Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-21
Getting On In
Life
BY THOMAS TAPER.

And it IS stale work that leads to
discomfort
Fruit becomes stale when it remains
untouched too long. So does work
Eat the fruit when the bloom and
blush arc on It and it gives YOU 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
Il is tine promise shining out of it
that agsr IS us that when the Job is
done we have accomplished one more
thing that We have laid another brick
~ the temple Of character, raised our
selves UP in the world by another mill
lionth of an inch
Is # worth While" YOU ask.
1t all depends on your frame Of mind
! know a college professor who seems
% have lost all his ambition and eff
cheney because he knows that in few
years he viii receive pension income.
That fact has taken oil 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
gle sentence of advice;
IF YOU WANT To SUCCEED. LOAD
YOURSELF Up WITH RESPONSE
ELITES
The bloom Is off the job for the col.
lege professor 1t viii always be on the
lob with the four boys if they follow.
Instructions
In other words. the bloem Is the JOY
of work Il Is true that we all have to
do disagreeable tasks. BUT THERE IS
NO PRACTICAL GAIN IN MAKING
THEM MORE DIGAGREEABLE BY
HATING THEM.
It is better to look such Job isht
~ the eye. and SAY
No, YOU can not come II over me By
looking ugly You and I are going to
have a wrestling match I am going
10 throw YOU and sit on YOUR chest IN
til YOU give in"
This raises mans ambition and
makes him win It also shows that if
YOU want your lob to have q bloom
YOU MUST PIT TT ON.
You must look at IT that wav
You must argue with yourself and
call Yourself a coward. and gradually
become boss of Yourself. then the lob
via shine like A golden opportunity.
On the other hand if YOU do not care.
Il YOU would rather coddle yourself
han be a man. if YOU prefer TO let small
things run YOU instead Of running small.
things then the Job viii be about as
bright as q hole in the wall on a pitch
dark night
The reason man let's a woman
stand in a street car is because HE
CAN NOT MAKE. Up HIS MIND TO
GET Up. Such A man does not neces-
ssrily lack the qualities of = gentle
man, He probably feels sorry to see a
woman stand But he has Ter little
things boss his mind for 80 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 q man
made in the divine image Chat is what
he prides himself to be OH Sunday
than bag Of meal looks like the Apollo
Belvedere.
Al YOU have TO do TO paralyze the
mind - 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
clamp has possession Of Your brain.
You may want to set up and give the
lady your seat. hut YOU can not. You
simply slip farther and farther down
INTO our coat collar. and there you are
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 it fate?
No. IL IS pure laziuess
Why should We he crushed 10 death
i'm q COMPRISING machine when, BY
turn Of the mind VIC can make those
four walls move the other way. giving
MS 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 bloom on every job.
big or little but YOU must put it on.
And YOU can put it on b. learning 10
keep your head Wen ny out OF your
coat collar and never slumpine into an
imitation of bag Of meal There is no
divine image about that