The Lakeland evening telegram., 1920-02-17
(Ocala Banner)

Ihe Gainesville (Ga.) Eagle is
among the Oldest weekly newspapers
printed In Georgia.
Mr. Hawey Craig has been its edi.
tor for nearly fifty years and in re.
tirihg gives the reasons WHY and
IN DONG so contributes the following
original article on "work"--just plain
every day work which if read, we
Know will be appreciated by the
readers of the Banner
In bidding his friends, countrymen
ana lovers farewell, Mr.. Craig says:
we DO not intend to give you any
farewell poppycock about the upbuild.
Ing or the vox PopuI, or our old
friend the Palladium. We are going
10 get down to the text and tell why
we are quitting.
We are going to consider the lilies
we are going to get in line with the
Scriptures at last
Consider the lilies Of the field,
how they grow; they toll not, neither
40 they spin: And yet say unto
you, that even Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one of
these"
We have got good and tired of
working. ANYWAY back when we were
small kid hoeing corn of a summer
afternoon and the sun got hitched
on snag about four o'clock and
stayed there, we got it in our heads
that there was something radically
wrong about the entire scheme of this
thing called Work. However, up to
this good day we have stuck to the
wheel as faithfully as Ixion. But we
have mutinied at last. We are done
We are going to consider the lilies
They lay it all on Adam-they say
he started it by getting In trouble
and having to go to work as a pun
ishment. But that isn't so. The only
work that there is any account OF
Adams doing was before he fell.
AS soon as he got dry he was put
to work
And the Lord God took the man
and put him into the garden of Eden
to keep 1t and dress it."
Well, wasn't that work? Isn't
dressing garden work? OF course
he was bound to make a failure OF
it. A man with no more sense Of the
fitness Of things than to dress gar.
den and 60 naked himself was not
liable to make shining success.
And after he lost his Office and left,
there is no account that he ever
struck another lick. Abel worked
and Cain worked, and the girls, what.
ever their names were, probably
worked, but not more of 1t for Adam
He'd had enough. He spent his time
considering the lilies.
We take it as self-evident prop
osition that no one ever worked that
didn't have to. 1t is the Shadow OF
the Wolf on the doorstep-tha il
AS we have gone to our work of q
morning for the past thirty years we
have seen myraids Of little huma!
ants of all ages, sizes, and sexe!
hurrying and scurrying to their lit
! tie hills to toll and sweat and carry
their never-dimishing burdens. Di
you think they do this because the,
love to? 1t Is the Shadow OF ths
Wolf on the doorstep,
And this brings us to the age-olt
question, why tramp?" Let VI
tell you why: Our festive friend ans
true philosopher has no Wolf at th'
Door. To him there is no wolf ant
there is no door His wolf Is suck
ling lamb, gamboling on the green
and his door is the flowery highwa.
to the orient gate of the dawn.
Like those first builders OF Rom
he regards the fight Of bird ant
wither 1t goes and thither he bend
his steps-care-free as the robins il
the woods or the larks that carroll y
the rising sun. The trees In fores
aisles bend their limbs to make tr