What's Wrong With Us?

By Chris Secretary-Manag er, Arizo n a Supply Associotion, Inc.

The laws of nature never change, and that old adage "as you sow, so shall you reap" still holds true. The North Star has and still does guide the ships at sea.

But there are far too many among us who hope to reap, and attempt to gather, who have not sown; who fail to set their course by the land marks that cannot lead you wrong:.

There are far too many of the butterfly type-and too few who take lessons from the bee that industriously gathers nectar from the blossoms of the fields.

Too many cream-puffs, not enough corn pones.

Too many who expect to be carried through life on flowery beds of ease, unwilling to take another hitch at the belt buckle and fight it out.

Too many driving automobiles who should be riding bicycles.

Too few who can still walk a mile.

Too many who shirk, and fail to give to their job all the energy, strength and thought it requires, and are unwilling to give it all they've got; who put out as little as they can, applying their minds listlessly and ineffectively with thoughts only on the present, and never look towards the :future-wages, salaries and profits uppermost; accomplishments, out-put, efficiency-secondary, if thought of at all.

Too many who attribute the fact that they are down and out to ill luck, tough breaks, and call the man lucky who keeps going forward.

Too many who spend their time bemoaning their luckbeing sorry for themselves, when they should be taking stock-finding out what they lack that the other man has, or just doing some real "honest-to-God" thinking.

The Lord knows there's a great surplus who continually

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Retail Lumber and Builders' seek, and too frequently are successful, a soft berth at the public trough. Efficieucy on these jobs is of little consequence. Political pull is the only requirement. Their pay is more or less a reward for the way they vote, with little relation to their meager duties, and when they and their hench-men are let out by the voters, they are practically useless to private industry. Hence, they and their gang spend their time living on short rations-clamoring to get back in.

There is no private business on earth that could be run so loose, lavish and reckless as our own Governmental and Public Offices and survive. The influence of this condition over a vast number of our citizens is one of the main contributing causes to their general delinquency ancl pauperization.

What's wrong? There is a Helluva lot wrong, and principally it is in our way of thinking-if and when we ever awake to the fact that the world owes us nothing, and if we expect to collect, we must first deliver; and that there still is and will be room and a place for many of those who are ready; willing and capable to get into the collar, and play an honest definite part in the Scheme of Things.

If and when we are willing to make sacrifices today for the things we wish tomorrow, denying ourselves of a few of the comforts and pleasures that we know we cannot afford-discontinue to mortgage our salary, our lives and happiness for the things we know we can do without.

We can then begin to live. Many of our wrong's are within and most of our hardships and troubles are self made. If you are generally Right, eventually your meanest conipetitor will come to respect you. When he does, many of your troubles fade and you no longer drink of the waters of bitterness.