Show ONES ONE'S OWN WORK We go to a store and buy a manufactured article That article is made in a factory with the aid of jigs forms templates dies and special machinery often of very costly and intricate nature Each piece is in inspected inspected inspected in- in not once but many times Repetition mass I production the worker an automaton at a machine turning out endlessly a finished piece which assemblers assemblers assemblers as as- fit one to the other until the finished article is completed and ready for shipment The store clerk sells the finished article but makes none The merchant deals in the finished article and he too ma makes es none It is all factory work I Yet the individual who fashions out his own work from first piece to we calla call a genius genius gen gen- I Iown ius his nowadays and if he follows it largely for his own pleasure we call him a hobbyist John M. M Browning was such coupled with rare inventive inventive inventive in in- ability and the skill the patience the ingen- ingen unity to make it tick And further the financial financial br brain in to make it pay The hobbyist delights in his work is interested in it t Ones Own Work is th the great impelling force to keep him at it The satisfaction in his own work shaped by his own hands himself shown is more to him than to go to a store and buy a ma factory article Nor sometimes does the wade factory-wade article embody just what he wants so by Ones Own Work he makes an article which does Expression of self is just as keen in degree as in inthe inthe inthe the virtuoso who gets pleasure from a violin string and gives pleasure to others Some pursue it professionally professionally professionally pro pro- thereby losing part but it is still self ex ex within the definition Ones Own Work The person who does something himself from the I ground up has an advantage over the purchaser of even a better article He did it The satisfaction the training in doing the development ti the better article article ar or- arI I tide following in next trial he himself working the I bugs out out what greater joy And call him hobbyist hobbyist hobbyist hob if you will but also call him creator inventor in little captain of the small personal ship He himself Many l any editorials are being written on the thought mat during war stress cut out all silly exP expenditure unnecessary and absolutely hurtful to the morae of I Ithe the nation as a whole Many such unnecessary i things are being done They should be cut out Itis It Itis Itis is not a time Silliness as usual but a foe who is concentrated whereas we vie are pointing which every-which way very vulnerable It is not Business as usual I Inor nor a Maginot Line to feel that expense is a fortress o of protection Theer is yet time to cut them out I |