Life — February 20, 1931 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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# "Success" - A Story About Pop Drigs This is a short story titled "Success" by Tom Simi, accompanying a cartoon illustration. The narrative follows an editor who discovers an old dog named Pop Drigs in his office—a dog that once belonged to the village failure, Hollis. The story uses Pop Drigs as a metaphor for failure and redemption. The editor learns that Hollis, despite forty years of striving, repeatedly failed as a farmer, grocer, and inventor. Through this reflection, the editor recognizes a parallel between his own struggling ambitions and Hollis's lifelong pattern of failure. The editor then photographs Pop Drigs for the Ashton *Weekly*, positioning the old dog as "the new oldest man in the county"—a humorous twist suggesting that persisting through perpetual failure might itself constitute a kind of success.