Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-08

your unframed, inefficient man is not
only poverty breeder for himself
but the contagion of it curses every.
man IN the community that is. guilty
OF leaving him unframed The law
or changeless justice DEGREES that YOU
must rise or fall, decline or prosper.
with your neighbor. You will be
richer for his wealth, poorer for his
poverty. And this holds good with
communities. as the unit as well as
with individuals working in commu-
mites. That community alone is pros
porous that is progressive-that does
things for itself
AND SO today every man who is till.
Ing an acre of land in the South. so
that it produces only half what INTEL
lgently directed labor would get ont
| of it, every man who is doing moor
work of any kind, every man who is
creating and earning only 70 cents
day instead of $500 or $500 as in
telllgent labor would do, every inef-
hc1ent man, no matter in what line of
work, is burden on the community.
is dragging down the level of life for
every other man in the community.
Suppose you are his fellow-citizen:
tnen because of his inefficiency, his
poverty, because of his failure to con-
tribute to public funds and public
movements, you must have poorer
roads, poorer schools, a meaner
school house and court house, a shah
bier church, lower-priced lands; YOUR
teacher will be more poorly paid. your
preachers salary will be smaller, your
newspaper will have smaller circn-
latlon, your town will be a poorer
market, your railroad have smaller
traflc, your merchant smaller trade.
your bank smaller deposits, your man
ufacturer diminished patronage. and
SO on and on. The ramifications are
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"On the other hand, every efficient
man, every man trained to do good
work, whether by the schools or by
any other method-he is making the
whole community richer. If by doing
better work he doubles his incomes
does not that mean the merchant will
have more trade, the bank larger de-
posits, the newspaper better patron
age, the preacher. larger salary, the
county and State better resources. so
tnat roads, schools and school house
Will all feel and show the thrill of a
new power that has come to them?
Every man who comes into the
community with new talent or skill
every man trained by any method to
greater efficiency and dynamic intel
llgence-every such man lifts the 8
whole level of prosperity for the COM s
munity. No matter what you have to
seil-your muscular labor, your skill
your scientific knowledge, youra man s
Ifacturings product, your land-you
get paid for it in proportion to the
7fhclency and prosperity of the aver
age man with whom you deal, and the
great masses in the community must
be intelligent and efficient if the gen
eral level of prosperity is to be high
The farmer, the common laborer
OF any sort, needs no training. Edu-
cate him and you spoil him. The
poorer you keep him, the richer will
De the upper classes These have been
our great pet fallacies. And a long
time have they been preached.
"Hugging this vampire delusion.
he Southern plantation owner has
cen vast areas abandoned to broom.
'edge and gulIies, i'm spite of the fact
that intelligent handling would have
kept them productive a Thousand
years. astsna
Preaching this fatal doctrine. the
merchant has sold Western meat and
scooters and tobacco, when with pros
porous patrons he might have uuad-
rupled his profits by selling suIkv
plows and harvesters and carriages
and pianos.
Deluded by this fal1acy, the states.
man has struggled against fate. onlv
to die and be forgotten by people too
poorly educated to read his biogranhv
and too poor in property to build a
monument to his memory, while small
or and meaner men in sections nm
shackled by these ancient errors. are
famed in song and story.
Writing editorials in support of the
aristocratic instead of the democratic
theory of industry, the editor has seen
his patent-outside weekly fail of sun
port, when properly trained and ed
ncateI people would have brought
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