The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-07

last sprung our whole system Of navigation The "oym
pic" could have been launched had not Tycho
Brahe Coperncious and Newton traced their way
Through the dreary abyrnths of abstract And
yet, according labor" theory these same
astronomers parasites and noh-producers
Gregor Mendel the Silesan Abbot spent years at his
place in Brunn making experiments garden To
the aborer spaded his plot of ground is probable
the great naturasts work nothing but play and
wholly useless and impracticable. He man who
dreamed by a bunch of flowers lay on
This looking through glass their tiny petals
work he doing for society? From the
manual labor standpoint whatever. He was
tdleamer, parasite And yet the discoveries OF that
same dreamer" are now revoluonzng the agriculture
of this century and adding millions of wealth to our
treasures every season Of the earliest of Mendels
disciples found that by applying the masters principle he
could increase his yield of from % bushels to Is
bushels per acre! What the Mendeah laws will TIT
maely the world iii practical" nobody is
One could multiply EXAMPLES almost ad fnfnitum
There IS the case Of the German Scientist who dscov
cred year two what seems to be in crystals
claims that this apparently useless find will prove
before long of immense practical utility there is the
the mathematicians who worked out the theory
conical sections piece Of abstract thought about
far removed apparently from actual world the
East the West and yet some Of our most import
Industries said squarely this theory
there is the case of Darwin and Wallace who walked about
Through tropical woods and plains and studied bugs
and wild life and vegetable growths That didn't make
bread meat or, Sancho Panza would say butter
bodys parsnb,' but it made possible in the long
whole swarm Of Industries other practical activ
ties One could go and but these will suffice. sure
~, to reveal to how dangerous it is to attempt
make manual labor" dividing line between produc
tive persons and parasites.
thing we must recognize the important
place in modern industry which the administrative func
lions have come play. visitors at the National
Cash Register plant in Dayton always surprised to
find the tenstoy office building and to learn WHAT
of clerks, stenographers and bsokkeepers are
required to keep the huge institution going Without
these whte-colared clerks and c1ercs not
could run machine in the factory debartmen and
pound of metal could be worked into tools and nstru
mens And what would become Of these nachinists
if there not at all times army of statesmen the
field educating the public the the cash register
And yet according manual laborst" these
workers at all but parasites
But what is far important for present study
than this is the fact that healthy society needs far
possibly produced by manual labor Of
any kind, Man not live BY bread alone Labor It
self would become uncomfortable to us were It for
play and amusement and other interests that eater to
the spirit" find must have music well bread,
books we'll clothes pictures well shoes poetry
as well shelter These things essential
mally developed life quite necessary US
we to keep the vantage the brute any
thing produced BY manual laborer Speaking of the
mere" says, his products as need
ul those Of baker or Weaver Society cannot do
without cultivated men AS soon the first wants.
satisfied, the higher wants become Imperative" Poets
ihave their part to play we'll backsmths.
,, Speaking of the poets, they best Of All as
Illustration of this truth in hand Surely from the
lpont singer dream
Ter is nothing in the world but ornament and
possibly serve useful function And yet how
the is this! Paradoxica it may seem, poetry
has played mgher part in shaking the world than
cannons have Shelley did exaggerate when he said
Poets are the trumpets which sing to battle, -
q Poets the unacknowledged legislators of the
world
:, He who said that he cared who wrote the laws
of nation provided could write songs knew what
he talking about. Nothing is certain baro
meter Of the health and wealth Of nations than their
poetry. Patrick O. shaugnassey spoke the whole
s tribe Of singers when he said
I I'VE the music makers, the dreamers OF
: dreams
Sitting by lone sea breakers and wandering by desoate
y !, streams:
Wordioser and wordorsakers on whom the pale moon
Yet the and shakers of the world forever
it seems" ....
: Men hunger for the poets word than bread
and have hungered from the foundation the world
How misleading it is in view of all this assume thai
brewers hodcarriers simply because they happen
work with their hands producers while
soul workers, the Homers Dantes, Millions Brownngs
of the handtoler is beautiful is divine
human, but cannot arrogate to itself the sole gor!
of the human world think with huge conceitfulnes
that it alone is needed by the
the that the line between producer and para
site cannot be drawn here must not misead think
ing there is line. Nothing is necessary
We shall all know and recognize the distnc
ton that does divide these social sheep and goats.
safer and draw the line along
side the word reciprocity becomes Question
: whether works with his hands his brains
whether is returning society equivalent wha
Society gives him. If he is he