Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-21
:OUTSlDE POINT OF VIEW.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

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Written for the Times Republican.
Mrs. Birdseye, pleasantly remarked
this scribe. IF you read the Message
Ito Garcia you remember the point was
70 teach instant and unquestioning
LOBBYING of orders The idea was to
teach Young men the need OF such
service in all walks Of life. particularly
many thousand copies of this pamphlet
were sold was because business men
find lacking among employees such ideas
icf action, There is another thing fully
as Important, and just as much the
need Of being taught to all people.
young or old. and that is the need Of tha
performance OF all known duties with
tout orders and With punctuality. His
sstoi.y is full of the accounts of disasters
because actors in8public dramas fail to
'3act when known Guty is plain, and just
when such action should occur. Let me
/ Illustrate. "A transport was sail with
Troops TO relieve an invested town. The
4 time for sailing vas 10 a. m. The cap.
I8tain of the vesse! Was detained thirty
minutes by drunken cabman losing
4 Himself in the streets of London. The
i3tide turned which made further delay.
1 Then a fog came on and darkness fol-
lowed. The ship with reinforcements
/ sailed the next day. on arrival the re-
Inducements We're useless: the beleag-
Huered garrison had surrendered the day
4 before. History was changd because of
la drunken cabmGn $ acts. Again"
i
Once in awhile do like your SER
mons" said the lady addressed. They
h are 80 much to the point Let me illus
trate You remember / asked you to
hiring home bail Of darning cloth last
saturday You did not have your stock
sEings darned. Sunday morning you
:aarned them because they were
q 'hoiey Then before you found pair
4 church Therefore you did not go To
4 You We're not there, therefore you had
n no change of heart. therefore You VIII
Il be lost. all this because you failed II
perform your duty punc;nally. Mad
4 am MAS the reply Il expect ieyity
from gisgiing girls. And when ! am
ftrying TO draw n great moral lesson i,
. y
trivial talk from woman Of Your age
= To proceed. For instance, a railroad
Il brakeman whose duty it is to close thu
y sWitch, fails 10 perform a known duty
with punctuality, and the train follow,
), ling is deraiied. on whose head is th,
!. loss Of life that follows? OF What us.
Ito bring 10 life innocent passengers ar,
laws that punish such negligence?
lremember once"
Say. pa" asked Scraphina, do yo,
$ remember. once, when young D.
/, Noodles was here to dine. and yo,
forgot to tell him that he was wantet
at the office at S p M? He stayed al
) Of the evening. Took the last car fel
: land broke his leg on the Icy pavement
!, then lost his position in the Central of
. flee. Only the other day he was men
I tioning what tough thing it turne,
: out to be because YOU forgot to tell hin
E the manager wanted him at 5 o'clock
Again the writer listened to a worth
9 daughter of logical woman. "Scra
G pima remarked the writer. your APP
pication is too specific. We are deal
ing with the general problem. Do yo
o remember the page in history. the nigh
: before the battle. when the army on
y GERS cried, ON with the dance. Will
!, the enemy was gathering around thei
!, encampment, when disaster followed a
!, because of duty performed, becaus
y of present pleasure could"
e, sss
{ The travelling man begged pardon
but Birdseye do you. remember that al
4 ternoon on election day, when 20
e would play another game Of billiard
e at the club-room. and finally found tn
e polls closed, when you arrived to vot,
That Jones was elected on the schot
board by majority OF one. And yo
j, remember to your sorrow, how the
= year he had influence enough on tn
I board to introduce German, Frencl
4 art and gymnastics into our scho,
work, that taxes were fearful the yes
7! f;o;;oTw::H:,. and a lot OF nign price
e teachers were on our hands. becaul
3 Of duty unperformed. Because one Of
ID gentleman preferred to finish a gan
q OF billiards. rather than 80 to the vo