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Editorial and Eiiv Life Section of Runt's Sunday American, Atlanta, December 21,191).
Driving Away Dull Care—She Comes Back
Copyright. 1813 by Btor Company Great Britain Kighta Beeerred.
IS picture ought to be
printed as big as the
page, with one line above
it, and no more.
It is a picture that tells
its story, a picture that
will arouse thought even in the dullest
mind—if any capacity for thought is
'.here.
To-day is Sunday.
Last night in the United States there
were probably two million men at least,
old and young, busy “driving Dull Care
away.”
Cay sport is the driving of Dull Care.
Very easy to make her run before
you, as in this picture.
A few young heads together, a few
songs, a few bottles of alcoholic poi
son and Dull Care flies over the hills,
and foolish men and boys think that she
will never come back again.
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But she does come back THE NEXT
MORNING, and later in life she comes
to stay.
You can drive her away ir, the same
old fashion each night. And for a long
time, while youth, vitality, money and
health last, you can frighten the old hag
.rom your presence.
But try as you like, SHE WILL
1 RIVE YOU AT LAST AND DRIVE
1 OU HARD, unless you study her in
deed of driving her, understand her,
) tor uhat she says and get rid of her
i I EARNING PEACE OF MIND.
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At the top of the picture you see the
favorite sport of young gentlemen.
Below you see the end of the life of
many of these gentlemen, when old
“Dull Care” has her turn. They drive
her first, then she drives them.
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Lucky the young man who can take
to-heart the lesson that Tad teaches in
this strong cartoon.
Here is the twenty-first day of the last
month of this year 1913.
Ten more days and the year dies.
Then comes the new year, and THEN
WHAT?
How much of the year that is dying
have you devoted to making yourself
stronger in the present, and SAFER for
the future?
How much of the year, of your life,
energy and money have you devoted to
the sport shown at the top of Tad’s
picture?
What are you going to do in the ten
days that are left this year? What are
you going to plan for the three hundred
and sixty-five days of the year that will
begin so soon?
This picture to-day will be in the
hands of at least five millions of old and
young men.
Few of those who look at this picture
will do so without some serious thought.
But serious thoughts, unfortunately,
come under the general heading of
“Dull Care.” And of the millions w ho
see this picture many, and probably a
majority, with the gayety of Christmas
and the frivolity of New Year approach
ing, will proceed with the pleasant sport
of driving aw r ay and forgetting that
which is unpleasant.
Those that drive care to-day will bt
driven by care later. Those that think
seriously of worry and what it means
will be at peace later, when the careless
are fretted, worn, wrinkled and ha
rassed.
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It will pay you men, young and old. to
take ha T f an hour to-day and talk with
old lady “Dull Care” seriously and
. earnestly.
Show this picture to foolish young men—and to foolish
old men.
It is a picture of life, of youth and old age.
“Dull Care” seems a joke in youth, in the morning of
life—not so much of a joke in life in the evening, when she becomes
7HE DRIVER.
She will tell you that the man who
listens to her in youth, who is warned
and not bored by her sayings, is the for
tunate man.
She will tell you that the young man
who receives her politely, thoughtfully,
and learns her lesson, is not harnessed
up and driven by her when he is old.
She will tell you that the young man
who drives her away, laughing and
sneering, is her docile slave later on,
the one that plods along under the crack
of her whip.
“Care kiued a cat, so let’s De merry,"
is the old saying. Care has killed more
than A CAT. Care has killed millions
and is killing millions to-day.
The wandering eye, the absent mind
ed answer, the shuffling feet, the nerv
ous, uncertain myuth, the hands knock
ing timidly at the door of prosperity
all of these tell of what care does to hu
man beings.
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Young men, TAKE THIS PICTURE
SERIOUSLY. Life is bearable in youth,
even if you must work hard, go to bed
early and get up early. In youth you
still have ambition, hope, and the belief
in yourself that fade so pitifully as the
years come on.
Endure care and boredom, hard work
and regular living NOW, and you will
escape in years to come a misery of
which you have little idea, sorrow and
bitterness of spirit in old age—when old
age itself is punishment enough.
Let this picture inspire you in these
last days of the year to think earnestly
of the year to come and of the other
years in which you may still free your
self from care, make yourself a citizen
of value to your country, secure the re
spect of other men now, and secure in
dependence, which is real freedom, in
the years to come.
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Each year this newspaper publishes,
as the year ends, a reminder of the fact
that GOOD RESOLUTIONS ARE
WORTH WHILE.
The hope of all of us lies in the fact
that it is never too*.late to do better.
The fortunate man is he who watches
himself every day in the year, every day
goes over his accounts and blames him
self for shortage.
The majority of us take the new year
for our “good resolution time” and that
time is here again.
Try an experiment, as you look at
Tad’s picture.
You are worried, of course, about
something. Every intelligent man has
his cares and his worries.
Tabulate your worries, write them
out and ask yourself what causes them.
If you are not going ahead, find out
and write down WHY’. Y’ou know that
a man of average intelligence can suc
ceed and be independent if he will take
the trouble to do if.
Some are deeply unfortunate, through
ill health, utter lack of education or some
calamity. /
But the great majority can, if they will
be respectable in youth, independent and
free of care in old age.
If you are going in the wrong direc
tion, down hill instead of up, try to find
out why it is.
Take this Sunday afternoon to think
it over.
Take a walk alone.
Question yourself and answer yourself
truthfully.
Find out what you are doing that is
foolish, and make up your mind to
stop it.
Find out w hat money you are spend
ing unnecessarily and make up your
mind to stop that.
Times are none too cheerful, and men
are none too optimistic.
But there are no hard times for the
man who will keep within his earnings,
AND KEEP WORKING WHETHER IT
BE FOR LITTLE OR MUCH.
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This is a thought for you to keep with
you at your elbow, at the next desk,
perhaps, is the man who will be pointed
out twenty years from now, or ten years
from now, as the great success.
He has no more chance than you have
TO-DAY.
You may not be THE great success in
ten years. The world may not talk of
you as a brilliant genius, but if you
choose at least you need not be THE
FAILURE of ten or twenty years from
now.
Among the men around you the great
majority are going to be/ ILURES.
They will blame everythin,, ind every
body hut themselves and they alone will
be to blame.
They will be earning less than they
are making now, or making just as little
and working harder with worry and
care and anxiety in place of the confi
dence of youth.
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headers, young men wasting life and
its possibilities, old men whom care be
gins to drive and who begin to realize
what youthful folly means, meet the new
year with the right kind of courage and
the right kind of resolutions.
It is not a hard world for the man who
WILL SUCCEED. But it is, as the years
pass, a hard world, a dull world, a care-
full world, for the young men at the top
of this picture who in the days to come
arc bound to find themselves with THE
OLDER MEN AT THE BOTTOM OF
THE PICTURE.
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