The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-08-08
NO aI4NI Is WHIPPED UNTIL, HE FEELS WHIPPED
LSAN OLD UTTRUE SAYING

TRUE 81 YING
many working people find themselves
making more money than they dream
az possible few years ago.
AS consequence, the standard of
living has thus been raised and luxu-
res have become necessities, and this
| g Iaborer's day; he is waxing pros
porous and is enjoying his new earn
ing opportunities too much to think of
the need of saving. Once family or
any person for that matter, raises the
etandard of living, it is hard to re-
nuce 1t when necessary, and as the
tendency is to base the future on the
present, there is going to be crop.
per some fine day, in the future for
the too easy spenders. Labor is in
#neh demand that men of small skill
and a lot with no skill at all and very
little capacity now on emergency
JOBS, will find themselves greatly re-
#auced IN pay, when normal conditions
return. lot of them have adopted
nehfts too extravagant for Them, and
suHering must be their portion They
nave reached the summit-the un-
precedented prosperity this class Of
WOfkers are now enjoying is really
khe worst thing that could have hap
5RenAd to them, SO far as they person.
ally are CONCERNED. Perhaps it is Just
that it should be So. The
lay have made certain progress
along his line of work, but there are
SekAEfs but he will soon discover he
3S very insignificant atom in the vast
HlR1d DI labor. And in assuming un-
fR2p0rtance on account of war me-
eess1fI6s He will real liza he has made.
asserious mistake. Under normal con-
ditions these undue advantages are
not forgotten. Some people are in
stlnctively considerate and agreeable.
They are born that way just as others
are not. The considerate man will
average up his opportunities and be
governed accordingly-he wins; the
other fellow demands his pound of
hesh-he loses. Consideration for the
other fellow can be cultivated. 1T
cannot be faxed. Deliver us from the
simpering, affected manners that are
not nor never can be attractive. There
is neither strength of character nor
Willingness to help, without imposi-
ton, in a fellow of this type, and these
overpa1d self-important fellows are
largely of this class.
Do you know that jealousy plavs an
important part in the high cost of COM
mon labor e do not refer to skilled
labor). These fellows who have work
under strained conditions get a good
price for their labor. They write back
home and tell Of a land flowing with !
milk and honey; the other fellow
comes on. He also gets a Job. He in
turn does the same thing. If one gets
a little more than the other. thev get
jealous and trouble starts right now
In order to keep out of labor trouble
the contractors acceed to anv< demand
they make to get their work done. and
in this way a high standard of wages
Is established. for if one gets it ALI
must. And under strained conditions
labor ers who get s71k cents per hour,
would he glad to work for 17h cents
under normal conditions. / am on the.
lob and know and don't think it will
last ALWAYS. The contractors are get
ting heartily sick and tired of it-thev
nave time contracts and must finish
hem at any price. but wait until the
frst cold wopo sirilas +b;s oonn+rv
what a scattering of the people there
will be.
They have reached the sumnnit
And it is long dron to terra f1rma
rhev do not realizo +his whi1o tbnI
Inn chimes t,,,a o,1o1.d nor,
,.,1, aaoI = 11iato.", e"s eso ~ -
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