The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-02
Lure OF BIG CITIES
A Word to the T n Who Yearns
For a lob In New York.
OON'T HURRY TO LEAVE HOME
Be Sure the Change to the Hustling
Metropolis Will Be to Your Advan-
tage Before You Make It-Do Your
Best Where You Are and--Wait.

Best Where You Are and--Wait.
In the American Magazine writer,
giving some words of advice to the
many aspiring young men throughout
the country who feel the lure of the
great cities AMI who are consumed
with a d,S re to try their fortunes
therein, say.
"An old friend called to ask my ad-
vice the other day He came to New
York from little Indiana town. He
has wife and four children-and a
poor job.
AS | talked with him | kept pictur-
ing him where he belongs-back in the
old home town. If he had stayed there
he might have worked II a $1,000 or
81 200 job. which woulu re been suf-
ficient to satisfy all his needs and
most OF his wants He could have had
garden, yard, a savings bank ac-
count and a membership in the local
lodge. Evenings he could have sat on
his porch and held converse with his
neighDorS.
ION the Fourth Of July he could have
been some punkius' ut the neighbor-
hood picnic He might have become a
village councilman, and when the fall
campaign arrived he could have been
on the committee to welcome the con
gresham when that great parsonage
came TO town in search Of votes. In
other words. lie might have had real
place in the community.
.Now. what does he get in exchange
for the ST 000 or 81 200 that he earns
In New FORK: Well, suppose he gets
a measly little fat with dark bedrooms,
n fine assortment of cheap lunches, two
chances daily TO hang By his eyelids
in the subway, a great fund of loneli-
ness and a woebegone feeling of use
lcssness.
"That is the trouble with these wLaE
Inc bg cities like New York and Chi
cago They are all right for men OF
known abiiity-men of force and ambi-
tion VI no have learned how to direct
their talents. Bat hey are hard on un-
tried men men who have not yet
found themselves.
"This is uet said for the purpose ot
soaring caMtmesomc aud unattached
young Fellows Of ability who want to
try their muscles ON the biz town.
| There Is In danger Of soaring them
| Thcv cannot bc scared The morning
trains are bringing them in by the
hundreds this very day and all the
printing presses in the world could not
| drive them back
But it is said for the purpose Of caus-
Ing every small town man with respon-
sibilities to consider carefully before
coming whether lie has a definite ain
in coming and whether he has faith
and conviction that he really has some
thing to give to the big town.
Don't come just for the ride. Don't
come except from positive choice
4 Don't come just because others are
/ coming. The best rule of all is this
/ If You have no definite. compelling rea
son within yourself to come, don't
come until YOU are invited Do youl
! Job we'll at home If the big town
wants you she will call YOU.
"A hundred telegrams went out from
/ New York today to various and remote
parts of the United States carrying Of
] fers of good jobs to smart chaps wh'
| have done so well that New York ha!
heard Of them.
only last week | met young MAJ
from Massachusetts who had just beer
offered an $4,000 a year place in New
York He said he hadn't the least idei
how the thing started-except that ht
had done work that had been brougb
to the attention of several New 1orl
bankers, one of whom had looked hin
up and then flashed him the offer of {
job.
80 leave your name and address
with the local operator and go back {
your knitting. New York is not tongue
tied. If she nee YOU she'll wire.
"Of course. if YOU think YOU are I
bowling genius YOU will probably TAX
the first train for Broadway and may
be it will be just as well for you to d
so. A genius is just as unhappy on
place as another But, genius or II
genius, there won't be amy brass ban
to meet you at Grand Central station.