Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-01-02

told by the degree of their liking for
their work. The fact that the average
man is nearly neutral in his liking for
many different kinds of work and has
no special preference for any one kind
accounts for the so-called normal sue
cess in life.
In the business wcCld there are two
interests involyed-the love of the work
and the desire to make money. The
man who are possessed of both inter
ests are the more fortunate from the
financial view, while the. men who are
inspired principally by the love for
their work are the more fortunate
viewed from the social standpoint. They
are bound not to be failure, and they
are the builders of the happy homes
in the world, for they will not sacrifice
the happiness and social welfare of
their families for the sake of laying
up a few more gold eagles to worry
over in their old age. The men who
have been thrown from their right
course and work at something that is
a damper to their happiness are GER
tainly the most unfortunate, for their
lives are one long disappointment; and
God nelp them be lenient with the
cause, fT it is usually the fathers and
mothers, or other near and dear ones,
who would make most any sacrifice
than consciously do their such an in
jury.
To these erring ones | will give this
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being, turned away from the desired
life work for time, makes clear to
the victim his great need of sticking
to the calling for which nature has con
stituted him, no matter how numble the
calling, and in spite of any future in
fluence that may be brought to bear
to turn him away from it. Again It
developes in them a strong will and
power Of endurance with which to meet
the backsets and disappointments that
will have to be dealt with in reaching
each higher plane in life,
The little child holds up its rag dol
lies to you, and wonders why you don I
want to hug and kiss it just tile same "a
she does. So it is with parents who
have worked at something they love
and enjoy all their lives. They can
not understand why it is their chill,
should not learn to love the work an,
make good at the same occupation, an,
it is just as incmprchCnsble to then
how a child Of theirs can enjoy work
ing at something that is distasteful Is
them. They console themselves witt
the delusion that he will come round al
right when he gets the fooishness o
youth worn off, but alasl when the,
awake trom their hallucination thei
5 boy has made the sacrifice, and ha
wasted too many years Of his life T.
ever recover from the catastrophy.
. If parents could only realize hoy
, they are blessed when given n chjl
with a marked inclination for certai
kind Of work. They need never b
! anxious about what to make Of hin
nature having plainly marked him 70
a certain course; neither win they hav
= to urge or coax MIN to greater cfi'Or
or worry for fear he will fail, for h
: viii always 90 the limit Of his cnerg
, and ability, being drawn along by
love for his work that does away wit
' the need for any other stimulus.
No matter how humble II may be,
$ given free reign he will not only su,
p ceed but will raise the standard OF hi
b profession.
0 II parents could only analyze the #
j. ture and comprehend wnat it meant t
9 their own happiness as well as the hal
i piness Of their children to cncoutag
i rather than restrict their desired cours
= in life; if they could only realize thr
+, while their happiness might be great,
u If their children would take to the o.
d cupation they desire, yet now much be-
T. ter IL is TO know their children al
y happy and successful following IL
q course of their own choosing, than I
l. know they are discontouted with the
l. lot, and may be have to suffer the di
y appointment and humiliation of the
c obedience to the desires of their pa
cnts that worked the havoc with the
Q lives, how much unhappiuess and no
n many ruined lives this old world
ours would be saved.
n EARL NJ. PETTYCREW,
l. 2677 Arnold Way,