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she sleeps !n--the blind woman has the
Oed-and lay there, letting nature make
It's own cure.
That was tho bad beginning. What
happened next bcfcl, the mistress. Crop
ing hcr way about tho cellar rooms try
ing fccpiy 10 ca"o for the Old servant,
she Stumbled ana broke her arm. she
IN the bed, AdGio IN tho CT, tho Old
women lay there Tor weeks. What
seems to mo the most tvNE!r part of Il
IL that they old lpt d!c They were
found after few DAYS 10y uclghbors,
poor nearly az themselves ana ~ kind.
Aud tho good ncighbors fed them,
washed them morning and might uut!l
Adi!c got feohlv tn her feet again aHd
back to the wasAtrlp, II WAS very pain
full work. for one rib had not healed.
ami the most s.l" made ~ ANY one of
these last icw weeks was - cents. II
scclNs that old women do not need 10
eat much. That IL uuo uf natures
splendid Inventions.
To-day there is food IN the little cell
lar room and n fire IN the square stove.
And lady who Is visiting In New York
for few weeks has taken the bird
old gentlewoman into her home. where
oculists and physicians havo visited
her. All that does not amount to much.
The doctors say there IA nothing to Ne
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some Of them were returned TO the
donors you believe Il. In fact there
are instances a plenty TO warrant the
+ belief that man may tell the truth
about his lying as well as about his
other peCCadilloes.
And, Furthermore. perhaps inquiry of
tho doctor might reveal that the news
papers had got the great garland WIN
ner all wrong. Maybe he had never
denied that he had failed to turn the
north polo stakeboat IN tho last race.
II might be that he was just waiting
for some good. frank sort of scout TO
come along and ask him 70 own up. II
is true that some folks havo contended
right along that the doctor has been
chucklins and gloating over the fako he
Is alleged to have put on two hem!-
spheres. Others have maintained that
he has been defiant IN his denials o.:
the accusations against him.
! Did THE SuN man find him IN either
Of these states OF mind? Not on your
Eskimo suit OF clothes. Instead the
doctor presented the amazing blend OF
q strong sense OF tho Joke and resig-
nation 20 'nartyrdom. This latter he
| illustrated by naming his prototypes OF
history.
Doctor" said TIE Sun man mel
| iowly, ARE you a-arc you s--are you
aware o: the full extent OF the denun-
citation that has been heaped upon you
as the alleged monster impostor Of any
and all sges?" II was deemed best az
/ the last instant to delay asking the
doctor IL he was liar until just before
leaving.
Or. Cook squared himself. leaned for
ward In his chair. only arms length
distant, Sazed at THE Sun man out Of
clear blue eyes with an open polar sea
| expression OF candor that inspired con-
viction and answered gravely:
II have been called the monumental
/ fraud OF all time. know T."
We'll, uh. doctor, did you deserve 10
/ called a.
! ~ did not" broke IN tho doctor. The
/ question was unnecessary.
But, doctor, wasn't there some -ee-
son FOR this cry OF fraud: come small.
! inconseauentis! reason perhaps. bu.
still some reason?"
1.-THE reason lies with the malicious,
beniehted and prejudiced. I was asked
| IL had discovered tho north pole. !
! said did not know for sure"
/ After you had been acclaimed the
discoverer OF tho pole? After you had
received tho keys OF New York and tho
lig wreaths-after this, doctor, you said
YOU didn't know whether or not you had
discovered the north pole?
After all this" said DR.. Cook.
"I suppose the public thought I;
mildly queer that you'd consent TO be
the north pole dtscoverer and then say
you were not eure you Uncovered It,
was hazarded.
"Ths intelligent should not have
thought so. was asked II ] had
reached the exact mathematical pole.
said I did not know. 1t would be like
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SALMADINA, FEARED BY sEAMEN.

''ONE Of the most DANGEROUS
" place. for navigation that 1
know Of is the Snlmadina
bank. which lies Just outside the har-
Dor OF Cartagena. Colombia" remarked
Capt. Watson OF the Royal Mail liner
Danube. MANY vessels hsvo come to
grief on the treacherous sands OF Sal
rnadina in the past. and because Of the
impossibility Of keeping huoys on IT
the shoal "a Il constant menace 70 ships
plying those waters.
