Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-19
TASTES MENACE
By H. Addington Bruce

THE more I ponder the phenomena of
haste the stronger, grows my convic-
tion that in modern life there are few
things more dangerous to human health
happiness, and success. Certainly there is NO
great evil of modern life so much in evidence
a. haste.
"Step lively seems to be the slogan every
where
Motorists, obeying it, careen madly through
our streets, with the result again and again
OF skiddings, maimings, and collisions. In
such haste are many of them that they will
dispute right of way with onconing trolley
cars and express trains, usually with conse-
quences disastrous to the motorists.
Pedestrians, too, behave in most unseemly
fashion, obeying. the "Step lively slogan.
Young or old, it matters not, their gait is
almost run. Much Of the time it is an out
right run, partly because of the perils of the
street infested with haste-obsessed motorists,
partly because the pedestrians themselves
deem it almost criminal to miss the car, train.
or ferry they have set out to catch.
The may be another car, train, or ferry
available in a few minutes. What of it?
This is the one they must have, and have it
they will at the risk, often accomplished, Of
falling on slippery pavement, overstraln1ng
their hearts, or more or less seriously damag-
ing their digestive organs.
Even more surely a~e the digestive organs
damaged by the almost universal willingness
to "step lively in the eating of meals.
For hundreds of thousands masticatlon is
lost art. They swallow their food SO hastily
that, did they not hare eyes, they might be
unaware of what they are swallowing. The
organ of taste is hardly given time to acquaint
them with it's character.
Their reading is done as is their eating, at
a breakneck pace. They are in too much
haste to read books c. any sort. They have
time or so they think, to read scarcely more
in the newspapers than the larger headlines
And, alas! they work in haste.
AS students in school or as employees in
business the story is the same. Given task
to perform, they plunge into it with a
muttered self-exhortation to "Step lively
This may meant is pretty sure to mean
performing the task badly. Never mind, the
great thing is to set it done and over with
"Step lively, step lively, step live-y
Is it any wonder that from those who ap-
preciate how life ought to be lived to make it
really effective and satisfying there comes a
despairing chorus of:
Haste is the great enemy Of modern life
Haste to get ready for examinations, haste to
pass them; haste to take up one interest, haste
to drop it, and haste in getting ready both
to live and die"
And if it be that you who read these lines
have to confess that you yourself are among
the slaves Of haste, begin today, | beg you
to struggle for your freedom.
You can achieve it. You must achieve ii
IL you would insure for yourself length OF
DAYS, worthy accomplishment, and peace OF
mind The longer you suptnely yield to
haste the less the likelihood of your enjoying
these great blessings.
So oppose to the teful "Step lively the
better slogan, "Haste comes not along Plan
your days so that haste will not force itself
on you. If need be, drop unessential act1vl-
ties that you may Lave more time for the
essential.
You will discover that this pays. And you
will discover it very, very soon.
copyright, 1922