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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, FRIDAY. MAY 23, 1013.
CAPITAL 1ST
WIN THE HELP
The Employer Must Study to Gain
the Co-operation of the
Employee.
By B. C. FORBES.
An employer in these days of labor
unrest must be a diplomat, a student
of human nature, a man able to
blend toleration with discipline.
Hundreds of strikes, petty and se
rious, are caused, not through unsat
isfactory wages, but by arrogant
bossing by heads of departments,
superintendents and foremen, who
puffed up by the possession of a lit
tle transient authority, treat work
ers as if they were made of some
lower kind of material.
* * *
Corporations, firms and individual
employees should pay more atten
tion to the careful selection of over
seers of every rank. It is not enough
that a man is an expert; that is
necessary oftentimes, but if he is to
be placed in charge of many work
ers he must have tact, he must be
humane, he must know the minds,
the hearts, the habits and the am
bitions of those serving under him.
He must be able to inspire loyalty.
He must not carry his head too high.
He must avoid superciliousness. He
must even occasionally close his
eyes to litle incidents not strictly
on the working schedule.
* * *
To be in the highest degree suc
cessful nowadays an employer or
corporation manager must win the
co-operation of others. The slave-
driver, the heartless taskmaster can
not last. Sooner or later he will
reap what he sows.
* * *
In too many establishments sys
tems of fines for all sorts of trivial
mistakes are still in vogue. They
should be abolished. Numbers of
corporations have seen the light in
this direction. A policy of kindness
has proved more profitable than one
of harshness. To encourage has
been found better than to coerce.
For example: Childs’ restaurants
used to fine their waiters and wait
resses for every dish they broke. A
whole day’s wages was sometimes
lost in a moment—especially as high
ly polished floors, when wet, were
responsible for many slips. This
system has been abandoned, with, I
understand, gratifying results.
* * *
Really big men seldom are tyran
nical to their employees. But un
fortunately. the rank and file do not
come in contact with the heads of
establishments, but with minor aids,
many of whom are sadly unfitted by
education — ignorance rather — by
breeding and by temperament to in
spire fealty, enthusiasm, success.
They are not broad-gauge enough to
discern how to obtain the best re
sults from those under them. They
are too bent upon impressing others
with their own importance. They
like to hear themselves bawl out or
ders. They enjoy seeing underlings
quake. It feeds their vanity.
Have you noticed how much at
tention our wisest corporations are
now devoting to cultivating friendly,
harmonious relations with their em
ployees? It pays.
* * *
Let me relate a recent incident.
The president of one of our larg
est express companies, a disciple of
the new movement to inspire the
loyalty of employees, visited a branch
office.
The telephone rang and he an
swered it.
“Any more orders for me to-day?"
asked one of the company’s drivers.
“No,” replied the president.
“Thank heaven!" exclaimed the
driver, not knowing he was talking
to the president.
' ' The president sent for the man
and had a heart-to-heart talk with
him, telling him that if there were
few orders to fill the company might
have to pay him off, that drivers
were in a sense the company’s sales
men and that on their attitude to
ward the public and toward thei,
employers the success of the busi
ness depended. No scolding was in
dulged in. “My job depends upon
you,” the president told him. “Won't
you help me to keep it?”
This appeal went home.
Late in the afternoon the tele
phone again rang. The agent re
plied.
“If you can send a wagon at once
I know where you can get a big
shipment before the wagon
gets it,” excitedly shouted the self
same driver.
The agent, who had not known of
the interview with the president, could
not believe his ears.
The wagon was sent and the con
signment secured.
“Did you say anything to ?”
asked the agent of the president.
“Yes, I had a little chat with him.
Why?”
“Here he has started out scouting
for new business—a tmng unheard of
before. What did you say to him—
threaten to discharge him?"
...
This little human-interest incident
—and it is not mythical, I beg you
believe—is full of meaning for bosses
and sub-bosses blinded by pride and
arrogance.
