The Washington times., 1923-10-12

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reader of The Washington Times requests that this
newspaper reprint the editorial WhGt Kind of Game
Do You PGy?' The editorial appears beoU:
This an editorial which might be headed KEEP YOUR
MIND ON THE ONE IMPORTANT THING" It is an
editorial about concentration about putting your REAL
thought real WORK.
You don't need the editorial and ought not to waste time
reading If are quite sure that the best that in you
possible. poH ss'O ''''' "''N ~ '''' '
Among q million men there may be two that really
play the game of life good player plays the Of chess
two in million do not need to talk or think
about the Importance Of all the rest of
realize what intense concentration might
There isn't who doesn't WANT something that he
hasn't got There isn't that isn't planning in
something And there really succeed
fairly well 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 apoogzng for himself
loses the end though the other pieces be
given to him in advance.
opponent watches his first plans the thing out wins
smlingly and easily BUT HIS MIND HAS BEEN ON THE
Life a game Every of play it whether he
wants to not And plays the game with the
same old partner-TME
At fe table opposite you sits Time with his scythe and
ct his elbow the stake-SUCCESS.
Anything that takes your mind off the game gives Time
the advantage That anything that does at the
same time add TO YOUR POWER of work and thought.
Time plays against ALL and he nearly always wins. Mil
! YOUNGER I would do this II would do that
Every thinks Of what he would do he had to live over
again the hours during which he let TIME win while he lost
There is going back the that have been
made foOlishy The game is still and is late
TO win if you will MAKE UP your mind, your
mind and brush aside Interruptions.
Time is good natured old fairly lenent
He relentless in his steady onward he gives
back the day that you have given him for nothing That
Is one DAY OFF THE BOARD But you win and beat
him in the days that remain, if you will
Lectures concentration needed by YOUNG men
especially For their temptations the Much
intelligence used trying to get their minds away from
Foolish fashions make them waste time on their clothes
their hats THEIR LOOKS when those looks moth
ing The Of brains should simply make his mind TO
LOOK CLEAN, TO SHOW SELF RESPECT; nothing else
matters.
The hard thing for young and others to remember
that THEIR WORK is their real occupation Take the
average young man playing game Of cards Of baseball Of
any other MERE AMUSEMENT. If you should try at THAT
time to interest him in outside thing kind Of
hat band some color for the cravat he would say
you, Don't bother me, am busy NOW, you will make me
lose the game"
How many know enough to say same when they are
playing lies REAL game, which is the game of work?
Many young men act like man who has forgotten the
road like drunken staggering right and the
falling down. getting and finally landing in Jail instead
OF landing at home.
The every is perfectly clear and there
WALK STRAIGHT AHEAD TO THE END OF TT.
Suppose locked up in Jail and had make his
out What would you think of him day he started
to bore hole in ONE spot and day started hole
other spot and kept all his life starting little holes in diff
1erent spots and going with any Of them? You
would think him unatc Yet that is what ninety
out OF hundred do In this life.
We all Of looked here all of imprisoned by
conditions by which bore 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 before
we shall talk about it again YOU CANNOT SUCCEED IN
THE BIG THING II YOU LET THE LITTLE THINGS
TAKE UP YOUR MIND AND YOUR TIME.
your best thought to the selection Of hat
and your second best thought to the selection of your
and your third best thought profound speculation
the races the result Of the baseball competition WHAT
KIND OF THOUGHT Is LEFT FOR THE REAL WORK.
And what in the world help you give you any kind
OF success except steady grinding at the real work7
When you wake up in the morning say to yourself II am
going to keep work and think nothing else TODAY
Don't think with how little work you get through today
but on the contrary HOW MUCH you get into it.
Whatever have undertaken than the
next and not only better next man BUT AS
WE'LL AS IT IS POSSIBLE FOR You TO Do IT -