This dangerous bank Is about four
miles long and two miles wide. There
~ scarcely more than twelve feet "
water over IL nj any time. Tho sea
Is usually smooth in that part OF the
Caribbean, and unless there is ground
swell enough to cause waves 10 break
on the reef there is nothing 10 warn
! tho navigator that no il approaching
| this shallow spot. lie may have his
! lead going and get plenty of water
! one minute ana be bang up on the shoal
J the next
you may remember that three ships
were ashore there at one time not so
! very long ago. and that our liner the
Trent spent three uncomfortaple
months in the grip Of those unseen
sands before she was finally hauled off
| by the wreckers
"The light house people will probably
never be able to put buoys on Salma-
dina that will stay there. They are In
variably carried away In tho terrific
hurricanes that periodically sweep these
waters, SO It seems as II Salmadina
was bad spot put there for the per-
Ininnnnt WOrrir1nnt Nf ehlrrinNt ClE."
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Ing beside Leader Murphy % TaInmany
Hall II ,s drawn 10 show that ! claim
TO have discovered the north pole. but
when | am asked 20 produce the pole
cover the alleged !ie by saying thar |
gave the pole back. Leader Murphy is
represented a. saying h. gave n cam
palgn contribution back. rs drol all
right"
capt. Evelyn y. Baldwin, the organ
izer of the Baldwin Zlegler polar eXpe-
dition Of 1901 -u2. came IN at this juno
ture. He Joined IN tho laugh over the
cartoon and produced another showing
Admiral Peary Offering some gu,ndrops
to DR.. Cook. This caused more laughter.
IN addition 20 the comfort Of humor
/ feel that az "a martyr to nay achieve
ment am only suffering tho same 49,
many have done in past centuries until
history has set them right. There Is no
end to the number who have been per-
secuted and reviled during their ilfr-
time, bur giorlously indicated after
ward"
you mean those who We're called
liars and fakes and frauds and i'm
posters DOCTOR"
Exactly, and explorers among them"
HAS history set 'em nil right. doc
tor? Are there IA fcw more vindcttions
to be given out?"
"Well, there's my own could be made
Il little more complete than III the pres
ent status OF affairs. Mine IL coming.
however, very shortly. Thousands of
people are coming to see the thing a.
il is every day. An article by Edwin
Swift Balch last April shows how men
in the advance OF things have been
treated. he says:
From time immemorial travellers
have been called liars, and II is on this
general assumption Of their Munchau-
senlike procliVities that much Of the
weight of argument against DIR. Cook
depends. Marco Polo, greatest of
medaval travellers, was generally dis
credited, and Fcrnao Mcudo5 Pinto,
Nathaniel Il. Palmer, Robert johnson,
James Weddcll, Nordcnskjuid. bruce,
Charcot, Dr. krapf, Golfer and Dr.
Robmann were for n time reviicd a.
fabricators.'
David LIVINGSTON was called Il crazy
imaginer when his first African eXplora-
ton reports reached civilization. Henry
NJ. Stanley was dubbed n plain liar
for quite a. tifno. Paul Relloni du
Chaillu was accused Of fictionizinG 80 rs
to make his publications more attrac-
tive. All received good doses OF mud
and yet all have been honorcd later"
do you suppose. doctor, that any OF
the people named as bad men and
women In history may have been
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maligned? Will all have a vindicationY"
"Undoubtedly history may have got
n number wrong. Time and again his
tory has been proven in error"
well. doctor, take the case Of Perkin
Warbeck. the chap they executed in
1893 because he said he was the son Of
Edward ". and rightfu1 King Of Eng
land. He was called n husky fake in
those days. Might no not have been
genuine?"
