Show ir A U 61 kad a L 0 L it m dorng DOING THINGS FOR PEOPLE I 1 have a friend who occupied a prominent official position in washington for a number of years after his retirement he opened an office and let it be known that he would act as an adviser to individuals and companies having business to transact with the government recently he told me that his first years income was about ten times as large as ho he had dared to hope tor for the only way I 1 can explain it to Is that I 1 am now cashing in on my lifetime life time habit of doing things for people he said when I 1 ws in office I 1 never neve could see why it worth while to go to a little trouble for folks it if you could do it properly so when a man came to me 1 I try to sidestep side step by saying you W will ill have to take the matter up with s uch such and such a department I 1 lust just tried to help him out 1 I scheming about it I 1 lit had ad no cons conscious clous notion that I 1 was laying up treasure in heaven or anything of that sort but apparently people remembered and appreciated and now they are taking pleasure in paying me back neither by temperament nor conviction do I 1 belong to the united brotherhood of Pol lyannas I 1 do not hold that we live in the best of all possible worlds no nor r that selfishness la is always punished and virtue always rewarded on the contrary I 1 see many notable examples ot of men who have apparently never done a gracious thing in their whole lives who yet have achieved fortunes and are quite serene and contented in the enjoyment of the good things of the world but at several different times in my own experience I 1 have been surprised by having bread which I 1 had cast on oto a the waters and forgotten come back to me spread pread 8 with good butter and even considerable sid jam one of the most valuable contacts of in my y business life grew out of work which I 1 did tor for a certain charitable organization with no thought of personal gain and a large piece of business once walked office sent by the brother bro th er of 0 f a man whom I 1 had been able to help many years before and in an entirely different part of the country speaking generally I 1 should say that the chance of being rewarded for good works is sufficient tent so that any roan man Is justified from a purely selfish standpoint in going out of his way occasionally to be kind to say nothing of the fact that doing things for or other people brings a personal satisfaction which Is in itself a reward |