Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-04
THE WORLDS CALL FOR
WORKERS


prospered." End Chronicles, Chap. 81,
Verse II.
For nearly five years the world was
busy destroying the accumulations Of
centuries, and during that time it had
to leave undone the things which or
dinarily would have been done. Now
every man on earth must in one way
or another bear some of the burden
of Germany's war upon civilization
and hasten to do the things which
need to be done,
For five years dwellings left I'M
built and existing ones implanted and
unrepaired; food was consumed and
destroyed more rapidly than it was
produced as 100000 to 100000
men battled for existence or prepared
for the great struggle; railroad build
ing ceased, highway construction
stopped, streets were unrepaired, no.
tells were not constructed to meet the
worlds increasing travel. The re-
lsult is there is now an enormous vac
uum of empty store shelves, of I'M
built dwellings and hotels and rail
roads, and of a food supply made
quate to feed up world of hungry
people.
There is only one way to overcome
the situation. All the combined
power of all the Governments of
earth cannot overcome the situation.
An the combined power of all the
4 Governments of earth cannot change
the inescapable, unalterable facts
But men, individually and collectively
can meet the mighty problems we
face by work, hard driving work; by
work of brain and Drawn and ma
chine power
Production and more production to
the limit of mans ability will insure
world prosperity.
Under production will mean world
poverty and suffering.
The responsibility of the soldier
on the battlefield to do his utmost
was not greater than is the respon.
sibility of every worker now to bring
forth the greatest results, whether
on the farm, in the mine, in the fac
tory, in the bank, in the pulpit, il
1.-THE teachers room, or at the editor
ial desk.
II Every ounce of increased output by
work helps to create wealth and vii
help the world to carry and eventual!
pay it's indebtedness. 1t will help tt
feed and clothe the world and viii
lessen the cry of hunger which has
fed the fires of Bolshevism in Europe
The soil, the mine, the factory, thu
brain, are but plants for the produc
ton of things which will add to tn
worlds wealth and help to fill up tn
. worlds vacuums.
The work must be done by ever,
man with all his heart" No othe
kind of effort is worthy to be calle'
work
The man who plows, the man VIII
breaches, the man who mines the Goa
or the ore, the man who runs tn
machine or he who digs the ditch,
, he would do his duty to sufferin
world, must do it with all his heart
and feel that every pulse-beat whic
he puts into the work helps to en-
rich all humanity in its broades
sense.
Any man who halts in his worl
who dawdles at it and who is ineff
Gent and only partially productiv
, where he should be efficient and lal
gely productive, is a Stacker in tn
worlds great battle against povert
: and misery.
To the chosen of old, God sale
i'tThou shalt remember the Lord tn
: God, for it is He that giveth the
! power to get wealth" And W
: should also remember that wealth
individual and national, and for tn
world, can be created only by worl
Work can solve the problems whic
the world faces.-Ex.