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Show DEMAND IS FOR SERVICE Public Ideas Have Had a Significant Change in a Comparatively Few Years. When the French aristocrat before the great revolution was asked as to his chief service to society, he replied, "To have been born." He felt that his mere presence in the world conferred an honor on his country. That has been the attitude of privileged privi-leged classes of all time. But a new ideal has come into men's minds the ideal of labor, of service to the community. com-munity. Today the public is constantly constant-ly asking men to justify their income. "What have you done to deserve it?" is the question. "By what service to society so-ciety have you earned your money?" It used to be considered perfectly proper to water the stock of great public pub-lic servioe corporations. But now people peo-ple have come to see this means to get an income without working for it, and public sentiment is shutting off the practice. Melon cutting in connection with franchise grabs was once popular. But it became apparent that this was merely mere-ly one way of getting something for nothing, and the day of melon cutting is done. ' So, all up and down the line the demand de-mand has come for service in return l for income. Society is willing to write its note for pretty nearly any amount i to the energetic man. but it insists that I the payjuent shall be for value re ceived. |