The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-04-18

thursday, APRIL 10, 1913.
What of the Extra Hour.

pushed the n0ur DanQ OF the CLOCKS
ahead and gave us another hour of
daylight. Have you ben going right
along in the same old rut or lave you
found that another hour in the working
day meant more Improvement for you
and the things that you are interested
i'm. Men who work by the clock, men
who let the uplifted hammer fall back
without striking the blow, just because
the whistle sounded probably have not
taken much active interest in the ex-
ira hour that has been put into their
life, These men seem to think that
days mean nothing but hours paid for in
wages They have failed to act the
spirit Of modern times which declares
that hours are more golden than they
ever were before. They have no idea
of the fact that ain extra hour in ev-
ny day means extra chances for service
to the world and extra chances for self
development.
Tie important thing is not to make
the extra hour useless. You have tax
en- it from somewhere, possibly from
where it was hidden away under the
skirts of the night and you are entitled
to get something for it. Maybe that
something is more play SO that you
will be able to work more intensely in
the eight working hours Of the day.
Maybe it is an hour for a lot of work
that you always intended to do but
that you could never find time to do.
Maybe it is the hour that you had al
ways planned to give to self develop
ment The hour that some time you
We're going to give to reading some of
the great books that you might be
better able to mingle with men who
read books; maybe 1t was the hour
YOU had always looked for in order
that you might learn to play the piano
or the violin, the hour that you had
always planned to give to some cores
pondence course which might open a
new vista for the reshaping of your
life.
IF it was any of these hours and you
have not as yet carried out that plan
you have lost already four or five days
of actual work along these new lines.
The coming of the extra hour into
the life of nation means much. 1t
means new days for better work and
ii means q chance to do lot of things
which you never had chance to do
before.
IT may mean, the making of thrift
gardens and the making of bigger
thrift gardens than over before. Dur
ing the long summer months you are
going to have q lot Of time that you
have not counted on. 1t is important
that you organize your life now so that
you are going to get the greatest pos
sible good out of that time. Four
hours of daylight after the working
day is over should be worth a lot to all
KenQsha people.
Don t just drift along and give to
forgotten waste this extra hour Of
course it is going to be easy to find
some way to pass the time but passing
time is a mighty poor ambition for a
man who is a real man in these days.
There is so much to be done in the
world now that the man who passes
time away without getting something
in return for it IS an unpatriotic slack
err. You may not be able to convert
that extra hour into dollars and cents
at the regular scale that you work
the other hours of the day but there
are things which are worth more to
you than dollars and cents and the
funny thing of it is that these things
are the ones that can best be secured
in the extra hours.
You are going to have these extra
hours next year and for many years
and if right now you start definite
plan of utilizing these hours you are
going to get something definite and
exact out of them.
They will slip away pretty quick
and representation now may mean
that you will never get from them the
full value.
The library Of the city offers won
derful opportunity to spend this extra
hour It's shelves are filed with new
+ pleasures that you can get for the ask.
ing. Tt has technical books that vol
may read which viii aid you. mater
tally in your work and make of you q
better worker. Many man in Keno
sha can change the entire trend to his
life by just giving this one extrs
hour during this one summer to the
library and what it has to Offer &c
over there tomorrow. Outline a course
of reading that you believe is best suit
ed for your own development. Keep il
up throughout the summer and at the
end of the extra hour period take al
inventory. If you find that yol
have not been benefited permanently
we know that you viii admit that yor
have given yourself q pleasure tina
you never dreamed that the city hat
prOyided for Won for tha askinu