Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-17
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The Value Of Courtesy.

Other things being equal the public
official who is good natured and oblig-
ing will retain his position longer and
with less effort than the one who per-
forms his duties grudging!y or mani
tests impatienCe at the ignorance or
stupidity of some Of the people who
have occasion to need his services. No
man who is unwilling to serve the peo-
pie smllingly and cOurteously has a
moral right to seek public Office. And
the sour faced, i'll hammered official
who has to step aside deserves as little
public sympathy as he usually receives.
Fortunately most Office holders UNDER
stand the ethics of a smiling counte-
nance ana willing manner.
And what is true of public service is
no less true of the much more numcr-
Gus class Of semi public servants who.
in office and store are brought daily
face to face with many petty annoy
ances from the people they are called
upon to serve. The clerk who is al
ways smiling and good natured in the
face of eXaSperating occurrences, is
more valuable to his employer than his
fellow servant of equal ability. who
gives less attention to the art of pleas
ing. The smile, although it cost IN ef-
fort, pays good dividends on the in
vestment. In fact it has in many in
stances made up the whole balance be-
tween failure and success.
Square Up Before the New Year.
Bangor News.)
In buying Christmas presents and
having a. general good time, do not for
get that many bills come due this
month. and the best present any man
can make IS to pay what he owes.
There Is whole lot Of fun in getting
out of debt. even if it is for no other
purpose than for running up more bills.
Try it this year and see how good it is.
Forces for Good.
Bangor Commercially
Together with the trolley and the
telephone. the rural free mail and the
free public library, the free schools and
the larger. broader. more liberal
church. the grange hall and it's occu-
| pants are to stand among the effective
forces for the coming Of the new
heavens and the new earth.
They Are Nightly Attractive.
portland Advertiser).
4 cat may look at a king and nobody is
barred from the pleasure Of q good long
look at the show windows.
Will Not be Made by Prof. Langley.
Oath Times).
| A new steamboat to ply the Kenncbec
is in the air, but it isn't by any means
an airship.
Good Anytime.
| Oar Harbor Record
Don't put off all the good resolutions
write it Xmas"
Reflections of Penobseot Optimist
F.! (Bangor Commercially.
We have nothing but good words for
! the weather of the present winter thus
far, although it has been one of excessive
drought. But as to temperature the
weather has certainly approached tn,
ideal. No zero mornings have yet been re-
corded we believe, while the sun at mid
day has been something quite delicious
Even the blizzard of Sunday was moi
livery serious. 1t was accompanied by
thigh winds and the forenoon was Il dis.
agreeable one in which to be out; but il
brought a good downpour of most vel.
come rain to help cover up the powders
in the exposed beds of the rivers. ir
some places being almost the entire rive,
bottom from one bank to the other Hal;
of December is back of us. the shortes,
days are being numbered and soon We
shall welcome old Sol on his northwarC
tour. And SO all is we'll.