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Show I , , I PaileCaimmie JOSEPH ARAUJO, 2932 Alabama Street. La Crescenta. California, learned through an experience that has served him In good stead that if you spend all your time worrying, you don't have time to think about solving your problem, and that if you crowd worry out of your mind, and work with calm, your problems work themselves out. Half a dozen years ago he went Into business for himself. He borrowed bor-rowed some money from his family and with a little he had saved, he opened a haberdashery. f The first year all went well; business was good. Z" But as he started the second year, business dropped f f off; there were days when all he sold was a hand- tjj kerchief. jjk Worries? He had them. Bills had to be met and 7m In addition, his family had to live. He didn't worry fi I only when at the store either. That wasn't enough. f ? I He went home and worried half the night. He says mmLJLmA how his wife was able to live with him he will never . v,-,. understand. t ARNtulK After about three months with his waking hours ailed with worry, and his nights filled with restless turning and tossing, business began to pick up and he was making a fair living. Then he decided to put the store up for sale. Three more months went by and he had prospects tut no buyers In the meantime, he again started to worry. Finally he 9aid to himself, "Joe, worrying didn't help business three months agu, and it Isn't going to help sell the store, so you might as well stop." Worrying had hindered not helped. Three months later he sold the store. |