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Show f .1PLDYER PAYS TRIBUTE TO LABOR r i ' iavwi I a ': A . C 0. STOLL. Human Effort Means Everything Ev-erything in Civilization, Stoll Claim By C. 0. STOLL Work Mansgsr of ths Hawthorn Plant of ths Weetern Electrlo Company. ' CHICAGO. Sept. (.-cLabor day la tha nation'a tribute to the great human hu-man effort that Is behind all Ita progress We may talk of tha wonders won-ders of science, of the great mechanisms me-chanisms that have coma to b part of our dally Ufa, but In pauelng once a year In honor of tha work-liurman, work-liurman, we are Impressed with the fact that without human effort all that wa know as civilisation would bo Impossible. The pro(rees of our rao nas been dependent upon the earnest endeavor endeav-or of the man In tha ranks In- our eager deal re to honor the leaders of civilisation, we must not loas eight of ths fact that without the cooperation of th great army of "workera" we could never have entered en-tered upon thl ra of larg accomplishment, ac-complishment, Th man In th rank may not have discovered ths great forces behind modern accomplishments and he may not understand their application, but without him they would not have been realised upon. up-on. Nothing ogempllfle thl better than tha electrical Industry. Without ths thousand of men and woman who have helped to ohang tha plaything of a often-tlflo often-tlflo laboratory Into an abeolute necessity In ths brief spec ut wa generations practical electricity, lha greatest contributing factor to modern progress would never have been possible. Tha mechanic In the shops turning turn-ing out the thousands of devices needed In our sreM communication end power systems th lineman laboring la-boring night and day. winter and aummer. lo maintain service and the telephone (Irl at tha switchboard ticking to her post In ths facs of every danger, sll hare played a big part In our national Development. They ehould not be overlooked In our tribute to those who are help-in help-in ( to oarry humanity steadily for ward. I, , , ' ', i ' |