Show r 1 j The Unforgiving Minute f By ay DR FRANK CRANE In Kipling's famous poem If there o occurs curs the phrase the unforgiving minute The poet poel says sas to the boy he can can- count himself himself himself him him- self a a. man when among other things he can fill f ill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth o of distance run This requirement Implies I two conditions First Firsta a constant application to the work at hand handS and second a destination in view All motion is not progress It should be remembered that the poet calls for sixty seconds worth of distance run Just working In life Ufe without aim or goal or ideal may keep you rou moving It may keep you moving at a lively rate at M times But it is Just running on a treadmill It Isn't filling mUng the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run It Is just filling It with sixty seconds worth of running And there Is a big difference between the two The distance between them is the distance be beI between between be- be tween failure and I Th The Tho reason Chauncey M r Depew and Charles W. W Eliot stand out as big men In American life lite Is not simply because they are of f advanced age It is because they have lived a long time and also have hao done something with the years ears they have had the good good fortune fortune to live The They amount to something besides having the news value that comes with unusual age They have run a long time and they have been running somewhere some In London a Woman SO 80 years old Is still an active practicing surgeon and performs frequent operations The other day In the West a woman over years rears old was arrested on her hei second criminal charge within the year Just old age ase is little to be proud of the of-the the Individual Individual Indi Indi- vidual Js Is is rarely re responsible for It but it-but but honorable old age culminating a life o of accomplishment Is a high distinction Copyright 1925 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate A |