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Show B CANVA8SING FOR SYMPATHY 1 t All kinds of schemes aro worked on H thu public for raising money. Per- m baps more than usual appear nt n H tlmo when busluesg la slow and moro 1 or less pcoplo unemployed. Ono lies- H Itutcs to condemn any honest work. H Yet many llttlo enterprises nro so H charly uonproductlvo that seuslblo H peoplo may well hesitate to under H ta o H I 'or Instanco, tako tho annual nrmy H ' of young men and women who start H out as agents, fur books and other H articles, frequently giving tho oxcuuo H that they wish to earn monoy for nn BB cation B It would bo Interesting If ono rould H In iw how many oT theso young hopo- H fuls ncnuiro In tills way tho funds H that thoy doslro. Frenuontly It B n( ms practically n taso of begging. H I In such cases they know thoy would H havo no chanco of succeeding In It Hi I ns n purely business proposition. T)y H suggesting tho motlvo of sympathy B S fo a young person, thoy do got B I souio help that thoy could not nl- H I w: y8 get on tho basis of tbo attrac- HV tt' mess or tho book or other nrtl B tin offorod. 1 -lcl H It Is nn opon quostlon tt It Is wise H for young peoplo to canvass on this B br ils. In tho long run thoy will win B out In this world, only by offering B peoplo tho things thoy want nt a H pi :o that competes successfully with B, of er sellors. To raise monoy for H ar education on any other basis must Hi j K o them a falso Idea of llfo, that HE j svcosH Is to bo won by moans other H i tli n merit. H ! ' 'hero nro plenty of ways for nmbl H. th id young peoplo to earn monoy. H l.f tuom offer tbo world some sor- Hj Mi i that It really wants. Ablo bodied B yo ng men cnu always work their 1 wi ' tluough collcgo by taking jobs 1" or farms, nnd girls by wnltlng on hr il tables, soiling food, or porform- In domestic service In such ways BB th ' render a real borvlco, and havo BBh I --.- th 80,f rosnecl,"B feollng that thoy BBM'n BBBBBBV HJIH ' nr0 asking for no sympathy, but nro I standing on their own merits. |