The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-09-01
MAN AND Ills WORK.

An experienced newspaper corre- spondant sending a report from Europe draws attention to one pe- culiar fact which he observed. This was that the men iH the trenches or who are serving in the artillery never talk about their work or their fighting. That subject is ta- boo. They talk of everything else under the sun, but never of their work
 The way the correspondent saw it was they seldom talk about the war. Rather they tell their eXperi- encas the last time they went on leave. Then they talk about the shows they saw. the things they had to eat, the pretty girls they met, what they ere going to do when the war is over and the rest.
 Moreover in the same dispatch the correspondent really hits the explanation oi this in the sentence "Of course these men do not love the war Nobody loves the war.
 For, it can be truthfully said that it is only when men love their work will they be inclined to talk about it Max O'Rell (Paul Blouet) who made a speciality of writing up the idiosyacracies Of all races and classes said that he found fhe average American magnate a nonom@uiaa Wealth making was H.s mania and he could talk inte2-- igcatIy about nothing else. No mattcr how highly educated tho man .,ould be he would cease talk ias on any subject once finance or industrial projects calculated to he money making were introduced as ghe topic of conversation. And whether the man was at work CT at leisure it was the same
 It is common fact that authors and literary men, painters ana sculptors and artists generally, edu- cators and other intellectuals talk shop when either at work or play. They find their work pleasure and not irksom2. They love it,
 Every effort to bring about this condition among the working clas- aes has failed. They know it is servile work with the boss ready tc give them their walking papers ii their labor is Iat prcat2bi and their performance cs it IS simply identified with their means of ex istence. They have to labor tc live.
 Hence it is that in any industry only those who have become wholly cnslaved and hug their chains tall about their work. They will dis cuss everything under the sun bu the pleasures or the worries of { Number Two. They will see nothing poetic in the dragging around oVel muck piles of machine drill ol the dexte:ity required to hammer an upper. When at work and gen eT2lly when clear of job the! will seldom be found to talk abou anything except the pleasures tha they got on their last stake, anC seldom dwell with unction on tn story of their labors.
 So with the sailor. Tn the fore castle you will he@r almost ever, subject discussed except the dang CTS of the deep and the martinet of the quarter deck. You ma, hcar curses both loud and deel against the driving tyrannies o skipper and mate, you may one in a while hear them sing tn praises of a ship that they one upon a time sailed upon but dis cuss the niceties of their worl whom on board ship-hardl ever.
 Moreover, it is remarkabl thing that the man at work wheth e< a railroad worker. a logger. ssilor, a. miner, machinist CT tn like, will seldom find in his work be he addicted to rhyme or som The subjects for his inspiration. l may be about maidens fair, abou true love, about lovely Muckilte about mothers love. about tn trials oi beating your way. about general revolt against workin