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Show H THE IDLERS. B There are various classes of drones. There are the B vagrants who decorate park benches and steal rides on B freight trains. Any such who have lingering aspirations B x for work have abundant opportunity. The rest arc B i hopeless. B Another class of idlers, of little more use to tho coun- B try, are the sons of wealth that abound in fashionable B x clubs. The state of Maryland has now a compulsory work B J law and is getting after such fellows. Many of them to B ' comply with the lav have taken soft jobs like bond sales- B men, but it is not reported that the bond market has been H much stirred by their advent. B This class of men looms up large in tho society papers, H but its numerical sre may not correspond with the promi- B nonce it goto. The great majority of rich men like to keep B in the money making game. If they have a million, they B want two million, and they keep plugging. If they aro H engaged in a productive business, they give useful service B to the country. H There are always some rich men's sons and holders of H inherited property who never yet did a stroke of bread H winning work. They contracted easy going ways during H luxurious college courses. After graduation their fathers 1 found thorn more bother in their offices than they were B worth. They drift from r.ummer resorts to winter re- B sorts, cultivating harmless fads, and return nothing to B tho world for bounties received. B In England and Franco this class of men is patriotic B and bus gone into armv and supply service. Thoso men 1 arc usually good at athletics, and would bo useful in the B army. If able bodied, they should enlist, and they would E find more pleasure in active service than they ever did B j in idleness. Life would have new zest for them. Idlers at B this time should ho ashamed of their easy life, and should B cither fight or raise food. B 4 o |