Only the weak, the vain, the blind j
are tyrannical. A big man rules by !
milder means. |
Did You Ever?
By WINSOR M'CAY.
WELL! WHAT
DO YOU TH»Hk
OF THAT !<
PH ATS FINE!
HUH' LOVELY'
'can YcuP
BEAT THAT
FOR MFRVE ?J_
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[ IS THAT so ?
‘ WELL ! WELL’
You LOW DOWN)
HUSSY You!
(THERE ISN'T A DECENT
FAHILi IN THIS BUILD’
-ING! JUST COMMON
0 TRASH,
Growing Children
'Need Good Bowels
Give a Mild Laxative Occa
sionally to Insure Regu
lar Bowel Action.
As a child grows older It re
quires more and more personal at
tention from the mother, and as the
functions of the bowels are of the
utmost importance tQ health, great
attention should be paid*to them.
Diet is. of great importance, and
the mother should watch the ef
fect of certain* foods. A food " ill
constipate one and not another, and
so we have a healthy food liks eggs
causing biliousness to thousands,
and a wholesome fruit like bananas
constipating many. It is also to be
considered that the child Is growing,
and great changes are taking place
in the young man or young woman.
The system has not yet settled it
self to its later routine.
A very valuable remedy at this
stage, and one which every growing
boy and girl should be given often
or occasionally, according to the
individual circumstances, is Dr.
Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. This is a
laxative and tonic combined, so
mild that it is given to little babies,
and yet equally effective in the most
robust constitution. At the first
sign of a tendency to constipation
give a small dose of Syrup Pepsin
at night on retiring, and prompt ac
tion will follow in the morning. It
not only acts on the stomach and
bowels, but its tonic properties build
up and strengthen the system gen
erally. Mrs. Henry Babler, Van
Dyne. Wif?., writes that her little
son, Melvin Babler, was constipated
MELVIN BABLER.
most of the'time until she gave him
Dr. Caldwell'S Syrup "Pepsin. Since
using this remedy he has never been
constipated.
The use of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup
Pepsin will teach .you to avoid ca
thartics, salts and pills, as they are
too harsh for the majority and their
effect is., only temporary. Syrup
Pepsin brings permanent results,
and it can he conveniently obtained
of any nearby druggist at fifty cents
and one dollar a bottle. Results
are always guaranteed or money
will he refunded.
If no member of your family has
ever used Syrup Pepsin and you
would like to make a personal trial
of it before buying it in the regular
way of a druggist, send your ad
dress—a postal will do—to \V. B.
Caldwell, 417 Washington Street,
Monticello, Ill., and a free sample
bottle will be mailed you.
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KIDNEY AND BLADDER TROUBLES
Chronic Sufferers Find Relief
After Few Doses Are Taken.
If you are bothered with backache—
or rheumatism, have disagreeable, an
noying bladder or urinary disorders to
contend with—or suffer with any other
of the many miseries that comp from
weak kidneys, here is a guaranteed
remedy you can depend upon, no mat
ter what else may have failed to cure
you.
It is a positive fact that the new
discovery, Croxone. promptly over
comes such diseases. It is the most
wonderful remedy ever made for rid
ding the system of uric acid.
It soaks right in and cleans out the
stopped-up kidneys and makes them
filter and sift out all the poisonous
waste matter from the blood. It neu
tralizes and dissolves the uric acid that’
lodges in the joints and muscles, caus
ing rheumatism; soothes and heals the
delicate linings of the bladder
More than a few doses of Croxone
are seldom required to relieve even
the obstinate, long-standing cases.
You will find Croxone entirely dif
ferent from all other remedies. It is
fcn prepared that it is practically im
possible to take it into the human sys
tem without results. An original pack
age costs but a trifle. All druggists
are authorized to return *the purchase
price if Croxone fails to give the de-
| sired results the very first time.
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