The Alaska daily empire., 1920-08-17
Pretty Soft.
(Dearborn Independent)


 Nearly every man you meet will give you the impression that he thinks the other man has ar easier job. Pretty soft for him is phrase which ought to be oulawed from every respectable vocab- ulary. If admitted at all, it should always be under the most careful scrutiny The danger of it, as { germ of personal discomfort and distress, is that the who it about another rarely hears 1t useo concerning himself Yet, there is not man Tn the world or class of men, of whom it has not beer said, Pretty soft for them!
 sThe shopmen passing the office window see man sitting at a desk, apparently doing nothing They going home at 4:3o He will be at his desi until six-maybe he will come back in the evening The men streaming out of the shops say-"Prett! soft for him" And the at the desk may sa! could make out a pretty good before any jury The men in the shops have left their work in tho shop-"Pretty soft for them! They have nothlnt whatever to do with their job until they get bacl in the shop the next day-"Pretty soft for them! If they break machine, they are not required tt carry it home with them in the evening and fix it Pretty soft for them!" They have nothing what ever to do with making the business meet hetwee the cost of material and labor, the difficulty O shipments, and all the rest all they have to do h to do their days work and draw thelr pay Prett! soft for them
 The man in the office hasn't any hours, if he is responsible man, but tha2 is no occasion to s'nt pretty soft for him!" because usual thing hi hours too numerous for any schedule II hl work breaks down, he takes it home with him to h1 it. He may think he is leaving it in his desk bu it is in his head-that is his shop by the way and on his pillow His work is not done in a da! because it isn't days work; the next day and tn next month with their preparations are alway crowding into today joggling yesterday and las month who have also come Tor lheF Tepardllohs Pretty soft for him.
 The truth is that everybody who is connected with serviceable business is carrying about all the work man ought carry, and some are necessaril! carrying more. The white collar merely indicates the surroundings in which works. The same with blue jeans.
 And monotony-you will find monotony where ever you go Ask the President of the United States he will tell you something about the monotony of his job. Ask the doctor he will tell you that hi life is pretty much round of the same old colds the same old. levers, people being born and people dying in the old There is great deal of monotony in every profession which means, every iob. The teachers job is monotonous. The writer does the thing over and over again, with tht same motion of the wrist, using the same set O muscles, small job in the shop migh do. Life is pretty much the same thing all the time so far the material plane goes and if there is nc variety and lite the higher plane, then it is mon- otonous indeed.
 Monotony really means monotone It is life that makes the tone. It is ourselves that control the tones of life Lives lived in monotone indicate monotonous souls. It is inside man that monotony has to be broken up-inside the man! Outside ev. erything is always the same old eart-beat-beat. beat the old breathing; the same old rotation of the earth the old light and darkness. Out. side a man, everything goes with perfect same If there is to be variety, color and life il must be inside. "A mans life consistent in the abundance of the things which he possesseth" but in the variety and vitality of the things which he is