Evening star., 1923-01-07
Heard and Seen

How many men in the government
departments are working at one thing
and Wishing that they were doing
another?
or course. such cross purposes in
life are not confined to the depart
ments alone. In almost all walks Of
Industry It Is possible to ind men and
women who have held down a GER
tain Job for years. yet all the time
had 8 hankering to be doing some
thing else.
Most people have the feeling that
under different circumstances they
might have succeeded more brilliantly
In some other line. The master brick
layer has a secret conviction that II
fate had been different he might have
astonished the world at the piano.
The literary man. In the secret re-
cessee OF his heart. has a sort of
subconscious feeling that the man
who works with his hands. who
builds the really solid things in the
world. Is the man who counts He
therefore feels that IL fate had been
the very best brickiayer in the world.
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In the government departments there
Is an astonishing number OF persons,
I am convinced, who are toiling away
with typewriter and pen, who ought
to be playing In orchestra, treading
the boards OF the stage. or engaged
In other forms OF art work.
II is hardly possible TO go into any
ONCE, In any government bureau,
without finding, sooner or Iater' some
man or woman whose secret enthu-
siasm Ia the writing game, or the
music game. or the & aetlng III samsi;t rrit,rr .
"yours Of the first instant received
and in reply would say" etc. but they
1et their happiness in another FASH
Ion. No member of Congress, on an
INSPECTION trip through federal bu-
reau, can know what he sees.
He may 20 away imagining he saw
.w eiye men and twelve women in
dustriously toiling away for Cucle
sam. Well. he did see that: They
were working, and putting in good
ticks at it, too.
Hut little did the congressman, per
haps, realize that the rather snappilS
s1tra efficisnt clerk was in reality
one Of the best amateur actors lt'
the District.
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nMusio has always been my hoooy'
declared an ohiciai In one bureau
His eyes lit up as he spoke OF 1t.
you see, I got Job in the gov
ernment and It was q good Job, too
sor a country boy" he continued. 81
took 1t: and haze .,sssd peep Hss mere ever
"Tsut music is the thing Ike best
.nvy the happy people In opera and
on the concert stage. ! do q DIT OF
sinefng myself, but, of course, not
what would II had gone ahsAo
VIZ" ~ ,s more or less like that every
,,hsra you 20. These various bu-
raaus perhaps, give but concen-
rated masses OF people, convenientiy
9rouped for ready references by the
student Of human nature. =. -.
government is true OF people in the
World al large. Thrice happy are
.hcss who have found what they can
do. what they love to do-and do IT.
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Perhaps the strangest case along
this line Is that OF the keen private
secretary to q high ofFieial. He wants
10 be a hypnotist. II you were to
ask him point blank, he would laugh
at you. 49,, ,.
or for course In hypnotlsm" and
ma.tered II so well that in thirty
minutes ne was able to astonish the
natives Of his town.
II actually worked:
AS the boy grew older he put away
such childish things.
Today he realizes, with some as
tonishment, that Prof. Emile Coue
french exponent of autosuggestion
who is now In this country. got his
preiininary ideas from exactly the
Sunnose he had kept on with that
course. as M. Coue did!
CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL Z