Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-07-20 | Page 11 | Work

r f I V Work T I By DR FRANK CRANE AccordIng to accepted traditions work was a curse pronounced upon upon man by the Deity when man was expelled from froin the he Garden of Eden It this is true then it Js Is true true that the curse of God is Is better thaia that thai II a blessing t to man For there can hardly be any doubt that working for ones one's bread and butter and shelter is about about the best beat thing that ever happened to man S Suppose all the teeming millions In New York were wele Idle that they had nothing to do but amus amuse themselves It would not be II a week before the city was burned down It Is the fact that most of us have to put In a certain number of hours II a day In earnIng earn earn- Ing our that keeps us sane V The sanest thIng on earth Is work Men Ien vote their time to imaginIng to theology to philosophy philosophy phy phy or 01 to other speculations are fertile soil to all kinds of disorder It Is men who have to work that ar the flywheel of eVEry nation As a rule they want things to remain as thEY are And as IJo rule they are the bulwark of morality Crime news and divorce court scandals originate largely In the Idle classes Ch has said saId that when a man puts In ten hours a day at street car driving he Is not likely to tobe tobe be tangled up with the he wife of someone else V He hasn't time even for his own wife The workers are the security of a country and the best guarantee or of that country's prosperity The greatest menace or of militarism is that a large body of men are kept In comparative Idleness If the millions under arms Ir I could be dIsbanded and go to work It would be the best Insurance V of peace Workers as a a. rule are not Interested In fighting Of course there Is excess In everythIng There are men who continue at work as a a. sort of obsession and who tale take no vacation Ordinarily they break down AU All work should be tempered with pla play but play I y Is the condiment of life Ufe When there ther Is too much salt nd pepper the mEat Is The maIn part of a amans aman's amans aman's mans man's da days s 's should be spent In useful employment and by useful I 1 mean the kind of work the world Is willing will will- Ing to pay for The advantage of pay being not that tt it enables a man after a while to quit work vork but that it shows that his work Is of value to the world How man many a divorce trouble would be avoided a If both man and woman were wee economically IndEpendent It was not a a. bad Idea ot of the Jews of old t Instruct Instruct In- In theIr children In some useful trade The best life insurance that a man can leave his famIly tam tam- fly Ily Is to nae havO them all so traIned that they can make their own way In the world It Is doubted that the man with the hoe the laborer should be the object of so much sentimental pit pity For after all the man who knows how to use his hoe han ha a greater of happIness In thIs world than the man that Is left an endowment of ofa ofa a million dollars donars V Copyright 1928 1923 McClure Syndicate