Show l I Inventing Trouble T S I By JOHN BLAKE aLAKE Troubles are Lre sometimes s r real al and sometimes synthetic syn syn- or or what the Germans German would call e ersatz The supply of oC the genuine article l 1 Is sufficient for all all' needs and trouble 1 Is III needed in n the world word that hat Is the kind Ind of oC trouble that means mean difficulty The telephone and telegraph h c corporations employ corps of men called trouble shoot shooter whose business bustness bust busi ness It Is II to discover what is the matter and how to remedy it when the service breaks down S These men by studying trouble learn how to eliminate it Incidentally they often n find a means mean to make the service far tar better than than- it er e was be re Science clence Is In la gely la employed In getting rid of trou trou- ble That is the aim of ot medical sol solene n e. e whose followers followers fol fol- fol lowers are the trouble shooters of the human eye eye- I en m. m We Ve all nIl have our troubles was probably said by the caveman when hs he found that a n hungry bear I had visited his home and anti eaten enten up his famil family dur- dur l ts Jf Pe Jr hh e h b bg ep paying lr nl It ever eVe Since eldee usually as consolation n to those Who whose troubles tae aXe greater th lr ll own As 8 lt never works work It fY H 1 i d e b lx io o osay sa that j tt our our troubles rout les either either either-do do o not exist e or 01 can can- be pe i ti tl Sl a it i a f that a great number of them of-them them are invented invented- WC g. g ati v vh falls in n love with the le fc is greatly troubled trou led when she mt n heels heels' IS married or or-if or If he Isn't i is Jo 9 lc 15 oth g young women that he heli e li Il grant her grant her an In interview a But after after- a while while- when she ahe attracts th the atten atten- Von of ot m m. m in lna hl a r n erious line of oC Business Business- she wll find that this trouble was vi wholly holly synthetic built out of of- sentimentality and self pity Self-pity Self is the cause of ot some ersatz troubles and nd these too often otten seem so real that they embitter lives and destroy the capacity for tor enjo enjoyment mentA ment A v very ry common trouble of oC the Invented sort I li It lithe the belief of ot young oung men beginning to work worl that they ther are tre re not getting along fast tast enough and others are ue promoted over their heads by favoritism I Yet this trouble will turn out to be bea a In the end For If It they l keep on thinking ing tha thai thai- they are not setting along fast enough they win wirl begin to put forth the extra effort that Is ne needed l to get long along faster and that will develop their- their minds and bring out aut ut all ll their ability S SAs As for tor favoritism which exl exists ts almost to o o some extent the sooner the young men learn that this is a of ot life and must be overcome the more character they will have nave and the more likely they will vill get along In spite or of it It Is not a perfect pe world and will not be until after those who like Ike to build up th their it private troubles troubles trou trou- bles bes have been dead for tor many thousands of years But But-a man is born to enjoyment as bs niu much h has as h he heis heis is to trouble in spite of oC the book of Job And And common sense will vilI get rid id of most of those that thai plague him Copyright 1926 by the he Bell Syndicate In Inc mo |