The daily sentinel., 1910-02-23
STORIES Of LIFE
THAT TOUCH
THE HEART
Chapters From the Experiences OF
Men Who Struggled for Educa-
tion and Employ, and Way
Y. NJ. C. A. Assisted.
TOLD BY Y. NJ. C. A. SECRETARIES
The Window Washer Who Became "A
Bank President.

| Bank President.
The man looked seedy and tired
when | found him in the reading
room," said the Y. NJ. c. A. secretary.
His name was Jones. He was nearly
at the point where a man stops try
ing, so | sat down and talked with
him.
He had been through run of
hard luck. He had lost job after job
because he had not fitted himself to
do the work. He had tramped the
streets of several towns and was
| ready to give up. But there was sCill
a little fight in him.
So we got him work washing win
| iows. He didn't know enough to
hold down better Job, but in some
way or other he managed to live in
his cheap boarding house on the three
| or four dollars a week wages, all he
could get and all he was worth-so
| far.
Then We suggested to him that he
| might like to go into one of the be-
ginners' educational classes and learn
enough to fill better place. That
was what he wanted, and he used to
work until he fell asleep at his les
sons.
In six months he got better pay
ing job-nailing up boxes, but still
he pegged away every night at his
studies. In another twelve months
he got position as messenger in a
bank. Still he kept on studying hard
nights. Then he became bookkeeper
in the bank. He had been taking
good care of himself. He wore a
clean collar and shined his shoes
l In t1xs II. haJ .1, .
kind of friends.
| finally lost sight of Jones. Not long
ago friend of mine, who had been
attending a bankers convention,
came itno my office. 1 met a friend
| of yours-Henry Jones-the other
day he remarked. Jones heard
was from here and he inquired about
you. He is cashier and one of the
chief stockholders of leading bank.
He was an officer of the convention
/ Since then I've seen my old friend
| myself in his office and in his home
on the avenue. He is master of
| men now. | had ride in his fine
| touring car. too. All / am and all ]
hope to be l owe to the Association
for the education and help ! needed
and got when | needed 1t most, he
told me-"
| This is true and typical story of
the kind of a young man the world
wants. He had the right sort of stuff
| in him. Though he did not have the
early schooling he needed. he i'm
| proved his opportunities. He had no
| Especial advantages of birth of culture
nor of favor or friends. He never
would have reached his present posi-
tion without hard work for his eiu-
| cation, the lack of which stood be-
| tween him and success.
| His is the story of thousands of
| others. Every young man has an
equal chance The Association's s
business. with its classes and teach
ers and equipment. is to put a man
in the way of helping himself in a
dozen different ways toward success.
II he is willing to pay the price in
hard work.
\ Steam Filter Studying Nights Gets
Ready for u Foreman's Job.
A steam-fitter. thirty-five years old,
clumsily, and with much misgiving in
his heart, for the first time leaned
over the drawing table after he had
! finished a hard days work. The
| light above the clean white drawing
paper rested on two big rough hands
striving vainly to manipulate the
slender little drawing instruments
while he waited for exercise one. The
work he had just left was play to him
in comparison to this. He perspired
and he breathed hard, but he didn't
seem to make much progress, Oc-
casionally he would look with disgust
at the ill-drawn wandering lines. The
only thing that kept him from being
discouraged was his sense of humor,
which kept him smiling at his own
awkwardness; and his determination
to learn how. He worked all through
the winter, in the spring, and into the
summer. Progress was slow at first,
but finally he began to catch on
and get ahead rapidly. Confidence
began to take the place of apparent
discouragement. You don't know
how l feel he said one evening to
his instructor. 1T gives fellow
confidence in himself to understand
these things" At the end of three
months he began to hope for fore
4 mans job. When he was ready he
! got it. Telling about his promotion
to his instructor he said smiling,
"Why they act all the time now as II
they think know what l am doing"