Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27

wants to. Admitted Some Of our finest
citizens are Busters.
Busting, to a non-bustler. however,
VIII forever remain source of irritation.
Those who always walk at a pace rough
iy approximating speed of or 8 miles
an hour will Immediately exclain, "Oh.
, ne resents our energy because it proves
him laZyl"
5ut the thing can scarcely be ex-
planned so easily Many a person of
lethargic nature Is the first to admire
the hustle Of the BUSTERS, although at
the same time admitting that it irri-
tates him.
To him such busting is needless. 1t
seems so unnecessary. And the need
less and the unnecessary, he holds, have
no place In the quiet, orderly life, the
one which he admtres.
There Is here, then, the eternal COM
bat OF the East and the West, roughly
speaking, the seeking for certainty by
either one OF two methods. that of
quietude and that of hustle.
1t Is India trying to understand Brit
an, Britain attempting to understand
India. The spectator across the seas
well may believe that Gandhi under
STANDS and evaluates Sir John Simon
DETER than Sir John does the Mahatma.
The male hustler is an even more in
teresting case.
He bustles ostentatiously.
He is this chap who never looks at
the clock, as the expression has 1t, but
takes a fiendiSh delight in Dragging
| about how late he worked. (He homes
some one will tell the boss.) =, :,
He suffers from concentration of in
terest. Maybe he will get farther" In
the world, as he says, but he is losing
lot of JOY and happiness as he goes
along because he refuses to admit into
his life the thousand and one small, but
delightful, interests which happily are
waiting for those OF the opposite tenn
permanent.
What becomes very tiresome in him
Is the fact that he invariably thinks
| that he is setting the world (and YOU'D
such a powerful example. do as do. -
he says, as plainly as words, "and you
will amount to something" He is in
tolerant, almost without exception. He
Is not willing, as his opposite Is, to per-
nit others to do as they please, but
invariably wants to convert them to his
way OF thinking and doing From his
ranks have been recruited the mounds
OF God" and other busybodies who made
| life miserable for themselves and others
IN the name of Righteousness.
BUSTERS hustle so much that they
haven't got time to stop for a chat OF
| tell q joke, or discuss the latest in
| sports. morals. law. All the best eff
| forts of the thousand and one intriguers
who try valiantly to induce few extra
nickels or dimes or quarters out of
American pockets are wasted on these
people, because they are so busy look
/ ing at their detectives that they never
look to right or left as they go along
| They are hustling to get there Well
| God bless them in their search! Slower
going mortals wish them we'll and hope
that when they finally "arrivep they
are as we'll pleased with their goal a:
they think they will be. Perhaps, as
| Stevenson said, the true happiness con.
sists, not in arriving, but in thinking
about it and in just going along. Surely
the BUSTERS have their reward But Il
one was not born to hustle, the only
| thing to do is to turn up your nose
at all BUSTERS, in a calm, well breC
manner, without malice, and surel,
without envy. Let them hustle They
make the shoe manufacturers happy
! anyway.