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Show BBHJ Ijittior Is Divine. BHB Servlco Is the highest badge of r..lill- HHJij Ity. Any one who would desplso a man Hi because he works with his hands is a Hl pervert nnd a mockery of the Cod who Hj made HHBj Sir Illmiu Maxim has been rcprov- B i lug the ISritish for the prevailing dls- H j position to look down on manual labor Hj' d the Iihi common sentiment among B, Itrttlsh uiunual laborers that they are H:i doing something unworthy. He tells B- thorn that they do not wear a budge of H! Infamy who use their hands and that BBHL those who thus toll err In losing their HHB self lespeet and striving to save their HHjl children from manual labor by putting HHB ' them at some work for which they are H' ln driving this rebuke homo Sir III- K! -, ' ram says that "the false shame of lu- H1' boring with one's hands Is losing to ll i Great Britain a most Important class, a Hj ' oliuw that Is sending America ahead Hh by leaps and bounds." Sir lllraui ought HHBj to know whereof he speaks, for before Hh he was an Englishman he was an H i ' American. He was burn In Maine, ii burred an iipprcntlrcHhlp at coaeli building and has by hard work with both hand and brain risen through the K gradations of mechanic, Inventor and BHHjV scientist. He was for years u part of BHHi' i I the Industrial world. Just as he Is now H-' j P"'t of the titled Ilritlsh world. Hl' i Of course he Is right about the dig- H1)1 ' ulty of labor and the desirability of HHHH j being n good manual laborer rather BHHm' ' than a poor clerk. The man who Is In HHH(i ' a place where lie tits Is happier and a Hi , better money earner than he would be K I elsewhere. .Manual labor Mas been lion- BHBTf orable since the world began and will HHHf.' continue to be so more and more as BHHJ.f I the world grows older and wiser and H He Is blessed who serves -utlier than BHHJL he who Is serviMl. To toll for one's flf family nnd one's kind Is a privilege, for Bil It la thus that we build character. |