How do you spend your time? Are you one of the promoters of the sensational time shortage movement? Poets write of the wings of time and hours do fly for the persons who habitually carries a full program. But—for the average person time usually moves like a wheelless wagon, until you call upon him to do something foreign to his customary routine; then he suddenly jars himself to the realization that he hasn’t time. It is that his time is really too occupied or that he does not like to what is asked of him? the average person usually takes the time to do pleasant things. Yet, where can we find the fellow who never shirks when called upon to do difficult tasks?
Have you ever undertaken something which you thought to be of vast importance and which required the cooperation of several persons? You have just the persons needed in mind and you are positive they will support you. Yet, after imploring and exploring for hours you get the same old story told in the same hopeless manner from 30 different people—“I can’t,”—a confession of inability; or—“Sorry, old thing, I haven’t the time”—the height of rudeness, for he is only confessing that he doesn’t consider your corking good idea worth a few hours of his exerted energy.
Finally, because “stick-to-it-tive-ness” is a small item in your philosophy of life, you reluctantly cough up the courage to call on the overworked goad—for he is as inevitable as rain. “Ain’t it a grand glorious feelin’?” to find that the genius is not extinct. You thank your Creator for the fellow who always has the time.
From the editorial page of The Chowanian, Murfreesboro, N.C., Dec. 6, 1923
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