El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-21
Mrs. Booth Says
MLeneSS Cause
OfLiUing Cost
By MRS. BRAHTWELL BOOTH.


New York, Aug. 21.-Mrs. Bran
well Booth, wife OF Gen. Bramwell
Booth, the head Of the Salvation
army, takes a keen interest in the
/ economic trouble, which beset the
working classes OF Great Britain to-
| points out how they themselves IN a
] large measure can remedy the present
run OF high prices.
There are many false and mistaken
I ideas in evidence at the present time
We see on every hand the sad
I spectacle might almost say, for
I those who really care about the vel
fare OF humanity, the heart breaking
/ spectacle-of strong and able bodied
men and women actually seeking to
make as little effort as possible in
return for the wages paid to them for
their so-called work
This they do because they regard
their work as merely making money
for those who already have more
| than their share, not realizing that
the employer has provided them with
facilities for applying their energy in
way which enables them 70 con-
tribute more to the general comfort
OF living than they could possibly do
By their own isolated effort.
What Is work? As a matter its es-
sential and simplest meaning Is the
effort necessary to overcome re-
sistance.
The happiest thought about work
to me IS that work IS the natural out
come Of life. The more vigorous the
life the more vigorous and joyous the
effort to live and to overcome all
that IS IN opposition to life.
Is not life IN every department
born Of effort, and does not life pros
per only through effort2
Every one Of the powers which en-
rich and beautify life depends equally
upon effort The healthy child strives
TO walk and 50 learns to walk, and.
later. adds TO its powers By the effort
OF learning to SWIM 70 ride. to cycle,
to skate.
ward OF the effort lies is in itself.
The true reward OF mental effort is
never found IN any commercial value
lin the book produced. or the inven-
ton applied. or the problem solved;
It Is found in the actual result Of the
work itself.
For is not this the plan upon which
God has made US. His children, in
His own image, capable Of creative
work and capable Of Joy in contsm-
plating that which we have brought
Thank God, no enemy Of mankind
has power 20 deprive Us OF this pos
sibility, pleasure in good work well
done.
Could we but learn that all the sor-
earth are but the result Of refusal
70 Work-refusal, that Is. to put up
q resistance 70 that which seeks TO
oppose life.
What a clever lie mans enemy, the
devil, manufactured when he first
sowed the seed OF the idea that linz
itation Of output could possibly be
beneficial TO mankind generally. the
idea which has so largely brought
into being the vicious circle OF soar
ing prices, from which we are all
suffering-the idea OF making as 1T
tie effort as possible. which brings
misery not only upon ourselves but
reaches out to every other with
whom we come IN contact
Thank God there are many work
men with Us today into whose lives
the Joy OF effort rightly directed has
come in its fulness.
The idea Of heaven on earth as
well as heaven in the world 20 come
is that OF nobly striving TO DO the
will Of the Great Father OF love, and
Of working in harmony with HIS
heneficent arrangements for His
human family