The Man Wanted.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 May 1914, Page 2

The Man Wanted.

(By Walt. Mason)

Never was there such a clamour for tlie man who knows his trade! Whether with pen or hammer, whether with brush or spade he's equipped, the world demands him, calls upon him for his skill, and ou pay day gladly hands him rolls of roubles from its till. Little boots it what his trade is, building bridges, shoeing mules—men will come from Cork and Cadiz to engage him and his topis. All the world is busy hunting for the workman who's supreme, whether he is best at punting or at flavouring ice-cream. Up and down the world are treading men who find the world a frost, toiling on for board and bedding, in an age of hustling lost. "We have never had fair chances, fortune ever used us sore" they complain, as age advances, and the poorhouse ljes before. "Handy men are we," they mutter, "masters of a dozen trades, yet we can't earn bread and butter, much leas jams and marmalades. When we ask a situation, stern employers cry again : 'Chase yourselves! This weary nation crowded is with handy men ! Learn one thing and learn it fully, learn in something to excel, then you'll find this old world bully—it will please you passing well!' Thus reply the stern employers when for work we sadly plead, saying we are farmers, sawyers, iinkers, tailors gone to seed. So we sing our doleful chorus as adown the world we wind, for the poorhouse lies before us and the free lunch lies behind," While this tragedy's unfolding in wjpry coiner of the land, men of siffil are still beholding chances rise on every hand; men who learned one thing and learned it up and down and to and fro, got reward because they earned it— men who study, men who know. If you're raising sweet potatoes, see that they're the best on earth; if you're rearing alligators, see that they're of special worth; if you're shoeing dromedaries, shoe the brutes with all your might; if you're peddling framed canaries! let your birds be out of sight, Whatsoever you are doing, do it well and with a will, and you'll fijid the world pursuing, offering to buy your skill.