Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-21
ON THE DOWN GRADE WEIEN WE GET TOO
LAZY TO SWEAT

, "nice" to saw sweat" are not hun
dredth part as significant as the bigger
class who are too heightened to be will
ing to sweat in fact.
Now, III admit, right of the bat, that
the physical action Of the skin pores
in excreting sensible fluids from the
body, which some people call 'tperspira-
ton and some call sweat Is not the
J subject one would choose for a CONVEX
sation in the hammock under the moon
/ light. Neither is actual sweating pro-
cess one deliberately seeks to stimulate
for the sake OF the pleasure involved
In fact, I'm quite ready to concede thai
! sweating isn't the incest thing in the
world either to talk about or to do.
| But, Just ass ssarter-o6 on a trip
/ of real thinking, have you who obJecc
! to the word and the thing as not nice
creating, sustaining and moving force
which originated, controls and advances
our whole civilization? Eth?
I'm the sweat Of thy brow shalt thou
eat read" Not only that, but in The
sweat of somebody's brow shalt thou
wear silks and diamonds and sky-hoot
\ across the country in Pullman cars or
Peerless autos.
There isn't single refinement Of nj
ira luxury for the qualification or adorn-
ment OF the haughtiest queen of society
which isn't the result and outcome of
somebody's sweat. There isn't singls
function Of civilization which isn't made
Possible by the profuse expenditure Of
somebody's sweat. Sweat IS the newt
able accompaniment Of work. And it is
work. work Of the hardest and often o:
the dirtiest sort, on which all civiliza-
tion rests.
1t was at the cost Of sweat that tie
farmer grew the wheat; that the rail
roads were built which transports ,t
that the mills were built and run which
ground IT. that the ovens were made for
it's baking into bread, anad the fuel
mined to furnish heat. The same thing
which IS true of our commonest food is
just as true of our rarest Injuries.
Everything which we value as dist:il-
guishing our civilization from the lowest
forms of savagery has been bought ard
paid for with the sweat of somebody. s
arduous labor.
And it is slightly Over-nice to pretend
that the basal fact OF civilization is toc
raw for perfecting civiIizat ion to men,
ton.
II is worse that over-nice. It Is the
mark Of Sinking Stacker to refuse to
contribute ones fair share to that sweat
enforcing labor which both underlies and
maintains civilization.
Now. viii you please stop and think
actually think a bit about that fl IT.
, footed assertion? I don't care a raI
whether you agree with 1t or not. Blu.
it would be mighty good thing. mo-
only for you but for the country, If yol
and everybody else would once th!nl
that out to its logical conclusion.
nj.
remarked that the reason why the lior,
didn't eat Daniel was because most .,
him was blackstone and the rest wa.
grit. Sweat is the inevitable accom-
panlment OF and resultant from those
qualities. People who never sweat anf
are too nice" to mention it, are usual
y seriously deficient on both backbone
and grit. They are really not hs1rnar
beings, but a sort Of super-develonet
class And the Pace fer clanz is :,
the mud. where they can live withou
exertion and die without making :
russ
Just exactly why should be writir;
this sort Of doctrine 70 farmers for farm,
ers 10 read. isn't quite clear in nv ow,
alleged mind. Certainly we don't noe,
any exhortation to sweat That's Jus
what we're doing most Of our wakin
and working hours-whicll are shout ~
same thing, But It seems to me .ba
B I've noticed Of late years. ind:catioo
81 disposition on the part Of sor,
farmers to avoid as much sweating 4
they can. They do It. of course. Blu
they seem a little ashamed of It and oc
casionally intimate that they won't do :
much when they're able to afford anothc
gasoline engine and, perhaps, a trac
tor.
Far be It from me tc decry the nd
8 vantages Of machinery on the farms q