Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-12
TODAY is SUFFICIENT TO CARE
FOR.


II some man or woman would dis
cover and apply some method for
making the whole world one great
Don't Worry Club he would con-
fer ON humanity the greatest boon
ever given II since civilization he
gan. There Ia no evil that so griev-
ously afflicts the race as that of dread
of the future, and worry over its nos
sible fruits. The fact that this dread
is absolutely useless, and that worry
is absolutely nom productive. but ag-
grayates the evil. At the beginning
of new year. when all of us are
more or less inclined to take an rs
count OF stock" 1t is well to .Ioke
thought of this useless burden with
which we afflict ourselves. with the
possible hope that we NAV in part
at least put it asld9S'fIt is too much
to think that tBsff n load that the
race has carried for all time can be
thrown on %'sly, but little thought
on inc po,ft of each of lis will show
that That every one can lay down a
part of the burden. If we will but
realize that today Is all time-that
yesterday and tomorrow are both nom
exlstent-it will not be found impos-
sible to get rid of the incubus { at
has hampered humanity for ages. A
good way to make practical applica-
ton of the argument Is to give n
moments thought to the fact tat yes
terday We dreaded today, and yet
when II came along things went along
just has they had been going. The
| terror and dread was of our own Gre
alton and existed In our own fancy.
Too many of us waste our lives
dreading and planning to meet things
that never had any material exis-
tence. We carry this to the point of
actually robbing ourselves and those
for whom we must provide for today,
the only part of time over which we
can possibly have any control. 1t Is
not advisable to have reckless and
thoughtless waste of the days ut hama
and to have no care for the days to-
come, but OF what good is all our
forethought and preparation II in
| planning for the future we put our
! selves IN q condition of being utter
ly unable to enjoy or appreciate the
future when 1t becomes the present?
| And worse still, and more utterly
useless. is the habit of always pur-
| suing tomorrow, creating tomorrow
full of terrors and breads and fears
with each passing day. The habit of
worrying and fearing what Is TO
come makes, for all who yield to it,
an existence like unto what that OF
the tabled Sysiphus. who was con-
demned TO ever continue rolling n
great rock up the hill, which was al
ways rolling down again. This use
less and foolish rolling of the rock
up hill is what condemns the race
to suffering and distress. If each
man and each woman OF us will make
up our minds to live today, we will
each of us nave contributed vastly to
the benefit of the race and to the bet
terment of the world. 1t is not M
hard thing 10 do as 1t appears. If
We will give but few moments earn
est thought to the subject. Fully one.
half of the troubles we are preparing
to meet never come upon us except
as we suffer them in anticipation.
Half of our wounds are imaginary,
than We think they are, and the other
half are far less serious. The
present is all that Father Time gives
us, and the future. no mater with
what fearsome things We people it,
will be only today when the sun in
Its course will bring 1t to us.
4 The New York World these days