Evening star., 1925-09-16

The mental sloppiness involved in
| getting late to work probably follows
| one throughout the day. II 1 were
| an employer. 1 would quietly ease
| out OF my employ those workers who
persisted IN coming in late. not be-
| cause Of their being late, but simply
because I would not like the looks Of
their mentality.
To continually be late shows con-
tinued mental disregard for the wishes
! of the employer, and an inability of
| the person involved to do what he
sets out to do. Practically every
| worker means to be on time. Prob
ably there are not two in this whole
| large city who purposely arrive late.
In some Of the Government depart
ments a system Of bookings" OF an
nual leave has resulted in a minimum
of tardiness, but this system. while
some would regard 1t as necessary,
and successful. because it works
| to certain extent, does not solve the
problem at all. to my way Of thinking,
any more than timeclock does.
Men and women who are old enough
| to get out Of the classification Of chill
dren ought to want to be "on time
not only to work, but in every other
appointment This applies to wives
who keep their hopeful husbands
waiting on street corners for hours
at a time, and to all others who
solemnly promise to meet you at z
o'clock" and then never show up
until 2:15, or 2:30 O'Clock.
Perhaps 1t should be stated In this
connection that the wives are not
always the ones who are late! There
is many a good wife. too. who has
been kept waiting for hubby to put
in appearance, which he finally does,
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cuses. Generally, however, the shoe
Is on the other foot.
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The fine thing about getting to
work on time is that here is some
thing we can do. There are so many
things we cannot!
Did you ever stop to think about
that?
Few of us can ever be Henry Fords
and pay a personal income tax of
81 900 900, and precious few of US, in
deed, can ever sit in the White House
as President of the United States.
Not very many Of us, after all. are
going to possess great estates, or
pose in a "commodore's" cap on the
bridge Of our private yacht, or find
| ourselves in the public gaze" what
ever that Is, or be saviors Of man
kind, or in various other ways en-
dear ourselves to this and the COM
ing generations.
Each one of us, In particular, has
many limitations. One has to go
through life unable to ride a bicycle.
another never able to dance the light
fantastic toe, as Milton, ! believe,
phrased It.
Some of US will reach the Great Be-
yond without having played golf on
the links of this world, or ever hav-
ing sat In a poker game for more
than a penny ante. We will not have
read Joseph Conrad yet although we
meant tod, nor will we have man
aged to buy that extra table lamp
the living room begged for so long.
As to playing the piano. we cannot
do II, nor can we play base ball as
well as Johnny Dugan, IL, who some
day is going to earn $4,000 a year
as major league player. 1t takes us
more years than we would care to
tell to earn as much as our youngest
boy Bill. the jockey.
But there is one thing we can all
do, whether We are just setting out
on the journey. or warping in on the
other side.
We can all be on time to work,
We can catch the 7:20 am bus instead
of the TAO. or thegT:52 instead of the
8:04. or the 80 instead of the 8:40,
and so we can arrive at 3 instead of
at sol, or at $50 instead Of at s:32,
or at 9 sharp rather than / minute
later.