Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-09-21
A "RAlsE" FOR r A
IF He Doesn't Hurt for 1t He May Get
a Jolt Instead.
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
Things are runnins along pretty
smoothly for YOU. eh Horace? That
Same old sob isn't such a lemon after
all. is it? While Your salary doesn't
sound big in toto. hen you spread it
out over caci month it's at least
enough I" get by on isn't 1t? And
though there are lots of things YOU
wish YOU had and wish YOU could do.
there are still many luNurics at your
command. aren't there:
Somehow. Hou manage to pay your
board bin each month. get d couple of
new suits of clothes each wear, and
plenty To smoke. eat and drink. and
have enough left over to take in quite
IL 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
IN i'm the last few years. other chaps
seem to be mounting the ladder of sue
cess with li%ghtninglike rapidity.
They're dragging down bigger salaries
cach year. More than that. they are
almost certain of 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 change it all and go after
something better. But one months run
into the next and II year into an
other. With YOU still doing business at
lnt same ora SluHu. Next NSdV-Iol
this one-is the time you'll make the
big effort to 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 & didn't o make the same
that. too?
Which brings us. Horace. to the
question of whether it pays to live
in the present and let the future take
arc 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
change that revcrses the old order.
1t is disconcerting to say the least. to
pass up Il certainty n jump INTO an
uncertainty. In some new line of work.
or in the same line with another firm.
n 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 n they yours.
Some II once said. Horace, that a
man who states that he has worked
20 years for the same firm should fol-
low it up With an apology for having
done so. This may or may not be
sound logic. For some it is: for others
it is but sophistry. Like a shoe. it fits
one man. but misfits another.
Just look ahead. and ask yourself
whether your job is leading to any
thing worth having in the end. What
are the men ahead OF you making-tllc
men who began where YOU are now
long years ago and gradually worked
up to what they have at present? Arc
their positions worth having? Have
they accomplished that which YOU
you'd be satisfied to let stand as the
result of Nour 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 many different flights of
steps one can endeavor to mount. Are
you climbing Il flight that offers real
reward for You efforts at the top?
Or are you lodged on a certain step
and more interested in sitting there
and resting than in looking upward
to the next step? If you are content
with that you will wake up some day
to find that you no longer occupy that
step. Others are crowding you from
behind-and there's room for only a
certain number on Zach step.
Presently. unless YOU keep on climb
ing up. you'll be pushed off clear to
the bottom. And there. there is nc
room for YOU. Only at the top-on
each step higher III han the one you
now occupy-is there room. Fix your
eyes on the topmost step-or fail of.
Climber slin back. 4ook out for the
future. and the present will AXE care
of itself.