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Show MUer Sage's Sordid View of Lift. So Russell Hage, who for three-score years has devoted every energy of his nature to the acquis!-i acquis!-i tion of wealth, declares that vacations are useless, i even harmful to employees, as they are less fitted j for work after taking a rest. That this veteran prince of misers should hold this view is not strange; that he should expect normally nor-mally constituted persons to agree with him is a vain hope. There ire few of us who derive all our pleasure in life from the clink of dollars, who have no other ambition than to ceaselessly augment our possessions. posses-sions. One to whom sympathy is an utter Btranger, who looks upon man and nature alike as being only servants ser-vants to aid in carrying out his schemes for securing secur-ing more power over the unfortunate and weak, never needs a vacation. He would be miserable away from the sight of his gold. But those of us whose thoughts reach out and touch a multitude of other things, who in the midst of the struggle for success still find time for emotions emo-tions of joy and sorrow, for admiration of the beauty in nature that is unsullied, demand now and then a little space when we may put aside the burden bur-den of the hour and devote time and energy to new activities. Every sane, broad minded employer of labor knows this, and knows that he gets better results by giving his help a respite from the routine of toil. Russell Sage's doctrine will never be received with favor by America's captains of industry. |