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eS OF | i { N CONTAINED ALL INFORMATIO \ 9 . teresting to compare some views of work thruout the centuries. ’ Lord said that even a drink of cold water ¢ — FOMARS,-1054 olf i 0-1 1 Aa Te Ladd ' Nic ¥ SS a eee Clegg Glavin x Harbo Rosea Tracy Mobr ____ Trotter Winterrowd — Tele. Room — Holloman —— wee : , ° 4 (COMMUNISM glorities work as the new god to which cult and kK worship must be paid. Just as democractes since the French ¥ Revolution have substituted freedom for God, and made it the. }; supreme goal to be served, so now communism has made labor k bE iW " the deity which man must adore. Freedom and work actually are talse gods. Freedom is not the goal of democracy, if freedom Is 4understood as freedom from something. Freedom from something is license, and unlimited freedom eventually ends in unlimited . / tyranny. Neither is work a god, for thieves work, so do beavers, * 80 do guards in Soviet concentration camps. ere, therefore, must be something ‘besides mere work to distinguish it from ani instinct and crime. That missing element, which commu- nism has‘left out of work, is the freedom and the value of human . But in order to underetand how this has come to pass, it ts in- ‘THE Greeks had ittle esteem for manual work. ‘Thelr ethical Wy - WA Leey -f The haan veenteman was a indignti, Hoties ets oa § 1c ee . . Work was a sign A lod he! it . Golden Age no one worked; It wastonly whee see degenerated, NOT RECORDED j that work came into being. ‘Even for Plato, the man who worked | XY 124 19] FEB 19 1954 with his hands was disqualified from higher service to his coun-. try. Aristotle held there could be no true friendship between the master and the slave. It seemed that the reason for looking down —_—_ on work .was because it demanded the transformation of raw i material. There is a-record to the effect that in Thebes a shop-, ' keeper could become a magistrate only after 10 years of retire This snobbery and false aristocracy of the intellectuals was far below the Old Testament idea of work, which Tegarded it not only’ Wash. Post as @ necessity, and an expiation for sin, but also because it was eee Te a sign of kinship with God. Six days God labored creating the: 5 universe; man, by working on the raw maerial of the universe, t Wash. News -enters into fellowship with God. The rest on the seventh day was‘. , not because of weariness, but in order that there might be asso- Wash. Star otis Iden continues inthe Rey Tes neeg e wor te and ; This idea continues lew Testament, where sano t tified by the intention of cooperating with God. St. Paul sa’ zs N.Y. Herald Tribune —___ that all things co-operate unto good in those who are called to saints. He bids man‘to offer up his work, his recreations and his N.Y. Mieror meals in the name of Christ, in order fo gain merit. Our divine:; . t Times-Herald — ! vas ¢ receive a reward a hundred fold. Our Savior thus removed the } Gregk stigma on work and set at naught the tgnobility, SRSTSME hg ty Emel plying he ease of