Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-14

Their procrastination 10 done simply
| to keep them out Of the slave class, the
intangible group which includes all
those who, though their own or others
commands. are forced to be perpetual
! JohnnieS -on-the-Spot.
ProcFastination often Is the only
means open to thousands of persons for
putting themselves into the class
whether of wealth Of this worlds goods
| or of mind, or of both. in which one
may not do thing simply because one
does not choose to do a thing.
Think of an the hundreds of thou
sands of persons who are forced by
necessities, disagreeable or agreeable
| to get up at certain fixed times every
morning! There is no possibility for
enviable procraStination there. One
cannot put of that downtown journey
| until tomorrow or from day to day.
But when 1t comes to bringing back
that book borrowed from old Jim Smith
several months ago-ah how pleasur-
ably ons may procrastinate to ones
hearts content!
Procrastination is not something 10
be recommended to children or to young
people beginning the real journey Of
life.
One must of necessity tell them to
ladle out the old saws about work is
the key to success" and II would rather
be right than President" (HoW about
being right and being President, too?)
Those who have arrived at years of
discretion will be able to procraStinate
with some skill and much enjoyment.
Nor would we agree with our CORE
spondent that procrastination is a sin,
except in certain cases, depending
or the reverse.
Sometimes by Skiliful procrastination
the entire necessity for action Is
averted. The matter takes care Of it
self. Had one rushed in Immediately,
as no doubt was proper, a grand how
dee-do would have resulted, but now the
affair has smoothed itself out perfectly
without the necessity for the slightest
eXertion on any ones part.
No doubt 1t is the memory of such
successful representations, glorious rob-
berries against the old fellow Time,
which makes so many people put things
of from day TO day.
In the back of the head lies a recol-
lection Of time when putting some
thing or other of for few days solved
the entire problem more expeditiously
than any amount of action could have
done.
These are scores to the credit of q
habit which most people are willing to
call bad one. Surely little can be
said in defense Of that bad type of pro-
crastination which SO many people suf-
fer from.
This Is one fault, unlike the well
known halitosis, which its victims read
i recognize as belonging to them. II
wish I could stop putting things of"
they will say. They know that they
are dilatory, and yet for the life Of
them they cannot help it.
This attitude, WHEN carried to an ex-
IRENE, makes its victims helpless farers
in the great rolling sea of time. Time
is so interviewer with life that in some
aspects it may be regarded as life itself.
Therefore, various wise men of past
ages went to the extreme of boarding
1t, as if nothing else in life counted.
! 1t was against this attitude that Emer-
son rebelled. Manners, according to
him, were more valuable than safe
guarding time.
Time is ample in itself; 1t Is the in
dtviduars share of 1t which counts.
And 1t was wise old book which said
that neither years nor yet gray hairs
are measures of a mans life, but
whether he lived at peace with God.
In relation to the verities there can be
no procrastination, thank Heaven, for
they are eternal, time Is limitless, and
we are immortal!