He might Many believed him gem
uinc. The King Of France and the King
of Scotland thought So
There's Casliostro. denounced as an
impostor And John Law "a planner Of
panics-so the records say. And Giles
de Laval. I.ord Of Rais, the original OF
Bluebenrd, who swore he never IN his
life killed "A wife. And Capt. William
Kidd, who swore to the last he was not
guilty Of wilful murder. And Richard
H.. who IL now not thought SO blood.
thirsty az he once was. DO you think,
doctor. history may have done them
wrong"
at certainly may. i do not defend
them. do not accuse them. History is
often wrong. The cruder the method of
recording the more wrong 1t Is likely
to have been
"There f. one more very noteworthy
parsonage. doctor. VINO has been n spot
light character 10 teach moral lesson
for centuries. refer to Ananlas. DO you
think history has him right?''
"rd like this subject treated without
fiippancy. My discovery Of the pole and
the subsequent persecution are serious
matters. Tho topic Is not to DO treated
/ lightly"
Just word on Ananiss and the
/ analosies are at an end
! We'll. It is recorded that Ananias
/ vas struck dead for telling lie. II the
accusations against me have suggested
tho case Of Ananias to you you may
! note in passing thar while I have beer
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VANCE THOMPSON ON
CHARITY OF NEW YORK
He Tells Of Tragedy in The Bronx and Some Amazing
Things Connected With IT, The City
Has No Slln1S

= .a.a
Ohne she hau never p.eh
tno Knees Oh Duch's9' 'u' VIZ VIZ 80
looked INTO the oiu ura"h Ia'e ~
WIN suu"eh quickehiIs VI WV NO. o. "
that She was ioNapie' "He" n"o" ''''
story UNDERSTOOD why
US an extraordinary thi"s. i'u ".o
sitting ia the comic shauo" Vi csp
tree In sicily, quite at peace WIN Eou'
SELF, and suddeniy-ior no posslp'e rea-
son That you can discover--you eot up
abruptly. order your lussaee pacheu'
tahe snip ana travel o'oo" rnhcS "',u
reach New YORK ana start out ana walk
up ana down tho niles OF streets You
do not know the reason why--there u
no reason why. And then you so into
an unknown street ana DOWN sHto u
basement ut Ala East l4Sth street which
is, believe. in The Bronx.
Her name Is Addie T. smith. She IL
~ years old She was born in New
YORK city. Her father went away to
the war and after the hattlc az Bull Run
she never heard from him again. She
was still small girl when she went out
as a servant. She went as nursemaid IN
= New York family. II was Il well to do
family and her business was TO look
there She remained through tho years
The head Of the house died. Tn" "ido"
( lived well enough on an annuity from
England. Ut Is u factor one finds
queer things in tho cellars of New York
that she was "a connection or III" Mar
outs of HcrtfoNi. who was dragged 10y
/ Thackeray through the w!ckedness of
vanity Fair.D Tho little girl grew
up. became n woman and-whcn her
mother died ana the annuity ceased
went out into the world To- make her
living us a trained nurse.
As YOU read you will readily under
stand why do not give the name Of the
/ sensitive Rentl"woman. though now she
mas neither kith nor kin nor friends
here.
For quarter OF century mistress
and maid had been together. Wher
they separated Add.c Smith married q
workingman and lived that KIND or o
| life. lie died. but she got on very wei
making as much az SO a week
, and living comfortably IN the rooms h'
had furnished. Her mistress went 1
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Ny object all sublime

Ny object all sublime
7 shall achieve IN time,
To make the chronicle prove the crime,
the chronicle prove the crime
So men OF every age.
Condemned on hlstory's page
Can make an alibi all the rage. an abb
all the rage.
--ifikd6o. Arctic version
IRIS funny thing that nobody eeems
ever 10 have asked DR.. Frederick
i A. Cook, the famous north pole
purveyor, right out and out II he
Vas q liar. Although Il Is harsh
word to use. the doctor has been called
iiar-once or twice. hero and there
but never 10 his face, SO far rs Is known
In his recent book, My Attainment Of
the Pole" the best denounced man Of
any time or cli,no says that "liar,"
fake" fraud and "impostor" have
Been volleyed at him from Patagonia TO
Siberia, with firing still brisk AT inter-
walls. But never once was he asked
what he thought OF himself or how on
earth he expected to get away with II.
