The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-14
For Good of
 the Community
Six Days of Conscientious Work Entitle Man to the Security of the
 Sabbath

iXXTHAT are these serene Sabbaths for? w How came they about? All peoples have them None can escape the impulse which leads to setting apart intervals in the workaday grind when we stand off from the mill tread and contemplate it's usufruct; ask ourselves if 1t has been worth while
 Man can no more stop still than the globe which hurtles him through space. Work is not a curse; it is a blessing, for work means crea- tion rest without work as it's prelude Is not rest Those who have no stated occupation work as hard to supply the want as they who toll for the dollars that keep the family larderI filled.
 August Hirsch met at Atlantic City wealthy gentleman from md-western state One eve ming Mir. Hirsch was eXpatiating on the frag- rance of the four hundred feet of woodland slxirting the ground about his home. He spoke of the aromatic odor of the leaves of these trees and of their rustling music that lulled him tol sleep at nights.
 Mr. Hrsch had enoyed the company and the gayety of Atlantic City while, as any buslnessI man does a brief relaxation, but he was soon missing his great oaks and elms, the swish of their swaying branches and their softly Whls-I pering leaves, and he spoke of it longingly.
 The wealthy westerner said to him: Would you not prefer that the leaves of your beloved trees were twenty dollar gold pieces?" To- him. after grasping the tenor of the question, Mr. Hirsch replied: No; we can make dol lars. but we cannot make beautiful trees nor buy the aroma and music of thelr leaves. Our dollars would be worth precious little to us did not they bring the leisure that permits us to en-
 ioy the simpler things that lie at the base of II life"
 So we work that we may be entitled to our Sabbaths. Men cannot pass by building on which other men are engaged Tn hosting pillars and placing steel girders without pauslng for a glance at the creative which It represents None enjoys his Sabbath who has not led up to 1t with six days of manful effort at doing something that has helped sustain and build the commun- II ity which, in turn, upholds h1m.
 There is close connection between serene Sabbath and the sweat of the shop, the factory and the counting house that has come before. The one is built on the other. He is not entitled to his Sabbath who has not bought 1t with some contribution to the structural essence of his be- Il ing.
 There is as much poetry about the work of
 men as about their loves There IS as much TO- nance in the courtship of the struggling clerk nlacing his monthly monies in building and
 loan association in small amounts, whose dreamed-of total paints modest home in the distance, as in that of knight errant Who won his lady's glove in the tilt of tournament.
 That is why men and women have not passed over the matter contained in this column during the past week as "dry" stuff If there was a lot about freight rates, that was not dull read ing because our food and drink, the pretty things which our women wear and the books which we buy for our children depend on just such plain things
 | The buxom wives and daughters of fat Elem |Iish burghers no doubt thought beautiful the. | squat ships that brought wealth from Ormus | and Ind to be unloaded at their fou-odored l|docks These same people fought like tigers ||for the principle of self-government They died | that their descendants might have 1t. N The foundation of serene Sabbath is a week