Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-01
WORK IS REMEDY
FOR GREAT UN REST
Should be Adopted by People as
Their Gospel and Good Re
suits Will Follow.

Lewis L. Clarke, president of the Amcri-
can Exchange National Bank Of New
York City, says:
We stand at the forks Of the road To
the left lies the road Of intolerance; to
the right lies the road of concIliatlon- No
people, no institution whose history IS
recorded in the annals Of civilization that
ever sought safety upon the road of in
tolerance survived or deserved To survive.
That road was laid out by bigotry, inspired
by Incidence, abctted by stagnation. II is
lighted by the Pickering fires of fanaticisrn-
1t is not the road for us.
Americanism and intolerance are not
SYNONYMS These words do not mean
the same thing thoy are antonyns they
are directly opposed This country was
founded by men who fled from intolerance
as from scourgc men who sought free
dom from domination either by false ideas
or hv arms such az them as sought hcru =
breeding place for their own brands Of m
tolerance soon found that the spirit which
hrcathrd in them could not 1--we Il pon this
continent Our national atmosphere has
not changed IL IS just rs deadly 20 hat
sort 81 spirit today rs il ever was. We
Should not be ruled hv fanatics. no matter
what flag they fly
America The America about which We
boast is the forum of freedom, thc clear
ing house uf ideas, h,Inanlty's supreme
laboratory for tho solution of the secret
nf happiness We believe we have dis
covered that secret III work hui other men
and other nations have assumed that they
too had discovered il Those men and
those nations sought IA make thor dis
covcrics solution Of the secret ~ haPpi-
ness hy the employment Of intolerance
against those who had not tho same faith
IN their doctrines They were satisfied, !,
the solution suited them They were TOO
indoIcnt ar too bigotcd "a take the trouble
"a spread thor faith by persuasion they
sought to force il down the throats 81 the
, infidcS They failed, and So viii We fau II
we adopt their tactics.
Intolerance is founded upon mental
indolence Men become higots because
thcv allow all hat the regularly employed
sectors az their minds To atrophv through
disuee What they are doing is sound and
reasonable to them, hut when they at
tempt 10 Justify their faith % Others they
are forced to bring IN mental machinery
that hns rllstcd and they wcarv at the
task 10 such mind it i much SIMPLER
to convince q skeptiC with q cl1h
There is no real division of interest in
this country Intolerance alone can dI-
vide Us into classes We All are, or ought
To he workers What is gong on IS S
struggle for leadership The men who
epend their time thinking out tstteT
vav Of life while other men are working
out better way oi life want 10 take over
the plant-thev want "a hegin at the end
And harvest the fruit or better still
have Others harvest the fruit for their
benefit Some Of these men honestly he-
lievc they can serve the mass of the work
ers better than the men under whose
leadership the mass Of the workers hsve
steadily advanced toward the satlsfac-
non oi all their wants But 'whu leslde
themselves believes that they can Not
even the mass 81 the workers i~lcve IT.
Others among the radical leaders are en-
titled IL less respect they are clearly self
seekers men seeking private ends
wealth or power, who TuthlaSsly employ
the workers as stepping stones These
are the men in between the men WHO
cannot succeed unless they separate the
mas of the worker from their natural
leaders. the planners. the builders They
want the country divided into classes
The higots, the iIfoiey.lnt, the fanatIcaL
no matter what flag they fly. help the
radical toward their goal
The times call for sanity for conciIia-
ton That does not mean that they call
FOR surrender or for acquiescence The
mcn-In-betwcen have taken the mass Of
the workers upon the mountain and have
offered them gifts which are not theirs 10
give They have shown them visions
that 30 not exist. They havc taught them
to believe that men can live without work
The workers must bc disillusioncd must
have the wrong idea Of the radical sup
planted by the right ldea That is the
task Of their natural leaders the plan
ners. the builders The task Is not an
easy one mems dreams live long in their
hearts but it must be done; it is the
only wav
We must adopt work q, our gos7 el
Every man, high and low, must work, be-
cause he believes III work as the me ans OF
industrial salvation; because in rk he
finds his greatest Joy and comfort