1909 and it will be worth While in
ooo9 if you happen to live so long.
You'll never be sorry that you were
graduated, whether it was from the
high school in little town or from
one of the worlds greatest universities.
But the 'rah 'rah business, the spot
light, the flowers and the applauding
people have gone glinlmering. The
class yell is yours YET but after a little
you'll not feel like yelling. Tesnpus
has fugitted a whole lot. Things are
not as they were. You're like a fellow
who has lived in one neighborhood
since he was born and has sold out and
is getting ready to move TO a far coun-
try. You are rather lost without the
company of the class and the leader
ship and support Of the faculty. It's
action. Don't find it with the gang. Get
a job. Get job quick. It's the safe
way.
And when you get it keep it. Don't
ask TO be carried around on a chip.
Take yours as the other fellow gets
his. If you hire TO dig cellars don't
let old Pat who has dug clay all Ais
life throw more dirt than you do.
Just get it into your head that While
Pat might be slow on an English theme
and may lack considerable knowledge
OF the established rules of etiquette
that he is as good as any other man
with a spade and days work to do.
Don't imagine that he does not under
stand the etiquette of labor or that
you will not be sized up and take your
place in that gang as a shirk or "a
dommed good man" with an accuracy
of marking on points that the teacher
of English never approached. Don't
speak Of your diploma while the snap
team is swinging the load out and
bringing b. < another wagon. What
counts dow ceilar are the spade and
the muscle and mind behind il. You
can't move clay with diploma. Where
clay must be moved the spade is SUI
preme.
II yen get a job in store. on the
street. on a farm, any old place, just
recollecr that this is new deal, one
you haven't been in on until now and
keep your eyes open TO see how the
other fellow does it, Its astonishing
how much one may pick up this way
that he has never learned at school
You're a new boy in new school
Watch how the other fellows do it
Meet them half way and on common
ground. If you can't do this you will
be lonesome and somewha, more than
lonesome.
But you haven't any idea how good
II feels to be classed as one of the best
men on the job by some grizzled old
Nestor Of the gang. You haven't any
idea how exceedingly good a weeks
wages looks when YOU tear open you,
own pay envelope to get II and realize
that you are under obligation to nc
man for it, that you traded an equiva-
lent that the man who paid It was
glad to trade for. Tired, why you'll be
tired 10 a fare-you- saturda,
night, and stretch out in bed late Of
Sunday morning with satisfaction
absolutely indescribable And when yol
have got rested" little thing like
moving house or digging a cellar OF
building railroad will not bother yol
any. You know that you and Old Pa
and the rest of the men can do it
that you and they must do it and arc
glad to do it, no matter how mucf
kicking you may all do when the sur
is hottest and the wind has died down
Say, fellow, go and do something
Get busy. It's bigger than any of tn,
things that seemed so great a part o
the world when you all got togethe
and roared like wolves with the vel
master.