Evening star., 1947-06-12
This andThat
Bu Charles E. TrdceUeU.

Money, hard work brains and time have
solved most problems in our country IN the
past, and maybe they will In the future, even
the atomic bomb threat, but 1t is certain that
in the everyday life they always will
A startling example of this lies spread for
$50 feet in our own neighborhood The man
who moved in there two years ago has trans
formed the place.
He has the best place In the block and some
people wonder how he got It,,
There Is no puzzle about 1t. He worked for
1t, especially that thick green lawn. He put
in hundreds of pounds of fertilizer and sowed
the best grass seeds.
He worked on it before daybreak and some
times long after the sun went down.
Long before daylight saving" came along
he was up with the birds.
In rejuvenating his grass he read, thought,
pondered, consulted the experts and did what
they recommended.
We suspect that he comes from agricultural
stock, himself and has such things In his
very blood
That helps
fortune.
It is more than that-it is money, hard work,
intelligence and time
Which one comes first is hard to say. Vari-
Gus situations in life call for the use, primarily
of one or the other of this magic formula.
Inc rest may De uSe1ul, DuG oLe VI tl4cul
before all is the key to success. Sometimes
money seems to do the trick. At others. moth
ing but brains will do Hard work, the famous
elbow grease, oils the rocky road for one in
given situation Then. again, time is 'of the
essence" as some people like to say.
In most situations, perhaps, it is a combina-
ton of these that secures results of the type
to attract favorable attention from others. In
nothing is this more true than OF gardening.
HE has green thumb" they say, but If
he is watched closely and with intent to learn
how many watch without wanting to learn
from what they see!-he will be seen to be
magician in one thing only:
He knows enough to use what 1t takes to get
results So many of us do not. We want to
get there the easy way, the pleasant way,
which often means the no-work route to sue
cess We want good grass, but We somehow
fail to put in the pounds of seed necessary.
We like to put the blame on the birds. They
eat all the seed we put in.'' Poor birds!
We refuse to study, thinking a mere lawn
no fit subject. Why, every one who is able
to buy house, we argue, ought by instinct
to know how to get good grass. A look around
will disprove that, but we go right ahead re-
fusing to read or even to ask the man who
has the good lawn.
Time, too, Is essential but mostly people
refuse to believe that, either. Even with nature
they want short cut AS for hard work, get
ting up early and that sort of thing, they
leave that for those who are paid to do it.
Let George do it, is an old slogan with many
applications, some of them unrealized.
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The point seems to be that any one can get
good grass and improve his home paintings,
flowers, vegetables, shrubs trees, If he wants to.
But it takes all four of the magic ingredients.
It demands the application of brains, muscles,
time and bit of money. One ingredient
won't do here All four are essential, in some
degree, before show place comes into being
Let us all keep this in mind the next time
we see a good lawn or a better planned place
than the usual. It didn't just happen that
way. Somebody made it happen. Some one
with vision, determination. good, strong
muscles and an understanding of the princi-
Piles Of time as applied to growing things.