Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-01
YOUR GOLDEN GOOSE

T1HE New Year which begins today is not
i really any different from the new period
Of time that begins with every day.
January 1 is q purely arbitrary date on
which the world has agreed to begin reckon
ing the time that 1t takes the earth to re-
volve around the sun. The year might begin
at any other time. AS matter of fact, It
has begun at dozen different times. So
recently as when Columbus discovered
America the first day of January was not
New Years Day.
But we now agree to begin the year today,
and custom has decreed that most of us shall
take account of stock and plan for the
future.
Each wise man asks himself what he is
going to do with the new year.
What are you going to do with it?
| You are working for wages for another
man. What Is your mental attitude toward
| your job? Do you regard it as an easy chair
| In which to take your comfort2 Many men
look at it in this way, but are you one of
them?
Or are you like the expert chauffeur,
| familiar with the construction and operation
| of his motorcar, who sits the front seat
with the throttle under perfect control
| speeding rapidly toward definite place?
The man who treats his joba an easy chair
warmer. He may loaf and invite his SOUL
and his soul may respond but such loafers
do not do the work of the world.
The man who regards his office chair as
seat behind a powerful engine that can
achieve wonders works many wonders as
his imagination can grasp and his will can
execute.
He acts, not as If he were a hired man
afraid to give his employer more than he
was paid for, but as If the business were
his own.
He does not shed responsibility as a duck
sheds water. He reaches ou. for It. He does
not object when it is piled on him. He sits
up nights seeking out ways to solve the
problems put up to him. He has no time to
worry about his slow advancement or the
neglect of his employer to pay him what he
is worth
He ultimately qualities for entrance into
that small group of successful men who can
say that they never asked for but one Job
and that was the first one, and that they
never asked for an increase in salary
Pomeroy Burton a young American who
began life with nothing but his ambition, is
now filling a job in London which pays him
5000 guineas a year because he looked at
every job which he held as an opportunity
rather than as a couch of ease. Other
young Americans are filing similar places
at home.
After you have decided what you are going
to do with your job this year, it is up to you
to decide what you going to do with |
your spare time. Perhaps your conclusion |
regarding the disposal of it is involved in |
your decision about what you are going to |
do with your job. 1t certainly ought to be.
Do you intend to devote your evenings to
dive
to tango the time away, or to find relaxation
and lose your money at the poker table?
Time Is too precious to be killed
The men who get on are those who mako
time live and fill 1t with throbbing vitality.
They have no more of 1t than the sluggard,
but they know how to make use of it.
If you let another do part of your
work because you have not the necessary
knowledge, pretty soon he will be doing It
all.
There is time enough to qualify yourself
for every phase of your work, and if you are
alert you will discover the need of new
knowledge before the occasion to use 1t ar
rives
No man promote you half so fast as
you can promote yourself
After you have decided what you are going
10 do with your job and what your job is
going to do for you. there remains the neces-
'ity of deciding what you are going to do
with your money,
"If had only had the ready cash to in
vest when the chance came 1 would be a
rich man today" is a confession of lack OF
thrift. But 1t is made every day in thou
sands of Offices. 1t is so much easier to spend
every cent that you earn than to save a GER
.ain part of it that the great majority go the
Easy way.
Broad is the way and straight is the path
md gently sloping downward is the grade on
he road that leadeth to dependence in old
lge
The unthrifty are on that highway They
,lan to leave it at the next cross roads. But
he farther they go the fewer cross roads
appear. and these roads grow sleeper and
teeper till pretty soon the highway runs
'etween precipitous cliffs up which there is
lot even goat path leading to freedom and
Mastery comes to every man willing to
'ay the price. However many exceptions to
he rule there may appear to be, most of us
ret what We are willing to pay for, and little
more.
What are you planning to buy with your
ime. which is your life, this year?