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Show ON a man's birthday he should think seriously about himself, and especially about his weaknesses. weak-nesses. Let his friends praise him and congratulate him ; let him question and criticize himself. It is intelligent study, criticism of ourselves that brings progress, whether wheth-er to the Individual or to a great class or to that which labor is an overwhelming over-whelming majority. Everything that you see is the result re-sult of labor from the skyscraper with its steel skeleton to the copper wire that carries your messages or the food that keeps you alive. To compare the value of labor and capital Is childish. There is no comparison com-parison possible. Take all the gold, all that which we call wealth In the world, and it is absolutely ab-solutely nothing without labor to make it productive. 'On the other hand, put labor naked on the earth, and soon it will do again what it has doDe in the past produce the food, cut forests, drain tho marshes, marsh-es, build the houses and build civilization. civili-zation. But the laborer ct any kind who rejoices re-joices In his strength and who feels conceit proves hi3 smalluess, whether he 'be a laborer with pick and shovel, or a 'laborer working at a great ?c!eu-tific ?c!eu-tific problem. The thing for us to do Is to remcn ber our littleness, our shortcomings, and try, by giving full credit to others, to deserve credit for ourselves. Exchange. |