The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 26, 1920, Page 7, Image 7
THE TIME IS (
The time is out of joint: O cursed 1
spite
That ever I was born to set it right.;
?Hamlet.
The time is out of joint today |
more than in the age of the Immortal
Bard. It will remain out of joint
until men get a true sense of values
and appreciation of the worth of
men.
One of the greatest wastes today
is in the glorification of human parasites.
,
Take, foi irstance, the case of the
person known as Jack Dempsey.
There hardly is a schoolboy in America
who does not look upon him as a
hero. There hardly is a business
man in America who does not read
about him. The nation, in a sense,
pays homage to him. When his pic-a
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ture IS iiasueu uu mv suieeu iu uuution-picture
houses, the audience
cheers.
Yet he never did an honest day's
work if he could avoid it. He was a
hobo, a bum, an associate of blacklegs
and dissolute women until his
talents as a bruiser brought profit to
him. By defeating the elephantine
Willard he became a world figure, a
celebrity.
In the war he acted the part of the
coward and the slacker. He got deferred
classification on the ground
of dependent relatives. No one apparently
inquired about the status
of these dependent relatives while he
was hoboing about the land. He
posed as a shipyard worker. The
photographs show him driving a rivet.
They also show he wore patent1??
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neaiuei S11UCD, oyaio uu-u > .
clothes" unsoiled by work. Yet the
faked pictures of Jack Dempsey, shipbuilder,
win applause.
That a prize fighter should do honest
work seems from this applause
to be a virtue.
One of the great captains of industry
sat by the ringside and when
Dempsey won the pugilistic crown
from Willard and was one of the first
to spring into the ring and congratulate
him when Willard collapsed.
People journeyed thousands of miles
to see that contest. The newspapers
gave as much if not more spsice to it
than they did the battle of the Marne. Coutless
millions know Jack Dempsey,
plug-ugly.
Who knows the inventor of the
sewing machine? Yet the sewing mal
chine has done more for Human prog,
ress than all pugilists that ever lived.
The youth of America know "Babe"
Ruth, who has a niche in the Hall of
Fame because he is the "Home-Run
King" of baseball. They know Alexander
the Great, the pitcher, better
than the Alexander the Great who
conquered kingdoms. They know
Ziin, Benny Leonard and Ty Cobb,
but who knows the modest genius of
Kokomo, Ind., who invented the automobile,
or the Wyoming sheep
herder who took up the airbrake
where Westinghouse laid it down and
carried it to the supreme height it
holds today? Without the genius of
that man it would be impossible today
for American railroads to handle
the long trains they are able to control
by means of the airbrake. George
. Westinghouse developed the airbrake
to a point of control on about forty
cars, his successor carried the airbrake
to a point where it can control
. 150 cars.
Millions remember the name Bob
Fitzsimmons. Who remembers the
inventor of cold storage? Yet, but for
-?1 ^ cpo Uno-lonr! miaht have
CU1U BlUia&o, ?
been starved into surrender through
the operations of the submarines and
the history of the world changed.
The record of base hits in the
National League and American
League is blazoned before the people
spring, summer and fall. The newspaper
that failed to furnish this im-.
portant news would be scorned by
the multitude.
But who clamors for information
regarding the master workers in the
steel mills, the cotton factories, the
shoe manufacturers, the thousand and
one hives of industry where honest,
earnest, worthy men are adding oany
to the sum of human betterment?
Who cares for the best record on
v the farm in production of wheat or
corn or cotton or wool?
A mountebank of the movies, be
he a Charlie Chaplin, or a Douglas
Fairbanks, gets more money in a year
than the greatest toiler of industry in
a lifetime and more of recognition in
& day than the greatest producer of
the farm, the mill, the forge or factory
would get in a million years.
And yet we call ourselves a civilised,
people and this is an industrial
era!
We glorify' nonproducers and ignore
producers.
And yet we wonder why labor lacks
enthusiasm.
We reward the Dempseys. the Sulli ans,
the Jack Johnsons, the Babe
Ruths, the Christy Matthewsons, the
Charlie Chaplins and their kind lavishly
and are stingy with plain workimgmen.
kYet we think we are just.
