TIIE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 21, 1917. -
In the Lexicon of Duty
There Is No Such
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Most Men Would Get in
Oftener if They'd Get
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Fortune Wears a Clock-Faee
BY HERBERT KAUFMAN
Tomorrow isn't sizable enough to hold the shelved plans and postponed judgments
and deferred decisions and neglected duties which the centuries have piled up against its
arrival.
If you want plenty of room for action and lots of time to do big works, select the long
est twenty-four hours in the entire year and get busy Today.
The right minute is worth a thousand wrong ones. There are no lucky moments but
there exists in each undertaking and in all problems a period especially propitious for
happy results.
Opportuneness is the clincher of opportunity. The blow that shapes hot metal won't
even dent cold iron. Promptness is an enormous saver of energy.
Conflagrations are sparks at the outset watchful eyes can accomplish more than a
whole fire battalion.
Disease is a manifestation of disregarded health rules heed small pains and you won't
have great ones.
Nature is a rattler she doesn't strike without fair warning. Most of the rack and ruin
and misery in sight was once quite preventable.
Loose habits finally get us all into tight corners.
Delay brasses every golden sand in the hour glass.
The main difference between men is a matter of calendars of forethought. Fortune
wears a clock-face and never looks back.
There has been sufficient planning ability in the past to transform our universe into a
miracle-ground, but most of it was and continues to be lost through hesitation.
Readiness is rare and correspondingly esteemed. The quick-to-think and swift-to-strike
are eternal victors over the adverse chance.
Delay and decay are seldom found far apart. Nations, notions and numbers are ren
dered ineffective by unpreparedness.
Xardiness is guilty of half the hell on earth.
Providence didn't short-suit you. You haven't lacked many qualities of competence.
You simply failed to act when your mind grasped facts which your hands wouldn't.
You're one of the late people the chronic missers-out; you can't sense the importance
of previousness. . - ,
You catch the train that barely misses the connection. You keep your appointments
just close enough to find the deal closed. You put off the doctor until you're put to bed.
You finish a trifle behind schedule, but the hold-up, even though slight, confounds
affairs and brands you for unreliability.
You're almost exact but so is the bullet near the bullseye which, like you, isn't
heard from because it isn't a bell-ringer.
There are too many runners in the human race for any man to stand a show who doesn't
toe the scratch. .
With millions striving for the top places, there's no hope for folk who neglect their
bodies, their businesses and their possibilities.
There is no margin of safety the present alone holds all certainty.
Learn to be prompt and the world hasn't much more to teach you.
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You think the other fellow
wrong
Always ; and so don't get
along.
The time you take to justify
Delinquencies expl a i n i n g
why
You failed at this and missed
at that
Has held you back and kept
you flat.
Confess your faults they're
very clear,
Conceit has made them doubly
dear.
You won't acknowledge what
is plain"
To all the world you're far
too vain.
But we have eyes to measure
, facts,
And therefore know you by
your acts.
O! ostrich, will you never lift
Your head and look before
you're bift?
What About Your Own Hospitals?
EXPERTS predict a recurrence of infantile paralysis this year. While every pos
sible effort is being made to discover a remedy for the hideous blight, thus far
practically no hope is offered humanity. Science continues to be baffled the
microscope has temporarily met its match. Of course, we shall eventually conquer
the plague, but probably not before another multitude of little ones have been lost.
There are certain precautions which experience has proved exceeding! jr effective
in containing the epidemic within bounds. Rigorous quarantine and the prompt dis
posal of infected and infectious matter are, above all, essential to public safety. It
is, moreover, extremely advisable to investigate the status of local hospitals, other
wise one may suddenly discover that some of the home institutions, in return for a
state subsidy, are at the disposal of the health officers, and even, if there are no
cases in town, county patients may, under the law, be brought there for treatment.
In which contingency considerable difficulty will be experienced in securing accom
modations in safe centers, as certificates are required almost everywhere before
families from danger points are permitted to enter other cities.
Very few citizens seem to be aware of this possibility,
wary in time.
