Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-02

from it, he starts out to learn foi
himself. The first thing he does is to
get among other boys and find out
how they spend their hours after they
get through work. After being mi.
tinted in this important part Of a
young mans life, he then lights a ci.
garcttc, cocks his bonnet over one ear
and starts out to get himself a piece
of work. 1t goes without saying that
the job must be somewhere to his
liking, else his natural inbred indo.
pendence crops out to the great loss
Of a prospective employer. 1t takes
some time, occasionally a life time,
TO get just the kind of Il job we want.
so we find in this country that many
of our would-bc industrious young men
are compelled to spend much of their
time waiting for something which will
not destroy the necessary independ-
cnce Of true Americanism, and they
had as well smoke and look wise as be
at home helping the cold lady" wash,
or bringing in stove-wood. SO this
compulsory loafing, brought about by
independence, is found to furnish many
of us with great moral issues. Those
idle young fellows, but not all of them
by any means, having nothing to do,
get to drinking whisky as well as roll
ing cigarettes. Then the moralist
walls and howls loud and long about
the whisky curse.
| Among men who are well qualified
to make the observation, it is said that
idleness breeds more crime than
whisky, cigarettes or any other dozen
things punched into one. Even among
the Englishmcn this was a sentiment
incorporated into their very laws and
found in the d~iscourses upon a well.
regulated government. Here we over.
look entirely the first cause of the
trouble, but blame the effects and
treat them as the real causes. Idle.
ness is the first cause in a majority
of cases. We have all heard that the
"devil finds work for idle hands to
do" America is trying to get out Of
work, and is working herself to death
trying to do it. American workmen
demand easier jobs, when their saliva. |
ton as human beings depend upon how
much they a do, rot upon how little.
Work is the greatest blessing ever
given to man, and yet everybody is
trying to get out of it. All govern.
ment, all social and moral questions
hinge largely upon this one thing
called work. The very fabric of gov
eminent rests upon industry. Man as
"A human being requires constant mo-
ton and energy to be in what we call
a "healthy condition" Thus, in the
very nature of man, we find that he
walks about but a little while when he
standing up, so he must sit down
t. rest. After sitting down a while,
he must stand up to rest. After try
ing both standing up and sitting down
rest, he must then lie down a
while. Even in this he tires, hence
he must get up again, and so on in the
experiences of the day we
find we are u concentrated combina.
lion of various energies. Unless we
like standing up occasionally, we
are said to be feeling badly, If we
want to sit down or lie down for any
ength of time we are also considered
nut of gear and need fixing. SO, we |
zee that in his nature man is especial 9
y adapted and constructed for the I
purpose of being an industry en- {
zine. The moment the engine stops for 8
second there is something wrong. +
When this energy, which must be a
continuous and never ceasing, is ex-
in proper ways, the results are '
,ood. While it is allowed to follow
'roftless pursuits, we find that it ?
works just the same to the bad. Thus n
man who is very much of the ener- b
.etic type is either a very good man, S
very successful man, or else a very e
'ad man. There is a certain amount n
f energy which must be expended f
it be for good or bad. So G
Shen the American youth can't find L
~washboard or an axe in the wood fl
he'd for his tingling fingers he must s
nd something else for them to do. t
n order to be a fit companion for his a