The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-09-01
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1sT, 1926.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1926
MOTHERS VACATION
Mother, dear Mother come home to me now,
All the clocks in the house are>run down.
The last time they struck it was fourteen O'Clock,
Now their faces all seem to frown
The mice in the kitchen starving to death;
The radio batterys gone dry;
The gold fish are growing them nice little wings,
And soon they'll be learning to fly.
The doors all stand open; the flies own the house;
The piano was stolen by ants;
The couch and the chairs all have woe-begone
airs
Decorated by hubby's old pants.
The beds and the dressers are covered with dust;
No collars are left in the drawers;
Dirty handkerchiefs, socks, B. V. DIS. and old
shirts
Are scattered and thrown on the floors
The bathroom is Uttered with old razor
blades;
The towels stand up by themselves;
The faucets all drip; the shades have the pip
And the toothpastes all over the shelves.
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THE REAL LABOR PROBLEM
~ HE biggest labor problem of America is
not how to secure recognition of the work
er, but how to increase our respect for
work.
Popular literature and the moving pictures
have represented the worker with his dinner pail
and monotonous toll as an object of pity and the
gilded youth with his high powered car and night
life as real life.
The facts are that the working in Amer
lea is the happiest citizen we have. He works
for one wife and some little children, takes them
out to the park on Sunday, rides into the country
in his flivver, belongs to lodge, pays mort
gage on his home and attends church made up
of plain people.
His life is free from hectic rushing to keep
engagements that do not amount to anything
anyhow he wears overalls after supper and
smokes his pipe in contentment without any
threat of dress suit seven course dinner, in
terspersed with deadly speeches, hanging over
him.
The boy or girl who envies the cake-eaters
might well consider the happy lot of the bread
winners.
The percentage of successful business men
who have come from homes and wealth is pitt
object Of curiosity.
Ambition knows no spur equal to unsat-
isfied want. The wise parent who dreams of a
successful career for his children keeps margin
between their wants and their satisfactions. The
youth who knows no unsatisfied want knows no
necessity and necessity is the stepmother of sue
cess.
Business managers quite agreed that OPP
portunities never so numerous for men who
were willing to work.
We are living in an anaesthetic age when ev-
cry known device has been used to spare us the
necessity of work. Instead of the laborious
four years in college burning the midnight oil
we get our training by four easy lessons by mail.
Instead of seven years apprenticeship and mas
terry of trade, there is six months course in a
business college and an ad in the newspaper for
a white collar job.
Big prizes are still being offered, but on
the same old terms-work! Happiness is not
a buy-product, but by-product-a result Of
good work and honest workmanship.
81 know the joy of doing good work." said
Robert Louis Stevenson, and greater joy than this
know.
Let Labor day be reminder of the joy of
honest labor for joy of Incidence or wealth can
compare with it.
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