Judge — January 17, 1925 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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Have You a Little Pep in Your System? TT" is an age of pep. Everybody seems to be in a deuce of a hurry. That is why so many motorists feel they can beat a train over the cross ing and why pedestrians feel they can beat an automobile across the street. No matter how little you have to do, the idea seems to be to ‘Lit over with as quickly as possible. The pep idea has creptinto ourlives so effectively that even marriage is not excepted. Tie couple that used to be content to st aged for six years to think it over 1 rush to the parson after a three to six months’ alliance, evidently fearful they might change their minds if they spread the engagement over a longer period. Even the parson has been bitten by the pep idea. He used to drawl through the ceremony. Now there are so many on line he has to talk fast or lose business and all the departing couple really hears of the ceremony is “Thank you" as he pockets the fee and his ery of “Next!” Our sports, too, have fallen under the magic spell of speed. Nowadays, it's not how well you cover a golf course in 170, but how speedily you can make it 81. Imagine a fellow who makes it in 81 being half as thorough as one who does the same in 170! It’s getting so the average businessman's calendar looks some- thing like the following and yet people wonder what makes the tired businessman tired! 9.00 4.1.—Opens fifty-seven letters in ten minutes, or about six letters to the minute. 9.10—Dictates answers to all ex- cept the circular letters which he chucks into the wastebasket unread, despite the fact he sends out millions 7 = i - 8 Fes Ca =, a — ie se a Ss Ns — “ con Midnight Receler—Shay, old thing, let's sit round the fire and tell stories. of circular letters yearly. Time consumed, fifteen minutes. 9.25—Calls seventeen people on the telephone. Because Central has no conception of speed, he is held up on his pep program. ‘Time con- sumed, forty-five minutes, people spoken to, four. 10,20—Sees twelve callers, Eleven ¢ in eleven minutes, One, an insurance agent who got in on a per- sonal card unindicative of his busi- ness, and whose policy it is never to be rushed until he gets the opening paragraph off his chest, exits in just five minutes flat—on his back. Time, sixteen minutes, 10.36—Calls in heads of depart- ments for conference. Hears two minute reports. Urges reports be held down to one minute hereafter. Ten minutes. —Passing Show (Loudon) 10.46—Nota thing left todo, starts scribbling cabalistie figures on a pad. Decides to call the thirteen people uldn't get on the telephone earlier in the morning. Dreads the awful waste of time. Thinks of the beautiful girl he saw at the railroad ati Wonders who she is and can inect her. Thinks of his golf appointment at three. Doesn't think he can mz sure of business, ‘Time consumed, two hours, fourteen minutes. Noox—Leaves for hinch. Two nd one-half hours consumed chat- ug with cronies at club on the im. port © it because of pres- nce of speed and pep in order to elimi 2.30—Reads afternoon mail in five minutes, ate Waste, $—Dictates answers in’ three minutes, 2.40—Wonders if friend will eall for him to keep golfing appointment. Worried because he thinks he might he unable to spare the time. 3.00—Friend calls. Exits, cer- tain he cannot spare the time, but promising himself not Nest Day Goes through same program all over again. do it again, Nat N. Dorfman ABS Mr. Black—1s there an old dis- carded toothbrush about the house, de I want it for my typewriter! Black—The don’t you pay the poor girl e1 so she can afford to buy a new on —Answers comicbooks.com