Frank A. Vanderlip said America ]
JUT OF JOINT |,
was a nation of economic illiterates.
The incident would have to he
quashed if we glorified work and (
were not so prone to put parasites on
pedestals. t
Sport is-great. The nation that '
does not love sport, that does not en- 1
courage it, that does not support it. is ^
likely to deteriorate. Bat commer- 1
cialized sport is not real sport, f'ugi- 1
lisni is not the "manly art of self- (
defense." Dempsey is not a repre- '
sentative of manhood, but degenera- *
cy.
It is economic illiteracy to make (
national heroes of prize fighters and 1
... . ... 1
pay school teacners sucn small salaries
that in one year 143,000. ov 23 (
per cent, of all engaged in the public
schools in America, have to abandon (
j
teaching in order to earn enough to
live. *
It is economic illiteracy not to cap- '
italize sentiment in business. It is
folly not to encourage the workers while
we encourage bruisers. l
Without work the world would J
halt. There has been a noticeable let
up in work in the last quarter of a
century. There has been a pronounced
let up in the last few years. We
have ascribed the gradual let up as j
an aftermath of war. We never have J
thought that our neglect to put a bit j
of enthusiasm into work, of our failure
to recognize the worthy and reward
them as we do our athletes, has *
had anything to do with it. j c
We never have glorified work. i 1
Why not begin? j 1
Industry is becoming more and j 1
more machinelike, but all the machinery
in the world cannot measure in I r
importance with the human impulse, r
Man and machine can do much. | t
Man and machine plus sentiment i
can do wonders. I 2
Whrk is sweentened by apprecia- i
tion. Man loves applause. Capitalize s
that human quality. Make work what a
it should be, a joy, a thing to go to 1
happily and to leave smilingly. i
If it is not a,joy something is s
wrong in industry.
Glorify work and the times never c
will be out of joint.?Richard Spill- j t
ane in Commerce and Finance. j 2
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The Herald Book Store carries the \
largest stock of tablets, pencils mem- \
orandum books, and school supnlies
in Bamberg county. t
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Greenville Defendants to Api>ear for
IVeliminary Soon.
Greenville, Feb. 19.?Warrants
tharging violation of the United
States food control act were served
his morning by federal deputies upon
J. A. and P. L. Cureton of J. A. Cure:on
and company, bakers, and on H.
L. Eaton, manager of the Greenville
>akers. The defendants appeared
before the United States commissioner
here and gave bond in the sum of
Jl.bOO each for their appearance at
i preliminary hearing on .March 5. It
vas understood here that federal
ieputies planned to serve a similar
varrant this afternoon on A. Geil
hiss. of Spartanuurg, owner o. i::e
deilfuss bakery.
The defendants are charged with
conspiracy to exact an excessive price
'or a necessary article of food, and
ilso with making excessive charges
md profits in the sale of their bread.
Raed The Herald, $2.00 year.
S ABLE TO GO
BACKTO WORK
das Been Getting Stronger Every
Day Since Taking Meritone.
"I was so weak and run down
vhen I got over the influenza that I
:ouldn't work," said L. S. Canada, of
317 Third Avenue, North, Nashville,
renn., a well-known insurance soicitor
of that city.
"I felt weak all over and was
lervous. I couldn't sleep right at
light and I didn't have any appeite
and didn't eat much.
"A friend told me to try Meritone,
i ri a T crni o hnltlo ariH ctarf-prl taking
t. I have gotten stronger every day
iince I started taking Meritone, and
im feeling so much better now that
'm back at work. My nerves are
n much better condition also and I
deep good at night.
"I believe Meritone to be a medi:ine
of real merit. It has proved all
hat was claimed for it in my case
tnd I want to recommend Meritone
o anybody who is suffering from
veakness and nervousness like 1
vas."
Meritone is sold exclusively in Bam>erg
by Mack's Drug Store.
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Rub-My-Tism is a great pain killer.
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I may fill orders more promptly. .?
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