The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-09
TOO MANY LoAFERS.
National RepubIican.l

National Republican,
In the course of recent address Dr.
Ernest NJ Stires, rector of st. Thomas
church, New York City, and one of the
most distinguished ministers of the
protestant Episcopal communion. ex-
pressed the belief that we needed not
more the Americanization of aliens.
than the awakening of native Ameri-
cans to a sense of their duty and re
sponsibility as citizens of the republic
and as men among men.
DR.. Stres pointed to the fact that
Americans of the most substantial
class and of pioneer stock appear to
be amusement mad. that loaferism is
growing among them from one end Of
the country to the other that the toll
and sacrifice of the pioneer genera
tons is being succeeded in many quar-
ters by frivolity, idleness and lack of
serious attention to both private and
public duty among the pioneers de-
scendants.
No more than a casual look around
is necessary to prove that there is am
pie justification for this Indictment 1t
isn't simply some of the wage learners
who want to work as little as possible
and get as much as possible. 1t is
quite as true of many men of sub
stantial possessions, whose fathers, in
places of industrial leadership in many
instances. toiled long hours and gave
serious thought to the problems of bus
mess. of society and government
The vacation spirit is all right; ev-
eryone needs some rest and recreation.
But when the vacation spirit persists
throughout the entire year and when /
men and women who ought to take |
themselvs seriously are more interest |
ed in jazz, joy-riding and booze than |
in doing their share of the work of the |
world. the social and industrial order
are menaced.
The spectacle which the pictorial
of the newspapers spread
before millions of people-of husky
icions of prominent families lolling
lround winter bathing places, and of
he females of the species exhibiting
heir more or less beautiful baroness
L fashionable resorts.-this is the
most effective socialistic propaganda
low being put out just what the pur-
iOse of the metropolitan press is in
living this stuff such undue promi-
ence. is not clear-the effect howev-
r. is apparent to everybody in time I
ghen the shadows of depression is on I
Millions of Americans :
The sane, hard working serious p
minded bupsiness men of the country 5
ar outnumber among men of wealth n
he loafers whose idleness. waste and n
fttimes dissipation is paraded in the q
eadlines of the press. But the ten n
ency toward the creation of a pro- m
sssiOnal leisure class" or loafer A
lass in America has already gone too W
lr. 1t is now going too rapidly for ~
lie peace of mind of those who want to 7.
I'VE this country from the dema- of
)gues who use such material to stir W
. class hatred and envy of all wealth 90
The tendency toward idleness. dissi 81
ition and frivolity is not. of course. @.
nfined to the rich. It prevails among
ople in moderate circumstances ev-
ywhere. and is particularly noticea- Nj
lie in the oncoming generation. The Al,
peal of DR. Stires for return by the
nerican people to the old WAYS
itch made the republic great among OF
nations of the earth is one that
'uld be taken mp by the pulpit.
torn and press and sounded from MI
end of the land to the other. be- lie
e it is too late. s Se