The Washington times., 1921-10-11
What Kind of Game DO
You PLay?


~ EAR EDITOR:
Id Won't you please reprint the editorial, "What
- Kind of a GarI Do You Playi" 1t is Of great
H. M WARREN.
This is editorial which might be headed KEEP
YOUR MIND ON THE ONE IMPORTANT THING" 1t
is editorial about concentration, about putting yor
REAL thought some real WORK.
There isn't man who doesn't WANT something that
he hasn't got. There isn't that isn't planning in
less amess way to do something to get something
to BE something And there really is not that could
not succeed fairly WE'LL at least, IF HE COULD ONLY
KEEP HIS MIND ON REAL THINGS AND OFF OF
OTHER THINGS
Have you two play chess, good player
and bad player' The bad player begins apologzng for
himself before the thing starts apologies all the way
through and loses at the end though the queen
other pieces be given to him in advance
The good player sits down. looks goodnaturedy at his
opponent watches his first move, plans the thing out wins
smilingly and easily, BUT HIS MIND HAS BEEN ON
THE GAME
Life is a game. Every of must play it whether
he wants not And every plays the game with
the same old partner-TIME.
At lfes table, opposite you, sits Time with his scythe,
and at his elbow the stake-SUCCESS
Anything that takes your mind off the game gives Time
the advantage That is to say anything that does not at
the time add TO YOUR POWER of work and thought
There going back the that have been
made foolishy. The game still on and it is
late win if you will MAKE UP your mind concentrate
your mind and brush aside Interruptions. "a
Time is good natured old man; he plays fairly and
leneny He is relentless in his steady onward pace; he
gives you back the day that you have him for
nothing That is day OFF THE BOARD But you
win and beat him in the days that remain if you will
Lectures concentration needed by YOUNG
especially For their temptations the most
Much intelligence is used up trying to get their minds
| from the real work. fA
their hats, THEIR LOOKS when those looks amount to
nothing. The of brains should simply make up his
mind TO LOOK CLEAN, TO SHOW SELF RESPECT;
| nothing else matters.
The hard thing for young and others to
Der is that THEIR WORK is their real occupation Take
the average young man playing game OF cards. OF base
ball, of any other MERE AMUSEMENT. If you should
try at THAT time to interest him in outside thing
some new kind of hat band, some color for the
cravat, he would say to you Don't bother me, busy
NOW, you will make me lose the game
How many know enough to say the when they
playing lifes REAL game which the game of work.
The road before every perfectly Clear and there
is only just ONE way of getting that road which
TO WALK STRAIGHT AHEAD TO THE END OF IT.
Suppose a locked up in Jail and had to make
his way out What would you think of him if day he
started to bore hole in ONE spot and next day started
hole in another spot and kept all his life starting
little holes in different spots and going with any
of themi You would think him unatic. Yet that is
what nnetynne out of hundred do in this life.
We ali Of locked up here, all of imprisoned by
conditions by which we must bore hole we want to get
out and amount to anything We try this way and try
that way and try the other, and do nothing WHEREAS
| BY TRYING ONE WAY AND KEEPING AT THAT WAY
WE COULD GET OUT IN THE END
We have talked this subject of concentration before
We shall talk about it again. YOU CANNOT SUCCEED
| IN THE BIG THING IF YOU LET THE LITTIE
THINGS TAKE UP YOUR MIND AND YOUR TIME.
If your best thought goes to the selection of straw
hat and your second best thought to the selection your
clothes and your third best thought to some profound
speculation the the result of the baseball
| petition, WHAT KIND OF THOUGHT is LEFT FOR
THE REAL WORKf
| And what IN the world holm Won or rive Won anu