Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-04-17
TAKING STOCK"
Should Sentiment Always Have
Precedence?

Taking stock" Of oneself is n peri
odical duty, probably not always prac-
ticed, and is as necessary as taking
stock of your household effects or your
store goods" The right minded man
VIII do this In uumolested moments
he gives way to deep meditation; he
gathers his thoughts to ascertain if
brains, energy, and ability are synco-
pating properly, working together on
lines that answer to an ambition thar
looks for satisfactory return.
If there be deficit. his endeavor
should be to discover the leakage II
may be that he lacks the nerve to 60
INTO a retrospective analysis or fails
IN Initiative that win prompt him to
throw his horoscope in the future Tn.
less he can do these things he will
nev.? be able 10 pull himself out of
any "rut" in which his condition has
placed him He must take stock"
Stock taking" leads TO modem-day
efficiency. and is demanded of every
worker if unsatisfactory conditions are
TO he overcome. In the case If the
farmer il may be that he is working
a too high-priced farm" Interest and
rent may be an "overhead eating up
the profits. There may be Other req.
sons why profits are not shown II is
just possible that he is sacrificing
profit and encouraging IoSS because
OF sentiment. bur he does not realize
that this is the cause The farm was
his birthplace reared upon 1t. he
knows every nook aud corner of the
Old place. He liShed in the brook
hunted squirrels in the woods hid in
the bayfield,. grew Ia manhood upun the
place, courted and married and brought
up his family there These are ties
that commend themselves. and WHY
shouldn't sentiment have a say? To
| many this will appeal. But are these
good reasons to continue? Does not
one owe il to himself and TO his de
pendents To take stock" and put IN.
To effect action that viii bring a ba!-
ance on the credit side of the ledger
the balance that win bring happiness
and give comfort lar greater than y
mass Of unpaid bills and a house full
of worry, aud Il devotion 10 sentiment?
Should he not look around for more
favorable conditions, which may easily
he found?
ProcrustinAtion is said to he a thief.
I'm this ease the axiom is undoubtedly
true To allow the adverse conditions
under which YOU may lie laboring to
e., ~,
in the present unsatisfactory position.
There was man at Brazil Ind.
who made weekly visits for upward
of a year to the office of the Canadian
government N Indianapolis Ind and
from the agent secured all The informa.
tion he possibly could as to conditions
i'm Western Canada. But he lacked de-
ciSion. did not take stock" ar if be
took It. failed TO met. This was fulAs&
teen years ago. He lived on Su;ii
farm. which gave him mere existence
and no promise of anything more. He
is still on the same place and no better
off today than then. He had friend
working in a glass factory, who also
had but little means He became in
tereSted in Western Canada. He pos
sesSed. though spirit and action With
the impulse thus prompted ne moved
TO Saskatchewan and took up farm
Today he is the owner Of splendid
section of land. has plenty Of money
in the bank. and could retire with a
handsome competence.
That which has been the good for
tune of The Brazil glass worker who
had taken stock" and profited by it,
may be that which will follow any
other of like temperament and firm
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