Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV RELIGION AND THE EMPLOYER We all remember how when boys we hated to carry water for mother, but stood in line for a chance to carry it for the elephants when the circus came to town. We know how to-day our children hate to help about housework at home and yet are crazy to go to camp and work very much harder building fires, cooking, and keeping the camp clean. We see men who are languid and indifferent about their work in the factory, go out into the hot sun at noontime, pitch ball, and run the bases with life and vigor. All of these things show that it is not work, as such, that men and women want to avoid. People love to work when they are interested in the work. The trouble is that the masses are not interested in their work. Not being1 able to see the results of their labors, they are1 not stimulated by appreciation. They lack the desire to do things. The great need to-day is to revive in labor an interest in the work. When this is accomplished, labor problems will fade away, production will greatly increase, the cost of living will decline, and every one will be healthier, happier, and more prosperous. The factory system and the "master and servant" idea is resulting in castrating labor economically. Labor is becoming an economic eunuch. By nature man likes to produce. He starts in by making mud pies, then he builds a hut, and then he makes other things. The boy by nature turns to his jacknife, and the girl by nature turns to her dolls. After, however, a man has been in a mill or factory a certain length of time that natural desire to produce leaves him. The labor problem will never be / solved until the desire to produce is revived. For this / revival we must depend upon religion. It will take more than higher wages or shorter hours to recreate i...