Alfred Lawson devoted his whole time from 1908-1931 advocating and building the foundation of the Aircraft Industry and Airlines.
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During that time, he was generally recognized as the father of the Aircraft Industry and Airline Service and was in a position to reap great monetary rewards for this work in those 24 years to produce an entire new transportation system.
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BUT, in the year of 1931, the people of the world were in the most wretched economic condition ever experienced by mankind. So, with 8,000,000 American men out of employment and whole families hungry for food, Lawson decided that he would renounce all further accumulation of wealth and become a moneyless and propertyless man for the remainder of his human life while working to improve GOD'S human machines instead of man's mechanical ones.
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Lawson said that the people's love is all of the pay that he will accept for the remainder of his natural life for the work he was doing on their behalf.
LAWSON, THE BENEVOLENT EDUCATOR
(TEXT TAKEN FROM LAWSON'S "BENEFACTOR")
Alfred William Lawson was born an EDUCATOR. He came from educated parents. He spent most of his human life trying to improve the conditions of mankind through EDUCATION.
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As a boy, he studied Natural Laws and learned from practical experience that by following those laws closely that he could obtain splendid health, strength and elasticity of movement for the physical machine that nature had been kind enough to let him use during his life.
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Through observation he learned that those human beings who failed to live according to Natural Laws were forced to pay the most terrible penalties by having to hobble around with diseased and crippled bodies.
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Out of the pity for his suffering contemporaries, as well as because he considered it was his GOD given duty to do so, he endeavored to teach all people, who would listen to him, how to keep their physical bodies well and free from harmful ailments.
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(Among other things) Lawson also sought to educate people about "moral law". He stated that those who do right will be strengthened and protected under natural law and those who do wrong will be degraded and punished. He stated that RIGHT is a basic principle that always was, is now and always will exist. WRONG will come and WRONG will go but RIGHT will go on forever.
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The only pay that he would accept for such aid was the love and respect of those whom he helped. He wanted no material reward for himself whatsoever for such services.
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"CHARACTER IS MORE VALUABLE TO NATURE THAN WEALTH."
Professional baseball was made to order for Alfred Lawson because it provided plenty of physical exercise as well as affording him time to study and the means with which to travel extensively.
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So for many years he played with or managed many teams in many cities and in many countries. He also owned many clubs and organized many leagues and developed many of the world's most famous baseball players.
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One of the last baseball clubs that Lawson managed was at Reading, PA, in 1907 - Champions of the Atlantic League.
Lawson at work building the foundation of the Aircraft Industry.
WHY DON'T YOU FLY?
In olden times when men were game, they undertook wild beasts to tame, they wanted brutes to trudge a pace, to get from place to place; They hitched them to their winter sleighs, and harnessed them to summer shays, they squatted on their leather backs, and steered them back and forth with whacks.
On the trudging elephant they went; What an elegant event! The humped up camel they did ride, the bucking bronco they did stride, they rode the funny donkey too, even tried the kangaroo! Most any creature they would try,
UNTIL LAWSON SAID, "WHY DON'T YOU FLY?!"
In nineteen eight, that was the year that Lawson said, "The time is here! To publish a great magazine, to herald a machine, that flies through the air at rapid rate, man's travel to facilitate." When questioned Lawson made reply, "This magazine we'll just call "FLY!"
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On the trudging elephant they went; What an elegant event! The humped up camel they did ride, the bucking bronco they did stride, they rode the funny donkey too, even tried the kangaroo! Most any creature they would try,
UNTIL LAWSON SAID, "WHY DON'T YOU FLY?!"
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And now the children Lawson taught, to build and fly the plane he wrought, lead in the aircraft industry that serves humanity; With airlines now the whole world o'er, you plainly hear those words of yore, those Lawson words that cannot die, all the people say, "WHY DON'T YOU FLY?"
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On the trudging elephant they went; What an elegant event! The humped up camel they did ride, the bucking bronco they did stride, they rode the funny donkey too, even tried the kangaroo! Most any creature they would try,
UNTIL LAWSON SAID, "WHY DON'T YOU FLY?!"
