Show Uncommon Sense By JOHN BLAKE C 0 Dell syndicate f II When a cub cul reporter out In Ore con Ore Ore- Oregon Oregon gon I once heard Ud a detective speak speak- Dont Don't n t Steal o i Ing detective of oC a observe brother Your Time That so gO o and so soIs sois soIs Is so c crooked roo ked that he would steal from himself It IC rob there wasn't anybody else he could rob Thinking over this caustic observation I reflected that many people who would want to fight If It they were accused of or larceny do steal from themselves and do so con con- continually con We Ve all nU have hate as Mr Ir Arnold Ben nen- Bennett Ben nett nett pointed out in an Instructive essay essny exactly the same allowance or of time Ume while we wc live It is ours to do with as we will If rr we devote It to foolish find and un- un unprofitable unprofitable un unprofitable profitable pursuits we wc simply steal It ll All the advantages it might bring bringus us all the opportunities are self pit And if at the end of our work work- working working ing years we have nothing to show lor for it it is our own fault bult Now think that over the next halt time you OU are tempted to lay aside a ahalt difficult half done job Just because It seems difficult and you would rather loa loaf for a while than continue it I By and and by you OU are going to wish that you had those hours and days back You would know what to do with with them You would make everyone every one o of them count You Yon would do the things you ought to do and leave leare undone the things you yon ought not to do to garble the well known phrase Who Is to blame You I IWho Who is the thIef thief Again you Try to budget your time so that all of it can be used to the thc best advantage Think Think what you yon 00 are going to do with today tomorrow In vie view Dont Don't look out of the window at nt a circus parade or a dog fight or any any- anything anything thing else in the time which can be devoted de to useful mental or physical work You Oll will finda find a as you OU go fo along alms that many people will steal your time lime if you Ou let them-dullards them them dullards or people who have hate axes to grind You can help that to some extent extent but not completely Bores nores will be bebon's bores bons and cadgers will be cadgers But you can control every minute of oC your own working time it if you have hare enough determination Naturally you want to do as ns well as you can while youre you're here Doubtless you have Ideals you want to live up to high purposes that you want to carry out outWell Well shut shat the thc door to your time time- time safe safe and dont don't permit even your yourself our self to let any time out of or It a aI I never take a railroad or steam steam- steamship steamship steamship ship trip that I do not run Into gentlemen talking Talking politics Politics They a are r e all aU very sure B S 11 r e tha that t they know how v the country could be bc run and If It It were entrusted to them they would make a better job of or It But Mark Twains Twain's observation about the thc weather weather that that everybody e complains about it but nobody seems to do anything about It it-is It applicable to political discussion I will say for the present admin admin- administration and and my remarks are with with- without without without out any political that bias bias that it has done the country a great treat service in making practically everybody find out what is going on A poll political reporter for Cor at least half haIr of oC my working life I never re- re remember re remember member a time when so many people peo- peo pie seemed to be talking about what Is happening In Washington That would be a good thing It if It was not Just talk I But how many people who are I pleased with what Is being b ing done In Ini Inthe inthe i the Capitol write their representatives representatives tives U there and tell teU them so And how many people who dis dislike like what Is going on write to their congressmen and protest The TIle machinery of or this govern Jo government government I ment Is all nn right t Some very wise and very patriotic men built it and andset andset set it In motion But nut It has to be kept In condition to work and that means attention by its owners who are the life sovereign citizens Some months n ago o a very Important tant measure which some people applaud and others execrate was as passed by one house bouse of oC o congress over the Presidents President's veto Did Dill you arrange e to talk to some some- somebody somebody somebody body about that before it was passed or did you just wait till un the I day after and then send In your comments favorable or unfavorable You rOil will admit that the rhe boy boys who fought the die MW war tIr went to quite a good bit a of trouble to 10 gain guin for lor you the llie political political freedom that th t you pos pOSe possess less sess The Thc least you can do is to help that machinery to run smoothly and turn out a satisfactory product In Inthe inthe inthe the shape of government To keep that government go on the therl rl right ht read raid r d is your our job You pay congressmen and sena tors and officials to do the work |