Show I What Is Worth While I IBy By DR FRANK CRANE The difference probably between the man of goof good and the scatter brain Is that the former emphasizes em- em the Important things and lets alone the un un- Important while the latter Is equally In earnest about aboul I rA r- r them all A man has reached a great groat poInt In hIs career when he can see that a lot of thIngs make no dir ference to hIm bin He has a certaIn end In view and only appreciates the thIngs that bear on that end Other matters make no difference The line that dIvIdes the successful man from the unsuccessful Is 13 usually the fact that the successful man never loses sight of the goal he has In view while the unsuccessful man runs about hither and thither like an ant he u has activity but It Is largely waste motion Every once In a a. while you hear on the street the expressIon the bIg Idea The bIg Idea seems to stand for the main and Informing purpose for whIch anythIng Is done or saId The bIg Idea Is like the perfect desIgn of the building In the mind and the trestle board of the architect lie He gives to ever every man his work and puts eve pIece of material In Its place It aU all coordinates accordIng to the bIg Id ea A busIness will go to smash unless In It there Is Isa isa a bIg Idea some mind that can correlate and unity unify all of Its varIous activities I have read some novels that seemed to be n. n mere frittering u away way of my time for there was no dom dorn- thought about which they were wrItten nell Religious lous belief bellef In a way simply means that a man has some bl big Idea about hIs lire life and all or of hIs words and deeds must conform to thIs plan Music Is not merely a a. pleasant succession or of sounds It must hoe have unity and form torm and There must be a bl big Idea behInd It The Idea Is bIgger than the man that has it ft A Aman man becomes great only when he be allows hImself to tobe tobe be ab absorbed In the Idea people suffer becauSe their energies are frittered frit frit- awa away They have no cohesIve plan and every thIng thy do Is hit or miss They never amount to anything there Is no bIg Idea behInd them Even In the matter ot of physical culture there mUst be a a. plan and system It cannot be fortuitous Search yourself carefully to find your domInating desIre and see that It Is such as can merit your our Ing up aU all your our me life to It Then you ou will come to success on board a a. bIg Idea when you OU never would have attained It otherwIse Copyright 19 1928 Newspaper |