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Show 9 THE NEEDS OF THE WORLD By Letha Schow Never, in the history of the human hu-man race, have greater problems confronted mankind than those which we are facing today. With Europe on the verge of an economic disaster, the East seethmg with anarchy and revolt and ieligious discontent, and America fac:rg a labor ersis , there i- ; call for thinkers, statesmen, workers and master minds, as there never has been before. The solution of these difficulties are the problems of the present day of which you and I are a part. We cannot not vote yet it is true, but we can prepare ourselves our-selves for later usefulness. One of the needs of the world today is fewer few-er talkers and1 more workers. Our social so-cial problems are an outgrowth of individuals in-dividuals wanting something without being willing to pay the price. Not getting what he wants brings discontent discon-tent with present conditions without the virtue of offering a solution for the same. Work Is the cure for all evils If well applied. The person who has no occupation to follow, who Is idle, is indeed unfortunate. Never having tasted the triumph of victory nor the bitterness of defeat he is Incapable of offering advice or encouragement to another in any condition. Thus he has not the satisfaction of knowing that he has helped make the world a brighter place; and because he has labored, he knows not the greatest fruits of labor-accomplishment. In work one may forget one-i self as an individual, and become so fascinated mac peciy ana trivial anairs no longer long-er irritate or annoy. Idleness .breeds discount and anarchy. In every case where idle men assemble, having no work or interest in common, and nothing no-thing to discuss, they become discontented discon-tented and rebelious. Eveiry Institution Insti-tution whether social, political or financial fi-nancial is railed at and condemned, a suggestion of reform that would better conditions. These people are traitors to their country. Every man fs a traitor to an Institution, community com-munity or country, who finds fault without a suggestion for improvement improve-ment or a determination to work unceasingly un-ceasingly until the wrong is righted. Men who are really working are searching for ways to reform. They are busy making reforms advocated hy idle theorists; thev are. engrossed in combatting the evils started by the non-workers. They are employed in building up their country. Through their efforts, industries spring up and flourish; by their undaunted courage millions of dollars are added annually annual-ly to the valu of the country. Now is the time when real workers are needed. Tn the devastated countries of Europe, industries must be rebuilt; re-built; new courage given to the people; peo-ple; and capital provided for the rebuilding re-building of the state. Ho-.v are these to he secured? It is a problem whf-confronts whf-confronts millions. We may answer ans-wer it in one word -"work." Only through the united effort of every In-huhltnnt. In-huhltnnt. of the retipeetlve countries can this ho secured. There Is. then no time for Idleness. Work la the foundation, walls and capstone of success. If the foundation founda-tion Is made of hard, solid work, the walls made of righteous and honorable honor-able toil the capstone finished with worthy effort, then the structure Is Immune to storm or torrent. No tempest tem-pest can destroy It. and success, the crown of all el'ort, will come to the builder. Men always have succeeded thru , sheer aballty themselves to labor. They see their goal and through per-severencp per-severencp and hard work win It. For example, Lloyd George, the most in-j fluentlal of Englishmen to lay, while a poor cobbler's son, decided that he, would be prime minister of England, j Through hla own efforts he became j what he Is today. No matter what a I person wants to he. If he is earnest and stendfast In his purpose, he will eventually become. Again. John D. Rockefeller, aspired to be the r'chest j man In the world. Did he become It hy being discontented? He did not. j Ho became the richest man by careful care-ful thinking and planning mixed with good hard work. Today we hear the crv of unem-i ployment, no work, nothing to do. The cry ought to be no desire for employment. No work I want to do. ! and nothing I am willing to find to do. Work can always be found to do. Famous men have not waited for opportunltv. they made It. An Incident In-cident Is told of a man who. having no o'her Job offered him. went out and dug a ditch, so that he would not be Idle. A contractor discovered him and after finding the reason for the rather unusual proceeding, offered the man a nosltlon. Booker T. Washington tells of mopping the office of-fice of a college professor for one whole dav. doing 1t over and over. because, after doing all the other office offi-ce work, he had nothing to do. This, won him entrance Into college. The , world will always have a job