Be wise, be warned, be
"Lest You Forget"
HIGH prices won't come down if some high-binders are not "sent up." Fines will
not discourage market manipulations. The food crowd won't miss any amount
exacted by the courts. They're rich your pocketbook proves it. Nothing
less drastic than a few heavy jail sentences will bring these gentry to. the mark.
There are laws especially provided to check juggling in necessities. State and Gov
ernment officers delegated to enforce them. But officials as a class are only active
under the pressure of public demand. If you quit complaining and stop fighting the
present cost of living, there will be no prosecution and no relief. Get your wife to
show you last month's bills and get mad enough to write a letter to your Congress
man which will make him take notice. He's the man who can change matters.
George and Joffre
BRASS may pass for gold until it encounters
acid. Test is fatal to pretense.
The crucible discloses real mettle. History
finds her immortals in the dark. Peril calls the
bluffs of bombasts and inefficients.
When the world is poor in genius we spend
responsibility with infinite caution. Men find their
actual measure when menace rides in the horizon.
Masks drop, the empty fopperies and dignities of
undeserving are disregarded at the crisis. New
leaders appear at the summons of necessity.
The guns of the enemy locate the best soldier in
the opposing ranks. Given a great enough oppor
tunity, genius will leap from the mud to mid-heaven.
' Today, the son of a peasant and the ward of a
cobbler are respectively supreme figures in the man
agement of France and Great Britain. When Destiny
has marked a man for greatness, all the barriers of
caste and society are as grass blades under his tread.
I
Believe Me, Bo!
BEEN readin' by the papers that there ain't a
livin' chance
For the poor old Dove of Peace and her dinky
olrVe branch.
As I gather from the things the kings have said, this
is about
Where there won't be no decision 'till one bunch is
counted out. -So
they're goin' to rough it up some more, and just
Believe Me, Bo, .
Before it's through there'll be a few new features in
the show.
The Swedes and Dutch just need a touch to shove
them in the scrap
If this keeps up much longer Europe won't be on
the map.
Five million men they say have croaked and more
than that are due
To bite the dust or go to bust before the year is
through".
If they won't stop until they drop the last chip in
the pot,
There'll be a lot left for the guys who win the battle
not.
I'd like to hear the women and the boys put on the
blink,
The blind ginks and the cripples and the girls tell
what they think.
If they and all the kids the war has hurt, could have
their way
There wouldn't be another gun shot on the earth
today.
I'm a hick, I don't know nothin' and I may be wrong
or right
But I'll bet when Peace does come again, they'll lock
it in at night.
Prejudice and Sincerity
EVERY man must view according to his lights.
We are not all responsible for short-sightedness,
but exhibit the influence of parentage and
circumstance. Contacts, interests, education and
occupation all tend to mould our opinions. Breed and
creed play their part in the formation of character
and mental characteristics. Only those wTho move on
the same levels can have many coincident ideals.
. To insist that any one course of procedure is
solely proper that any single method is exclusively
correct is to presume the possession of superiority
which personal judgment is not entitled to grant.
It is the scheme of things that we must progress
through disagreement and the rivalry which it in
cites, but however dear each may hold his principles,
other folks are at least entitled to respect for any
sincere conviction, even though it arouses our antag
onism. When It Pays to Advertise
IF ADVERTISING were an expedient for excess
profits or a device to dispose of inferior goods,
cheats and shysters would be the leading users of
printers' ink.
But sincere advertising is primarily a challenge
to comparisons, the last man possibly to benefit
through its use is an unreliable merchant.
Honest men alone invite attention. In the busi
ness underworld, identifying marks are zealously
avoided.. From time to time knaves have unwisely
attempted to prostitute publicity, but in the end the
force they invoked against public interest invariably
struck back and destroyed them.
Misrepresentation defeats its own object. When
you see firms and products on record year after year
in the same publications, be assured that they're giv
ing full equivalent for the money they ask.
It pays to advertise when you're right.
COrXiUGHT. 117. BX HERBERT itACTMAX, GREAT BRITAIN ASO lib OTHER RIGHTS RESERVED,