Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1918 — Flunky Wastes Own Time as Well as That of Others [ARTICLE]

Flunky Wastes Own Time as Well as That of Others

The feeling that Idleness Is a crime under present conditions is rapidly spreading all over the country. A sheriff in Sherman, Tex., recently announced that every man in his jurisdiction would either go to work or go to jail. The Ku Klux Klan recently reappeared in Birmingham, Ala., with a warning to all idlers. Several states have recently passed laws providing that every able-bodied man must work so many hours a day, and many towns and cities have begun to enforce laws to the same effect. But the idea that superfluous and unnecessary work is worse than idleness does not seem to have made so much progress. Yet it is patently true, writes Frederick J. Haskin, in Springfield Union. The flunky wastes not only his own time but often also the time and money of those he serves. The man who takes a job that a woman could hold Is not only neglecting the work he should do, but is depriving some woman of the independent income that might release another man.