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Show .... P Something to Think About -) By F. A. H3ALKER ill 1 'aaji I innls, even morality, friendship and love. Yet nlaa I these handlers of this Iniquitous tape line perversely la-ment la-ment their position in life and condemn the Irresponsible for faults and failures fail-ures that are their own. To make yourself worthy in any calling it Is necessary to prove your worthiness. And this cannot be done except by honest endeavor, long hours of hard work and a ' manifest willingness always to put personal Industry above personal indulgence. (, 19JJ, by McClurs Newspaper Syndicate.) ARE YOU WORTHY? A COMMON and frequent complaint nowadays among self-esteemed young men and women Is that they are not making satisfactory progress. With more or less petulance they declare that their Incomes are not 'Sufficient to keep them in the style In which they want to live. Instead of being compelled to depend de-pend on popular shops for their clothes, they yearn to be In position to patronize higti-prlced tailors and dressmakers, and thus In their false estimation keep step with the rich by making repeated shows of fine feathers. The pleblan atmosphere in which these hapless mortals are surrounded Is most displeasing. Any real effort to Improve their mental qualifications Is apart from the question, and contrary to their Inmost wishes. Though apostles of laxity, devotees of empty pleasures and devout disciples dis-ciples at the shrine of prodigality, these disgruntled young men and women openly blame the world for their Imagined plight, often condemning condemn-ing their employers for holding them down, when ag a matter of fact their employers have nothing whatever to do with it. . The man or woman who Is really desirous of rising to the surface where he or Blie can swim with head above water must pull a hard, continuous con-tinuous stroke,- quite regardless of what others are doing. It Is the only way to keep at the top and keep moving ahead. I Drifting Is perilous to everybody j who Indulges In it, certain In the end to lend to disaster by wrecking the j fondest hopes and highest aspirations. I In spite of our vaunted pride of progress, drifting Is becoming a national na-tional habit, particularly among the puny-minded who bend their knee to the god of gold rather than to the god of wisdom. Every good thing In life Is measured meas-ured by such persons with the tape bearing the dollar mark and Its deci- |