The Tupelo journal., 1916-11-10
SAVING TIME
Thrift and the Clock
BY j. L. RAWLINSCN :

(f-IY n a certain village in a remote part of Europe there is a post
I8A office building which has a belry. In this behy there is a
INE> clock, but the clock has II o machinery for Ginning the hour.
ITMNQ A peasant therefore sits o a chair watching the minutes
So slip by, and when they reach the hour and the half hour he
rises, trudges across the street and solemnly rings the bell.
The peasant has been doing this work for the same pay for~twenty
years. Imagine it! Watching the clock for twenty Years and not a cent
better off than when he started! The hopehsness, the monotony of it!
And yet we do not need to go to Europe to find clock watchers. We
have them over here in nearly every office, factory and store. Unlike the
peasant, however, they are not paid to watch the clock, and yet they do
it. But, like the peasant, they will be no better off at the end Of twenty,
nay, forty years. For them the future holds no promise Of better things
compauied by little hopes that it a travelling fast but all too SOC it became
ache because the working hours are so long. y" ""' "D '" """
Sow al act" says Lamb, and you reap a habit Sow a habit and you reap
The individual for whom hours are long is a failure. Sooner or later there
will come the day Of reckoning and ome N else will fill his place.
Time is money" says the old poyerh. 1t is more than money. 1t is ev-
True enough, minutes are only little things and ca only bring forth small
harvests' but if the minutes arr tut to good Use Sc will the hours. the days and
Time is the element which gives to labor its success and produces eff
Ehciency from stroke after s veil delivered ere p ad lon por ~" cop eHuush
from patience and perseverance. To get ahead we must labor and wait. The
fruits If effort are often slow in rpenng, but when the harvest does o cit is
This is what Thrift teaches us. Thrift lea mor than the saving of
stored up FOL futur euse. There is no time savings bank wherei idle hours may
be deposited for use when necessity or pleasure prompts the desire to lengthen
Wasted time deprves many a a and woman of ucces Take. fol ex-
ives: When thrown ava they often produce idlers and spendthrfs; when
devoted to study and personal Improvement they open up endless opportunities
The proper us of the evening hours has laid the foundation OF nanv sc
ce@ful lives. Lincoln in those early days of poverty utilized every possible hour
for study purposes The sam is true of Franklin. Washington and other great
heir spare hours to useful purposes they never would have risen from tn rus
Wholesome fun and froHc ar necessary fr u ALL but we enjoy diversions
IL III more when the doses IRE small The individual who devoes all of his
spare tne to the pursuit OF pleasure cannot fail to end Up miserable and I'M
The governments of Europe believe in Thrift. Last spring they ave orders
t uat the clo'hss should on a certain day be pushed ahead an hour What "a
n more hour in which to work, o plan. to prepare.
Time is indeed precious. All great things and all great men are its products
1t is free to US all to use as We will, but even the millionaire may lot buy back
start today to practise rhnft-to save time and save money. 1t is the one
sre va tor reach Success
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