Show S Standing tan de Ing in In e Le Line IDe I l j TE EXT T to waiting in a do doctors doctor's tors tor's o office fi e theres there's 31 i nothing as monotonous and irritating as waiting for fora a delayed train or standing in line to buy i y ya a tic ticket et No matter whether a persons person's time i is is- is worth 1 a minute or nothing at all ail t theres there's eres ere's something methin psychological about compulsory deli delay Y t it gets under r the hide hide Probably Probably bly its it's because ving ng made our our plans in a advance vance we want to do dor r e g exactly as scheduled i in n our ur brains u V T t e a atrain Jr train n. n Its It's an anc anz ho hour r la late e aF A L Vr rt f i l ti Jl s Y J 1 You have to to w wa wait i it t The suspense and and- mo monotony seem like ages ages y Or you you agree agree to rifest some some one at a certain certain tain tarn corner or r the door of a store t re at noon sharp The contracting party is fifteen minutes late tate By the time he or she arrives youre you're so irritated irritated irritated that your digestion even is suffering causing causing caus caus- ing a dry tasteless feeling in the mouth and a I I jumpy tendency of the nerves If thoughts were bullets the party who holds up a theatre lin line while he haggles over what ticket to to buy would be as full of holes as a sieve We Ve Americans are the fastest moving most hurried people in the world Yet nearl nearly all the time we save by our rush is used up up in in- delay elay waiting because some one or some some thing is not punctual and which generally could could could-be be avoided The combined cost of this delay runs runs into staggering staggering staggering stag stag- gering figures If you want a shot-cut shot to success be punctual That in itself may not hasten the attainment of everything you want But it helps mig mightily The punctual al man gains a great asset the asset the goo good goodwill goodwill will of his fellows He appeals to human nature nature nature na na- ture at one of the roots of psychology psychology dread dread of delay Delay always ys saws against the gra grain n If you are clever you can put this principle to work use it to increase your income Prompt service is a magic formula that every wise merchant merchant merchant mer mer- chant recognizes Over in London a young fellow fellow fellow fel fel- low who couldn't get a j job b hit on the idea of acting as a a substitute to avoid del delay y for others For 30 cents an hour he hired himself out to stand in line lin and buy theatre tickets He was immediately so swamped with business with witha a delighted public bidding his wages upward that now he has an army of followers and an entirely new profession has come into being Herbert Hoover heads Uncle Sams Sam's gropers for a way to enable able amateurs to use the wireless unrestrictedly without cluttering the air with jumbled messages of same same wave length The way when found will wilt permit privacy privacy wireless conversation with outsiders unable to listen in will wilt find the way Ten Ten years ago many scientists hooted the idea of of sending several several several sev sev- eral phone messages over the same wire simultaneously simultaneously simultaneously simul simul- one couple unable to hear the others Invention has accomplished that marvel Shimmy and other jazz steps have tak taken n the place of primitive dances on the Seneca Indian reservation near B Buffalo falo Tom-tom Tom has passed I out and- and the saxophone come in The Indians have long tong been c called the vanishing race They'll vanish a a alot lot faster if they travel the jazz trail trait Jazz originated in the Buenos Aires under under- world Its It's a circular road I Chicago is the home of about professional professional professional pro pro- crooks reports its crime commission That means one crook to each Criminals are d decidedly in minority Pity they cant can't be segregated like the old English system of exporting her undesirables to Australian and other penal c colonies lonie Crime is a contagious disease 1 I |