Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-09-28
A "RAlsE" FOR HORACE.
If He Doesn't Hunt for 1t He May Get
q Jolt Instead.

Things are running along pretty
smoothly for YOU. Ell Horace That
same old job isn't such n lemon after
all. is 1t? While your salary doesn't
out over each month it's, at least
enough to get by on" isn't it? And
though there are lots of things you
wiz. You had and wish you could do.
there are still many luXuries at your
aren't there?
Somehow. you manage to pay your
board bill each moHth. get q couple of
new suits of clothes each YEAR, and
plenty TO smoke. eat and drink. and
have enough left over to take in quite
a respectable amount of the good
things of life. OF course. you realize
that YOU ought to be getting more and
that your salary has increased slight
lN i'll the last few Years. Other chaps
seem to be mounting the ladder of sue
cess With lightninglikc r%apidity.
They're dragging down bigger salaries
each year. More than that. they are
almost certain of further increases in
the future.
But YOU are still! anlhling along at
the same old job and the same monthly
pay envelope. You ave planned many
a time to change it all and go after
something better. But one months runs
into the next n one year into am
other. with you still doing business at
the same old tand. Next year-not
this one-is the time Youth make the
big effort to show what O can make
of yourself. Then youll cut loose from
the routine and strike out for Your
fortune. But stop n 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 the present and let the future take
care of itself. or to live with an eye
to the future solely. 1t is so easy to
drift along in AN environment that is
reasonably comfortable and to dread
any change that reverscs the old order.
1t is disconcerting to say the least. to
pass up Il certainty and jump into am
uncertainty. In some new line of work.
or in the same line with another firm,
one has to make good all over again.
and convince the stranger that one is
really worth his salary. At the old
stand they knew all about YOU. You
know their WAYS and they YOURS
Some one once said. Horace. that Il
nan who states that he has worked
20 wears for the same firm llould fol-
low it up With AN apology for having
lone so. This may on may not be
sound logic. For some it is; for others
it is but sophistry. Like a shoe, it fits
one man. but insists another.
just look ahead. and ask yourself
whether your JOB is leading to any
lIllIlE NuTlIl IIdNIl1G III lli' tIlu. w Ilat.
are the men ahead of YOU m~aking-the'
| men VINO began where you are now
( long Years ago and gradually worked
up to what they have at present? Arei
their positions worth having? Have
they accomplished thai which YOU
would be satisfied to let stand as the,
result of your life's achievement? Is:
the game worth the candle
All progress. Horace. is but a sue,
cission OF steps upward and onward.
But there are man, different flights of
steps one can endeavor to mount. Are
you climbing q flight that offers real
reward for your efforts at the top?
Or art. you lodged on a certain step
more interested in sitting there.
resting han in looking upward
to the next step? If you are content
with that. you will wake up some day
to find tina 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 climb
ing up. you'll be pushed off clear to
the bottom. And there. there is no
room for you. Only at the top-on
each step higher up than the one you
now occupy-is there room. Fix your
eyes ON the topincst step-or fall off.
Climber slim back. pol out for the
future, and the present will take care
of itself.