Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-02-03
|nET NEW YORK GET
ANXIOUS ABOUT YOU

In the February American MasaIHhe
Sid says:
IAN old friend called to ask my ad-
vice the other day. He came to New
York from a little Indiana town. lie
has a wife and four children-and
poor job. AS l talked with him | kept
picturing him where he belongs-back
in the old home town. II he had
stayed there he might wave worked
into $1,000 or $1,000 job. which
would have been sufficient to satisfy
all his needs and most of his wants.
He could have had a garden. a yard.
a savings bank account and member
ship 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 neighborhood
picnic He might have become a viii
lage 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 q 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 measly little fiat with dark bed
rooms, fine assortment of cheap
lunches. two chances daily to hang by
his eyelids in the subway a great fund
of loneliness and Woe-begone feeling
of use1essness.
That is the trouble with these
whaling big cities like New York and
Chicago. They are all right for men
of known ability-men of force and
ambition who have learned how to di-
rect their talents. But they are hard
on untried men-men who have not
yet found themselves. This is not said
for the purpose Of soaring venture
some and unattached young fellows of
ability who want to try their muscles
on the big town. There is no danger
lof soaring them. They cannot be
scared. The morning trains are bring
ing 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 man with re-
sponsibilities to consider carefully be-
fore coming whether he has a definite
ann In coming and whether he has
1alth and conviction that he really
mas something 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 arc
coming. The best rule of all IL this
II you have no definite, compelling rea
son within yourself to come. don't coma
until you are invited. Do your tob ua,,
at home If the big town wants yo,,
she will call you. hundred taIa- I
grams went out from New York 10
oay to various and remote parts Of u.
united States carrying offers Of good
JOBS to smart chaps who have done o.,
well that New York has beara =.
them Only last week I met n younx
imam from Massachusetts who b,d a.. |
oeen offered an $4,000 year Mac a,
New York. He said he hadn't the -.
iuea now the thing started--o>oa',.
that he had done work that b,d 80
Drought to the attention OF sovos.,
new YORK bankers. one OF wbo,, "a,
ioohed MN up and then flashed ~,
the offer Of job. MN
30 leave your name and
win the local operator and go h
" your Knitting. New yorL =.
Zig ue-tied' If she needs Won sha.u
"ne o1 course, if you think Won 81
no"hhg genius you will nrohah,'.
.ahe me first train for Broaduan
~ ihaype II will be just as wei, o.
80 ~ 10 So A genius is iust n.
rappy one place as another d.,
s s or no genius. there won, ,o ,
t oiass oand to meet you at Graz any any
trail station" fahd Cen