Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-08-07
Intellectual Labor

We hear great deal of complaint of lack Of appreea-
ton of Intellectual Labor.
man who had spent many years in school SAID, Il
cannot sell real estate stocks or bootleg Whskey the m
pcaton being that this explained his lack of success
This person desires to write novel each year, working
about four hours each day. with vacation OF three
months in Europe each summer
Of course it is unfortunate that bootleggers andl
statesmen for quack real and stock companies should
make larger fees than honest However, crooks do
get caught and then They go to jail They know
little of real happiness.
1t is also unfortunate that all of us do just
what we would like to do working few hours day andl
receiving compensation sufficient to satisfy all moderated
desires.
Yet suppose if all the people who would like to wrtel
novels and plays act and make speeches able to
indulge themselves not only would there be audiences
but there would be no left milk the cows grow the
wheat or bake the bread
Our present system is crude but as efficient can bel
expected Under it writer's, actors powman bakers
selected by plan that is in harmony with the law oil
supply and demand.
Farmers are hit by this law just as hard writer's
When too much wheat is grown the farmers know it be-
cause the price of wheat drops When too many books are
written the writer knows it because he find pub
Usher willing to print his stories Publishers examine
manuscripts very carefully If the market is gutted with
poetry poets must turn to other occupation just as
wheat farmers must turn to hog raising.
young college boy visiting me recently and
pleased to learn of experience which had taught
him most valuable lesson in economics, valuable n
fact, anything he will learn during his last year nl
college
At the beginning of his vacation period he took jobl
selling aprons. He went from door to door BY
working hours he found he could make $11OO day
Notwithstanding his inexperence At the end of twol
weeks he quit his job and took another at desk in AMI
automobile factory, which paid $4,000 month He now
mad to work eight hours day.
81 could make than twice much money sellngl
,prOns' he explained, "but couldn't stand it. Doorsl
slammed in my face, dogs let loose Tol
make 20 sales had to call on 200 homes"
This boy, in few years may become accountant,
writer engineer and make only half much asl
another young man. who went to college, but who isl
willing go out every day and butt his head against the
doors of hardboed buyers Yet do not think my youngl
college friend will complain Remembering his summer
experience he will admit the salesman is earning all he
gets.
So with those who would like to write ropances and
envy The bfckaycIs days experience at the
trade might convince them that the bricklayer is worth
what he is paid.
was led to these observations by paragraph of
Emelsons which shall now reprint "The only safe rule
found in the adjusting meter of demand and supply
DO not legisate Medde and you snap the snews with
sympathy laws Give bountes make equal laws secure
life and property, and you need give aims. Open the
doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and property
will not be in bad hands. In free and just common
wealth. property shes from the idle and mbecie to the
industrious, brave and perseverng Wherever there isl
failure there is gddness some superstition about
luck some step omitted, which Nature never pardons"