Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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they'll get drunk on Saturday and Sunday and they ain't able
to go to work en Monday. And the mill depended on the
people - they wanted you to work; they didn't want you work
if you was sick, they were human . . . but they didn't have
a lot of dxinking and carrying on. You had any trouble in
the company house f rom drinking or anything, you had to move.
They didn't want them kind of people; they wanted people
that helped them - the kind of people that made this country
what it is today and built it up.
In late years you've seen what liquor's done; it" same
back, our countryvs losing its standing in the world. We
have more dissention in this country than we've ever had -
nobody knows believes the other guy is any good. Everybodyts
trying to take somebody, and it's time people start to real-
ize they're only going to yet three things out of life: that's
enough to eat, a place to sleep and clothes to clothe their
nakedness. You pay a hundred dollars to five hundred dollars
for a suit - only clothing. If they pay a dollar for a
meal or ten dollars for a meal, only fills their stomach.
And if they got a house with fifteen rooms in, they can only
sleep in one bed.
And it" time people started to realize it ain't how
much you make; it's what you do with what you do make. I
found that's been a very good principle in all my life; I
had nobody to back me and I had to look out prepare for my-
self and the Lord's been very kind to me. Hard work didn't
kill me; I worked long hours and still live as foolish, but