The Miami times., 1951-09-01

AS a rule when we speak of
Labor Day, our thoughts are CEN
tered on Organized Labor. This
IS not as it should be, for it is a
day for ALL Labor to pause and
take inventory of years work,
to make merry over the gains, to
chart the course for another year,
and to correct the faults of the
past. Naturally, where there is
no organization there is no
strength and no uniformity of ac-
ton, hence the responsibility of
organized Labor to act for the
whole.
Most people who earn their
bread by the sweat of their
brows by manual labor are wont
to belittle themselves and their
efforts as insignificant people
toiling from day to day from hand
to mouth with no recognition and
very little usefulness. For your
benefit, listen to the words of
few of the worlds greatest minds
concerning those who labor.
Next to faith in God, is faith
in labor-Bovee.
Labor is the divine law of our
existence. - Mazzini.
Labor Is one Of the great eIe-
ments Of society - the great sub
stantial interest on which we all
stand. Not feudal service, or pre-
dial toll, or the lrksome drugery
by one race Of mankind subjected,
on account Of their color, to an
other; but labor, Intelligent,
manly, independent, thinking and
acting for itself, earning Its own
wages, aceumuIatIng those wages
into capital, educating childhood,
maintaining worship, claiming
the right Of the elective franchise,
and helping to uphold the great
fabric Of the State 80 that ls Am.
erican Labor. - Daniel Webster.
Industry cannot flourish if labor
languish. - Calvin Coolidge.
Whatever there is of greatness
in the United States, or indeed
in any other country, is due to
labor. The laborer is the author
of all greatness and wealth. With
out labor there would be no
government, and no leading class,
and nothing to preserve. - u. S.
Grant.
1t is to labor and to labor only,
that man owes everything Of ex-
changeabIe value. Labor Is the
talisman that has raised him from
the condition Of savage; that has
changed the desert and the forest
into cultivated fields; that has
covered the earth with cities, and
the ocean with ships; that has given
US plenty, comfort, and elegance,
instead Of want, misery, and bar
barism.-J. MacculIoch.
Blessed is he who has found his
work; let him ask no other bless
edneSS. - Carlyle
Do you feel better? Yes. Now
knowing how great and important
we are let us see.
What are our privileges and re-
sponsibilities as American cltl-
zens? AS the world huns with the
rising cIamor of confusing opinion
and propaganda, ever more POSI-
lively, skiIlfulIy, dominantiy pre-
scented, citizenship and the Am
erican idea upon which II Is firm
Iy based.
For there is an American idea.
1t came with the Pilgrim Fathers
and the William Tells of many
races, who found homes here.
It took as its emblem the free
dom of the eagle and the inde-
pendence of the pioneer.
It overleapt the hurdles that
blocked human progress in many
other lands for centuries.
It blew through the sordid run
ways of out worn civilization with
the sweetness OF mountain winds.
It amazed the world with the
rich outpourings of its untram-
meled spirit.
IT made men cry: "Give me lib
erty or give me death"
It dedicated itself in strength
humility and tolerance, to the
care of the needy and sick in this
land and in all others.
T. kro,,oh4 forth a honeficiant