, 1920-01-01
LURE OF BIC CITIES
A Word to the Man Who Yearns
For a Job In New York.
DON'T HURRY TO LEAVE HONE
Be Sure the Change to the AustIins
Metropolis Will Be to Your Advan-
tage Before You Make lido Your
Best Where You Are and-Wait.

tage Before You Make lido Your
Best Where You Are and-Wait.
In the American Magazine n 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:
AN old friend called to ask my ad'
vice the other day. He came to New
York from u little Indiana town. He
has II wife and our c~hildren-and a
poor job.
las / 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 a $1,000 or
$1,000 job, which would have been suf-
ficient to satisfy all his needs and
most of his wants. He could have had
u garden. II 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
neighbors.
ION the Fourth of July he could have
| DCpn Sblllt DullhlIS At ll@t itiShh'
hood picnic. He might have become a
village councilman, and when the fall
campaign arrived he could have been
on the committee to welcome tile con-
gresham when that great parsonage
came to town in search of votes. In
other words, he might have had a 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 fiat with dark bedrooms.
a fine assortment of cheap lunches. two
chances daily to hang by his eyelids
in the subway. a great fund of loneli-
ness and a w~oebegone feeling of use
lessness.
THAT Is the trouble with these vial
ing big cities like New York and Chi
cago. They are all right for men Of
known a~bility-men of force and ambl-
tion who have learned how to direct
their talents. But they are hard on IN
tried men-men who ave 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-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 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
IL you have no definite. compelling rea.
son within yourself to come. don't
come until you are invited. Do your
job well at home. If the big town
wants you she will 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
ha We 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 $1,000 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
up and Their flashed him the offer of a
job.
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