Show COL COMMON COLION ION WORK work lust just common work these words sound apologetic these days they seem to carry a stigma for people are interested now in making money with the least possible expenditure ot of effort in our mad dash for white collar jobs we seem to have forgotten that the wealth of 0 the nation is created by the tiller of the field and the worker at the forge or bench but our standards are false the importance of work just common work and the dignity of the overall jog Is not to be questioned and when the times change and we come to realize the full importance to society of the man who works perhaps the rush tor for white collar jobs or the desire for a career as a gentleman of leisure will pass count leo tolstoy the great russian author and one of the greatest intellectual figures of all times indulged the early years of his life in the leisure the pleasures and the luxury ot of the russian nobility then with his tame fame as an author secure and his comfortable station in life certain lie he began to wonder and to despise the worthlessness of the kind of life he was living ills speculation continued in this direction until he be became mol morbid bid restless and ready his son tells to commit suicide then he turned to the mode of life of the simple russian peasant he began to live with the peasants to take part la in their religious ceremonies and to work with them in the fields and at the cobblers bench lie iio saw the simple dignity that lies ir IP their careers and devoted his best years and his greatest works to glor common work the sort ot of work that most ot of us in III america are ashamed of for this ho he was read and loved by millions of common men in eucala in india in china in england franco france germany america and in every other corner of the globe in which the written word ran can be understood and appreciated he Is unquestionably one ot of the greatest men of his century and he devoted the best years of his life to teaching the world that the man who labors Is the man to 0 o be honored |