Now II was Mark Twain who said
that even the devil must have some sort
q. case. So SUNDAY SUN man decided
that Z would be quantity original 10
step right up to DR.. Cook and tersely
inquire II he was IL liar. You know
the wsy-advancs right close 20 q man,
look at him with suspicious significance
and say: Look here, Snodgrass, you
know d-d-deuced we'll you never swan
taa- mile III twenty minutes. Your
seconds and trainer rowed you in their
boat part or the way. Now aren't you
y i!ar?' Just in that straightforward
way would the doctor be asked to admit
TIE truth about the little Arctic episode
and have the facts riveted right in acid
tcs.ed history.
II seemed a propit.ous time 10 do the
asAing. The doctor had recently at
.sndei Il banquet IN Newark at which
no had gone over the pole seeking
journey at length. In closing the re-
nOvned ice tourist said this:
THE l1skimos believe In a heaven
and they think Il very hot place,
naturally picturing Il happy contrast
20 their cold earthly home. Before l
close 7 would say to you that II there
- YET a DOUBT in your minds as to the
truth Of my Glazing and the discovery OF
the north pole 70 be convinced you will
rave to 20 either TO the north pole or
10 to-the Eskimo heaven"
This incident seemed to reveal the
doctor as being In good temper, TO
indicate that !: was right psychic
line 70 ask him II he was liar So
TIE Sun man started for the hotel Of
'hs explorer who has been the object
v abuse for six continents. Many
might have ridiculed the mission. argu-
ing that the reason DIR. Cook had never
been asked II he vas a liar was because
!. would be bound to lie in making his
reply. But this by no means follows.
You ask q woman her age at the City
Ilall marriage license bureau and you
expect a square answer. You ask about
What was done with campaign con-
'r'jH,oEa and when you are told that
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~ VANCE THOMPSON.

TT was q day OF wind and rain and
cold. I found myself In The Bronx.
4 had mover been in The Bronx and
looked about with curiosity.
What / saw was spacious streets and
tail flathouses, mostly brown or red, and
Wide shop windows. IL was like any
other part Of New York, and when l
walked east in fiSth street I saw no
open signs OF poverty. No signs OF the
squalor that marks the poverty Of
European lands.
Indeed--though this is by the way
have made an amazing discovery. 1t Is
the result Of threo days and nights OF
going 10 and fro in New York-some-
times alone and sometimes with n wise
but not cynical detective. And the
amazing and disconcertlng discovery !s
J this: there are no Sums In New York.
! You can find crime and criminals
you can find vice, poverty. drunkenness.
disease; but you cannot find a slim
such slums as blacken and tester In
Antwerp, Genoa, Naples, Paris. London
and many another world old city. The
reason IL that YOU cannot have a slum
without fllth, and New York il clean
city. Neither crime nor poverty nor
crowds make a stun: you must have
nth as well. ana that is what New York
hasn't got. looked for t. east and
west and north, from rlvcrfront to
riverfront. Everywhere. anywhere were
crime, vice, mean poverty Everywhere
thieves. rogues, Outcasts, men and
women Isolated from their kind by sin
cr mere suffering; hut no slums.
zone li'tic odessa born plckpocket who
had graduated from reform school and
prison was disguised with hts business
IT'S no good--l wish I'd been n lawyer,
10 said mournfuiiy. Il was an ambition
Ike any oth"TJ
Dirt OF course r. relative; but the
.enenents--eyen the Old ness N low
houses lined with fire escapes--wer,
Aabitahle human dwelling places. AND
the nlchtgOing detective declared ~
could show me nothing worse.
wanted t. sea tho fet.d caves where
vr.tchedness lay moaning on garbage
heaps, tho windy gGrre;s where Il
starved. and there were no fe,id caver,
In tho OLD streets and the dirGy courts
IF Paris You can still find hundreds a
,hen; YOU have but 60 walk peer.ngy
through the streey OF tho Three Gate,
- tho street Of tho Iron Pot; you have
but 20 go into the suburbs that lie out
side the for;ihcaiions--for year by veal
the centrifugal force that stiis in every
great agglomerat.on of human atom.
has thrown Partisan begsardon int
that dreary circumference. Eut IN tn
washed ana lighted underworld ~ New
York there are Me- Sums There s. no on'
STUN thlt ro'f deserves the name
Wretch.dnass al you please; hunger II
The streets AND On TIE housetops, I
may he: but none ~ those gargreneC
hoies II fltA vithoU: which no rea
slum can exist. Il speak almost viii
tn" decision of an expert, FOR ] speu
many wears prow!ng!y tnvestigat.ns
.he slums that rot and biaclien the sur
FAC" Of E,urrpo FROM Moscow 10 Lisbon
But ] started out TO say that on" d.
