The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-11-11
Some Dogs and
Some Folks
Bv c. 3. WHITFORD

There's something wrong with me,
Doc. I wish you would find out what
II is and put me right
you're not a bad looking dog, Max.
You make a good front and they say
d pretty wise fellow, o. Why,
I hear YOU can do more things han
any dog In the neighborhood. What
apDears to be the trouble with you
my father, you know, was a pretty
good water spaniel. SO | took a no
ton that my best graft would be In
the water line. | liked the water for
and just as | was getting wise,
to my work | took an awful dislike 70
II. | was in trouble all the time with
everybody. one Of my grandfathers
was a pretty good greyhound. He was
a great success in his line. | kept
thinking about him 50 much that |
Just hated to go into the water and
finally gave 1t up altogether and tried
the greyhound graft. ! liked the job
for a while. Then they told me was
too cunning to do g~reyhound's work
and wasn't fast enough. Besides every
once in q while the old love for the
water would come back and that is
bad business for a greyhound. They
told me that if ! didn't know anything
else / might do the greyhound's work
very well. At any rate | was so smart
about 50 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 a 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 wo0dchucks.
You're just like some folks | know
that amt bred right. They flop from
one thing to the other and get a 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 a lot of folks
who know everything, but in his W
line he has them all beat. No, Max,
the all-round wise folks won't do. It's
the fellow that knows one thing well
and knows enough to stick to it that
shines. He's q 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 l amt just struck my right
graft, Doc. I'm wise enough to make a
hit If 1 could only get in right"
ut amt that. You amt wise enough
to stick. You think you'll strike some
thing better when you can show of
your versatile talents. But all Jobs
are pretty much alike. They are what
the fellow makes them. l know a man
just like you, Max. He's bright, he's
Industrious and a good fellow. He
has done almost anything from making
ice cream Il 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 8
little hope for you. l know a lot Of
folks that have failed at everything
they had undertaken and having moth
ing else to do they went into polite:
and made a great hit. II you can FIND
a job something like that you may b
a winner. Otherwise you are lost.
"The really wise man who is a spe
cialist has no chance in politics. HI
can shake hands but one way, an
he Is all the time talking and sayin'
things people remember. He's go
opinions that are fatal to his success
He can only carry one bucket on on
shoulder and II he don't like a bal
thing, he can't help saying so, ant
offending a whole lot of voters tina
look at these bad things through prat
teal eyes. The man in politics tina
knows one line well knows enough t
know he doesn't know everything. !
he is the big chief he knows enoug
to pick out his specialists. But h
don't often get the chance to be bi
chief, for If he did he would kill tn
game. 1t is one of your all-roun'
fellows that knows a little of every
thing and a great deal Of nothing tina
makes his mark in the political rims
A fellow with just your kind of nike
breeding. A real mOngrel in the al
fairs of the world, who thinks he's a
all-round philosopher, able only I
make a front and play tight and loos
with any proposition the people han
him."
I'm there with the front all right
I,oc, and l don't know enough abou
anything to hurt. What me and tn
political stars have got Is talent a
righr, and IL I can At my talent int
the tight place l ought to shine. Som
star politician ought to appreciate m
because l can sure 60 all the gaits."