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Death Benefits, Pensions for
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Life, Profit Sharing
An Excellent Example Set by the Columbia Trust
Company of New York
Other Corporations Should Study the Methods of the Columbia
’ B Trust Company, AND APPLY THEM.
One of the big problems to be solved in modern civilization
is the relation of the individual worker toward an IMPER.
SONAL corporation employer.
In the old days each man worked for some other MAN. He
had his PERSONAL EMPLOYER whom he saw, and to whom he
could go in his troubles.
Work, not so long ago, in all lines of effort, was work of a
certain number of men for some other ONE MAN. .
Now the MAN at the top has disappeared. He is replaced by
a corporation, an organization that lives ‘!orever, that can do
everything that the old employer did in addition to living for.
ever, and that, left to itself, is a concern without heart, sympa
thies or feelings.
The problem which must be selved—the problem that the
German Government has solved—is this: 3
How can you put a heart into a corporation that has no body,
no soul, and no nerves?
In New York City, one of the bigger corporations, the
Columbia Trust Company, has worked out a plan worthy of
Ppraise, satisfactory to employees, a good example to all corporate
employers.
The management of the Columbia Trust Company, at No. 60
Broadway, decided that it would be a just and useful thing to
accomplish certain results.
First, it increases the interest of employees, great and small,’
in their work by giving them an interest IN THE PROFITS OF
THE CONCERN.
. Second, to free employees from anxiety and enable them to
concentrate undivided attention upon the task in hand, the com
pany, by arranging death benefits, provides a sum to be paid to
the family sufficient to meet the emergency of an unexpected
~ death.
~ Third, to give to those that work for the company a sense of
M. a desire to remain fixed at their posts, the company will
~ give to each at the age of 60 a pension based upon length of
fi ~ The profit-sharing, death benefit and pension system involves
the distribution of a large sum annually. The higher paid and
.u'o prosperous officials voluntarily turn in to the general fund
for the benefit of the others their share of profit.
~ The profit is based on a percentage of the earmings above 6
_ per cent on the capital, surplus and undivided profits.
In any year when the profits decrease, not less than SIO,OOO
is to be divided among the employees anyhow.
When the sum divided exceeds SIO,OOO, one-half of the ex.
_ oess is applied to the death benefit and the pension fund, the
~ other half distributed among the employees according to their
~ salaries and length of service.
4 The man of mocerate salary after five years' service knows
that his family will receive at once SI,OOO in cash if he dies. After
~ ten years’ service the amount is $2,000; after twenty years' serv.
Eth the amount will be s4,ooo—these sums in addition to the
profits divided annually and to the pension given to employees
- This sane and just arrangement, setting a good example to
~ other corporations, has been brought about by the directors with
the approval of the stockholders.
- For, large as is the amount distributed, it is & fact that the
- emple SHOW RESULTS in full proportion.
A man who gets part of the profits of a concern is interested
in increasing its profits.
A man who knows that he will get a pension for life at a cer.
sain age is less inclined to move above, change his position impul-
Sively or do anything to jeopardize his standing. The longer the
- BEVICE, the bigger the PENSION.
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’ To make men feel secure is to make them infinitely better
© o give an employee, however humble, an actual interest in
g earnings of his concern, is to make of him AN ECONO.
M in the interest of profit.
. A pension for old age, a substantial sum to be paid to the
family in case of unexpected death, and a division of an amount
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- A great part of the efficiency, the marvelous prosperity of
Germany, has been due to this system of pensions and benefits.
- Owlers of great enterprises in America should take notice.
~ Manufacture a heart for your corporation, which is created
Without feeling, and you will have less trouble with your men.
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The Natural History of Milk
Animal Life Had Existed for Many Ages Before Milk Waé Known, and When It Came a New
Class of Animals Was Created, From Which Sprang Man.
ERMAN chemists are said
G to have made an artificial
milk which is a very good
substitute sos the real thing. It
is safe to Assume, however, that
cows are in no danger of losing
their job. Milk is one of the
greatest things that nature ever
produced. She walted until she
was ready to make the last great
stride in the evolution of animal
life on this globe before she man
ufactured the first drop of milk.
For milllons upon millions of
Years vast numbers of animals,
great and small, of thousands of
different specles, swarmed over
the'earth without ever seeing or
tasting milk. The terrible dino
saurs, whose gigantic skeletons
amasze us, were not ralsed upon
earth until the animals called
mammals appeared, and they did
not assume any great importance
until a very late geological day-—
the Eocene period, which opens the
last completed . world-era, the
Tertiary, ending where the Age of
man begins.
