The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-05
ALL WORK JOYOUS
Drudgery the Only Real Founda.
ton of Power.
Nature Has Placed the Price Upon
Essential to Those Who Would
Reach the Heights.

You, probably think that you are a
drudge and that every other person
has leisure, freedom from cares and
great general happiness. If not, you
are the exception. Everywhere is a
certain amount of dissatisfaction at
the daily task.
I say blessed be the man who is able
to work. Blessed be the daily task
know that there are times when we
get tired, Arthur G. Staples writes in
the Lewiston Journal. The, back aches,
the homeward way seems long, the hill
to the house seems steep and hard !;
but I doubt If you would give it up!
You see the shop and the grind and
the desk with it's many papers to be
handled and the typewriter grinning
at you sardonically like devil on
four stills! You would like to ex-
change it for leisure, travel, culture
and elegance.
Do you know where you are going If
you manfully stand up against these
things and really analyze the thing
that you call culture? Every funda-
mental of fine manhood and woman
hood comes through work. Call it
drudgery if you will; it is disciplinary
work that makes men, women and ma
. tions. You would like to be educated,
skilled in art, sculptor, great ply
sician, an eminent lawyer or a Judge,
q manager of great business!
1t looks easy. Is it? Do you know
how many hours Of absolute drudgery
goes into making culture as we call it?
Do you know the years that it takes
to make the great surgeon who saves
your life and what drudgery there
might be in his life If he did not call
it joyous and blessed? Where did the
lawyer get his right to sit in judgment
on the law and the facts? Did it come
to him at birth? Did he buy it in a
shop? Did he hire itsfrom some one
for so many ducats? Not much. He
got it from drudgery. He cannot even
get it from books; he must get the
books into his mind and soul and
judgment. How did the college profess
sor get his right to teach? BY patient
and uncompromising hard work?
Riches! There's a hard one to
crackL But what do riches do to
many men? There is young man,
for instance, who inherits great wealth
and yet who is cursed by 1t. There
is one of them in prison for murder
today, on the Pacific coast, who, if he
had been at work would have kept out
Sof mischief and leanings toward
crime.
VI Power Of application, power, Of con-
Rcentration, power Of thought, accu-
racy, perseverance, faith, courage, self
denial, temperance, thoroughness-all
Fof these come from drudgery. Loafing
about the streets envying the, busy
man who seems to be well housed and
of authority in the town gets you no.
where. -..~
If you want consideration, culture,
position, and appreciation, you must
work for 1t and work hard. 1t means
going to work every day, rain or
shine, feeling fit or unfit, headache,
toothache, backache, anything but
lumbago or smallpox.
You'd rather be thought well Of by
the community than to be cabaret
hound. The most unhappy man whom
I know has great deal Of money and
a boundless ambition for public appre-
citation, which he has not been able to
obtain through his high office. One Of
the happiest men that I know Of was