Word: menials
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...however, he was transplanted to Detroit, a town somewhat similar in atmosphere to Birmingham. There he almost immediately went to work for the Detroit Free Press, with which paper he has been associated ever since. A romantic career, surely, for his rise has been from menial jobs to the height of fame-in journalism at least...
...done away with, and the problem of prison reform entered in. Conditions changed so that a few years ago the prisons almost all had the honor system. The men worked together in silence and separated at night. Some few 'trusties' were allowed to go outside the walls to do menial labor. But it was not a success; it was in fact a distinct failure. Two-thirds of the graduates from the prisons came back for another term, and most of the rest did not return only because they were too clever to be caught...
...great problem of modern society is to find the individual place and ideal for the menial laborer whose life has become simply a cog in some great industrial machine. Machinery should not subordinate humanity. This is the great evil of modern democracy, caused by the tendency to regard labor, not as a pleasure which fortunately affords a livelihood, but as a means of obtaining money alone...
...snobbery. Here, as every where else, men are generally rated-at what they are worth, whether rich or poor. No man is scorned simply because of poverty, or respected. for his wealth. alone. Nor is "menial service" a title to disrespect; of that the Foxcroft club is ample witness. I boarded there for two years, and certainly no men were more respected than those who waited on table...
...most unwise policy to encourage among college students the resort to methods of money earning which rank so low in the scale of honorable employment. The theory that all self-supporting labor is honorable is here in danger of being too widely applied. There are certain forms of menial service to which it is not well for a self-respecting man to become habituated, even if such a one can. Among them the waiting in Memorial Hall may safely be classed...