The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-28
Time to Think About the
New Year
One Thing Is Especially Important, TO KEEP BUSY.

little beads of time that make the average three score
and ten This Is not too to make running Jump at
the New Year and its good resolutions Remember that
the who laughs good resolutions and despses them
is the that needs them most Not failures but men
of accomplishment make good resolves and keep making
them until they die
The prohibition amendment has smpliAed New Year
resolutions for many Only very great fool will drink
whiskey when he knows that it is worse poison
than the regular whiskey of other days.
Whiskey however, while enemy to mankind since
its first discovery, has been mans worst enemy
That worst enemy we find within own minds.
Inertia lack of intense desire to BE something and
ACCOMPLISH something, is worse curse than whiskey
ever was.
Each knows best his particular weaknesses and
shortcomings ''The heart knoweth his bitterness
Each of has his private troubles calling for special p
vate resolutions but each of might with lack of employ
ment threatening and the need of production greater than
ever, adopt this motto for 1921:
will not be idle.
To resolve that we will not be idle does not mean
merely q resolution to hang to job by hook by
crook Many of those that hold jobs half three
quarters idle-half working, half producing half loang
and that is one trouble with the country.
II will not be idle - will really my time
ALL of it. will think less of the present moment and
more of the future years will realize that can
win without hard running before he faces the bar
rier and that human being win in fes struggle
without constant hard work. apparently without result
The horse perhaps thinks that the jockey is stupid
when he takes him out at daybreak and works him OUT
day after day with horse racing beside him. man
should not be as ignorant as a horse.
It is the daily grind Of hard work. seemingly without
result, that finally BRINGS results.
Charles M schwab, who has everything he wants and
more, including palace millions and great industrial
Reputation worked in the iron mills for dollar and
half day and even less.
Suppose he had said to himself: ''I'u take it easy
am not going to KILL myself for what they pay me-
And suppose he had walked as slowly as he could
walk listening for the whistle and had done every day
las LITTLE he could do and 'get by, do you think
The would be where he is now?
schwab moved as FAST, worked as HARD and
Thought EARNESTLY as he knew how Because he
twas swift those that hired him noticed him. Because he
twas earnestly thinking, he ready for opportunities
lthey
And so with Edison fastened all day long to the key
of his telegraph instrument getting less than half the
say that tied to drudgery had chance and II
might as well take it easy"
As he sat tied to the key, he THOUGHT. All men
do that except those condemned to the hardest kinds
of manual labor Such labor it must be admitted pre-
vents thought.
You hear talk of bad times" You will hear more
of it the New Year becomes old.
For those that DRIFT out of the old year and into
tho year. times perhaps will be bad and get
But there will be no bad times for the who takes II
WILL NOT BE IDLE for his motto and really means it.
Nineteen twenty will be year of reorganization,
readusment and therefore year of great opportunity
Many of the most successful, financially speaking,
Families in the United States date their prosperity from
the end of the Civil War Many great will date
from this war, and especially from January, 1921
There better year than this coming year;
there never opportunities better than the opportun
ties of today for those that WILL NOT BE IDLE.
But heaven help the shrkers. They will need sympa-
Ehy, more of it than they will get.
Once-OVerS