When nature invented milk she
invented motherhood. A new
manner of entering into life was
developed with the appearance
of the mammals. Their young
are not hatched into the world
all ready to take up the cudgels
for themselves and needing,
when they step out of the egg,
only & little experience and prac
tice and a few lessons in imita
tion to it them for the struggle of
life.
Instead they are brought forth
almost helpless and must be fed,
cared for and nurtured during a
relatively long period of time be
fore they become independent and
self-supporting.
Milk and mammais necessarily
made their appearance together.
To the mother was given the
function of producing the milk,
and by virtue of that the reign
of the mother over the opening
period of each generation's life
was established.
This s as great a revolution as
ever occurred in the history of
the inhabited earth. Out of the
milk-producing and milk-nour
ished class of the animals was
Adestined to spring the earthly
head and master of them all—
man. The milk that is the basis
of his life is a link that connects
him, in a manner unknown to
the earlier animals with the im
mediately preceding life of his
kind. Ir him particularly the
post-natal connection and de
pendence are prolonged, and in
this evolutionists have recognized
a capital influence for the devel
Letters From the People I‘
THE COMBAT DEEPENS.
Editor The Georglan,
Permit me space in your val.
uable paper to defend one of
Georgia's most faithful domestic
pets and dependable . weather
prophets against the malicious
and uncalled-for attack made up
on him in Thursday's issue by one
A. N. Observer, who writes from
Winder. Need | say that | refer
to the whiffiebat, that confiding
and benevolent (and often aro
matic) triped of which such &
splendid specimen is owned by
Professor A. L. Snider, your es
leemed and rellable forecaster,
Mr. Observer, of Winder, sneers
at the whifflebat and urges the
clainis of the noodlenicker as a
weather prophet. He especially
draws attention to the merits of
the noodienicker as a forecaster of
earthquakes,
It —L:.' Mr. Editor, that the
noodienicker, as a specialist on
selsmic palpitations, will some
times excel the astute whifflebat
in that particular line of endea
vor. But mark me, sir, earth.
quakes are rare, not to say Infre.
’.\nm. and how many plain way
ring people could afford to
maintain a noodlenicker, with its
well-known enormous and expen
sive nw (It subsisis, as you
know, t entirely on glzzards
extracted from the Montenegrin
nanny goat and I.m At great
cost), who could 1 repeat,
to feed and lnundry such an ani
* mal in return for one sarthquake
forecast every twenty :::fl or so?
T awnit an answer without fear of
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family doctor. confines Rimself to
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By Garrett P. Serviss.
opment of some of the highest
qualities of humanity.
If men stepped forth, like
chickens, aimost ' 'full-fledged,
from eggs, their race would never
have developed that wonderful
organ of intelligence, the brain,
on which alone their supériority
over other animals depends. It
is milk that has made mankind
what it ls.
The results of this mammalian
eating his simple food only upon
the second Thursday In each
month, he is practically always on
the job .nd ready to furnish a
forecast at any moment, day or
night.
Permit me to say that there has
been in my family for several gen
erations w liver and green spotted
whiffiebat of excellent pedigree
which is known far and wide as
chator :f dm«::.t un
ng accuracy, mong pro
genitors is the ”."It celebrated
lowland wampus, which nurtures
its young through a om. and
both are closely allied fes of
the bushwa absurdicus promi.
nently mentioned in the life and
works of Colonel Sidney (. Tapp,
Your valuable -rm will not per.
mit a complete history of the ac
complishments of this noted ex
pert, but suffice it to say that he
was the only forecaster in the
civilized worla o W':{ pre
dict the great cycione 1878,
which caused greamt havoe in thisy
county. 1 may mentlon, mogu--
ing, that it blew Justice the
Peace Eara W, Tunket's well
wrong side out and ever since
then the Tunket tamily has had to
dl;lb .b‘:“" 10"0.(. ':l::’
ut t proof of the p ‘s
in chewing th‘o_‘bq and MH’M
TRE, A your nder nfl'nu
ent would probably prefer, 1 -
by challenge Mr. A. N. Observer
1o a forecasting match, Including
all forms of weather, and will en
ter my whiffiebat aga'nst his
noodlenteker. 1 nominate Profes
sor A, L. Enider as my whiffle.
bat manipulstor, while he may en.
‘m Any expert he desires to han
e hin vaunted prognosticator,
Place, date and amount of side
WAger as he may desire
T am, oir
Most respectfully,
: L O. MUNNRY,
Watson's ML, G,
By James Swinnerton
method of nourishment are felt in
many ways by man. By prolong
ing his period of youth and devel
opment, it introduces the element
of progress into the life of his
race, because thereby the expe
rience of each generation is
passed on as an acquired ad
vantage to its successor. .
