KEEPING AWAY GLOOM

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 134, 7 June 1940, Page 6

KEEPING AWAY GLOOM

In these testing days it is only to be expected that anxiety should weigh heavily upon many people, t>vi^ it can an 4 must he mastered, for it is a definite hindrance to efliaieney, both of the anxious person an 4§f the people to whom that person conimwicites.it, Gloom js one thing we can all light- It can he fought by sensihly following a normal course of conduct which will

include all the things that are helpfill and exclude those that are useless or even harmful. Where there is work to be done, either in the daily task or for special war purposes, it should be done with added energy and attention. Each individual should be eager to undertake any voluntary work that can be found. But when this is done, there is nothing tp be achieved by refraining from recreation with the excuse "I hiven't got the heart for games or enterjt^inment." Q£ course it would be wrong to allow pleasure to come before w*ir wprk, but it is also wrong to encourage a state of min4 which spreads gloom. Let all do the gfmpst they can to help, and then look to fhemselvps and promote their own esejency and cheerfulness by the repreation, physical and mental, that will fit them to face the next day's task, and the next day's news with confidence jind comage.