Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1919 — IMPORTANT TO BE ON TIME [ARTICLE]

IMPORTANT TO BE ON TIME

Even the Biggest Men of Affairs Arrange Their Business on Punctuality as Safe Guide. A young Kentuckian lost a big fortune by being 20 minutes late in keeping a business engagement, according to the Christan Herald. The cheerless old fellow with the scythe always gets all that is coming to him. And there is many a bad scar on our fortunes where he has had to prod us up to the mark. Time is cheap and we are apt to think we can filch it as we will. But It is always ourselves we rob, not time. Maybe you can waste your own time by being late in keeping engagements and feel that the loss, if any, is your own affair. But it also is the affair of the man you keep waiting. You waste his time, too. If your time is worthless, maybe his is not. He may conclude that his time is worth more to him than you are. In many cases It may not matter much. But one never knows until afterward whether it matters or not. And through false politeness -we are usually assured that it does not matter 'even when it does. Only the idle and careless, whose time is of the least value, can afford to waste it by looseness in keeping engagements. It may be hard to acquire the fixed habit qf always being on time, but It can be done, and it is worth while to do it. Great business men have this habit. Men of great affairs, whose time Is most completely taken up, are usually on time. It is they who know best the value of time and the importance of saving it by being prompt