Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.
DO bustlinr people make, you tired

DO busting people make you tired?
One cannot help but admire them.
for their vast and restless energy but
at the same time one must resent them.
; If one happens to be OF contrary
spirit.
Maybe the thing is physical, entirely,
but that proposition may be doubted.
The trouble with the average pushing
person is that he is not able to transfer
any of his hurry and hustle to others.
There are some divinely appointed
men and women who infuse something
of their own spirit into those with Wnom
they come into contact.
Their busting does not offend, but
inspires. One does not resent 1t, but by
it is prodded into wholesome activity. :.
Their energy Is catching Even II
one is not inspired to go and do like
wise he at least feels wholesome trans
fusion of energy.
His outlook is brighter. his "blues"
disappear, for q time, at least, he feels
more at one with the world, and, what
is more important, perhaps, with him
self.
But such human dynamos are rare.
From the Renaissance come whispers
of few. notably Leonardo the Floren-
tine. Michelangelo, perhaps BenVenuto
Cellini.
other ages had other such human
beings, men and women, and our own
age can produce a few. But they are
rare. Busting, however, is prolific In
every decade.
The typical hustler of whom we speak
is perhaps best exemplif1ed in some
woman, who never walks but hurries,
never saunters but races, never is still
but is perpetually on the go.
She NAV 0et no more done than her
quiet sister, but she surely makes a
mighty stir about It,
The earmark of this type, strangely
enough, is the foot. Their normal walk
is almost q run. She may be a large,
husky woman or some little mouse OF a
girl who by rights ought to saunter.
Yet she will shake the corridor as she
walks down it, Every one who passes
her knows that something is the mat
ter but not one in ten thousand is able
to tell exactly what.
She is source Of worry to thousands
of persons who pass her daily. The
nervous restlessness which she expresses
enervates others, although they never
suspect 1t.
The astonishing thing about people Of
this type is that they do not seem to
get any more done, in the long run, than
their quieter, slower brethren.
One feels about them just as one
sometimes does about the handsome, gil
gantic college foot ball player. Looking
at him, many less fortunate man has
said to himself, well, buddy, the world
is yoursl When you get out into indus
try, you are going to make things fly"
Later In life, coming across the same
man, one discovers that he has not done
so much better than any one else. Who
is the man who is getting all the fine
publicity in the newspapers? Why, it is
old Jim Jones, who had no fine list of
letters beneath his picture in the col
lege annual!
Restless busting persons might profit
ably study the careers of the leaders of
American life, so called. They will find
that the great majority of them are
quiet men. be they little fellows or large
ROBUST ones. It Is perhaps true that
most of these same capable men would
not attract attention in q crowd except
ey certain sense of quiet power.
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What Il the irritation which the
hustler causes the non-bustler?
Surely one has right to hustle, II one