South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-16

You remember little Harold, OF
course. His hair was always nicely
brushed. His clothes. though
patched in places were neat and
tidy. In all his L years he had
never tasted ale. beer. wine or
spirltuous liquors, or used tobacco
In any form.
He got down to the office at
in the morning. swept. busted
filled the ink stands. sharpened the
lead pencils. and. with a smiling
face, greeted the office people as
they arrived.
Harold, you remember. had vain
" applied at a hundred places be-
fore getting his job as an office boy.
He had letters of recommendation
from his pastor and his Sunday
school teacher. and from the nice
old lady next door whose chickens
he used to feed.
But nobody seemed 70 value let
tiers Of recommendation. And II
was not until he plunged into the
cold river and saved the life OF the
bankers little daughter. that the
banker, with an overlooking heart
got him a place in the real estate
office at a dollar and a half a week.
Harold used to work from Z till
6. except on Saturdays. when MS
considerate employer let him off at
10 minutes TO 6. He ran errands.
waited on the clerks. told bill col
lectors that the boss was in SYRIA
cuse and wouldn't be back TIL
Thursday week, answered the tele-
phone. kept the typewriters clean
and shiny, and brought in sand
wiches for the stenOgrapher or
rainy days.
When he wasn't occupied with
these things he was reading useful
books. which improved his mind, sc
that one day he could be a book
keeper himself and get eight or IL
dollars a week
Harold was the sole support OF 9
widowed mother TO whom he woulo
hasten. at the close of the day. anc
MS he sat at his evening meal tel
of all the exciting things that hac
happened at the office. like the new
| insurance blotter a kind gentleman
/ had given him. or the wicked at
tempt OF the boy across the stree
/ 10 teach him TO smoke cigarets
And his mother would look on hin
/ with a fond smile which hid he
awful terror Of the evils that nigh
I befau him out in the great world o
business.
It is just as we'll that you remem
her Harold, for he is only memor.
today. Poor little Harold passe'
on seven or eight years ago. and
now about as much in evidence a
/ the Great AUX.
And the world of business misse
/ hirn-misses him more than it eve
l dreamed it could miss anything i
4 this bitter life
To be sure. there is his successor
Mike. But Mike is Different.
Mike never had any recomme nda
tons from his pastor or Sunda
school teacher. He never had an
pastor or Sunday school teacher
And il ne had had any such. the
would firmly have refused TO Civ
him any recommendation.
Mike was over at Cassidy's poe
room when his Big Chance came
The bookkeeper. sent out on a hurr
call to procure an office boy. foun
Mike pocketing a dollar and eighty
five cents as a result Of a CLEANUP
at Kelly.
He approached Mike deferential
". and offered him employment.
What is dere in it?" inquire
Mike. chalking his cue for anothe
game
I'VE have been paying four do
lars a week"
Not to me. W. amt"
THE boss said I could so as mig
as five. for a good boy
Five a week wouldn't be cigart
: money"
"Wnl you come for six?"
Jaw quit pikin'."
TEN"
Twelve is me figure Jack. w
B. half a day off Saturdays an n
ianitor work TO do"
Thus. as we have said, the Ri
: Chance came 10 Mike.
Now and then YOU viii meet hir