Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-21

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discomfort.
Fruit becomes stale when it remains
untouched too long. So does work
Eat the fruit when the bloom and
blush are on 1t and It gives yod health.
Do the job when the bloom and blush
are on it and it gives you joy and
several other things
What is the bloom of the Job?
1t Is the promise shining out of it
that asses us that when the job is
done we have accomplished one more
thing we have laid another brick
in the temple of character. raised our
selves up in the world by another mil
lionth of an inch.
rs 1t worth while?" you ask
1t all depends on your frame of mind
know college professor who seems
10 have lost all his ambition and eff
cheney because he knows mat in few
years he viii receive a pension income.
That fact has taken all the snap out Of
him.
Another man has raised a family of
four sons and started them off in life
with no further fortune than this sin
IF YOU WANT TO SUCCEED. LOAD
YOURSELF UP WITH RESPONSE
BILITIES.
The bloom Is off the job for the col
lege professor. Il will always be on the
JOB with the four boys If they follow
Instructions
In other words, the bloom is the JOY
of work, 1t is true that we all have to
do disagreeable tasks, But THERE is
no PRACTICAL GAIN IN MAKING
THEM MORE DISAGREEABLE BY
HATING THEM
1t is better to look such job straight
in the eye, and say:
NO you can not come it over me by
looking ugly You and l are going to
have a wrestling match. ] am going
to throw you and sit on your chest un-
til YOU give in"
This raises mans ambition and
makes him win. II also shows that if
YOU want your job to have bloom
YOU MUST PUT IT on.
You must look at it that way.
You must argue with yourself and
call yourself coward, and gradually
become boss OF yourself; then the job
viii shine like a golden opportunity.
On the other hand if you do not care,
II you would rather coddle yourself
than be man. If YOU prefer to let small
things run you instead OF running small
things, then the job will be about as
bright as hole in the wall on a pitch
dark night.
late
stand in a street car is because HE
CAN NOT MAKE Up HIS MIND TO
GET UP. Such q man does not neces-
sarily lack the qualities of a gentle
man. He probably feels sorry to see a
woman stand. But he has let little
| things boss his mind for so many years
that he simply can not act quickly.
Watch him.
He gets behind his paper. and grad
ually slips and slouches down in his
seat until he no more looks like a man
made in the divine image Chat is what
he prides himself to be on Sunday
than a bag of meal looks like the Apollo
Belvedere.
All you have to do to paralyze the
mind is to let little things get the up
per hand. Put them off fear them,
dodge them, neglect them, then one fine
day you find that something worse than
! cramp has possession of your brain.
You may want to get up and give the
lady your seat, but you can not You
simply slip farther and farther down
into your coat collar, and there you are
"a true picture OF what you have be-
come by missing the bloom on things.
When the four walls of life begin to
shut in on US the room we live in gets
smaller THE FIRST THING TO DIS
APPEAR ARE THE WINDOWS.
Then the shutting up process goes on
| until we are pressed out of existence.
Is il fate?
No; it is pure laziness.
Why should we be crushed to death
III COMPRISING machine when, by a
turn of the mind, we can make those
four walls move the other way. giving
us a larger and vet larger room with
more and more windows?
There Is only one answer. We pre-
fer being mentally paralyzed TO being
alive
There can be a bloom on every job,
big or little. but you must put it on.
And you can put it on by learning to
keep your head we'll up out of your
coat collar and never slumping into an
imitation of a bag of meal. There is no
divine image about that.