Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1912-03-22
Man Capable of Thinking and
Planning Is the Man Who
Commands Success.
LOOK BEYOND THE PRESENT
Employment Should Hsvo Definite Fu-
turs to 30 Attractive to Young
Man - Think Always OF
Bone Day Being tho
Boss.

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raj Kansas went to Chicago to win for
tunes. Each started to work on q
salary o. ton dollars week The old
est and best educated got job In the
ONCE OF real estate firm. while the
younger man went to work for a con.
tracing firm. writes Joseph T. yogel
In Chicago Tribune.
At the end OF two years tho older
brother was getting s25 a week as a
real estate salesman, while the other
youth was earning SIS week as
teamstor for the contractor.
During the next six months the
younger brother bought team and
wagon and started small business Of
his own, doing special teaming work,
moving household furniture. hauling
lumber, dirt. cordwood. or anything
that Afforded employment for himself
and his horses.
The younger brother remained with
the real estate firm as salesman and
looked forward to future far superb
or to that OF his "teamster brother"
as he called him.
The young man In the teaming
business was his own boss-he
worked when he had an opportunity.
but he was all the time working for
himself, solving HIS own future. After
six months he had saved enough
money TO buy another wagon and
team OF horses, and then is when his
real business started. He hired an
assistant. young man fresh from
the farm, who knew all about horses
and hard work
After paying for the additional
help. the extra team brought him an
income that was about twenty times
what bis money would have earned |
had ii been left In a savings bank at |
tho usual rate OF interest 1t was
only short time until more teams |
and men were put TO work. and today
he owns one Of the largest teRming |
business establishments In Chicago.
Ills brother. who has not yet acquired
The master habit. Is still working for
he real estate firm. and while his
'alary has been increased. his in
come Is only one-tenth that of his
canister brother. who now is his own
loss and owns business that is
'rowing bigger and bigger every year.
Watch half a dozen boys at play In
he back yard. There Is usually one
Who does the directing. while tho 9TH
RS are satisfied to carry out orders
nd do as they are told. This one
rho does the directing Is developing :
be master habit. and when anything
oes wrong he Is usually the one who
nds way out OF the difficulty--he
earns TO think for himself and TO
nink for othera
During college life the same thing
true. but In later life the situation
reverses; this depends en-
rely upon the young man In uues-
on. The young man who was lead
r while still In his teens has big
ivantago over the others. and with
tile difficulty he can become one OF 4
'e leaders In the particular business 4
he enters. He has Il
srtly developed the master habit. d
I'd this very fact is apparently O
amped on his face. T,
About twenty years ago a station o.
rent In a small Minnesota town Il
arted 10 sell watches 70 his friends. s.
first he did II to make little ex-
A money. but be was so successful d,
az after year or two he resigned | I
$ railroad position TO devote his en-, pV
. time TO selling iewery. first 10. oil
lily and thon through the mails. N
This business experience taught ne
"a 10 rely on his own Judgment "a
became his own master. and. with
,rsssed business. established q M
III order house In Chicago. From vi
, first mail order jewelry house the OF
siness has grown to one OF the Tia
gest of It's kind In the country His oil
lire success was due to his fnitia- 81
. and executive ability-to being n
10 TO master. flrst the small bust tn
Sc end later the million dollar cor. ou
ration OF which. until ne retired. he ris