Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-26 | Page 7 | Figure the Upkeep

L 1 Figure the Upkeep i iBy By JOHN BLAKE It does not cost muc mue get geta a bad habit habl l B rut ut maintenance ance Is what counts l' l lam Jam am not speaking of the so-called so vices like drinking and smoking P People who overdo verdo these these na have e to consult their d doctor sooner or later later- J Their effects ar are are p physical and when a man gets getsIn In bad health a. a doctor c can n scare care him into modera modera- tion But there there are many habits which are very eTy ex ex- ex- ex pensive Some of them cost the self satisfaction that comes from making ones one's Wa way in the world Some of them cost really great achievement If the dilatory roan man who has one of oC the worst vorst habits could procrastination procrastination could figure at itt th the end of the year what It had a actually cost him he would b be dismayed If the average lazy jazy man could know how expenSive expensive expensive sive had been his laziness he he would perhaps take a little pains to get rid of It the next year If the man who falls into the habit of being crabbed anti and ill natured could see how many friends how many opportunities and with them How flow much mone money he had lost last through that habit he would probably begin reading the sunshine books and buy copies of the songs that tha t tell you to to- smile all the Villa M-Villa h II All bad habits run Into mone money and none none- of them are worth It But we never Dever know how much they really cost cast costus castus us and consequently we va go on thinking little about them and permitting them to get set and to grow all the time I know of a man who went to toa a distant city to place an important contract with a factory which was just establishing a a. name for tor good work worl When he IH got there the manager manag r was was out of town and his assistant who felt that he needed a aday aday aday day off Iff had run over to a town to play playa a little golf golt r I There was no one in the office to make an esti est mate The rhe man an with the contract disgusted got the work worl done elsewhere That habit of oC Idleness c cost st the assistant manager manager manager man man- ager his jog And he ho never got another as s good for tor the factory soon became very ery prosperous and the manager became Its president His assistant would have have- taken his place but for that one unnecessary day off off- taken out of his employers employer's time Cases of this kind are frequent in business as every business man knows They are more frequent among among- particularly particularly particularly par par- among those who put ot off work they ought to do until it is too late to do it well welT Every Everyman man would be far tar better than he is Is far abler and far more prosperous were It U not for his bad habits Fortunately these can be he got rid of and replaced with good ones even comparatively late In life And they must be got rid of If IC their possessors expect to attain any degree of success in the he world For there are thousands of trained young Oung men going into business all the time and among them there are a few hundreds who will not be procrastinators procrastinators or Idlers but who will figure the upkeep of ot these habits and decide deride to do without them They will vill get the big pay and hold the big post post- Copyright 1925 by the B Dell Bell ll Syndicate Inc I