Show I I i I f I I I YOUR IMPORTANCE How Important are you ou in this gl gi system s stem by which humanity Is earning its Conceit is proverbial learning bial But only a very small fraction of us exaggerate our Importance Most of ot us actually underestimate our importance Probably this is ia Ix be cause bo-cause cause we return from vacation or an Illness to find things going ahead just justas justas justas as if it we hadn't been away The fact that you ou can be bo replaced noes not lessen your Importance when ou are on the job Thousands of men can run an air air- airplane air airplane plane Howe ter this doesn't detract from flom the importance of ot the pilot on any given trip Ask the passengers takIng their first night flight nightA A discouraged young oung man In is an agony of self pit Jut writes a lett letter r be- be bewailing bewailing be bewailing wailing his trivial function in lite ilfe He sees and hears of other men doing big big things lie Ite compares with his o en work as a tool motet maker in a ma machine chine shop and ond decides that he doesn't amount to much Young man you are wrong Tong Men toiled tolled for thousands of to harne harness s the electricity that drives the motor operating your lathes Oth- Oth Others Oth Others ers tolled toiled fo for thousands of years to find the processes or of o making the steel and iron with which you turn out your finished products Your work is the culmination of ot the of o these vast armies of men of the past All that went before was preliminary leading loading up to you In tar far oft off parts of the tho world living men toll toil to 10 bring to the surface of ot the earth the iron ore oro which other men make Into tho the steel which you trans transform form into tools Still others tOil oil to bring this steel to you Another great STouP group awaits y lour our finished products Without it II they could not do their own tasks Ahead In la the future ore are Ithe the ultimate consumers whose needs YOU supply by your dally toll toU also the thO salesmen who depend on you for forI I something to BelLMan selL BelL Man Many people take Uke street cn car motor motor- motormen motor men I Imen men and conductors as a matter of dO course do do not attribute to them any great Importance But when the trans transportation system is tied up the public suddenlY realizes the tremendous and Indispensable Importance of o the ear car crews You see a 3 scrubwoman washing the floors of ot an office building In pre pro preventing preventing venting the spread of disease she may mav maybe be as important as a physician tot tOI she is an angel of the great force of sanitation the preventive of disease If you are doing useful wor work In thIs world no matter how humble stand standi up proudly For your our importance is beyond estimation |