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Show SELF SERVICE. Many good folk' are lamenting the passing of the era when men and women wo-men consecrated their lives to unselfish unsel-fish service and prepared themselves to become ministers, missionaries, teachers or country doctors that they might administer to the spiritual, mental and physical needs of humanity human-ity without though of large worldly gain. They are not in error when they charge that modern men and women wo-men are choosing vocations today in which they can do the greatest service ser-vice to themselves. People today are coming to the belief be-lief that the best way they can help others is to produce much that their profit shall be large and that they shall never become dependent upon society. The old idea of service was direct. The new service is indirect. Twenty years ago it was still thought that only ministers, doctors and teachers teach-ers served humanity. Today every workman who carries his whole day's wage home is known to have earned I that wage in service to society. Elbei-t Hubbard's version of the Golden Rule was, "Do unto others as though you were the others," but an even more up-to-date version is ''Do yourself much good and no bad to others." Getting something for yourself your-self is reprehensible only when it is gotten at the expense of another." |