Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-01-27
THE INDUSTRIALIST SAYS

have bread!
Ore must be mined, turned into
metals. and built into machines
before we can have any Of the ar
t;cles Of everyday usei
Forests must be felled and cut into
lumber-before we can have either
dwellings or furniture:
And so on through the iist-there
is not a thing which mankind uses,
wears or eats-which does nos rep
resent work.
Without work we would have
nothing in life, because self.help and
h~elpfulness to our fellows - part Of
the Divine plan. Fortunately, man
IL SO constituted that he cannot be
idle and contented at the same time.
h healthy man who has no use
tention, invariably gets into mis-
chiet-for the simple reason that
he must be doing something.
Thus we see that work ID not only
necessary to man for his very exist
ence, but is essential to his advance
ment and happiness az well,
It naturally follows that, to be
either successful or e~ontented a
man must do his part in life to the
best of his ability-no matter what
his lot ma be.
The task Of supplying the people
Of the world: that they may be
housed, clothed and fed; that they
may travel, study and play: that they
may even have the ordinary necessi-
ties OF life-has become an enor-
nous one.
Thus it has come about that we
are all workers.
It makes not a whit Of difference
whether our living is made by work
Of the body, by work OF the brain, or
by a combination Of the two-it Is
all work and we are all workers.
The real distinction rests on the
fact that the higher mp we 30. the
more numerous become wi duties:
the greater become our responsible.
ties; the heavier become our bur-
dens.
The sooner that the man In the
shop, or the workers in the store o.
the office really understands that
everybody In the organization IL
working, Just the same as he 10, the
quicker he is going to become q bet
ter worker and win promotion.
Until a man assume the responsa-
Dl11ly VI LuLAAA4l6 a O1SAA1G5S ~ OhGA
a department, he cannot correctly
Judge the enormous amount Of work
such a position demands.
II you are dissatisfied with your
lot, it is well to consider the fact
that discomfort and ~grurnbling will
avail you nothing.
The answer to your problem Is
earnest application, honest effort,
loyalty, and cooperation - right
where you are.
All good things, in this life, arp
gained at the cost of hard work. The
way upward and ahead is open to
any man who Ia willing to pay the
price.
Fair Work for Fair Wages
While it is generally believed that
wages will never return to their low
standard OF before the war, IL is al
SO believed that some move must be
made to bring wages ana production
back to a common level--tc equalfxe
them, as 1t were.
No business can afford to pay q
workman thirty cents to make an ar
ticle which cannot be sold for more
than thirty cents. But Il that same
workman steams DIP a bit, adds a
little extra effort and makes two OF
the same articles in that same time
for tho same thirty cents-thats diff
ferent! The manufacture is able
to pay the employee his thirty cents
and still make a profit or which to
keep up the business.
And in that way everybody il sat
isfied.
That's about the situation which
confronts employer and employee at
the present time. II the working
man expects to keep UP . high stan.
dard Of wages. he ] 1st also expect
to give his employer a fair return IN
labor for the wages he receives.
At the close Of the war labor was
receiving far higher wages than had
aver been paid since the world be-
gan, and was giving far less returns
for such wages than ever before.
labor must pitch in and help TO
straighten things out. So long as 1t
costs SO much to produce, Just so
long win the price of everything be
high.
Strikes and unreasonable demands
for still higher wages r not going
TO help clear up the situation a bit.
bowling about the possible
ity OF q financial panic won't help
either. They'll only make conditions
worse. The sensible thing for US all
to do 10 to make up our minds right
now that the solution OF this prob
lem is work-fair work-and plenty
of it.
THE INDUSTRIES.