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a.a -, wv, oIu pouy' ana
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hnd ra,taE, '.,., ",'n hei' ene
coli, -. -. Az, ~ o'u 'i'i 50 IA the
a., ,.,,,t, - ~ "4.S ,V'te anu ieeI
aro 90, ,,,,,t ~ ,'u ON i'uhus 'hat
kro,,. a. a., o., o'G -iuu'r says
hot,d,,, ,,,u 80 az" II Iar'
49,, 49,, Du' nalu 20 10 WIN
-. s'.' we ueFe ioVeu cach
,o," anu VIZ "ro "li "eN"
witt, ,....,
IA ,ta, $50, - % ei.o Ne"'
to- .t,,., ,' mo 20 "ilotner eihA1-
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o., 49,, q, ~, '''oaiiuine ei.y anu
A. ,.i.,,aa ~ Won
ho,nas o.. ,,'o,,1-t'. ''s,I .t
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zoo, nd &C.. ~ ~ Wv ,,nu iooo
,ho ,hari,, ss osei Gu VIA,
a. .,..r,.,t,rs 49,. -. VI
?, 10 $50 "a $500,
T, % ba,,sod g. o.a',. % q .oeA.
yrart,a a,d 80 t - "'.uiusS o.
stand 7 an, go &C. ,a,s,. ~ VII
,or,..ol,, I've. 3D. 80 ..,'.ii 't1o' ~
,urios yyboroe' ,,,,e -. 49,. '
clugio,, .t,. ~, - .. no III
tho moor ,,ith ,o- ai,,.n,,
,,o.n mn, ~, - -, i,,, a.,
,Loso ,,s,t,,,.ia,, ~. o,i'onh al
| sincc tho ro,. ,,,.,,, w.. io my ~
no, sn f,, os c.,,o.,,.,at.
for tho two ola 20 ,;, any p.a
rrhor. oro o,,.i,, 49,, ~. o'.A
/ homes for Tho or.d h,,. 80 - a, ".'u
homo v.bcro ,J,,,,c'.,, ,a.,,.
70 separate ,baea ,v,. ola rra,.Ta 80,
cIinpInr ,ope,har IN ia, ,l,,st' 90 80
yotion Of bars c.r.,,.,, l,,.o,,Ii -,
10 be a peculla,ly viclon. ma ,,noh,.
ana otllclai Kind - c-,,oi.,.
/ But there are church horn.. vou ..y.
Floss mo, 7 MD al,,os, ,o-ro..
that mar. oe Z, In 80 7 bo,e. 80,
been cutie fra,l, v,tb ,,o,, r.er. =.
ons thing agalns. these ord w,rn.n
might az well s,a.o Il ,rbav .r. ,-,,,,v
they will ad,ni: !t-.-or vcorshipp,ny
tho same God in different y-evs 7, 4,
a fragrant thing. hut there :. 70 rh.,.-
fore the charity OF tho churches walk,
round them, daiut''y, as though they
were muddy places.
And there You are
To inc X seems ii tragic thirg-to
stumole over IA ono walks an unknown
street in an unknown quarter called.
