The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-08-04
MAKES A PLEA
FOR HARMONY
Brain Worker and laborer Must
Be United Says Rev. Long

| sunday morning at the First Con-
gregational church, the pastor, Rev.
Luther Is. Long, took for his subject
| Three rights and three obligations of
people who work" He said in part:
Il speak on this subject because of
the conditions existing in our COM
| munity at the present time. We need
To have firm grasp on some funda-
mental principles in order that our
Sympathies may be right and that we
may think through the problems we
are encountering. II Is q mistake to
separate the intellectual worker from
the manual laborcr; all toll is one, and
the interests Of all workers are essen
| TALLY the same. John Euskin, a friend
or all men, saw the tendency toward
separation. He said: We are endeav-
oring to separate intellectual and man
ual labor we want one man TO be al
ways thinking and another to be al
ways working. aud cali one "A gentle
| man and the other an operative:
whereas the workman ought often to
he thinking and the thinker often To be
working, and both should be gentlemen
In the best sense. AS ii is, We make
| both ungentle, the one cnvyinS. the
other dcspiSing his brother: and the
mass of society is made UP Of morbid
thinkers ana miserable workers
1T seems to me that the feelings Of
great many people in these days is
| better expressed in this modification
which | make Of Ruskin's words We
are endeavoring To unite intellect and
manual labor; We do not want one
man to be always thinking and another
| to be always working. and ii is not
other an operative The workman ought
often To be thinking and the thinker
ought often To be working, and both
should he gentlemen in the best sense
| This will prevent the one envying and
the other despising his brother: and
there will be no morbid thinker and no
miserable worker, but rather all work.
ers with the hands or the intellect or
the two combined
II desire to call your attention to
three rights and three obligations of
these people who work:
II. The right to toll and to share
in the results of toll In primitive
times the resources of nature were
open and free to all; one could gather
fuel or wild fruits or hunt game as he
pleased but with more complex or
ganization of society special adjust
ments are necessary in order that each
person may have an opportunity to
work. There is always danger that
in the division of the proceeds of toll.
he strong will sefishly overbear the
weak. The right of intellect and CAPT
tai to organize is no more apparent
than that of manual laborers to do the
| same i'm their own interest the most
unfortunate thing in either case is for
tho organization to fall into the hands
Of unwise or INSCRIPTIONS leaders
The right to work implies the obli
cation to work. Well-ordered society
has no place for the idlcr and loafer,
whether rich or poor.
"2 The right to rest. The Sabbath
day is To give rest to the toiler and
s'uiddy NplA Siipulu ithuNtu W ti'
minimum and those who are required
to labor on Sunday should have their
full rest made up to them. II is to the
advantage of every person to preserve
the day for as complete rest as pos
slblc Rest includes recreation; holt
days. halfholidays. and shortened
hours should provide for this.
"'rhe right to rest implies the obli-
gatiCn To rest. II is not fair to use
the Sabbath and holidays for dissipa-
ton. IL these days leave one i'm worse
condition than at the close Of work.
This applies equally to toilcrs in every
walk of life.
81 The right to complete devel-
'pmeni This means that the labor of
men, women. and children should he so
guarded that their physical develop
ncnt will not he hindered by excessive
toll: II means also that such provision
.hould he made for schools, libraries,
clubs that their intellectual life will he
ministcrcd to: and il means that
churches and other religious instiiu-
tons ministcring to the moral life
should be adequately supported
I'm the right To complete develop
mcnt is involved the obligation To
make use Of the opportunities offered.
How sad IL Is To see a man who has
the opportunities that money and lcis-
IRE afford. choosing only the activities
that minister to his own selfish wants,
living on u low moral plane disregard
ing the enioymcnts Of "a higher life and
the opportunities of ministering In
these things to his fellow men,"