The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-09-30
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BY LEO }. RASCHE.

ID LEU D. iNEA0SDEs
The melancholy days are here. Some
one, YOU know, George, sprung a pretty
good poem on those melancholy days
once, and the poem lasted. A poem, to
last. has to have the goods. And when
some fellow writes very good poem
he usually don't even get a sandwich
out of it in life, but when he jumps this
planet and hikes off to another one
they're liable to build him a monument.
But monuments are very hard to digest,
particularly after one is dead and
when the organs Of digestion have
stopped working However,
As | started to say-the melancholy
days are here. They usually begin with
the beginning of fall, September %,
and we're week now on our way into
those melancholy days. Speculation as
to what has become of the summers
wages usually begins about this time
but might as well begin specializing
now as later. If you have let the sum-
mer's wages slip, George, the proba-
bllities are that you will take the
melancholy days pretty seriously, If
you have kept pace with yourself, if
you have not stood around chewing, if
you have advanced and not refrigerated,
you have not, and probably will not,
and probably will not, have much cause
to complain. But If you have stood
around chewing the rag" about the
things you expect to do, and if you
have actually done nothing, the
melancholy days are very apt to be
melancholy days indeed. We all have
an equal chance in the world, George,
to either do something or nothing, and
it is strictly up to the individual to
use that chance either to his advantage
or his disadvantage. We can make or
break as we choose in the world. Now
The other day waddled into place
of a man with a purpose. He has a
string of restaurants of the first class
calibre. He started in life 'slinging
hash at no wages that could be called
wages. He saved his pennies and
watched his opportunities and he used
his head. He picked up everything he
could learn about the restaurant bust
ness while waiting table, saw what the
public wanted and today he owns a big
string of restaurants and he resides on
Easy Street. He recounted to me his
early experiences and his many dis
couragements and how he overcome
them, and he used the very best known
remedy in the woodwork. He con-
tinued always to try. He never gave
up. He stayed with it and he won.
He begun on salary of two hundred
pennies a week, and it would take
probably two hundred thousand dollars
to buy his string Of restaurants today,
and he is twenty-seven years of age.
Going some, | should say.
Now, George, if you are not keeping
your eyes open, if you are not keeping
your ears open, if you are not learning
all there is to be learned about that
business you are engaged in, you are
doing poor work for two people-vour-
self and the boss. The boss naturally
expects YOU to deliver the goods, and
you very naturally expect, or very nat
urally should expect, some day to be
boss. But if you are not doing your
best, if you are not learning, if you are
not putting forth your best efforts to
learn all there is to be learned about
the job or the business, your chances
of being boss are not good, and you
may some day be working for the fellow
who has not been on the job half as
long as you have been, because he may
be going up through the only avenue
to success-individua endeavor. The
melancholy days come to those who do
not do, and not to those who try to do
and who do do.