The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-11-15
Q. Bel syndicate.--wNu Service.

liabilities.
Before you can increase your mental
assets you must understand what they
are.
Before you can sell your services,
you must estimate their worth.
With times as they are you cannot
expect to get lucrative employment un-
less you can with confidence tell your
prospective employer what you have
done, what you are capable of doing,
and what you are convinced you can
do If given the right kind of an op-
portunity.
There are gerat many people out of
employment, not because there Is no
opening for them. but because they
cannot point definitely to any one
thing in which they have specialized,
and which they understand thoroughly.
If you are just beginning your
career the wisest thing for you to do
is to make speciality of one par
ticular thing.
Conf1ne your study largely to that.
Make the acquaintance of people
who are doing the same kind of thing.
AS a rule everybody likes to talk
about his business--likes to interest
other people in it,
Prove that you are interested In II,
too.
Tell what you have done. and how
you have done it.
Don't be hesitant or shy.
A Job hunter cannot afford to be diff
fident.
But remember that unless you have
more knowledge OF giUen task or series
OF tasks than most people, you cannot talk
yourself into any kind OF pay situation.
You will be questioned. You will
be put on the grill. You must list past
performances.
If you can get recommendations,
so much the better.
once heard Woodrow Wilson say in
his campaign that it was not as i'm
portant for candi-
important date to carry an
Business election as 1t was to
get the people of the
country interested In an election.
Those who take a real interest in a
Presidential campaign learn every day
something they ought to know about
the issues that are involved and the
men who are asking the voters to put
them in a position to carry out these
issues.
It is undoubtedly good thing for
the people of the United States that the
old party prejudices are dying out.
When / was child man who left
his party to support candidate from
an opposition party was regarded as a
kind of traitor.
When long years ago my father an
nounced that, although he had been a
life long Republican he intended to
vote for Grover Cleveland, all his
sorrow.
That man who had been a Repub.
lican since the Civil war should mere
ly because he admired Cleveland vote
for him, instead Of supporting the reg
ular party candidate seemed Incredible
to them.
But, I*am glad to say, the old gen.
tleman stood his ground.
And, in after years the strict party
loyalty that was demanded became not
quite so necessary to ones standing
In the community.
Today In the United States there
are not anything like the stern party
divisions that there used to be.
Men leave the ranks Of old parties
In which they have served faithfully.
and go over to the other side without
being branded as mugwumps.
suppose there is nobody in politics
today who knows what will happen ten
or fifteen or twenty years from now.
But am sure that the old personal
politics are wearing out, and that new
standards are being set up In their
place.
And / am convinced that this is all
for the best interests of the country.
The party system Is not what 1t
used to be.
The expression turn coat" has
passed out.
As long as you are honest and sincere.
nobody loiH call you a rat for leaving
one party and joining forces ioih another.
That was proven In the last election.
All you need to do is. to think and
talk and read during a campaign and
then support the man you think is best
fitted for the job.
You may make mistakes, but men
have made mistakes on election day
ever since this country was organized
on the basis of supporting the best
man.