The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-19
THE MASTER VICE.

As Such is Procrastinatien Describee
 by . Confessed Victtn.
 "The bane of my existence. said the habit of putting things of. I never do today what I can put off till tomor- row
 The result is that I am almays put ting things off and never dcins an. more than is necessary for my current daily hand to mouth support; and so' as the saying Is. never have any thing. I am not independent. but al. ways derendent uron someDooy e'se for the work that wMl enable me to live. and SO can never say my soul Is my own. I must do the work l am set to do by some stronger man; whether I like it or not. and so I plod along. just getting through. while the nan who collars things gets on
 "Of late years as have come to re- a]ize its evil effects and the enormous difficulty of overcoming 1t. have come to think that the master vice or to think thus has disturbed me nt- tie, because I have to give up an or- iginally preconceived and long cher- ished notion.
 q had long held that the most near ly ineradicable of personal vices was gambling, but now I thought the most difficult of all vices to cure onesef or was that of procrastination. Was WTOHS tHen. Anu Coulu At pS sAAoS . was wrong now?
 "This. as I say, disturbed me a lit- tie; but now on this point I rest quite easy. For I have discovered. contra. dictory as this. at first thought, might seem. have discovered that ! was
 For now I discover that the vice gambling Is but another phase of. or at least the outcrop of. that of pro: fhasna'em thase gwen over e to % samblins hope to get something for nothing: they hope to get money without effort. They put off from day to day the hard. unfiinch- ii g work that would give them sure life, and make just enough to indulge their vice and their vain hopes.
 50 gambling Is really but a form. or outcome. Of 1 the ne vice or ,ns pracrass nf raa same of drunkenness. which Is cssen- tially a procrastinating vice: we put thing: off today. today we will drink; we will work tomorrow.
 And I don't know but what we should find that every Ill proceeds from the vice of procrastination: and so tfis, which might seem but form Of am one of its most closely bound victims. don't drink. and I don't gamble: but have got the fatal habit of putting things of.
 inertia, NuflHeSS. ldtN VI from want of exercise. come from it. the procrastinating man Is always at the same dead low level He Is all ways going to do something, never toing 1t; just pulling through with the work he has to do, and gaining never knows the joy of doing things, TOT gathers in its profits. but habit bound. he settles down in lifelong
 "And I am one of those victims' oc- ce sionally do rouse up and do some thing. out of my set routine. and in the accomplishing of some rugged task that I thus take up I find a great new joy and pride; and I am going to keep this up; but next day I sink to the old level again. and stay there; t N go much easier to put things on than to do things. and this, the trunk had habit of which all others are but branches. Is SO deep rooted.
 But I am not without hope. :! have lopped off those branches of which I spoke, and am prying. prying around the roots of the trunk"