"DO THE RIGHT THING.”

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1928, Page 4

"DO THE RIGHT THING.”

If you net on this principle, h is ! not certain that all your projects will I turn out precisely e.s and wr.en yon wish: but ti belief in yourself and in imminent justice ought to sustain you, it you are' disappointed. More olten than, not, even wise men may desire things and find "lieu they come that the expected results are altogether different from those which they looked for. It may ho that they had omitted to take into account certain contingencies, which caused their well-laid plans to miscarry—or some untoward event, beyond the power of man to foresee, falsified their calculations. To wring their hands, fret and fume, will hardly lie a remedy, and, being wise, it is unlikely that they will have recourse to such crude ways of expressing their feelings. Instead, they will reason out the why and wherefore of their .failure; if they are satisfied that the Fates alone, and not they themselves, nere responsible, that they will take the only sensible course and Dust Unit Destiny will compensate them in due time. On the other hand, if, alter a thorough sifting of the causes which could account for the ill-success of their venture, they find themselves to lilnnve, their mistakes will he engraved, on the tablets of their memory, and never repeated. In either case, they will not indulge in useless regrets or 1m? discouraged Poit if success crowns their efforts, they will not indulge in useless regrets or be discouraged. But their efforts, they will silently thank the Fates, and never crow over their own cleverness.