Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-09-01
Labor Day---A Meditation

Labor Day---A Meditation
Next Monday Labor Day and regarded throughout the
country holiday 1t is the day year set apart for the
consideration of the claims of the earns his bread by the
sweat of his brow Upon that day people throughout the country
will meet to celebrate in fitting of honest toll
Not that labor has greater claim the world than hundred
one other things might suggest but that before day set
apart holiday often lost sight dignity of labor
We believe the day wisely proclaimed holiday for the
new OF society rests the and who early
late to keep the wheels of industry turning and the wolf
door
Some there are two classes of peoplehe strikers
and the workerand the big difference
r and the shker won't work Whenever community an ind
vdua quits working and goes Sinking the clock progress
turned backward 1t the law of that he who work
must not eat Bees gather honey and for the
BIRDS build their nests in the spring working ceaseessy
place lay their and rear their BROOD the squirrel lays up
IN the fall for food when the ground white with snow the
rat builds his lodge the bear finds his the finds
beneath OF bark and the hides sap
the warmth Of the earth where system embedded Every
thing knows that in order to live through the winter the law of ma
re must be kept and something must be provided against rainy
day.
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The man who spends all his earnings during the
days will shyer from the cold when winter o lay
something practice economy and expend energy
The of energy the who works He who gets
ahead He is the who thinks of his wife babies and desires
not alone his comforts but theirs we'll He the type
has made America what it odaya land of opportunity He
Jed the lower mng of the ladder strong body an in
domitabe WILL pracced economy has gained competence
le is the type Of who will the appreciate abor
day He has passed through the different experiences which build
character knows what labor knows the value of dollar
knows that wholesome home little heaven on earth
and worker glad recall his days of struggle prepare
the winter that's always ahead"
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Labor day necessarily limited to organized labor It
day apart mewhethe union or non unions whether
be
oe the field tolers in the Mines oers of the tolers
in Office shop The tramp who beg from door
door be commended than the millionaire parasite who
lives the profits Of sweaop Neither filing the niche for
which designed every happy
fore they living huks when they might be feasng the
table of good things Get this in mndhe busy always the
happy The leaders in the church the busiest members the
leaders of charity the busy folk and the leaders every other
commenab always the people who work the hardest and
complain the least,
place for the disgruned agator Russia was
pretty bad many ways but her wrongs will be rghed by tax
away from the rich and giving the poor Neither would the
wrongs America be rghted by pursuing such We must
get the of the matter and show the world that the sign of the
think either Mr. Mrs Slman happy? Neither hppyfor
pleasure and wealth side much lighter than
simple little happy home life the other side Do you think Harold
Mccormick happy this the second week of his honeymoon with
his vfe Harold Mccormick happiness the
first hour after his marriage Edith Rockefeller than he will know
the balance of his life with his bride Poverty has ruined
many home and wealth. and fame have turned man
head from simple pleasures that please to ynSht illusions that
prove but wells without water painted food for hungry
body Between tramp and the idle rich army aborers
and happiness only found right here The who
watches her knitting into useful sweater stocking more
enjoyment of than the tramp who rides boxcar from town
The who clears his land of stump follows the pillow
he the sod his orchard of pears his patch of
Strawberries the fruit market gets thousand thrills
of real happiness the thrill that Marshall Field heI
Ill Labor Day VosbonMouy island the day when 99
Of population fill their lungs with pure air stand poeI
and smile the smile of true happiness