The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-11-17
THE MASTER VICE.
ALL evils HAVE THEIR Roo7 IN
REORGANIZATION.
Slave TO the Haiti Moralizes and An.
nounees Ris ConcIu.ions-Can
Never Rise Above the Rank
Of plodder.


The bane OF my existence. said the
procrsstinating man, has been my
habit Of putting things on, never do
, today what can put on til to.mor.
row.
The result is that am always put
ting OF and never doing any more
than Is necessary for my current daily
hand 10 mouth supports and so, as the
saying is, ! pever have anything.
am not independent, but always de
pendent upon somebody else for the
| work that will enable me 10 live, and
so can never say my soul is my own.
J must do the work ! am set to do by
some stronger man. whether ! like it
or not. and ~ ] plod along. Just get.
ting through, while the man who col.
| lars things gets on
'Of late years as | have come to
realize its evil effects and the enor.
nous difficulty Of overcoming II have
come TO think that the master vice of
| all IL representation And coming to
| think thus has disturbed me a little,
because have To give up an originally
/ preconceived and long cherished no
| lion.
| u had long held that the most near
| ly iperadicabe Of personal vices was
gambling. but now ! thought the most
difficult OF all vices 10 cure oneself Of
was that OF procrastination. Was ]
wrong then? And could IL he that I
was wrong now?
| This, ! say. disturbed me lirtle:
but now on This point resi- quite easy.
| For have discovered &C Irradictory as
This, al first thought, might seem, I
have discovered that was right then
and that ] am right nov.
For now discover that the vice Of
| gambling is but another phase of. or
at least the outcrop of, that of pro.
crastination. The great majority OF
those given over TO gambling hope to
gel something for nothing: they hope
10 get money without eC2r'. They put
OFF from day % day the hard. uniiinch
ing work tina, would give hem sure
thing. without chances. ON the race
Of life. and make Just enough to in
,dulge their we and thc,r vain hopes
So gambling is really bat form, OF
| outcome. Of The vice Of proCrastina
ton And by the same line of reason
ing ! suppose We might say the same
Of drunkenness. which is essentially
n procrastinating vice; We put things
OF to-day. today we will drink; we
will work tomorrow.
And | don't know but what ",
should find thd' every i'll proceed
from the vice of procrastination: anC
so this, which might seem but form
Of laziness is really the master vice
and am one OF its most closely boun'
victims. ! don't drink. and don
gamble; but ! have got the fatal habi
of putting things of
Inertia. dullneSs. lack Of powe
from want OF exercise come from |
the procrastinating man is Away
at the same dead low level. He is al
ways going To do something never dc
ing IT, Just pulling through with tn,
work he has to do. and gaining CORE
spondingly small rewards. He neve
knows the JOY of GG'ng things no
gathers in its profits. but habit bound
he settles down in lifelong slavery
And | am one of those victims, Oc
casDnaliy do rouse mp and do some
thing out OF my set routine, and In tn
accomplishment Of some rugged tasl
that ] thus take mp ] find a great ney
Joy and pride: and ! am going To kee
this up; but next day ! sink 10 the oil
level again. and stay there: il is s.
much easier 10 put things of than I
do things, and this, the trunk ba
habit of which all others are bu
branches, is 80 deep rooted.
But ! am not without hope hay
Topped of those branches of which
spoke, and ! am pryinG, pryins aroub
the roots OF the trunk"