Show II UNCOMMON SENSE By JOHN BLAKE Duty Slackers The institution called conscience which functions functions tunc- tunc in some uns unseen en region of ot the mind keeps u us usall us usall all tolerably well informed as to what we ought to todo todo todo do while we are in m this world What we ought to do dowe we call duty We us use tIle word more than we do the toe thing It signifies In time of ot war every man Is r reminded It Is 15 his duty to offer particularlY offer particularly by people who have hav no immediate intention of ot theirs theirs that that he Is at t last compelled t to do it In times of the fact tact that he must eat three times a day to keep from being hungry and must have a home and clothes to keep from being cold coldis is a great incentive to the duty of earning a living It it the duties that are easily neglected neglected despite despite their importance that importance that he runs away from thus be becoming becoming be- be coming a n. duty slacker which is a very undesirable ble form of ot that particular failure of ot life lIte Even the fellow tellow who says and thinks that his first duty is to himself fails falls to do it more often than not deserting his Job when it is half halt done neglecting opportunities Idling when he at least ought to be doing enough reading reading- to give him an average tion i I As to duty to ones one's neighbors that is so seldom I done that the neighbors are astonished and a little bit it suspicious when It is performed I In the recent elections there were many marly thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of duty slackers who did not take the trouble I to vote these being the kind of people who would cry most loudly that they were oppressed if the vote they refuse to use were to be suddenly taken from them In all public life there is a neglect of duty not so much by those who take part partIn in It as by those who ought to keep their eyes on It and make it I impossible for corruption or inefficiency to remain I jin in office I Most parents are duty slackers in regard reg-ard to their children leaving them to go out Into the world without adequate training and trusting that somehow somehow somehow some some- some some- how and somewhere they hey will finds find the work that they are best fitted to do And most children of good parents who have taken the trouble to educate them and put them in inthe inthe inthe the way of doing well in the world become the worst kind of duty slackers when their parents grow old and dependent and need the comfort and help of those they love far tar more than they love them them- selves It Is not the lack of knowing what to do that makes dut duty more honored In the breach than In the I observance i Everyone knows what his duty is even after atter his conscience is so blunted by neglect that It refuses to spur him on any longer But inside him there Is a constant fight ht In which laziness and the the principal parts and unless he gets the duty habit fixed early in life he heis heis heis is likely ely to remain a dut duty slacker as long as he heI remains in the world J I This article is not written of course course for tor those who their dut duty do do But those who do not are sufficiently plentiful to make a reminder now and I I then worth the writing I Cop Copyright right 1924 by t the e Bell Syndicate Inc I |