Automatic Age

YOUR GOAL IS CLOSER
THAN YOU THINK!
Vending Machine
C A N D I E S
By JAMES T. MANGAN
made sp ecially for
V e n d in g M a c h in e s
We have plenty of
SALTED PEANUTS
AND MIXED NUTS
A ls o
A m e r ic a n M a d e
C harm s
PAN
C o n fe c tio n s
345 W. ERIE STREET
CHICAGO. ILL
Stop Thieves by Installing
E-Z Non Electric Alarms
$1.50 Complete
See them at your jobber— or write
ELLMAN & ZUCKERMAN
119 So. Jefferson St.
Chicago, 111.
Because it is a goal and diffi­
cult to reach, you have convinced
yourself your goal is far, far
away. So far away that you can’t
even see it as you now start stag­
gering toward it with your bur­
den. Immediately the burden
becomes far more important,
more powerful, than the goal.
For the burden is with you,
pressing you down, begging, in­
sisting that you stop your foolish
march toward the goal. How can
that imaginary thing, your goal,
justify all this misery, this pain,
this idiotic expenditure of good
energy when it is so impossible
for you to get there? If your goal
were only close by, if it were visi­
ble, then the burden could be
endured. “But why fight a losing
battle,” says your burden; “save
yourself, retire, call it all off,”
pleads your burden, “and we’ll
all be relieved and happy!”
Even while your burden has
almost proven to you that your
goal is so far away it has no real
existence, something in your
character, your manhood, keeps
PENNY ARCADES
N EAR A R M Y C A M P S
. . . and other suitable sites are in tremendous demand
YOU
Can
Install
Them
. . . we can tell you exactly how to proceed and supply everything you
need for a complete arcade
46 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE - CALL OR WRITE TODAY
I n t e r n a t i o n a l M u t o s c o p e R e e l C o . In c .
Penny Arcade Headquarters Since 1895
44-01 ELEVENTH ST., LONG ISLAND CITY. NEW YORK
6
© International Arcade Museum
AUTOMATIC AGE
repeating softly: “Don’t quit!
Keep going! Suffer, stagger,
stumble, but keep advancing!
Maybe you’ll get there in the
end!” So if you are a man, you
keep going, even while you be­
lieve that the goal is practically
impossible of attainment.
But your goal is closer than
you think! Your goal is a l w a y s
closer than you think. Because
it is a new thing, a hard and
strange thing, you have mentally
removed it too distantly from
your grasp. And the farther
away you have placed it, the
harder it is to attain. You want
to quit even before you start be­
cause it seems so impossible.
And the only thing impossible
about it is the imaginary inac­
cessibility you yourself have
given it.
As you stagger and groan, as
temptation to quit overwhelms
you, say to yourself: “My goal is
closer than I think! It may be
just around this corner, over this
hill, right behind this imposing
obstacle!” Sweat and despair
may temporarily blind your eyes,
but keep going! Suddenly your
sight clears, you wonder how you
could have traveled so fast, for
here— right within reach of your
arms— is your goal. It wasn’t
hard at all— it was close by all
the time—the real burden you
were carrying was the product
of your own dreadful imagina­
tion.
Your goal is always closer
than you think! The very fact
that it is a goal, that it is your
goal, proves you have already
embraced it, that it is mentally
achieved, and therefore actually
nearby. You never could have
recognized it in your mind as a
real goal unless you knew your
heart, soul and body were able
to reach it.
May-June, 1942
http://www.arcade-museum.com/