Show II II 1 E Something to Think About J I By F. F A. A WALKER r UNIFORM CIVILITY I O 0 BID DID welcome to the tho world when T To everything seems to be bo going against you Is to exhibit the right sort of courage and to show yourself capable of ot overriding o difficulties I 1 Though firebrands may be thrown across your pathway and backbiting tongues assail you if you still remain amiable amIable and courteous you will emerge merge from the ordeal unscathed 1 t 1 1 Civility and all nIl that It implies gives you rou the staying strength to surmount obstacles and to press forward In all nIl kinds of ot weather 1 m Scowls frowns and short answers very frequently make of ot the tho talented end and gifted sorrowful toilers while on tho the other hand urbanity and suavity elevate men and women of ot moderate attainments to power and affluence Civility commends Itself to people who know not Its name but recognize recognize recognize nize it when they see sec it The crabbed old boor and the proud youth are now and again arrested by Its soft sott answer and smiling face tace and even the rude vagabond will stop a moment when It crosses his path and stare at nt It in is open-eyed open wonderment In- In some In-some some subtle way civility touches hearts and nod knits mankind closer together together to to- together gether yet despite this fact It has baG hasa baGa a long way to go and n a great grent deal den 1 of hard bard work to do before it can overtake overtake over over- take the masses and make them understand understand understand un un- un- un its true worth To those who are arc Just starting careers and especially to the young good manners are as ns essential to their success as good commendations Indeed politeness may be said to tobe tobe tobo be bo the better thing of ot the two for the reason that It builds character and makes it Imposing in the eyes of ot oth oth- ers There Is no time In ones one's life that courtesy of ot behavior in the to treatment of others falls to win recognition The employee who Is uniformly civil considerate of his or her employer employer em em- and thoughtful of associates as ns well is usually the the first to win pro pro- motion If It you will think back study cause and effect you will find as you reflect that the greater number of ot failures in life fc had their beginning in Incivility and that those who today are arc conspIcuously conspicuously conspicuously successful in the arts professions professions and Industries were In their beginnIng beginning beginning be be- ginning and are now habitually courteous in words and acts Copyright |