The Old Blind Horse--Some Likewise Blind Men

In our boyhood days rve frequently went dorvn to the railroad tracks and played around an old elevator. It rvasn't a good s[sv2fq1-1ve remember that very distinctly. It was rather a tumbled down affair, but it still functioned as an elevator.

Down underneath the main building there was a big pit -a hole with only one Yery small rvindow to shed a dim light into the black interior.

We peered into this hole often because in it we found an old blind horse hitched to a horse power. For days at a time he would plod slowly around in a circle furnishing the power to elevate the grain.

Even in those days when our ideas of things in general were formulated by only a few years of observation we recall that we felt very sad about his predicament.

He lived in the darlc. He could not be taken out of the hole. Water and grain were carried to him. He could not enjoy green paslures or sunlight. We pulled many an armload of grass and fed it to him as we found him resting, so sorry were we for the old horse who was compelled by fate to continually go around in a circle-

The other day we saw a man who was doing the same thing.

He has been going 'round in a circle-for years and yet he isn't blind. He has eyes but he cannot see.

He got into a rut and didn't try to get out'

He kept in the rut. His friends tried to help him get out of it but every time he rvould slip back into the same old circle that he had been so familiar rvith for years- He will never get out now. It is too late. The right influence rvas not exerted at the proper time.

There was a time when he could have been jarred out of his rut. Just at that particular time the influence was lacking so he kept on going around in a circle.

It is a tragedy for a man to get into a rut.'

This does not mean that a man must keep on the move. It means that he must keep improving in his lvork- That he must not get lazy and that he will hold his old customers and add new ones.

Whenever a manager reaches the point lvhere he merely holds his own he is getting into a rut. He should be adding nerv customers-reaching out after new businesssearching out new channels of trade.

There is enough to do in any community to keep a man from getting into a rut.

External influences of course play a big part in a man's (Continued on Page 56.)

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