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Show LABOR DAY IS FOR ALL It Is Not Intended for Any Class, but for Americans En Masse. V Men of labor came to America tn the Mayflower. A printer and a carpenter car-penter signed the Declaration of Independence. In-dependence. George Washington, the whole world knows', was a surveyor at one time In his life. Lincoln was no more than a day laborer. Andrew Johnson was a tailor. William Howard How-ard Taft, after leaving college, was a newspaper reporter at $6 a week. Roosevelt, It can be fairly said, was a cowboy once. A working man, by a strict definition, defini-tion, is "one who earns his living by manual labor" otherwise, at tasks employing his hands. Farmers are -working men nnd clerks in stores and offices must be, under the meaning of, the dictionaries. Actually, of course, anyone who works is a working man. Labor day, consequently, is not for any class, but for Americans en mass. The following are but a few of the thousands of Instances where great men of today began their successful careers by working with their hands: Secretary Lane of President Wilson's Wil-son's cabinet learned the printers' trade In the office of a country weekly week-ly newspaper. Secretary of Labor Wilson began bis career as a coal digger. The first Job held by Secretary Me-Adoo Me-Adoo was that of a newsboy selling fifeilii., I - ) j- - ft (i y'mm mi. I BsssstesBsng, jsccssmsbsssbmsbbsm The Late James Whitcomb Riley. Macon Morning Telegraph. His next job was that of a farm laborer. Secretary Redfield began his business busi-ness career as a clerk in the post office of-fice at Pittsfield, Mass. "1 left school when I was fifteen," the late James Whitcomb Riley said, in the drawling enunciation once so familiar fa-miliar to the lecture-going public. "I knew 1 had to provide for myself, but I couldn't settle on anything. At last I hit on painting and took lessons thnt's the way I now state It In the graining of doors and the varnishing of miscellaneous woodwork." Another famous Indiana man, Charles Warren Fairbanks, ones worked as a carpenter for $1.25 a day. And Myron T. Herrlck T. for Timothy Timo-thy perhaps the late ambassador to France, peddled dinner bells to farmers. farm-ers. Some of the bells are ringing yet Elbert H. Gary, head of ths United States Steel corporation, also a multl-mllllonalre, was a clerk at $12 a week in a Chicago public office. was glad to get Vat place," bs cds fessed. -. . |
