Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1914 — “Speeding Up." [ARTICLE]

“Speeding Up."

«Itis idle, to criticise at large. the American business man’s habit of overwork. But a single aspect of this ruinous habit merits comment. The American business man does not want money itself. He wants to “get there”, to “get VBere’> for his own sake, for his wifes sake, his family’s sake. The full price of “getting there”he does not always calculate. The man who works fast, many hours a day, six or seven days a week, Is not merely paying in sheer energy to “get there.” He eats too much, possibly drinks too much, does not take exercise, but he pays in more than physical detriment. He is doing more than ill-treating his body in a way as he would never dream of ill-treat-ing his automobile or his factory dynamo. Above everything else, the American business man is “getting there,” at the expense of life itself and of its large and rich experience. —Chicago Post.