Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laborer can. Ever since I faced the situation of having to get a position as an unskilled worker before the twenty-five dollars in my pocket was exhausted or else, according to a pledge, live the life of a hobe for six months, I have better comprehended the terrible fear of joblessness that haunts the mind of the unskilled laborer and consequently forces him to restrict output so as not to work himself...
...limited financial means keep the laborer in almost ever constant fear of losing his present job, if he is fortunate enough to have one. He is very sensitive as to the treatment he receives at the factory gate at the hands of the officers of the law and the factory officials. Moreover he considers it highly unjust that the foreman can fire him from his job for little or no reason and believes that in such a case he should have the right to bring the matter before a court of appeal...
...workingman is usually in constant fear of losing his job, he is inclined to go too far in enjoying the unusual and pleasant situation created for him by exceptional conditions such as in the past war. Realizing that he may be forced back into his old job and compelled to sit tight in a short time, he makes the most of his opportunity by moving from factory to factory and trying job after job so that he can pick out the best position while he has the chance...
Some men are deterred from entering the ministry for fear that they cannot speak their minds out. That is a profound error. All that one needs is the saving grace of common sense, and he can say what he pleases. Some feel that the Church makes too much of theology. On the contrary it probably makes too little of it. A plain and positive teaching on the essentials of the Christian faith is what men are loking for and need. Others feel that the ministry does not offer them a fair and solid living. It is true that its returns...
Many of the "he-men" differ with the Committee, so that even the men are not united in their defense; which dissension within leads us of the far east, where all is solid and conservative, to fear for the safety of our brother in Ithaca. It is a troublesome year, and Cornell is not the only victim of the march of modern women. Would that the strife were over, and with the news of peace a word that Cornell had been saved for mankind...