The Glenwood post., 1916-01-01

the two oceans. He was born to stag
gering responsibilities, but has aIWa1n
tried and is trying today to know IL
right and to do it at any cost. 7n
The third article in my creed is that
all real business is form of public
service. We speak of public utilities.
but every form of commercial enter
prise is either public utility or pubic
detriment and public menace. Are We
willing to divide enterprises into two
classes, and say that one thing 10 a
public utility and another is private
graby The private grab must be abol
ished.
The legitimate profit enterprise must
realize that 1t always has silent part
ner, which is the state. In every en-
terprise the state is profoundly interss.-
ed and cannot be ignored. II man is
efficient in business he will make money
for himself, and he ought to make it.
If his work is efficient it will bring
him reward; but that Is not the only
object of his endeavor. Beyond and
behind the object of making money is
the vastly greater, more fascinating OBJ
ject of making civilization nobler and
finer than we have thus far found it.;
of serving as soldiers to the common
good.
"What are you in business forf'
1 said to one man. "To make my lit
tie pile as quickly as possible" he
answered, "and then get out" Hard
ly an heroic ideal for the twentieth
century. Hardly an ideal that makes
for citizenship East or West. What il
a soldier should say that? You woul
strip off his uniform. What if the doe
tor should say that? You would never
want him again to visit your wife ana
children. What if the teacher in the
school house should say that? Yon
would never again wish him to instruct
our young people.
Some years ago a man was watching
three stone cutters at work on the
buildings of the Canadian Parliamer.
at Ottawa. He said to the first,
"What are you working for?' "Ii
you want to know,' he answered..
81 IN working for $3.50 day." That
was his conception of his job. He said
to the second, "What are you trying to
do?" "I am trying" he said, " t"
cut this stone according to this pattern
in the blueprint" That man hail
gained little higher conception of his
task-a sense of the relation of his
work to all the rest. Then he said to
the third stone cutter, "And what ar
you doing here?" Pointing upward to
the rising walls and battlements of the
great buildings, he said, 81 am trying
to do my part in that" There was u
worker who had gained the vision by
which the days work was entirely
transformed.
Danish Distinction
The day is coming when the false
distinction between business and pro-
fessional life will vanish; when VIC
shall have the same standards for the
doctor, the teacher, the soldier on the
one hand, and the manufacturer, the
salesman, the railroad conductor, on the
other, and shall demand that all of
them shall work for the common good.
This great aim redeems drudgery AMI
makes the dingiest office to glow with
new light. This great aim will seni
the tired business man to his desk with
an inspiration even greater than that
furnished by the Colorado climate. We
are the creators of the America that Is
to be. We can do nothing in any line
of business without vision that is born
of Imagination. Imagination is far
more essential than any technical
knowledge. We must see the future Of
America and then steadfastly toll to
create what we see. We must plan for
a greater nation here than the world
has ever known, and all of US, large
and small, old and young, must toll
together to make that dream come true.