Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-11-12
HITCHINC UP TO MORE THAN
YOU CAN PULL

lives a farmer who trains oxen to
draw heavy loads. He is an artist at
training oxen to draw heavy loads and
the oxen he trains usually take first
prize in the pulling contests at the
county fairs He claims TO have
secret process, but it is simply logic
al plan for developing pulling strength.
While young he bitches the oxen to a
light sled, which they can draw with
ease. The load is increased as they
get accustomed to dragging the slad,
but until they are two years old he
doesn't work but just exercises them.
When they are two years old he works
them every day. Once day he bitches
them to heavy stone in the barnyard
and lets them drag it a few feet
Heavier stones are used sCnd longer
pulls allowed as they become stronger,
and the peculiar fact is he never
bitches them to somethil G he knows
they can't drag and they expect to
move whatever he bitches them to.
He never overloads.
There's whole lot Of common snsee
/ in this farmers ox-training process
that applies to people. Business fail-
ures are due in the main to attempting
too much; in hitching up to something
you can't pull; in acquiring load of
! debt that is staggering; in living be-
yond ones means; in overbuying, over
/ trading, overtrusting.
Thirty per cent of the business fail
ures are due to lack of capital, which
simply means that little man has
hitched himself to big proposition.
Down on Long Island builder was
| particularly successful in building
certain type of house, cheap, but good.
| He knew TO cent how much it would
cost to build and he could sell as fast
as he built. He made money. Not
satisfied with being cheap and pros
porous builder, and wanting to be in
the flour hundred" of the builders he
started dozen elaborate and costly
dwellings. Here he fell down. He
was out of his element, beyond his
strength. He had hitched himself to
load heavier than he could move and
load he was not accustomed to. 1t al
most made him bankrupt. Now he
has gone back to his first type of house
a sadder but wiser builder.
Another business man had ;ry
good year. He made money. Salts
fed that he had ''struck his gait,
he rented an expensive suite of offices,
moved into fashionable neighbor-
hood and spent his money freely. The
depression of 1918 came on and after it
the war He has had two years of
constant worry, and has barely saved
himself from failure. He, too, hitched
himself to more than he could draw,
for when you undertake to pull load,
you must not only reckon on the
smooth asphalt, but the hill and the
mud holes.
What these men should have learn
ed-what every man needs TO slearn, is
to properly gauge his strength. Thrift
is good management. 1t is not only
matter of saving money, but spending
it wisely, advantageously, booking
a head, being satisfied with modest
things until you can afford more expen-
sive ones You can be as happy in
ffty-,tollar fiat as in a five thousand
dollar apartment
Some kinds of debt are desirable,
helpful and necessary. Some kinds of
debt are nerve-racking and costly. Buy
home on the nstallment plan, but
don't buy an automobile that way.
/ Take out iife insurance policy, but
don't buy more than you can comfort
ably pay for. Dress well, but pay your
tailor; live we'll, but pay the grocer;
! don't 'hang-up" one to pay the other,
| they need the money as much as you.
Earn largely, spend thoughtfully and
save consistently, SO you may have
something to spend when your earn
ing power is less than it is today and
your needs, it may be, are greater.
Develop financial strength as the OK
en- acquire physical strength grad
.ually. Don't gamble to get rich quick,
nor mortgage the future to enjoy the
present.
To develop the ability to draw heavy
loads is a slow, steady process. 1t
takes patience and training. While
the lives of some great men remind us
that we can make money by taking
chances, you can lose it the same way.
Tackle big problems, undertake big
things, but let there be first the slow,
patient training that develops strength
and reserve energy, just as the farmer
develops the strength of has oxen by
years of patient dragging stones in the
barnyard Few men can make one
dollar do the work of two and you
had better not try. Better get the
two first, and only hitch up to the
thing you know you can drag, for it