The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06
DR.. Marden's
Uplift Talks
By oRIsoN SWEET MARpEN.
PERFECTION TO THE FINISH" A
GOOD MOTTO.
Copyright by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate

The problem of the unemployed is
n that usually c%onfronts the whole
country during the winter months.
The thousands demanding shelter and
food in the large cities of the country
would seem to indicate great distress
among the laboring classes.
A Chicago official gave as the chief
reason for the large army of unem-
ployed" in that city the refusal Of the
men to accept work when offered
them. Out of 347 men assigned to
work one day, according to a report
made to Mayor Harrison by the su.
perintendent of the municipal en-
ployment bureau, 1919 failed to report,
and 100 of these had been provided
with street car tickets. According to
the superintendent there were 1855
Jobs available, but it is daily becom-
ing more difficult to find men who will
take these places offered them.
I'VE want work." says one young
man in New York, but we're not go
ing to work for starvation wages. Of
fer us SO a day jobs and well go to
work, otherwise we won't. What's
the use of working and starving as
well? It's easier to starve loafng."
If a mar is a capable, careful work
er and can give service worth SO a
day it would seem only fair that he
should be able to get 1t, but how
often, if the characters of the great
army Of pIovad apd oidatro olxad
people were analysed, it would be
found that most of these people have
been accustomed to half do things. It
is seldom that a person who does
whatever he undertakes to do as we'll
as 1t can be done is out of a situation,
unless he possesses some other serious
character defects. 1t is a fact that,
although there are hundreds of thou
sands out of employment, almost
every great concern in the country is
constantly on the lookout for better
employees, better clerks, better book
keepers, better s~tenographers, better
service everywhere. With a raised
standard Of service salaries would
naturally increase.
l should advise a youth starting out
in the world to take as his motto,
Perfect to the finish" for its
adoption early in life may mean all
the difference between success and
failure.
"Oh, that is good enough" has been
the unsafe stone in the foundation of
many a life which has caused the
building to topple. A habit of in
completeness formed when young is
the secret of innumerable failures.
The world is full of people who be
moan their hard luck and are con-
stantly plying themselves because
fate is against them, because they
cannot succeed as others do. The
real cause of their failure generally
lies in themselves. They do not
throw their whole souls into their
work. They only touch their employ
ment with the tips of their fingers.
They are half-hearted, absent-minded
and lack energy, push, perseverance;
they have no ambition-fires to melt
the obstacles in their pathways, to
weld together in one continuous chain
the links of their efforts.
The world wants your best, and you
should resolve early in life never to
give anything but the best of which
you are capable. Put your best
thought. your best work, your best
energy into everything you do. Make
up your mind that you will never do
anything by halves, no matter what
others may do. Your life is worth
too much to be thrown away in half
doing things, or botching anything you
undertake. 1t is not enough to do a
thing pretty well; it should be done as
we'll as 1t can be done.