Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1913 — WORTH THINKING OVER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WORTH THINKING OVER

SUGGESTIONS MAY INTEREST RAILROAD MEN, AND OTHERS. Success or Failure In Life Always Rests Largely With One’s Self— World Is Always Calling for the Efficient Man.

A big railroad company with headquarters in Chicago in a recent circu-

lar to Its employes suggested to them thought along these lintis: A . man paid SI,OOO a year represents to his employers a capitalization of $25,000. For his time and abilities he is

paid four per cent, interest on that sum. It is about the cost of a modern locomotive. ~ " 3== But a man is different from a locomotive. He can’t pull as much, but he can push a lot more. He can last longer and run farther than the best locomotive ever built Most important of all, he can constantly increase the capitalization he represents and require more interest to be paid on it, while the locomotive can never be worth a cent more than it was when 1t left the shop. The circular referred to continues:

“It rests with you. Make your $25,000 valuation climb to $50,000, to SIOO,OOO, to $500,000. Select your food with care. Treat decently the body on which your mind depends for its strength and sanity. Above all, feed your mind. Read, study and observe. Like the engine, you can’t do your work unless you stay on the rails and keep where the bosß can find you. Remember that no call boy ever found an engine in a saloon or other place of the sort.” There is food for thought in these words, not only for railroad employes but for all other young men—and young women, too —whp are trying to get on in the world, make a success of their lives, and get the things, the place and the power they desire. We hear a great deal now and then —from failures, idlers or busybodies —about young men not having now the “chance” they once had. At bottom the statement is a falsehood. The world was never so hungry for really efficient men—for* men who s can and will grow up to greater tasks — for men resolute to increase the capijtalization they represent —as it is today! Every discovery of science, every triumph of invention, demands more and more capable men to operate the machinery of civilization thus newly provided. It rests with the man—with each man —to show that he has the capacity. And real power always gets paid.—Chicago Inter Ocean.