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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. * # * 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. * * * 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. * « « 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. * » * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * » 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. * * * 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. * 't