Middletown transcript., 1915-02-06
DR.. Marden's
Uplift Talks
PERFECTION TO THE. FINISH" !
GOOD MOTTO.
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN
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The problem Of the unemployed is
one that usually confronts 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 tho refusal of the
men to accept work when offered
them. Out Of BAT men assigned to
work one day, according 20 a report
made to Mayor Harrison by the su-
perintendent Of the municipal en-
ployment bureau, 199 failed to report,
and 100 Of these had been provided
with street car tickets. According to
the superintendent there were 2,555
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
Ter us So day jobs and wen go to
work, otherwise we won't What's
the use of working and starving as
we'll? It's easier to starve loafng."
If man is capable, careful work
er and can. give service worth SO a
day it would seem only fair that he
should be able to get it, but how
often, If the characters of the great
army of unemployed and sidetracked
people were analysed, 1t would be
found that most of these people have
been accustomed to half do things. 1t
Is seldom that a person who does
whatever he undertakes to do as well
as it can be done is out of a situation,
unless he possesses some other serious
character defects. It 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 stenographers, better
service everywhere. With a raised
standard of service salaries would
naturally increase
/ should advise a youth starting out
h 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-
Itantly pitying themselves because
tate 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 dc
anything by halves, no matter what
others may do. Your life is worth
. too much to be thrown away in hall
doing things, or botching anything yor
undertake. 1t is not enough to do 6
thing pretty we'll; it should be done al
well as It can be done.