The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-25
DON'T WORRY,
It's Excellent Advice to Those Who Wish
to stagnate. and Accomplish Nothing.

IT'S Excellent Advice to Those who Wish
to stagnate. and Accomplish Nothing.
1t is amazing how little value most
theories have when you come to put
them into actual practical use. Just at
present there Is a kind of reaction and
protest against the unrest and dissat-
~isfaction of the world, and we are con-
tinually advised, whatever else we do,
not to worry. Don't worry clubs
have been formed in many places, and
there is an honest effort to establish a
kind of American Nirvana, where we
shant worry any more about our w
affairs, or those of our n%eighbors. The
chief apostles Of this interesting move
ment are people.of unimpaired diges-
lions and good incomes, who write enter
tanning books about the folly of
troubling about the future. AS a theory,
not worrying is a peach. We are ali
willing to admit that it is foolish to
worry about what we can help, or what
we can't help; but then there is the un-
assailable fact that the people who never
worry never accomplish anything. Con-
tentment is an admirable virtue, but an
oversupply of it will and a man in the
poor house. The absolutely contented
man sits down and let's we'll enough
alone. The dissatisfied man gets out and
hustles things along. The ideal of per-
feet content with to-day, with no wor-
rying about the wants or needs of to-
morrow, is a beautiful one. We have
all known families who practiced 1t all
summer during watermelon time, and
whom we supported all winter during
the flannel and coal season. AS a mat
ter of fact, 1t Is the don't worry clubs
that are the stumbling blocks to prog
ress everywhere. 1t is the people who
don't worry about their children's edu-
cation who fill up the country with ig-
norant n illiterate citizens. 1t is the
people who don't worry about sickness
who spread contagious diseases. 1t is
people who don't worry about the flu
ture and who spend every cent they
make as they go along who become bur-
dens on the friends who have to take
care of them when they lose a job or get
sick. The don't worry club will never
build a fine city. What's the use in
worrying o paving the streets? they
say. We have always gotten along
somehow. What's the use i'm cleaning
'em? 1t will rain some time. What's
the use in worrying about tearing down
old buildings and putting up new?W What
is the use in building new and beauti-
full and clean and comfortable theaters?
they say. The old traps IN st. Charles
street were good enough for Ben DeBar
and Dave Bidwell. 40 years ago. They
are satisfied. Any old thing is good
enough for them. OF course, there is no
use in worrying about our neighbors'
troubles. Nobody contends there is.
The don't worry clubs are strong on this
point. But the heart hat feels no grief
but its own. that never aches but with
its own pain. the eye that is never
dimmed with a tear for a sorrow not
its own. knows only half Of life. 1t is
case-hardened. petrihed. impenetrable
selfshness that e worries about
other peoples affairs. The truth is that
man was made to worry. and he would
be miserable IL he couldn't. The exam
pie OF the placid clam. and the un-
troubled oyster. who shut themselves up
in their own shells and don't worry
about anything outside. will never seem
to him to be the highest type of useful
ness or happiness. The don't worry
theory don't work. The man who neve
worries gets covered with moss.-New
Orleans Picayune.