Show worry la the worry great american habit As a national pastime baseball Is a poor second our peculiar civilization makes it chronic we are the champion worriers of the universe the african is happy oriental fatalism prevents a dissatisfaction with the asiatic the european in peace Is usually content but we worry because jones next door has an automobile our brethren of the other continents would merely accept jones as a superior being and let it so at that wo don t so we go on worrying because jones has an automobile because mrs jones has a new gown and because we may have some trouble scraping together the money for next month s rent and food bills and we know all the time that worrying wont ever get us the motor car the gown or pay the rent in fact it takes away whatever lettla loy there might be in living we know that it impairs our health destroys our efficiency and spoils our chances of ever attaining anything yes worry is a great thing tor doctors and undertakers der times leader |