us how to keep out of trouble-all are middlemen. We say that food is the primal need Next to this comes love. People who are not properly nourished bicker without ceasing; so love flees and stands aloof, naked and cold, with finger to his lips. Granting that food is a primal need, food then must be cooked and served. The very simple service of the cafeteria, where you flunkey for yourself, and pocket your own fee, is a necessity. Somebody must cook and somebody must serve. Otherwise, all of us would have to do the thing for ourselves, and then all of our efforts would be taken up in the search for food, and we would be reduced to the occupation of the cave man.

Civilization is a great system of transfers. Each one does the thing he can do best and works for the good of all. There is just one way for us to abolish the working class, and that is to join it.

So any man who does a needed service for humanity should be honored. There are no menial tasks. The necessary is the worthy, and the useful is the sacred.

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The Neutral

HERE is known to me a prominent business house that by the very force

of its directness and worth has incurred the enmity of many rivals. In fact, there is a very general conspiracy on hand to put the institution down and out. In talking with a young man employed by this house, he yawned and said, "Oh, in this quarrel I am neutral."

"But you get your bread and butter from this firm, and in a matter where the very life of the institution is concerned, I do not see how you can be a neutral."

And he changed the subject.

I think that if I enlisted in the Japanese army I would not be a neutral.

Business is a fight-a continual strugglejust as life is. Man has reached his present degree of development through struggle. Struggle there must be and always will be. The struggle began as purely physical; as

man evolved it shifted ground to the mental psychic, and the spiritual, with a few dashes of cave-man proclivities still left. But depend upon it, the struggle will always belife is activity. And when it gets to be a struggle in well-doing, it will still be a struggle. When Inertia gets the better of you it is time to telephone to the undertaker. The only real neutral in this game of life is a dead one. Eternal vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of every other good thing.

A business that is not safeguarded on every side by active, alert, attentive, vigilant men is gone. As oxygen is the disintegrating principle of life, working night and day to dissolve, separate, pull apart and dissipate, so there is something in business that continually tends to scatter, destroy and shift possession from this man to that. A million mice nibble eternally at every business venture.

The mice are not neutrals, and if enough employees in a business house are neutrals, the whole concern will eventually come tumbling about their ears.

I like that order of Field-Marshal Oyama: "Give every honorable neutral that you find in our lines the honorable jiu-jitsu hikerino."

Sympathy, Knowledge and Poise

YMPATHY, Knowledge and Poise seem to be the three ingredients that are most needed in forming the Gentle Man. I place these elements according to their value. No man is great who does not have Sympathy plus, and the greatness of men can be safely gauged by their sympathies. Sympathy and imagination are twin sisters. Your heart must go out to all men, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the learned, the unlearned, the good, the bad, the wise and the foolish-it is necessary to be one with them all, else you can never comprehend them. Sympathy!—it is the touchstone to every secret, the key to all knowledge, the open sesame of all hearts.

¶ Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds. Put yourself in his place and your blame will dissolve itself into pity, and your tears will wipe out the record of his misdeeds. The saviors of the world have simply been men with wondrous sympathy.

But Knowledge must go with Sympathy else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child; on a field mouse instead of a human soul. Knowledge in use is wisdom, and wisdom implies a sense of values-you know a big thing from a little one, a valuable fact from a trivial one. Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh, a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.

Poise is the strength of body and strength of mind to control your Sympathy and your Knowledge. Unless you control your emotions they run over and you stand in the mire. Sympathy must not run riot, or it is valueless and tokens weakness instead of