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Show ir JOHN and JANI $TtlCKtANI O SAM CALVERT. 25 Agnew Avenue. Ave-nue. Montgomery, Alabama, says hli Intentions always have been good. Anyway, he renewed them on every New Year's Day as it came along. But he admits that on December the 31st every year he finds he has not lived up to his good Intentions. Was this due to lack of desire? Not at all. Was M due to forgetfulnessT Just that So one New Year's Day he wrote down five of his deepest failings The next day he went out and got a baseball. Just an ordinary baseball with a split In It The split he set down as bis Dig Lack. On the ball he wrote the numbers 1 to 0 and what they represented: 1 Worry 2 Procia stlna tlon 8 Talking too much 4 Late for appointments 5 Not pleasant at home. Then be went over and over In bis mind which falling each Dumber Dum-ber represented, went over them so many times he could not possibly possi-bly forget what those numbers stood for. Now he attached a string to the ball and hung It from the chandelier of bis bedroom. After that whn he arose In the morning be twirled the ball and then caught It and brought it to a standstill. The number nearest his thumb, he took for his disciplinary dis-ciplinary theme that day. He put aside all the good Intentions in connection with the other numbers num-bers and concentrated on this one. It wasn't Ion before he had a good day's practice at each and all of those disciplinary measures. meas-ures. He says he kept this up for months and that be still has the ball that made a different man of him. Further, he says the ball hangs In Its old place. |