The Washington times., 1930-03-04
Well, It's just a Friendly Game

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T HEY coming down the elevator together not very
- early, very late They packed in corner
Il was the hour when the Crowdordnary, semifailures
30 home from their work.
These typical everyday human beings. Their coats
were very warm not very new yet fairly respectable
Their faces were the ordinary kind concentra
onno speculation Macbeth says Of the ghost Of Ban.
quo's eyes in Macbeth"
They belonged the class that get along somehow dodg
ing halfway between poverty and prosperity just managing
TO live while others going up and making themselves
secure
This was the conversation that the rest of the car over
heard:
% % Just 1 5 1.-The Fl sn%s DO s.n HSu 37asfr W. play ..on limit
sa & % ew AL n s m sy r. s little csn sSns n
ann little while before break then few
How How Do come OUT who wins the doush'" .
the rum One of the boys
@ | e IeS sv:nss s
s 'sss 's other hold
The man who the elevator said Ground floor-al
out
The who spend hours charmngly each eve
ming got out apd went their way.
That conversation so ordinary that it bores you You
have heard the same talk thousand times.
What the value Of the two three hours that spent
IN the ordinary miscalled friendly game?''
In the first place, there Is NO FRIENDLY GAMBLING
sEhere hypocrisy which calls the gambling friendly
But those who play know perfectly well that they play with
keen desire TO WIN.
The in the friendly game spends two hours
riskng the money that his family needs HE HAS BEEN
WASTING HIS OWN TIME and his chances.
We should like to ask the young who their
on friendly games whether they have thought WHAT
IT rs THAT MAKES SUCCESS
The who succeeds to begin with is he who puts HIS
VITAL ENERGY INTO HIS WORK
Each has within himself only a certain LIMITED
AMOUNT Of energy In that respect he like dynamo in
in the amles concentration Of poker game CANNOT BE
USED TT ANOTHER WAY THAT MIGHT BRING REAL
The successful mans attention vitality and INTEREST
ARE cENTERED ON HIS IMPORTANT HARD WORK.
The foolish looking forward to his poker game in
the evening looking forward to other kind Of useless
or LOSING AND WASTING HIS CHANCE.
that young in the elevator would 20 to his home
eat his dinner talk for short time with friends
not trying to win their money like drunken Indian on the
to bed LOOKING FORWARD WITH TNTEPEsT TO o1I MS f
WORK OF THE NEXT DAY now looks forward to his
poker game, he would be the coming in his office.
the recording angle could look down-or up depending
the earth position in its revoluon-on all the friendly
poker games America he would be able make very good
and accurate list Of the future failures Of the United States
man who, after eaSly youth continues to waste his time
with cards amounts to little ordinarily But the card
eoGIn RH1 geese OF the friendly poker games
Il the men that play poker or gamble the with
waste OF time in studying horses could put into their WORK
the real energy that they waste in gambling THESE MEN
WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL
Outside of the unac asyums and the homes for idiots
almost every human being has the possibility of SOME
inside Of him.
It not supendous genius that makes the ordinary sue
cessul man. The Of millions with brains
constructed in unusual way And the worthy and
decent successful menhos who unsehly for others
with good resuare not really different from their fellow
human beings
Each Of contains in himself ENOUGH FORCE AND
ENERGY TO MAKE HIM SUCCEED.
But the difficulty for each Of to his power the
right way. 49,.
There enough energy wasted in poker make hundred
thousand successful men every year.
The ingenuity foolish young display in trying get
money to bet on races would make them really successful in
starting business OF their own, IF THEY COULD USE
THAT ENERGY IN THE RIGHT Way ~
There is plenty Of energy plenty Of desire to succeed in
this world
But there too many like those the elevator whom
spoke Of at the beginning of this article
There many who put the crumbs their real vitality
into their and