THE PLUS MAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 10

THE PLUS MAN.

(By .10HX ,T. WICKER.)

71 i> Ihf Pin* Mhii wlin ((Hint*, x<l man in llif world'- lii-tiiry has over made any ■:roat i-iinti'iliiiiioii In' life p\oppt with liU overtime. It. i* overtime that makes the Pin- Man. Between flic coiliiijr (,f hour* and the flour »f wa.L'es tin- so-called middle class will hiiv<> u'li'.-il dilliciilt y in 11\ iiiLr to cmerpo with .-.omo wnrth-w hili- 'emit ril'mt inn to this vmrld'pro(;ros,>. If Henry Find luhl not liuruoil <|uantiti<'« (if iiiidniL'lit nil when he wim buildim; j his i)iii>-cyliii(li>r car he never would have soon in- V-S. If Kdi-ou had not worked l.y lamp iiulit we never -lion'd have >een tho oloetri:liulil. On starvation wayw nn<l Ions; overlinie hours Madame Curie emerged with radium to relieve mankind'* great scourge. If Pasteur had only worked a i-hort <lay. nianv people would -till iie dyini; of hydropholiia. 1 -aliile the men and wonie'ii who havp lalinured o\<M'tinie diniiijr all eenturii'S. History i- replete with iii.-pirin: eliaracters who for-rot to look a I I ln> cloek. When a pu-h clock is the only thiilj.' that pu-ihor- a man. tlien his own battery i< <lead. Opporttiuiti<v inultiply they are seized; they die when neglected. There ale two el.i-~(v of people who work: thoi-e \Uio are forced to work ami tho<-e who are five to work. Tin" forced man i> always driven liy other- and the free man drives hill - .- r-elf. Men <an lie free when they will to lip. There i> plenty of room at the top and more room at the hnttom. lint little between top and bottom. The road to the top is via the bottom. The profit for the manual labourer i- nof in nmney but in mil—.do. Think how »u(.,l he feds mill how sound ho -loops! This is real wealth. Wealth i> not in iruikiiitr inoiiev. but in nuikin r the man while h< , ;s niakiiiLT the lnonoy. Until what a man does counts more with him than what ho L'ots, he it- only a slave. Production, not destruction, leads to ciiccess. The pre-ident of tho Briti>h Scient ili.Society. pro-idiniT over that bo<lv in York ( atlic<!ral. said. "Srience is pouring into our laps thai for which wo are morally unfit." | In oilier words, morality ir-n"t aih ainin-j , | evenly with education. J. V. Morjjnil, tosti-j l'\ iiii; before a S.Miate ('oiiiniit tec. was a'kod io what I'Menl the moral element wa- cull--iderril as eoi'it era I for a biii-iness loan or I raur-a-iioM. The financier said. "About S'l per eeiil. D 0,.- are wide open for men who can bill).; in liie tiling needed on the in~i.!c. He who beliexes in himself ha> cnilidouce in his fellow men and meets <lifli-ull ies with determination i> sure of succe->. The man who r-ucceedr. may crown himself. The man who f.-ill- will be tempted tocur-e other--, but in either cv.-nt the man who i- faithful to hiiii-elf achieves the L'iTato>t .>uccc>s.