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Show Uncommon Sense Bi John Blake . Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. You can't make a rush job of yout life and get away with it. If you started to Think build a house with Things Over no architect and only a jack-leg carpenter car-penter to saw the boards, the house, providing you ever got it done, would not be habitable. Lucky Is the young man who ha3 an abiding interest In one thing or another, who knows before he begins what he wants to do. You will find one such youth in a thousand. The average human being is about as stable at twenty-one as is a straw in a storm. He turns to this or that occupation, never fully sure that It is the one he wants to follow, and In the end amounts to nothing. Plan your life as far ahead as yon can. Don't worry about making a wrong start. You can always make another one. Many men who have made their mark in the world did not know what they were good for till they were past thirty. General Grant, the most capable of all American generals with the possible pos-sible exception of Lee, had gone to West Point, remained for a while in the army after his graduation, and then permitted whisky to get the best of him. But the brains had never departed from his head, and when the right kind of an opportunity came along he seized it. Grant was fortunate In getting a second start. But his is an exception that proves a rule. Get the right start In the first place, If it is humanly possible. Find out what you want to do most, and do it We cannot all "leave our footprints on the sands of time." But we can, by summoning all our will power and determination, get farther far-ther than If we sat around and waited for something to turn up. Think things over while you are still young. Begin by getting the best education you can afford. Follow through by working as hard as you can, by finding out all that is possible to find out about your job. Cultivate the friendship of able and successful men If their success is not mere luck. Be friendly with your fellow human beings. Be honest and kindly. When you have to fight, fight fair. A successful business man once said to me: I don't overwork Forget the men In my em- the Clock Py- That would be foolish. I would lose their friendship for me, and they wouldn't do their job so well. But I do like men who, when four o'clock comes around, don't keep always al-ways looking at the clock. If they are interested In their work, they will not be scandalized If they discovered they had stayed on half an hour or two over time. When a workman gets the idea that any extra effort he gives to the boss is cheating himself, he is taking the wrong way to rise. The men in my shop who get Interested Inter-ested In their work are the men I can depend on. I try not to have any other men In the place. When I do find that one of them is a habitual clock watcher I call him in and give him a talk. If he still has his eyes on the hour and minute hands I tell him he had better get another place. You cannot imagine a scientist, engaged en-gaged in some highly Important problem prob-lem pulling out his watch from time to time and observing: "Well, boys, we'll call this a day, even If we do have to begin again all over tomorrow morning." Or take the case of a general In command of an army making a big push toward the enemy front. He can hardly afford to dig In and consolidate such gains as he has made, If he knows that a little added effort will win a battle. When I was a newspaper reporter I was sent out to get some piece of news, and I was expected to bring It back to the office. There were times when an assignment assign-ment cut into my sleep, because everybody every-body In the office was busy, and there was no one to send out to relieve me. But while this was not pleasant, it was a part of the day's work, and I knew that if I went through with It I should probably be given an extra day or half day to make it up. I am strong for recreation and re laxation. It is an excellent thing to have extra time on your hands to do with as you see fit. But Just at present there are thousands thou-sands of men and women who have more leisure on their hands than they need, and who would he rather glad to forget all about the clock if they had a paying job. Work hard arid loaf hard. But don't :o;:f while you're supposed te be work- |