The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-10-29
Editorial Comment
Seeking Your Fortune Right Where You Are
Duluth lIerald)

Too many of US, especially when We are young.
have the idea that we have to seek our fortune by
going sOmewhere-the farther the better.
Sometimes ii is right to seek ones fortune by
going away from where one is; but never until the
possibilities right at home have been thoroughly
explored.
And in the great majority of cases, the place t.
seek fortune will be found right where We
Yet if aspiring lad lives in d small town, he
is likely to feel that he must go to big city. Il
he lives in big city he may feel that he ought to
go to bigger city: and New York. the metropolis,
the last word in this search for the far pastures
that look greener until you get to them. is the
graveyard of thousands of persisted hopes.
And all the time the golden opportunity may have
been waiting back home, where Mityl and Tyltyl
found the blue bird of happiness after searching
the world of fancy for it in Maeterlincks fantasy.
Consider. for instance, the case Of G. A. Carver
of Strasburg, OIio-a town, doubt, you never
heard of before
Strasburg has fewer than thousand people. 1t
is the kind of town young people go away from in
their eager search for fortune. Many Strasburs
young people did that. But Carver didn't He
stayed right there in Strasburg, though the town
never grew much and seemed tied to the post while
many other Ohio towns passed it in the race.
1t was-and doubt is--a slow town. Its young
people, in the MAN, save those INDECENT and am
bitionless that they get anywhere either al:
home abroad, opportunities there. and
went away in all directions. Some of them, doubt,
found fortune where they sought it, too: but no.
many. Not many do somehow. Some disillusioned
and unhappy drift back home later.
But Carver right there all the time He
kept a store. He was-and is-the village store
keeper. He has been that for forty years. Instead
Of going away to seek the pot of gold at the foot
Of the rainbow, he buckled down to the job right
where he And he is worth nearly mil
lion. SO far money goes, he has plenty. And he
must have satisfaction, too.
For the store he is known widely as The
Largest Country Store in the World People
around there who, if they lived elsewhere. would
jump into the car and go to a city to shop, 80 to
this village instead and shop there. People come
there to shop from cities Of fifty thousand to hun
dred thousand. 1t is though people in Duluta
jumped in their automobiles and ran over to Carl
ton on a shopping trip.
Now this didn't just happen. Nothing Just hap
pens. There is for everything including
failure success, which chiefly products of
right thinking wrong thinking.
People shop with Carver because for years prices
have been lower there: because the goods there
are good goods. and honest; because courtesy ana
square dealing are much to be depended upon
at Garvers ice is at the North pole heat the
equator
Carver has profted by seeing the buyers end OF
it, by putting service first and making profit by
product of service. He has got rich at trich in d
SLOW, poky village that grew.
Opportunity isn't going somewhere, isn't seeking
those far pastures that look greenest at distance.
isn't running down the rainbow for the pot of gold
at its foot is applying intelligence and hard work
and high conception of service to the job right "a:
hand.