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Show ! That young man who for any reason al- ! lows himself to enter a lino of work in IWflTlfV which he cannot find the interest of work- ing is making the mistake of his life. In Vot Clllly Ule beginning tho attractions of salary may ytjr be an inducement, but the young man who IVlGc ISIIFG is nttracted to the salary consideration duly o Work iimst awake sooner or later to disappoint- ment and failure. .: It is one of the anomalies of the work- . 'inS world that so manv of those lines of ! By JOHN A. IIOWLAND. " . . . r work in which the worker is likely to de- ! ZZZ ZZZ r'V( '1P ,n03 fatisfaction from his accoin- ( plishments carry with them the almost penal infliction of small salaries. Tho inference is uncscapablo that the earnest worker in these lines must bo prepared to make concessions in pay for tho privilege of working in a field which shall yield an incidental pres- j tigc and social amolument. j One of tho highest positions in tho United States is that of a justice of the United States supremo court at Washington, but tho $8,000 salary J attached is exceeded by mere clerks of courts in many states of tho union. ; The attorney who appears before the supremo tribunal to argue for a client may have an income 20 times larger than that of any justice bofoi whom ho makes his argument. Presidents of railroads and of life insurance insur-ance companies may draw salaries twice as large as tho salary of the pmn-dent pmn-dent of the United States. These are illustrative of the salary sacrifices that tho young man ma king conscientious concessions to higher efforts in the world may find himself him-self called upon to make. Pending only to this higher calling within his range, he may need to recognize that in accepting it ho must make a salary concession which in the end may promise him 'scarcely moro than a living in his old age. This wise choice of his work, however, must depend upon thv young man's wisdom in putting the salary consideration in tho background. To bo able to work for the sake of his work always must ho ono of the highest estates possible to tho worker. To descend to the position of a mere laborer la-borer in any field which olfers only money as tho inducement to effort is to submit to a strangling of all that is best in life. Put for tho man who has accepted his ono chosen work becauso of his taste and his fitness for doing that work to his own satisfaction, ho finds in tho work itself tho best and most lasting of compensations. His taste for the work is the impelling force at all times leading him to the highest accomplishments of which ho is capable, and in the accomplishment of the highest that is in him n man always must find his chief incentive for I living. |