The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-06-03

Your unknown rival is due to arrive from
Europe within few years. He will belong to q
new school of immigration. #.
Necessity will force him to seek a land where he
can utilize his splendid education and exact train
ing to their fullest advantage. He will be one of
the Old Worlds chosen sons. His own country
promised him opportunities which war cancelled.
He will be of finer type than the average
alien who in past years has gambled bndly in the
lottery of American development
Educated, disciplined, thoroughly schooled
for specific work-with the drawing incentive of
an unexpectedly dependent family he will use his
chances to the utmost.
You're on the ground established and because
you're ahead you're apt to overestimate the ad-
vantages of priority, nativity and familiarity with
local traditions and prejudices, but beware, lest
you play the hare.
You've have been reared in community
so drunken with the madness of easy money that
extravaganza of energy and wealth, spendthrifty
ofVme and thought are common they have al
mo& become national failing. ao
You have fallen into a hundred little loose
habits and have drifted into a score of wasteful
hobbies.
His canny instincts will at once note your
vulnerability and suggest the line of attact to
which you will eventually succumb
By making his days produce twice as much as
you CLEAN from yours in short while he will over
come his handicap of hardness and compete with
you, shoulder to shoulder, before you realize he is
at hand.
While you're studying the latest dance steps
he'll be studying the latest text books-while
you're motoring he'll be maneuvering, scheming,
and dreaming, sharpening his wits upon humble
whetstones which you deem below your dignity.
He is the representative American of the
future prepare for him or in the end you'll work
for him.
Remember that he can get along without most
OF the things that you habituated to believe are
essential to your existence.
At home he was not permitted to confuse nee
essities with luxuries.
He has no false pride-he belongs to a people
who can't afford to tolerate such nonsense-to a
social order in which common folks do not ape the
excess and initiate the diversions of hereditary
classes.
He won't be ashamed to let service instead of
style wear out his clothes; he won't pay premium
for the flashy distinction of living in snowy neigh
borhood. He's an investor by heredity; his first
nsistent idea will be the accumulation of capital
He'll save his money and he won't save himself,
he'll start at the bottom, but he'll fix his eyes on
the top and he'll edge up little bit every year.
He'll be indurated with confidence that any
body can get rich in the United States and he'll go
about acquiring his fortune the way that Europe
has taught him.
He'll take orders cheerfully and despise no
task with dollar hidden in it-that was drilled
into him over there.
You're trailing the man ahead of you, so you
won't notice him creeping up from the rear
And when you do meet his bad English will
throw you off your guard and fill you with sense
of false superiority-but don't hold him in con-
tempt-he'll be thinking mighty good American,
as you'll discover when you meet to match wits.
There are but few of us who have lived up to
the opportunities adventured by pioneers for
bears.
The signs along the business streets are strange
with names alien to the early history of the re-
public. But in more than one sense they signs
of the times. Yesterday Europe mainly gave us
those whom she did not need-her unwrought and
untaught surplus-but tomorrow "a new order
cometh'
Copyright, Herbert Kaufman9
An Old Mans Memory.
James Whitcomb Riley