It was in the pursuit of a mission that Theodore Roosevelt,
Jr., went to Thompsonville. He might have found a more showy
position, for he had name and influence. He might have found
plenty of things to do that would at the start have brought him
more money. For that matter, he had enough of his own so that he
need not bother with work; and had he been like some young men,
he would never have been seen in overalls or any other uniform
of the toiler. But he went to the carpet mill, and he did what
he was told. He began at the bottom. He has worked hard. And
now we may understand what he did it for. Announcement is made
that he is to go West as manager of one of the Hartford Carpet
Company’s Western houses. It is for a purpose that he has been
learning the business in all its details. He could not manage
without that knowledge.
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It is an old lesson, but never was there an instance better
showing it than does this of the son of the former President. If
he could afford to begin at the bottom, others can. If he must,
others must. If with his brains and education he needed to do
that, nearly any young man does. If his prospective position is
the reward of that sort of sacrifice, it is a sacrifice that any
young man can afford to make.--New Haven _Register_.
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=Boy, A Chance for the=--See CHANCE FOR THE BOY.
=Boy, a Dutiful=--See PRESERVATION.