The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-06-11

vi my advice to each one of you
W is to get your fishing pole ana
carry the question along with you. Near the shores
of old Sandy you will find schools OF polliwogs.
Learn lesson from them.
"These powogs their way to froghood.
You fellows are on your way to manhood. But the
powogs are not in any particular hurry. DON'T
think you'll find them trying to leap around and lift
their voices like frogs. AS matter of fact they
are going to assume several different shapes be-
fore they settle down into froghood. For the
present, however, they are content to 60 right on
being powogs.
you fellows in the polliwog STAGE Your
bowers and abilities only half revealed. Look
around before you decide what you want to be or
do. In few years you may become aware of quail
ities in your makeup whose existence you never
suspected. At the same time abilities that you
think you now possess may fade away Take your
time. You may save yourself from the fate of a
misft- You've heard of them-the doctors are un-
happy because they not lawyers, the chemists
who would be Of more service to the world as
newspaper men,"
have passed these wise words to many boys.
And 1 pass them with new application
to the smal-town boy who dreams of achiev-
ing success In the city.
His mind Is crammed with Horatl0 Alger, Jr,
stun. He has read the picturesque life stories
of some of our big men who left the farm for the
CITY. The whistles of locomotive among the hills
makes him yearn for the city, bristling with op-
portunites He looks upon the glistening rails
as the avenue to his opportunity.
He is short-sighted.
few years ago, big city was the place for
AN upand-comng young man. 1t needed him. and
ut prepared to reward him with money and po-
sition. Today, however. the story is reversed
l"America has grown too fast" say deep think
ing economists and publicsts "She has spread
herself thinly a large The future of
the country lies In it's undeveloped small cities
and towns"
Are you looking for opportunity? Examine that
little old "one-hoss" town of yours, before you
think of buying one-way ticket from It. There
are many ambitious and very wise young
who are deliberately leaving the larger cities and
moving into towns such as yours.
A few months ago visited country store In q
typical small town of the West. The owner Is
young man. Ten years ago he left the town and
went to Chicago for ssrea job" But he had not
worked long before he realized that 1t would be
many years before he could get the kind Of job
he wanted There opportunities for fore
men, managers, superintendents and other
"bosses." But they were purely administrative
Jobs. He wanted to create and build up bus-
ness of his own.
for his mother. and he got job in general store
of the town 1t was a terrible grind. The work
itself was not back breaking. But the daily round
of little things to do-the same dull routine hour
after hour, day after day, week after week, got
on his nerves. Weighing out bagful of this,
wrapping up a handful of that-it hard work
simply because 1t was not interesting.
Did this young fellow settle down and wear him
self deeper and deeper into the rut? He did not.
He simply began to look around to see If he could
liven things up.
He suggested to the owner that he advertise.
"Adyertse!" snorted the owner. "What for?
why-ptu everyone round here knows we're
here And open for business all the time. P'tui
And carrying almost anything in stock that they'll
over want ADVERTISED What for?
tad sWhy throw ont
some of these slow-moving articles and put in
goods that sell qulckly?'
"No." said the merchant. 1--WE depend the
farmers for the bulk of our trade, and we've got
70 carry general line-a little bit of everything.
No-p'tu!-well go right with line of
staples"
The next year the young man bought out the
old man and started in to be businessbuilder.
His first reform to get rid of half the stock.
you know what a collection of junk the average
country general store is. with its haunting odof
of harness grease, calico. soda crackers, horse
linment and cheese
ue had observed that the women did most of the
hry,np SO he nodded his stores service to NEE;
,he,r needs He Investigated their buying habits
Iya Iea rned that those who could afford to buy
Nnerv patronzed the large city stores, or SEM
awav TO the mail order houses
rho voung man visited the 1obbers and manu-
.ooturars In the city He brought back a large
CONSIGNMENT of hats, SUITS dresses and other
stylish things that women wear. Then he htted
~ q Snacial department in the space from which
ha rod thrown the gun oil and ten-penny nails