The Republican journal., 1922-10-19
The Joy Of Work.

Some time ago, President Eliot was
speaking to an audience of Labor men
one Sunday afternoon in Faneuil Hall at
a meeting of the Council of the Central
Labor Union. He gave them an ad-
dress, as he always does, packed with
good, sound sense. The following Sun
day afternoon President Driscoll of the
Central Labor Union was addressing
similar audience in the same place, and
at one point he looked up and said,
president Eliot talked to you last Sun
day about the Joy of work." And in
stantly wave of loud, derlsive laughter
swept over that audience The idea that
any man could be so utterly silly as to
talk about the Joy of work seemed to
those men like kind of bitter Joke. |
suppose that laughter was auout the sad
dest thing that old faneuil Hall had heard
in many day. Those men were losing
the sense of Joy and pride in their work
without realizing that thereby they were
losing their own souls. Men and women
will not be saved by sermons and sacra-
ments on Sunday unless they are also be
ing saved on the other six days In the
week by the work they do and by the
spirit they put In to 1t.
1t was a man who lived in a hot cl-
had grown very tired OF it-who said it
was the curse of God that men were COM
pelled to eat their bread in the sweat of
their brows. How little he knewl Work
is a blessing. Man finds himself through
his work. By doing his best work he at
tains his highest development. He has a
challenge to meet physically. intellectu-
ally, and morally by doing honest work,
whatsoever his hands or his head finds TO
do, heartily and we'll
There are lot of people in every COM
munity who are going to the devil be-
cause they have nothing to do-some of
them in limousines, some OF them In
Fords, and some of them on foot, but
they are all going, as | said, mainly be-
cause they have nothing else to do. They
are unemployed. They don't want to
work, they only desi- e to be amused, and
that IS the rum of them. There are Others
who are unemployed from necessity.
They are not skilful either in hand or
brain, and they find themselves ouL OF
work. Alas for them all Except for
the little children and the aged and the
invalids | am sorry for any that have
nothing to do. Work is blessing, but it
must be work under human conditions.
The severity of it must be Judged by rea-
son and conscience. 1t must not be the
work that brutalizes, but the work that is
enobling, and when that work is done
under right conditions and IN the right
mood it is one OF the greatest gifts that
| God has made to man. In order that we
may move ahead it is necessary that we
should do our work in that finer mood
Human Relations by Dean Charles K.
Brown in Christian Register.
The freight carryin'! business of the
nation is turning more and more to high
wav transportation as indicated by sta
tistics of motor vehicle registration as of
Jnlv /. complied by the U. S. Bureau of
Public Roads The registration of all
classes of motor vehicles in the United
| States on that date was 10000 OF
this number 1, ,O96 COS were motor trucks,
| an increase of 10 per cent over the nnm-
her of motor trucks that were registered
in January 1, 1922. Ihere was very
annreciable increase number of motor
| buses due to the increase In the NUMBER
| of motor buses in rural and suburban
routes operated for the carrying OF pas.
| sep9ers. This increase In registration oi
motor trucks and motor buses pears ou.
the statement that the only FACTOR which
is retarding the development OF motor
TRANSPORTATION for the carrying OF freight
and D ,ssengers in rural and SUBURBAN ois.
tricts is the lack of good roads. AS las.
as improved highways are completeu
there is in the vicinity OF those highways
immediate increase in the number ol
such motor vehicles as well as the nuni-
ber of so called pleasure vehicles.
] ier-Gazette.