Show 01 SONS VIEWS mr edison the world B greatest in inventor antor was with difficulty per ded to take bait a day off from bulwark his work that he or rather his hio be neighbors neigh bora might celebrate cele drate the day which brought him to the age of 73 he is took this occasion to give to the newspapers a statement of his views about bou work and the modern tend ency towards howarda slacker principles his hia ideas may sound bound old fashioned today but no harm will be done by giving them sober consideration mr edison ws asia today I 1 am Yon wondering denne what would have happened to me by now it fifty ft years ago fia dy some e fluent flue t talk talker a had converted nie me to the u I 1 theory ni if the eight hour day and convince convinced d me that it was not fair to in my y fellow workers to put forth my best efforts in my wk ia I 1 am glad nd that the eight hour day baag had not been invented hen I 1 was a young man an if MY mv life ife had been made up of eight hours I 1 dont believe I 1 could have re ac e d a great deal this country would not amount to as much as it does if the oung men of fifty years vears ago aeo had been afraid th that e t they might earn more than ih they e se etere repaid paid there were shirk ers I 1 in those days dava to be sure our e but bat t they h boast of it the shirker tried to conceal or excuse shiftless ne nea a an and d lack of ambition I 1 am nt not against irao t the eight hour day or any other thins thing that protects labor from e exploitation x tion at the hands of tot ruthless bless e employers mill but it makes me be sad sa to see me young americans shackle their abilities by blindly conforming confor for ing to rules which force the industrious industrious man to keep in step with the I 1 shirker if these them rules are carried to their logical ion it would seem that they are likely to ex establish to blish it a rigid system of vocational e hems classes which will make it difficult for a workingman working man to improve his condition and station tat on in life by his hia own efforts I 1 have awo always felt than one of the principal reasons for american progress in tie past has been that every man h had d a chance to become whatever h he wanted to be it used to be fashionable to be ambitious ambitions the employee planned to become an employer tte the unskilled man sought to become more skillful ayoung A young man was not well thought of 0 if he was wait not striving v ing for a higer place in life there appears to have been a change in recen teara tears the pre sent disposition is seemingly seeming ly to ba ul in effect t I 1 lam am what I 1 am and BO I 1 deffee shall re remain I 1 aspire to nothing hon better bei than in my y present job iob aask I 1 ask for far nothing expect larger wages and shorter hours boom of mum course I 1 mh realize that the leaders of union labor have their political problems and that they must appeal to the collective intelligence of their followers which is ia lower than the average elwe individual intelligence of the same me men 0 b but u othere there ought to be some labor bar leadar ea de r trong enough to make mak a trade unions 0 no ft a means of fitting th their air mem members bers for better be and greater cespon responsibilities totalities current events |