peIieNe' IN" BronN' bnt that ls tho
amazing tl!ng IN New Iorh-you can
ma anything here everything IN fact,
except Sums ana u homo Where onnd-
mes ana %" "se may 40 Gown TO-
ser"e''
Ihe ocle."y-' "oriu"Iae ou. IN
~ ma" 'oIu n'e an a.'ecuo'o vi ,>eN
,orh .ne m'lc" 10 eNl' e'iie'E precious
was III lIie I'"er i-ast cue III VIVA
street Nor'oih VT f-sseN' H"'e !or-
eo..'n' 'ns Jay " p'E-or nan VIZ
'''' ia t-i' '' many
Ears ~, '','u Zen I'''''i 'oI,IS It uess",
ma -. ~ '',''eI ms ia7S anu
nI9 We, 'l'l''lel Jus nan anu III" Huhsei
'ioiI '''o ~, " ''i' ana 'e'
ataih wa. 49, !ea!' zen t,s ue
,' 80 =, VIC - 'V- Wis ''.e oi'
So - ,'S ur'' 'N "seH1 Oh o','
- - ~''"'''; CO. i1'.VS i'''" II
- "a ,-A''S a. ia" '''7 s"'
"oiu VI IL s'iiie''o" VI "'''r
he wos a III; man with Vat'n chain
across h!a stom@"h ana silver star
that gave MN tho unqrestcn"d right
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maligned ! have not been stricken.
This marks a fine po.n. OF variance 81
deserts are TO be taken into considers
ton. fut aside from this IL IL fact
that even an Ananias may not have re-
ce!vel fair play by his contemporaries
IN their Chronicling. Well suppose he
was stricken dead and that that physi-
cal fact vas reported correctly. me
story ct his death coming az a peualty
for lying instead Of az a result OF light
ming stroke during a thunderstorm may
have arisen with tho superstition OF the
time. l do not say I, was so. II may
have been So"
ana he may not have lied az all--no.
what you would call "a lie?"
Perhaps not
"G-o-o-d might, doctor"
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Those Who Doubt His
Discovery Story He Adj
vises to Go to the Es-
kimoHeaven.- Records
Of Fakes, Frauds and
lmpostors May BE
Wrong

contending you had stood ON a pin head
in the midst Of prairie 1 reached 90
degrees north. at "a spot on the polar
sea $50 miles north Of Svartevoeg, April
II, 1908. That l stood at the time on
the very pivotal pin point OF the earth
l do not and never did claim. | may
have. l may not"
Doctor. you have used a strong word.
You speak OF pin head proof. DO you,
mean that you would need that kind of
discovery to satisfy Il doubter?'
"Exactly--a pin head"
Doctor. having been 20 grlevously
illuminated how have YOU managed Ia
bear up under these charges of fake,
fraud and lle?'
First, have n strong sense OF hut
NOR. / have laughed heartily many
times at the cartoons having captions
calling me q fake and liar and r giveT
OF gumdrops az a br!be To- Eskimos
Here is one Of them now. See. It shows
the with a wreath about my neck stand
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TT was n day OF wind and rain and
cold. I found myself In The Bronx.
4 had never been in The Bronx and
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-04-23
SOME MARRIAGE RECORD.

Mrs. Georgia Mcmillan, aged 35,
recently married for the sixth time at
Fort Worth, Tex. Her new husband is
j. H. Matney, to whom she had been
married twice before and divorced
from twice. "But this time," asserted
the bride, "it was case of love at first
sight. When saw him in the street,
so big and handsome, I remembered
that | may have been to blame be-
fore, so I am giving him another
chance. Yes, it's the third Mrs. Mat
ney, who when Is years old married
w. O. Sandel."
She lived with him four months and
then got divorce and married J. w.
Mcmillan. She married and divorced
Mcmillan twice. Both of the former
husbands are living here and are
friends.
Her last divorce was February 16,
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A Chicago man, leader in the COM
,nercial life of that city, is quoted as
saving: "Among the men hire, nine
out of ten are better workers at 45
years of age than are the men OF 70
or 30" This man firmly believes that
the man of as or whereabouts is at the
prime of life, physically and mentally
He also holds that men OF mature
wears arc more reliable and less apt to
become restless after year or two IN
a position and to seek new fields. The
average young man, he says, is seek
ing "soft snap" and is not the sort
of employee who will stick by his en-
ployer through thick and thin until
his services become highly valuable
and, in many cases, indispensable. We
often hear young men complain OF
their inability to get settled. That IS
largely because they do not settle, DO
not seek to adjust themselves to their
work and make the most of their OPP
portunity. Opportunity seldom knocks
at our doors. We must knock at the
door of opportunity and be prepared
to push the door little if necessary.