The Washington times., 1919-05-18

70 keep SCep peTIecCly 10 It's DeaJlng.
When they get far behind they cannot keep step For
the atmospheric that carry slowly The
at the far end of long line soldiers hears the drum
beat only after the drum put his foot
forward.
Any soldier far behind who relies on the sound will be
out of step with the others
Life is procession Time is the drummer and the hour
glass his drum AS you stop for moment read this
time and the procession go and you go with it. Every
day should be reminded of the fact that the only
property is slipping past US, not used
MONEY lost can be made good, OPPORTUNITIES lost
may again. even FRIENDS lost may be replaced But
TINE lost is gone forever.
Thomas Jefferson who never lost moment whether he
writing the Declaration of Independence for the United
States shipping the skeleton of France wrote
to his daughter Martha:
mo person will have occasion complain of the loss
OF time who never loses any
you keep UP with Time, and stay close behind the
old drummer, you will have trouble You will find the
pace comfortable conditions easy difficulty keeping
step with the other leaders.
But those that throw time away and then complain that
they haven't got that behind farther and farther pity
their lot
They mentally of STEP worried and hurried The
days end finds them tired than does the individual
who has kept at the front and KEPT GOING.
They say Time is money" and so it is For money is
the thing that accumulate by their efforts And Time
is the currency that represents all real effort and all real
results
either will suffer for it.
Fan behind the times become sluggish let the process
sion pass and it is weary trying catch up
again
Fall behind with payments let debt overtake you be-
cause have not kept up with the financial procession
and weary, stern chase is ahead of you.
With loss of credit it is the as with loss of time
Neither necessary; both entail endless unnecessary
struggle.
To young who said he could not save money be-
cause he made only twelve dollars week wise adviser
piled: IF you do not SOMETHING on twelve dollars
week you will never anything long as you live
The with small salary thinks isn't sufficiently
important to be worth saving 1t isn't what you save is
what you DO
So it is with time Nine men out of ten waste more
than half of it. Working for another man. they imagine that
they wasting the other mans time whereas they are
wasting their own blood of ife throwing away the few
years. falling behind probably never to catch up. |,
man died little while ago and the papers tell Won
that he had many millions behind him ONLY
little while before he clerk in department store
He was not very young Other him younger than
would have laughed had they told that they would
read of the great fortune built by this man He was
capable steady able not especially brilliant But kept up
with time thought and planned saved money which
represented time gone by When opportunity came he was
up in front and ready to take it.
Take the of another man. of the most useful
constructive citizens in the country and of the dis
tincty successful You would recognize at once half
dozen of his accomplishments standing eminent
Not long ago. you had gone into certain shoe store
Won would have found this man ready to take off vour
shoe try another fit you he could you politely
end his employer fairly in any case.
Perhaps if you had seen that man then and somebody
had told you that in little while his money would run
millions and his accomplishments into something more inn
portant than money you would have said IF he can do
I can, and will In