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Show LABOR DAY IS FOR ALL It Is Not Intended for Any Class, but for Americans En Masse. Men of labor came to America In the Mayflower. A printer and a carpenter car-penter signed the Declaration of Independence. In-dependence. George Washington, the whole world knows, was a surveyor at one time In his life. Lincoln was no more than a day laborer. Andrew Johnson was a tailor. William Howard How-ard Taft, after leaving college, was a newspaper reporter at $G a week. Roosevelt, it can be fairly said, was a cowboy once. A working man, by a strict definition. defini-tion. Is "one wiio earns his living by manual labor" otherwise, at tasks employing his hands. Farmers are working men and clerks in stores and offlces must be, under the meaning of the dictionaries. Actually, of course, anyone who works is a working man. Labor day consequently, is not for any class, bui for Americans en mass. The following are but a few of tht thousands of instances where great men of today began their successful careers by working with their hands; Secretary Lane of President Wilson's Wil-son's cabinet learned the printers' trade In the ofiice of a country weekly week-ly newspaper. Secretary of Labor Wilson began his career as a coal digger. The first job held by Secretary Me-Adoo Me-Adoo was that of a newsboy selling Macon Morning Telegraph, His next job was that of a farm laborer. Secretary Redfield began his business busi-ness career as a clerk In the post office of-fice at l'ittsfield, Mass. "1 left school when I was fifteen," the late James Whitcomb Riley said, in the drawling enunciation' once so familiar fa-miliar to the lecture-going public. "I knew I had to provide for myself, but I couldn't settle on anything. At last 1 hit on painting and took lessons that's the way I now state It In the graining of doors and the varnishing of miscellaneous woodwork." Another famous Indiana man, Charles Warren Fairbanks, once worked as a carpenter for $1.25 a day. And Myron T. Herrick T. for Timothy Timo-thy perhaps the late ambassador to France, peddled dinner bells to farmers. farm-ers. Some of the bells are ringing yet. Elbert H. Onry. head of the United States Steel corporation, also a mulii-milllonnire, was a clerk at $12 a week In a Chicago public otlice. "I was glad to get the place," he eon-Cessed. |