The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-11
Some Dogs and
Some Folks
By c. B. WHITFORD

60. 1922, Western Newspaper Union.)
'There's something wrong with me,
Doc. wish you would find out what
it is and put me right"
you're not bad looking dog, Max.
You make good front and they say
you're pretty wise fellow, too. Why,
l hear you can do more things than
any dog in the neighborhood. What
appears to be the trouble with you."
MY father, you know, was pretty
good water spaniel. So took no.
tion that my best graft would be In
the water line. l. liked the water for
awhile and just as was getting wise
to my work I tooksan awful dislike to
it. was in trouble all the time with
everybody. One Of my grandfathers
was pretty good greyhound. He was
great success in his line. I kept
thinking about him 50 much that !
just hated to 60 into the water and
finally gave it up altogether and tried
the greyhound graft. I liked the job
for while. Then they told me was
too cunning to do greyhounds work
and wasn't fast enough. Besides every
once in a while the old love for the
water would come back and that is
bad business for a greyhound. They
told me that if I didn't know anything
else might do the greyhound's work
very well. At any rate was so smart
about so many other things lost my
job"
II suppose now you'll try a ter
rier's job and just as you get going
nicely the old greyhound and water
spaniel blood will crop out and distract
you. Some day when you ought to be
attending to terriers work you'll
want to take a sprint just to satisfy
the old feeling and show the rest Of
the terriers what you can do. Then
you'll want to go fooling around the
water when you ought to be looking
after the rats and the woodchucks.
You're just like some folks I know
that amt bred right. They flop from
one thing to the other and get whole
lot Of general knowledge that won't
get them anything. The fellow that
finds out what his best graft is and
sticks to it is the fellow that gets the
money. OF course he looks foolish
when he mixes up with lot Of folks
who know everything, but in his owl
line he has them all beat. No, Max,
the all-round wise folks won't do. It's
the fellow that knows one thing we'll
and knows enough to stick to it that
shines. He's a star. The rest have
got too many little lamps scattered so
they don't shed much light. This is
the day of the big single star"
Maybe amt just struck my right
graft, Doc. I'm wise enough to make a
hit If could only get in right
1T amt that. You amt wise enough
to- stick You think you'll strike. some
thing better when you can show off
your. versatile talents. But all jobs
are pretty much alike. They are what
the fellow makes them. I know man
just like you, Max. He's bright, he's
Industrious and d good fellow. He
has done almost anything from making
ice cream to running an undertaking
establishment. His ice cream was bad.
The livery and his funeral service was
not fit for the dead.
"But I'll tell you, Max, there is a
little hope for you. know a lot Of
folks that have failed at everything
they had undertaken and having noth-
ing else to do they went into politics
and made great hit. If you can find
job something like that you may be
q winner Otherwise you are lost.
'"The really wise man who is spe-
cialist has no chance in politics. He
can shake hands but one way, and
he is all the time talking and saying
things people remember. He's got