River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-06-28
LURE OF BIC CITIES
A Word to the Man Who Yearns
For a Job In New York.
DON'T HURRY TO LEAVE HOME
Be Sure the Change to the HustIing
Metropolis Will Be to Your Advan-
tage Before You Make lido Your
Best Where You Are and-Wait.

Metropolis Will Be to Your Advan-
tage Before You Make It-Do Your
Best Where You Are and-Wait.
In the American Magazine a writer,
giving some words of advice to the
many aspiring young men throughout
the country who feel the lure Of the
great cities and who are consumed
with a desire to try their fortunes
therein, says:
can old friend called to ask my adj
vice the other day. He came to New
York from little Indiana town. He
has wife and four children-and a
poor job.
GAS 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 into 81 900 or
81, 200 job, which would have been suf-
ficient to satisfy all his needs and
most of his wants. He could have had
a garden, a yard, savings bank &C
count and a membership in the local
lodge. Evenings he could have sat on
his porch and held converse with his
neighbors.
"On the Fourth of July he could have
been some punkins' at the neighbor-
hood picnic. He might have become
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, he might have had real
place In the community.
"Now, what does he get in exchange
for the $1,000 or $1,000 that he earns
in New York? Well. suppose he gets
a measly little fat with dark bedrooms,
a fine assortment of cheap lunches, two
chances daily to hang by his eyel1ds
in the subway, great fund of loneli-
ness and a woebegone feeling of USE
lessneSS.
''That is the trouble with these whal-
ing big cities like New York and Chi
cago. They are all right for men of
known ability-men Of force and amb1-
ton who have learned how to direct
their talents But they are hard on IN
tried men-men who have not yet
found themselves.
'"This is not said for the purpose of
soaring venturesome and unattached
young fellows of ability who want to
try their muscles ON the big town.
There is no danger of soaring them.
They cannot be scared. The morning
trains are bringing them in by the
hundreds 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 he has a definite aim
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.
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 your
lob we'll at home. If the big town
wants you she win call you.
"a hundred kilograms went out from
New York today to various and remote
parts of the United States carrying Of
fers of good jobs to smart chaps who
have done so we'll that New York has
heard of them.
'Only last week l met a young man
from Massachusetts who had just been
offered an $4,000 a year place in New
York. He said he hadn't the least idea
how the thing started-eXcept that he
had done work that had been brought
to the attention Of several New York
bankers, one Of whom had looked him
I'D and then flashed him the offer of
job.
$50 leave your name and address
with the local operator and go back to
your knitting. New York is not tongue
tied. If she needs you she'll wire.
"Of course, if you think you are
bowling genius you will probably take
the first train for Broadway-and may
be it will be just as we'll for you to DO
so. A genius is just as unhappy one
place as another. But, genius or no
genius, there won't be any brass band
to meet you at Grand Central station.
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