Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-16
THE INDIVIDUALS PLACE
 IN THE BROTHERHOOD
Subject of Third of Shop Talks by
 Rev. C. H. Ricketts.

? he third in the serie5 Of shop meet
 ings at the McCrun- Howell co. plant under the auspices of the Young Mems t Christian association. was held al the noon hour on Wednesday and wss at tended by close 10 175. Who listened with close attention to the brief ad
 dress of Rev. C. H. Ricketts. who was the speaker at this meeting, as he has been at the preceding ones. Two so- los were finley sung bv Mrs Louis C. Potter, who accompanied herself on the violin and was also accompanied
 by Miss Elizabeth Grove on the or gan.
 The Place of the Indi, idual m the Brotherhood IS the topic of the talk by Rev. MT. Ricketts, who indicated in the first place how il will be found everywhere mat Ehe value of any or gapisn will depend on the worth of the parts of which it is composed.
 It is the policy of every great in cuStriai plant to weed out everything that $ unimprrtaut he said; to cut out all waste Just as far as possib ble. TO make money iu these days of sharp competition .>ll leakases must be stop ped. l take il fer granted that this great concern rests on such bed rock nf scientific order that nothing iS doT- shere. nobody employed. that is not ac- tually needed in the manufactI- e of these iron products. This mammOtf- room is not intended for fancy gym nastics: il is Lot 4 place to show off fine clothes but rather muscle anG skill applied to definite object. This concern is successful because it's in- divlduaI parts are valuable.
 hold something in my hand which oly every man here will at once recosnize. IL is the little chaplet such as the holders use. IL is probably $ small as anything in the foundry If it's value were determined merely by it's size We ai'Ght call It insignitica mt but small as it is II is not plaything and if it was not used the casting would come odt defeo tive probably ruined. Little as it is it is an import ant part in the larger mechanism of giant which ycu call the cupola rising colossal acoVe everything else in the focnory. has no occasion to look down disGainfuIly this little chapIet for what would molten iron be worth if it only turned out defective castings? As every machine. and every part of a machine, that enter into the makeup of this concern is important. so also is every man employed here. There is n@ reason whatever, even if there were the disposition, for one man to snub another. All men employ ed here are important parts of the plant. The man who does fine work in the machine shop is no more a part of this concern than the man who saoVeIs sand CT wheels pig iron In d work stap ~ here conDnon toll makes all the Ia borerS brethren there is no room 1T an aristoeracy. For that matter
 is no place for an aristOcracN any where in the social or industrial 9rGer II Would put stress upon cleaVages that do not exist iii fact IL is false, artificial and shallow The only dis tInction anlonc mel We are morally bound to recognize is that based oif character. Was not the great Master right when He sad. And all ye arc Drethren"@
 This little chapIet reminds me of these walls It $ the little chap perhaps your noy-Who brings his fathers dinner. The little fellow is a Dart of this world order that we must not ignore. He may never be king or president but he is one of Gods iit- tie pI inces and is put here for pur pose that is not unworthy of his Gre ator. Men recognize this more widely than we think Legislation with one hand is putting the tss 0f infamy on { hild labor. and with The other is dO- ing more ana more for the childs ed- ucation and general upIift.
 Everything possible, then. ought to be done to improve the individual Ev- cry ckild born into the world has q claim to decent e0ucation; every man. rich poor, has right to de- the power to help some other man if it is only 10 put the hand of sympathy on his shoulder when ne is Tn trouble, to speak a word or comfort in sorrow, to lift him up when fallen. The great trouble with this old world of ours is that we have had too many robbers N ho waylay and plunder; too many I-evites who 90 on the other side. and moi enough Good Samsritsns who