Show STICKING BY THE JOB by THOMAS ARKLE CLARK dean of men university of illinois 11 tal hiie house ouse in which I 1 am living was built more than twenty five years yeara ago and not badly built either cither but an a I 1 go around it I 1 cau can still find things that were not quite finished there ta Is a strip of molding in the bathroom that dint Is only lightly tacked on a shelf Is missing froni from on one of the closets a will Is only half driven into the baseboard or something Is left just short of finishing the whistle hit biad blown for tile boon ii oon hour the clock had struck six or for some bome reason or other the workman had been called away from the job and he had fo forgotten that anything had been left it would have beell been better it if lie had stuck by ills his job until it was finished ill come back in ili a few days the painter who was tinting painting p the front porch said two ye years a rs ag ago a and touch up the back steps a little they need a second coat just now I 1 must go over to the sheldon house they want to move in ive never seen him allm since and the paint Is wearing very thin on the back steps tile the electrician who hung the lantern over our front door broke one of the tha strips of glass in doing so lie ile could P easily repair it lie said there was plenty of glass like it in ili ills his shop hed look after it next day it has been hanging there for weeks and the job Is not ot yet done jacobs was gorie gone this summer ile he had not had a real vacation for ten years so lie he tool took his wife and family and spent three months visiting the homo iome of ills atice ancestors across the ocean they haicl haa a wonderful time but jacobs pays lies hes never going away awa again until lie he retires from business 1 I any doubt ho he explained to me that when I 1 stop get someone to look after things quite as well it if not better than I 1 do but so long as I 1 draw to the salary I 1 suppose im expected to take tahe tit alic responsibility As aa long as you have a job its better to stick to it take me three years to correct all the things that were bungled or neglected or done wrong while lille I 1 was gallivanting about europe As long ns a jobs yours better look after it I 1 sa say 1 tile the tau kappas started out with 1 n I alne group 0 ul men and with r alth admirable a b I 1 enthusiasm they had ideals they showed energy they did their work admirably but that was at the beginning as I 1 said they have leave been plumping lately they are letting go at loose ends they are not sticking by the job it takes persistence to stick by a job until it Is finished to see me th tha till atall the nails are driven and the tag ends tied up p and tile the last detail looked after its ita the way a man ought to want to do ills his work whether it Is a house he Is building or 0 life qa castern Weg tern newspaper tw union |