Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-09-27
This and That
By Charles E. Trace,Ceu.

The psychology of going to work is
a topic seldom considered. Yet the
schoolboy is not the only person who
drags his weary way along.
Thousands Of workers this broad
land over hate to get up. hate to go
to work, detest every foot of the way,
long for the happy road back.
II they did but consider the wearier
life Of those who have no work to 60
to it might help them a great deal, for
they would see then, as Stevenson
said, that the real reward is to labor.
The immortal Robert Louis was not
merely stringing pretty words to.
esther for our delectation. He wrote
what he did. I am convinced. because
he believed sincerely what he said
1t takes no particular reflection to
who goes to his work In the morning
knows, II he but stop to think a little
about 1t, that 1t is a good thing.
All OF us, Of course. have our days
when our philosophy fails US. In such
moods, then, it il wise to be fortified
with previously Throughout truths. to
which one may refer in times Of
doubt
At any ono time. when a man sin.
cerely believes that ANYTHING Is OF a
surety true, he ought to set 1t down
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he might turn to It and read over the
truths his life had discovered.
II this were done he would be saved
from much Of the vaccilation common
to mankind, the doubt and resultant
dismay we all know at times.
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One Of the main truths he would
find set down there, in his little book,
would be the following:
"It Is good to go to work
There 1t would be, in his own hand
writing, 80 he could not doubt at all
he had written 1t there of his own
free will and volition, without any ex-
ternal pressure upon him to do 1t.
He would recall that bright Spring
morning long ago. when, In the flush
Of youth and happiness of the heart,
he had taken his pen In hand las they
said them and had put down the mes
ut is good to go to work"
In that distant, clear moment, this
universal truth had come to him with
such compelling force that he had set
it down once and for all as one Of the
truths which future times could not
wrest away from him.
The labors Of this little book, here
suggested, might seem work Of
superfluity at the time, but no man
Cbn AIOW WIlAI lliC yCdAS WILL bi aiA6s
or when he will need the aid of plain
statements Of truth.
The forces Of doubt and discomfort
are 20 many and vigorous that every
man needs all the help he can get in
the unceasing battle. He has need to
be grit with more armor than the
saint suggested for the Christian life
II he Is to come out successful in this
war.
1t is good to go to work because it
gives one something to do.
1t is good to go to work because 1t
gives q man a change OF scene.
1t is good to go to work because 1t
puts one in the mood to do his work.
There are many other reasons, but
these three will do for today.
The third one. especially, think Is
good. Mon by nature arc inclined
rather to play than to work, yet the
very great majority must work. one
way or another.
The way to make the best Of 1t Is to
get into the proper mental mood. The
best method Is simply to go down.
town. Then the very act Of getting
out OF bed becomes physical action
toward work.
Eating breakfast, then, is looking
forward to work. Starting up ones
automobile or getting aboard a street
car Is one more physical action to-
ward work.
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