Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1900 — A Little Philosophy For Young Men. [ARTICLE]

A Little Philosophy For Young Men.

When a young man reaches a point where he is too big to go to school, feels to badly to work but is just in fine trim for loafing about the streets and places of vice, he has reached a point in his oareer where a guiding hand is badly needed. If our young men can only be induced to believe that the road to success lies through bard work and integrity, they will have mastered the first lessofi in an education leading to prosperous and happy lives. The young man should apply himself to some legiitmate line of effort—block out a course and stick to it —and it will not be long before he will notice that he has money in his pocket and is far in the lead of his old companians who are too big to go to school and too shiftless to work. The boy who expects to become a successful man and has an ambition to excel and make a useful citizen of himself, is not usually a street loafer at sixteen. He has a higher ambition. Young man, do you go to school? If not, where do you work? You ought to do one or the other. Loafing about street corners never yet started a man on the road to success. Think it over, young man. Are you a loafer or a worker?—Ex.