New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-16
A "RA|SE" FOR HORACE
If He Doesn't Hunt for It He May
Get a Jolt Instead.

Things are running along pretty smoothly /
for you. en- Horace? That same old job /.
isn't such lemon after all, Is II? While :
your salary doesn't sound Dig in toto, when |
YOU spread 1t out over each month it's .
at least enough TO get By on" isn't il? |
And though there are lots OF things YOU /
wish YOU had and wish YOU could do. there /
are still many Injuries at your command (
aren't there
Somehow. YOU manage TO pay YOUR board /
bill each-month get couple Of new suits
OF clothes each year. and plenty 10 smoke.
eat and drink. and have enough left over
TO take I'm quite respectable amount Of
the good things OF life. OF course. YOU real
ize that YOU ought 10 be getting more
and thJs YOUR salary has increased slight
ly in the las few Years. other chaps seem
to be mounting the ladder OF succc with
Ightninglilc rapditv. They're dragging
down bigger salaries each year. More than
that, they are almost certain D. further
Increases in the future.
But you are still ambling along at the
same old job and the same monthly pay
envelope You have planned many a time
TO CHARGE it all and go after something
better SUIT one month runs into the next
doing business at the same old stand. Next
year-not this one-is the time yOIll make
the big effort 20 show what you can make
Of yourself. Then you'll cut loose from
the routine and strike out for YOUR fortune.
But stop a moment. Two years ago didn't
YOU make the same declaration? And two
years before that, too?
Which brings US Horace. TO the question
OF whether it pays to live in tn" present
and let the future take care OF itself or
70 live with an eye 10 the future solely
II is so easy 10 drift along in an environ
ment that is reasonably comfortable and
10 dread any change that reverses the old
order II "a disconcerting. to say the least.
/ 20 pass up certainty ana Jump into an
/ uncertainty. In some new line OF work. or
! in the same line with another drn, one has
/ 10 make good all over again. and convince
/ the strangers that one is really worth his
i. salary A. the old stand they know all
! about you. You know their ways and they
yours
Some one once said. Horace that a man
who states that he has worked twenty
years for the same firm should follow it up
with an apology for having done so. This
may or may not De sound logic. For some
IL is: for others 1t is but sophistry. Like a
shoe II Ats one man but insists another.
| Just look ahead. and ask yourself
| whether your lob Is leading TO anything
! worth having in the end What are the
men ahead OF YOU makng-the men who
! began where you are now long years ago
and gradually worked up 10 what they
have at present? Are their positions worth
having? Have they accomplished that
which YOU would De satisfied TO let stand
as the result OF your LIES achievement?
Is the game worth the candle?
! All progress Horace. Is but succession
o, steps upward and onward. But there
are many different fights of steps one can
endeavor 10 mount. Are you climbing a
flight that offers real reward for your ef-
forts at the top or are you lodged on a
certain step ana more interested in sitting
there and resting than in looking upward
70 the next step? II YOU are content with
that. YOU will wake up some fine day 10
find that YOU no longer occupy that step.
others are crowding you from behind-and
there's room for only a certain number on
each step.
Presently. unless you keep on climbing up
You'll be pushed on clear 10 the bottom
And there there is no room for you. only
at the top-on each step higher up than th'
: one Won now occupy-is there room. Fi'
vour ewes on the topmost step-or fall OF
C1imb-or slip back. Look out for the fut
ure and the present will take care OF itself