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Wait a Minute
By Noah Hollowell

I HAVE BEEN SO BUSY IN this department showing how the business men and employes took stock and carried things over into the new year. I have overlooked one or two new-year resolutions for the "Wait a Minute."

One resolution carries into this column daily a brief lesson in English, usually taken from some word or sentence used in the "Wait a Minute" for that day.

These English studies will be indicated by a star before the word to be studied. Today it is "psychic."

WHICH ARE HEAVIER, MENtal or physical burdens? Isn't it easier to bear heavy physical burdens, the things that call for the sweat of the brow, than to carry those weighty things of mind, heart and soul?

A TIMELY NEW YEAR RESO lution would be that which would obligate us to help bear the men tal as well as the physical bur dens of others.

I MET W. LOGAN GIBBS ON New Year's with a sack on his shoulder filled with something and he paused to say that he wanted to see me for about half an hour and desired to know when such would be convenient. He was invited to lay down his burden with the assurance that I would listen to his complete story after he had indicated that he felt I would not be patient during our side-walk conference.

MR. GIBBS HAD GONE through 1936 and did not lay down his burden of mind and soul at the end of the old year, as he had relieved his back of its bur den temporarily while pouring out his soul in the brief conference, which didn't take the half hour he anticipated. He carried the needless burden over into the new year. That's a grave mistake unless one is compelled to do it.

He was naturally reminiscent be cause the season was conducive of such. He deplored the fact that he was born in the post-war era, a difficult period for most South ern youths. He regretted the lack of opportunity to attend school more than three months in the year. He thinks too much time is spent now in educating too many people for white-collar jobs, which will not be in evidence at gradu ation time. Then there's a delu sion that quite often leads to crime. We punish crime now and apply the fines to the school funds. quite often resulting in more crime in the end, which isn't right on the face of it.

He mourned the fact that so much more Christianity is pro fessed than practiced and he wail ed because politics had just about gone to pot, the bow wows, or some unwholesome, unstatesman like realm.

THERE WAS NO ARGUMENT no attempt to break down a line of thought that was sound. His countenance changed to a more cheerful one: he shouldered his sack as if to go and I restrained the rap. He will love it, and love you for it. Hide your bright ideas as if they were faults. Even then they will be discovered and at tributed to you, but less malice will be directed toward you.

Anyhow, what should gladden your soul is not that men should praise you for your virtues, but that you have them. You can take them with you when you go, and they are all you can take.