THOROUGHNESS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18352, 24 August 1929, Page 9

THOROUGHNESS

Do it better! Letting well enough alone never raised a salary or declared an extra dividend. And what was well enough for yesterday is poor enough to-day—do it better. Rescue that little task from the maw of dull routine—do it better. Seek out that automatic act of habit—do it better. Put another hour on the task well done—and do it better. ..Strive not to equal—strive to surpass. Do it better! —System. • * • • Talents and skill tell for much, but conscience in work tells for more. The mechanic or the clerk who, beyond his stated salary, beyond even his obligations to his employer or thp demands which public opinion could make upon him, exerts himself to make his work as perfect as he can, and delights in its thoroughness and excellence apart from any private benefit it can render him, has a value which can never be computed. It matters not what the work be, whether it be done with the spade of the labourer, the tools of the mechanic, the pen of the clerk, the brush of the artist, or the voice of the statesman. Such people are sought far and wide; there are places always open to them, and their senvices are always at a premium.