Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-05-16
WORK AND THOUGHT.

Talking before the high school students in Chicago recently
Governor Hughes said:
s'Make good Take advantage of every opportunity to
work-just work.
Governor Hughes should have gone further and explained
to those young people that it necessary to think well
What is the difference between work without thought and
talk without thought?
1t IS unquestonaby true that there is great deal
OF both done without thought But the who accomplish
thngs the men who construct the who build,
who think as we'll as work
Where there is who thinks out the plan build
building there are thousands who work-jus workdong
what that one has thought Of planned for them do
This great and glorious country It's buildings nstu
on Its schools its railroads and its factories just
from work only but back of all of them master minds
that planned to the development of these institutions and
the country the very elements that have always been here
not De put N shape for use OF to anybody work until
some NINA conceived connected practical for them
It. takes an immense amount of work day to conduct
other activities that employ labor
But the reason that these institutions shape
y LABOR Is that some thought out practical plan for the
plan according to the intention Of the that conceived it.
It IS mighty fortunate thing that there were men who
run into something new but thought out uses for what was al
ready here Iron and wood constitute biggest physical por
were not new 100 years they have always been part
OF the earth Finally began think the uses they could
be put to and they invested their money and all they could
GET IN the production that started these factories mills and
railroads and they had put many thousands Of dollars into
them before they could hope get even interest on their
That required thought and also liberal allow
ance OF what in these days. nerve Work alone did
not DO it. 1t is the less extent in the small
business as with the big one.
man conceives the idea that he can manufacture some
aruce at profit He thinks out plan by which can inter
est capital to build building in which manufacture that
duct He then plans his building the way that the most
to economical production He then invests his
tine and his own capital and that which get interested
VIII m and ne has spend before he hope get cent
back many times what the profit of his business will give him
n one wo three or five years be Possibly he
aoes not succeed at all but the meantime he been giving
people employment He has been paying wages People have
been profting by the fact that he thought
linen sometimes these thinkers and builders succeed and
puld up big that give employment that give Young
men chance TO participate in the profits that open up new
Tor These are the who do things They
are the men who not content work work work or inst
talk talk, talk 'oi' - Jus'
II the men who have done the thinking the past and there
are not very of he had been content to lust hare
living from their brains the rest of would now be living il
caves ana getting our breakfast with club bow and arrow
Ihe thinkers are the who build who construct who ~
their capital in way to build and develop their
nunlty and the country There vast difference in the man
who invests his money enterprises that distribute WAGES d
te man VINO puts his time in talking against those enterprises
Which man is doing the most for his fellow MANI f1