for thej man who will find a Job and do It I without thot.ght of compensation.; because he will work mut-h harder Ifi he is compensated. This is only one of many such Incidents whpre men have made their onnortunitles. Final-, ly. work Is jsentlal for a nat-on's existence. In ancient Greece and 1 Rome, we find that when slmnle life prevailed, before luxury was known, 'he people HvaH bv hnr.l to'l. thev were sturdy and Industr'ons nni "nations became in turn world powers Then after th Introduction of lux-' urles. esoecintlv In Rome, after C.ae- I "mr's connnes's had mnd- the otote fphulously rich men heenme soft nn effeminate. Eastern luxuries were Introduced and social life hecnme corrupt. Then before long the men from the North were swen!ng down noon them and thev wer no longer able to resist What might the Romans Rom-ans have not accomnl'shed if with their wealth they had kent the work and high ideals of earlier times? They might have Introduced their su nerior culture Into the uncivilized "arts of the world, and be dominating dominat-ing the world today instead of heing "'he scnm of their adontfd notion Work is the onlv solution of a na-Hon's na-Hon's nrohlems. Manv other things msv snect. out only nv work can a s'a'e he hent Prmlv toeether. Again, the world needs optimism. Not that extreme optimism which is more dangerous than pessimism; which is blind to the faults of humanity hu-manity and Is so optomistic that it believes mistakes imp';sible, and so goes headlong into any situation -without regard to the rules that govern gov-ern it. We do not desire that man who invests in oil stocks, with perfect per-fect confidence without first investigating investi-gating the company he is dealing with, merely because he thinks it impossible im-possible of anything to be wrong. Neither do we desire that other optimism op-timism which refuses to tee bad conditions con-ditions although right in the midst of them. We must see both the good and bad, and be able to contrast them so that we may reform the bad. Overconfident Ov-erconfident optimism which says; this nation is very powerful withour investigating how powerful she really real-ly is, will lead' to rum. Neither can we have too much roliance on past experiences, because, something may develop unexpectedly, and having hav-ing had no oxperienc; with In the past. It upsets the whole proceedings proceed-ings and we are lost. Things never happen the same way twice, s But we do need the conservative, optimism which, sees faults but has faith that conditions can be improved im-proved by the united effort of everyone. every-one. This is the kind of optimism that Is essential. We want the man. who says, "I can and will make the world a better place for my fellow-men.:" fellow-men.:" who has confidence enough in himself and his associates to enable en-able him to see clearly and without prejudice the needs of humanity, and Tvno renes on me past only enough to know by experience, and profits by his previous blunders. The real j optimist laughs In the face of defeat I and accepts it, but is not beaten. He j 'does not take ridiculous chances, trusting blindly to fate, but in every case tries to anticipate the result of Mb action. If he mlscalcuates, then lie becomes hopeful of another chance which will afford him an opportunity op-portunity to make a victory of defeat. de-feat. It is a fact that wo always trv to be what others think we are. If we know that others have confidence in us we become what they expect us to become. Likewise, a nation "will become what Its citizens think it can become. The third and last great need of the world is efficiency. Emerson says: "If a man can build a better house, nalnt a better picture, make a better bet-ter mouse-tmo than his neighbor, hough he build a house in the woods '.he world will make a beaten track to his door." What a wonderful thot. Even though your "job bo unimportant unimport-ant and trivial compared to your neighbors, if you do just as it should' be done, that 13, do it so well that vou are completely satisfied with the finished fin-ished product, and know in your own heart that it could not be better, then you are efficient. It is not the quantitv but the quollty that we want The efficient person first be- comes accurate then be develops speed. We might apply the maxim. "If a task is once begun, never leave it 'till It's done, Be the labo- great or small, Do it well or not at all." to every task. Be sure that you can do your work better than anyone else, then get to work and do it. Then you are sure to succeed. One efficient person can do the work of three who are not efficient. Not only 'American business men are 'confronted 'confront-ed by this problem, but every vocation voca-tion and task In the world needs a more efficient people. I In conclusion, let us strive to hp workers, to be truly optimistic arid i above all to bo efficient In our work j In this way we can now, do our part in the aiding the ultimate solution of the world's problems. |
