Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1916 — FIND GOODNESS IN PLEASURE [ARTICLE]

FIND GOODNESS IN PLEASURE

People Are Beginning to Understand That It Is a Mistake to Work Too Hard. For a good many years we had a creed that the only way to keep men or women good was to work them to death. We didn’t consider ourselves virtuous unless we ended each day so toll-wearied that we had no ambition for anything but bed. When we had a holiday we didn’t know how to use it, and either slept It away or did something that landed us In jail. The doctors are telling us now that there is a fatigue poison; that we owe it to ourselves not to overwork. The great labor unions are demanding shorter hours and graded work, so that men and women workers shall not be overtaxed, and so that the few may not be overworked and underpaid at the expense of the many. We are learning very,'very gradually, that man was not created to labor 18 hours out of the 24 in order that he may have the privilege of eating and sleeping. Very, very gradually we are being taught that we are partners in God’s pasture, and that, rich or poor, we have the right to take our share of sunshine and fresh air and an idle time to enjoy them. A fair measure of leisure in each day is necessary to cultivate sweetness and saneness of soul, and the man or woman, boy or girl, so overworked that there is no opportunity for recreation, never reachea the higher planes of being. Indeed, too much work has often been as much a breeder of crime as too much idleness. Sometimes it Is a desperate effort to escape from the grind. More often it is an intelligent craving for excitement—“something different" I believe it Is in one of Aesop’s fables where we are told of the man who was so busy grubbing in the muck heap that he never had time to look up and see the crown above his head. —Philadelphia Bulletin.

Cape Cod Canal. An idea of the valus of ths Cape Cod canal to shipping is given in the fact that more than two thousand five hundred vessels have passed through this waterway since it was opened in the summer of 1914. each of these vessels saving something like seventy miles of travel and avoiding the dangerous route around Cape Cod.