Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-05
by LEONARD FOWLER.

Special Commissioner of The Bee.
His bank does IL business of more than
8. 900 $50 per Year.
He sits behind a big mahogany roll-top
with Cashier" in shiny brass letters
tackled to the end.
He carries a $4,000 balance with the
Z First National at Omaha
His new bank building cost $1,000 and
is paid for.
He can sell his sheep on the Omaha
market for more than $4,000 He got the
bid for them while I was talking with him
His real estate. his quarry of purest
granite. his farm and city property total
TO $4,000 or $4,000
His home Is the neatest, most comfort
able in town; it cost $1,000
His wife is one of the leaders in the
younger set of an DID, old town
His boy Jack" not yet years old, is
worth his weight in diamonds.
But he is only q years of age!
The west is the place for the young
fellow And Idaho is the wonder state Of
all the golden west. Here is j. b. Randall
cashier Of the Oakley State bank: secre-
tary of Chapman & Randall flockmasters
and stakeholder in the Burley State bank
and in the Bank Of Utah; the latter at
Hiram, Utah Thus are his activities scat
tered over two states. And he is only a
boy. But a boy in whom every one has
faith, confidence, and to whom the best
IA biggest men in the town are so loyal
that there is not a member of his board
of directors who isn't years and years
older than himself. lie is a typical out
growth of the west, the west that he calls
home, the west that he loves.
Somebody gave him his start 1 can
almost hear you say. 1t Is the invariable
excuse of the weakling when he contem-
plates the success Of another. Always l
can hear that whine: Some one left It
TO him." or his father was rich" or "he
was lucky" This time / want you to
listen to what luck really is. This time
want to chow you what "luck,' real luck,
will do for a fellow.
BOynOOd of Work.
eThis Randall person was born on farm
near Ogden, Utah, just twenty-seven years
ago He went to the district school until
he was It, working in the summer, on a
threshing machine, to help out at home,
saving meantime for the business college
course upon which he had set his hope
Every summer he left home to go to the
great wheat fields of Washington and
oregon, where work was plenty and help
scarce. No free board at home for him.
But a job in the open, where he had to
hustle and compete with strong men FOR
his daily wage. a clean cut battle with
Destiny was the sort of scrap that Ran
DAN put up. The last year that he went
TO school, when he had Just turned H. the
Niose of the threshing season found him
~ Portland, Ore And opportunity was
there in the shape OF a strike of the Sea-
mems union The wages Offered were
tempting high. and Randall shipped before
4 The mast for u three months cruise on the
D Columbia, the Inflated ship that later went
10 pieces of Mendocino. This was a fine
experience, but the strike settled, the win
ter was almost over and early spring found
him common laborer in the smehers at
Great Falls, Mont, More of the threshlng
season In the great wheat fields of the
Treasure state and the coveted sum he had
been saving for all this time was his; in a
bank, ready to serve its purpose, giving
TO Randall, thresher hand roustabout,
business science.
Il knew this" he said, that to excel
The other fellows I'd have to know as
hmuch about their game as they did, There's
= a practical way to do things aud a theo-
reueal way. and the fellow VINO only
knows one way, whichever one It is, Is
bound to be worse off than the fellow who
knows both. | wanted to know both"
That was the way he reasoned II cut
And when l asked him to have cigar, he
reP@ed, with a smile, II DONE know the
taste OF either liquor or tobacco"
Luck of Hard EndeaVOr.
Luck Sure ii was luck that made him
cashier OF big bank at u. Nothing in
tns world but luck. The kind OF luck that
hustles for sixteen hours a day; the kind
of luck that does VITA It's might what its
hands find to do; the sort OF luck that
stSsrs clear OF evil associations of petty
eNtravagancies; that saves las money; tha,
has definite aim; that knows What IL
Wants and camps on the trail until II gets
ehactly that; nothing less.
Returning to ogden llandall went TO
business college. Not once. but twice, each
time to different school. Il wanted to
get II ALL" he said to me. Il found that
there was more to il than | had planned
and that it took a litue longer TO learn
it, And SO to two OF them he went. And
This was the only place he got a 'lift."
While he was going TO school his father
gave him a home free of charge; a home
sixteen miles from the city. and the trip
looked around FOR something TO do. He
had gAfe up his mind that the banking
bussLE 3offered place and an opportunity.
10 ~ Young fellow ready To take life as
be found H. and 10 make the best OF every
hing he stumbled 0yst, one m0rniRg