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Show How Hurry and Quick Lunches Kill Editor Progressive Opinion What's the matter? Where's everybody going? Perhaps when they do get to their destination providing they get there alive ninety per cent of them discover that they could have taken more time, and not taken the risk of being in such a terrible hurry. Hurry is the scourge of America. Hurry has ruined more Americans than has any other word in the vocabulary of life. Hurry is both cause and result of our high pressure civilization. "Can't wait" is characteristic of the , country, and is written on everything; on commerce, on school, on society, on churches. Mushrooms attain their full power over night; Oaks require decades to develop their growth. The old time courtecy went out when the new time hurry came in. Hurry is the father of dyspesia. The bolting of food has become a national vice. The words "Here because of Quick Lunches" might properly be placed on thou-ands thou-ands of headstones in our cemeteries. Hurry means the breakdown of the nerves. It is the roya road to nervous prostrations. pro-strations. The road to distinction must be paved with years of self-denial and hard work. C. V. Hansen |