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Show ON n roan's birthday ho should think seriously about himself, und especially about his weaknesses. weak-nesses. Let his friends pralso him and congratulnto him; let him Question and criticize himself. It Is Intelligent study, criticism of ourselves that brings progress, whoth-er whoth-er to the Individual or to n great class .or to that which labor Is au overwhelming over-whelming mujorlty, Everything that you see Is the result re-sult of labor from the skyscraper with Its steel skeleton to tho copper wlro that carries your messages or tho food that keeps you alive. To compare tho value of labor and capltnl Is childish. There Is no comparison com-parison possible. Take all the gold, all that whith we cull wealth In the world, and It Is absolutely ab-solutely nothing without labor to make It. productive, On tho other bund, put lubor nuked on. the earth, and soon It will do ngoln Mhat.lt has done In the past produce the food, cut forests, drain the marshes,, marsh-es,, build tho houses and build civilization. civili-zation. Uut the laborer of any kind who ro-Jolces ro-Jolces In his strength and who feels conceit proves his smallness, whether ho bo a laborer with pick and shovel, or a laborer working at a great sclen tide problem. The thing for us to do Is to remem her our littleness, our shortcomings, and try, by giving full credit to others, to deserve credit for ourselves. Kx-; change. |