Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-12-03 | Page 19 | "v" Verses

VERSES i I Ill n I I i Va I Y YOU oU had a a. a show but were too slow r bring another though Success holds auction every everyday day I Dont Don't throw the next big chance I 1 away Through hesitation Bid the price i Procrastination must pay twice I H Delay compounds the final cost l lr I r T. T Time Ime k knows how many times i youve you've lost The clocks clock's a mint and minutes I f gold I li What's promptly bought is cheaply I sold i iJ u t J Its It's t s 's ten to one your worst mis mis- mistake mis-I mis II take take I a Lay in some risk y you you lI wouldn't t i make j 1916 by by Herbert Kaufman Great Britain and all other rights right reserved I mine field and forest rapidly enough to offset the productiveness of the country And so we became the supreme spendthrift among nations vandalizing opportunity with no prescience of an onrushing day which would find our hands scraping the bottom of apparently in inexhaustible inexhaustible inexhaustible in- in exhaustible treasure chests We have been ingenious and inefficient far and short shortsighted sighted sighted opulent opulent and wasteful enterprising and blundering We Ve have burned more forest wealth thrown more money into junk piles and rubbish heaps destroyed the arability of more acres than a century of scientific effort will replace In producing the billions we we possess weve we've dissipated the sources of even vaster fortunes Now with a population exceeding a hundred million we face tremendous diminishments in every quarter The high cost of living of building of everything is merely a a. a prelude to incalculable incalculable incalculable economic disturbances which may only be aborted by a prompt acknowledgment of national negligence The universe has changed its methods Europe no longer persists in her backward ways Americas America's advantage of priority in the adoption and general installation of time and labor saving machinery is rapidly waning We were the latest of the great powers and could begin with an entirely up to date equipment We had no investment in antiquated paraphernalia Just as the last man to buy an automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile selects the most recent model we outfitted our young factories factories factories fac fac- tories solely with engines and devices of improved type The Yankee notion was to accomplish the utmost work in the fewest minutes We discovered speed and capitalized it for mili millions mil- mil i lions of f millions We put the hour glass on a dividend paying I basis The sands of time were gold gold gold-El El Dorado was at last located in the clock We moved fa fastest Zest and went farthest farthest in in fifty years grew to be the leading manufacturers of the earth American machinery dominated from Montevideo to Osaka It invaded the germa German shops shop reaped the crops of Siberia replaced Siberia replaced the contraptions contraptions with which plodding and painstaking hordes sweated out the merchandise of distant empires We Ve played Frankenstein reduced Frankenstein reduced the handicap under which the foreign industries were staggering staggering acted acted schoolmaster to the seven races and neglected to learn what they had to teach Its It's time to open your eyes America War has elevated the pauper labor of f yesterday to peers peers and equals The first salvo of tha great conflict pronounced the end of handcraft in Europe The entire continent is now a fabric of ma ma- chinery Twenty million men are battling at the front but fifty million mil mil- lion hon are fighting the hours as efficiently on a firing line of their own Never Never before in history has su such h a multitude been drilled to toI I strive in concert concert to to utilize the engines of power power to to extract the maximum of energy from themselves themselves to to accept unexpected conditions conditions conditions condi condi- I with fortitude and enthusiasm Industrial Europe is being reborn revitalized revised and For every m man mn n who falls on the field a woman sta stands ds ready to rise and take his place Disaster has erased the sex line There will be no shortage in the ranks of labor when the fatherlands drop the rifle to take up the tool Colloquially speaking where are we apt to get off during the next decade in in face face of these facts Dont Don't lets let's deceive ourselves We Ve are not in proper stride Individual organizations have not been remodeled to cope with the hardest rivalry business will ever encounter ter nor have anything like I adequate measures been taken to combine cognate groups for defense defense defense de de- de- de of common interests We Ve continue to be self assured without the right to self assurance assurance are are neither studying the map nor the moment If our regulation of dom domestic affairs affair is so inadequate that topnotch topnotch topnotch top- top notch wages dont don't meet the still mounting price of necessities how howshall howshall howshall shall we answer what answer what shall we do when do-when when an incredibly competent Europe stands challenging at our gates gates' Its It's a plain case of hump or bum bump j I Copyright 1916 by Herbert Kaufman Great Britain and all other rights reserved