Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-09
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AGAIN the weary round of tho en-.
Il ployment agencies l don't believe
LII ever get a job through them. I told
them ! didn't care what kind Of a Job
II was so long as Il was work. The
trouble is, the more desperate I get the
more suspicious they seem 20 he Of me.
l saw Rogers today lie took me to
lunch with him, "well, old scout" he
said joviolly, "how are things going?"
they've gone My job is gone,
chucked it up this morning"
We'll, aren't you the --" what
was the reason? Did you leave for your
! good or theirs?"
Thank goodness, for once almost
tod the truthi II guess 1t Is ifty-hfty."
IhatS too bad, too bad. 1t makes It
50 much harder to get job when you
are out of one. Now do you really want
me to help you. Peter, for If you do /
will be tiCkled to do 1t, but real pal
never butts in unless he is really
wanted?'
! was doing some pretty tall thinking
| while Rogers said this Here was u
mana real man-going out of his way
to help me, and only forty-eight hours
| before | had forged his name to a note
| once or twice | started 20 tell him
| about IT, but | just couldn't ! felt, how
ever, that I should not allow him to do
anything for me, but ! knew Of no one
else that | could ask. There were Riller
and Boynton, Of course. but then they
might tell Margaret--but what am |
to her? ] haven't seen her dozen times
In all my life and, Of course, she only
looks upon me "as Il fellow who used to
work at the same store as Wallace"
I couldn't think Of any one else to
help me except Rogers, so | said, ANY
! thing you can do To get me started
right, old man, I'll appreciate" Then
| | told him my whole story. | even told
him about the crooked orders I had
| turned in to Swivel, but | didn't tell him
about putting his name on the back of
that note. I'm not going to tell him that,
for l intend to have that note paid up,
and when ! get it back and destroyed
| 1t will be done with forever and what a
body doesn't know doesn't make his
head ache. After | had finished my
story | said dcfantly, There now, if
you feel you want to have anything to
do with a bum like me go ahead"
Say, but Rogers is big man. His re.
ply was, Listen, Peter, there's not a
man or woman living tina. hasn't made
Il whole lot of mistakes, some more
serious than yours--some more trivial
but all Of US have IA lot of mistekes "a
our record. Every mothers son of US
has done something he would like to
undo but ! don't think that mistakes
are given us to he stumbling blocks, but
merely as stepping stones to climb tc
| something better.
THE trouble with this little old world
Is that so many of us are prone to be-
leve the worst Of our pals instead OF
the best. l for one wouldn't dare t.
criticize any other mans mistakes.
don't know what l would do IN his
place There's quite a lot In that prayer
| Lead us not into temptation isn't
| there? You know, Peter. neither of us
is dead sure what we would do If we
were TO find a huge roll of money righ
here. Gle spread his great big hand OF
the marble top table at which we were
sittingD 1T would he easy to take tha
money and say nothing about it. l don
think ] would do 1t, but | hope II
never he tempted"
We were silent for a minute, thel
Roger pulled out his watch and said
Look at the time Come around to tn,
house this evening, will you? Wen tan
over ways and means of getting yol
hooked up right"