The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-03-10

and commendaton, not condemnation. She has won the right to a
new respect.
well recognize the fact once and for all. Whine and he will be
laughed at as a butt for ridicule. He boasts his superiority of sex,
let him show the superiority of mind and will or let him be con-
tent to be al "aso ran"
Need of a job is no recommendation in itself, for the job
though often advanced as the chief argument of the applicant. The
man who makes himself worthy for positions is the one who gets
them, is in demand and steadily advances. He wastes no time in
whining, sets his mind on what he wants, uses his will as the engine
that drives the machine and forward he goes, ever faster and
stronger, overcoming the obstacles that he meets in the road.
He or she who complains that girls with some means take posi-
tons away from girls without means takes an utterly selfish view of
life. Go further. Would they have the mar who is making a sue
cess in business retire as soon as he has means enough to feed, clothe
and house himself and his family? Were such course pursued world
progress would be slow indeed! Edison for one would be called on
to lose his usefulness. Burbank would be asked to sit back and
twiddle his thumbs. There would develop no Hoovers, no Hardings,
and there would have been no Roosevelt.
Endeavor is a means of expression and man is created to ex-
press himself. He must keep moving, keep active or he will go
back. To the rightly constituted man or woman idleness is un-
bearable. Right direction of the inclination toward activity is to
be encouraged whether it be found ir man or woman.
When need of a job or position is given consideration over
qualification for public office or for a semi-pubic place, the inter-
ess OF the pubic are subserVed to those OF an individual. The
man who does not need the office or the place, who takes it at a
secrifce to himself, who can earn NOR. in other directions, he is the
man to conserve the public interests best, the one most admirably
fitted to fill the job and to do its work.
Perhaps the world "owes a living to each one but the indi-
vidual has to be the debt collector for himself or herself. The
fruit is on the tree waiting to be picked to introduce a new meta
phor, but he must climb to get it ii he would eat. If he does not
learn to climb, why blame the one does learn, who develops the
strength and activity to reach the higher branches where the most
luscious fruit is to be found hanging.
Yes, woman is in competition with man in business and the
professions and is in to stay. If man wishes to meet that competi
ton he must strive, not whine. She has a right to say whether
she will devote herself to a life of domesticity or home making or
enter into the world outside the home. The right to pursuit of
happiness belongs to woman as well as to man. No longer can man
say that woman shall be only the mother of children, the house
keeper or an ornament in a home, the nurse maid of his children
and OF himself, his "ministering angel" The day has come when
woman will decide for herself whether she will be mother Of
family and if so who shall be the father of her children if her long