When nature got ready to in
troduce milk upon the earth she
made it of very ordinary mate
rials. No new element was em
ployed. Water, fat, sugar, pro
telds of nitrogenous compounds—
those are the essential constitu
ents of all milk. The secret of its
peculiar qualities lies probably in
the proteids, for they are very
complex and puzzling substances.
Still the chemists manage to
analyze them, more or less com
pletely, and nobody can say what
chemistry may not accomplish
some day in imitating or repro
ducing this masterplece of nature
~a fluld on which sueh vast in
terests have depended In the evo
lution of tsrrestrial life. Man
may succeed in making milk, but
nature will never try to make
whisky.
Nature herself has produced
same things that have besn popu
larly regarded as a kind of milk
There Is for instance, the cocom
nut's “miik."” _Thm. there exists
in Central America a “milk tree.”
which produces a liquid from its
cut stems that closely resembles
cow’s milk,
The ratives appear to lke it
and Boussingault's analysis
showed that it contained most of
the principal ingfedients of real
mili. Still noboedy pretends that
the resamblance is mo close that
an American farmer's boy would
be deceived If he found It in his
bowl at supper,
As to the iatest German artist.
cial milk, It Is said that one of its
monst important constituents
comes from the soy bean, which
has long been used In Japan to
make soups. The fact may be
signifeant that this bean sines
being, Introduced into the west.
ern world has been found to .
An excelient foud for cattle, con.
taining & large proportion of proe
teide
THE HOME PAPER
Courage and Good Cheer
e e e Ceiee e e
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Says
e e e e e oo
Are Factors for Success
Continuous Dwelling on Troubles Creates Current
of Inharmony Which Makes Complete Discord of
Life—Divine Power in Every Man Superior t,
Environment. ,
By ELLA WHE
O matter what your situa-
N tion in life. you can find
pleasant things to think,
talk and write about. Y
Unless you can do this, be
dumb, and drcp all correspond
ence, No one wants to hear a
recital of your woes.
“You may speak of ~Jour sorrow,
trial or néed once to a friend, un
der certain conditions which com
pel you to ask advice, sympathy
or aid; but let it be, only once
out of ten times. Thel'other nine
occasions, talk of other things.
Talk of pleasant subjects which
will interest your listener. Con
tro! your face and your voice. as
well as your words,
~ Keep the whine out of your
voice, the droop out of your,
mouth. Tam not addressing these
words to those in sudden great
sorrow. If you have just seen
the door of the tomb close on
someone that you worshiped, or
been stricken with some awful
¢glamity, you ¢can not be expected
to smile and g‘r«lk of cheerful
things until time accustoms you
to the thought of your trouble and
softens the pain, as time always
does. -
CONTINUOUS TALK ABOUT
TROUBLES WILL MAKE COM
PLETE DISCORD OF LIFE,
But the world is full of wor
r.ies. cares, griefs, anxieties and
fears for all of us, if we choose
to dwell upon them, and no life is
exempt from these things; and if
we ail talk continually about the
troubles which come to vex us we
Create a current of inharmony
which will make a complete dis
cord of life.
If you hold a piece of black pa
per close before your: eyes you
shut oyt all the light of day.
If you put that piece of paper
Medical Mysteries |
By Woods Hutchinson, M. D.
The World's Best Known Writer on Medical Subjects.
EPROSY, instead of spread-
L ing and threatening civili
zation, is dwindling and
disappearing almost as rapidly as
the buffalo. But while there is
no disputing the cheering fact,
the most singular thing is that
we must . frankly confess our
selves utterly at a loss to account
for it.
All we can day is, that with the
coming of the improved living
conditions of civilization, botter
and more varied and abundant
food, better housing, better drain
age, cleaner and more comfortable
habits of life and work, leprosy
rapidly dies out and disappears.
The same process is still going
on in all the tropical and sub
tropical colonies of the Western
nations, where leprosy still exists.
It is customary to attribute a
large share of this decline and
disappearance to active measures
of lsolation and segregation,
gathering the known lepers to
gether into colonies. But this
would hardly bear scrutiny, for
two reasons.
First, because it rests upon the
second great popular misconcep
tion that the disease is acutely
and extremely contagious or
catehing: whereas, as a matter of
fact, leporsy is one of the most
feebly contaglous and slowly and
uncertainly spreading infectious
dizeases known. The children of
& leprous father or mother, for
instanece, show no higher percent
age of the disease than the rest of
the community In which they
live: and It is comparatively sel.
dom that one case of the disease is
followed by another In the same
family or household,
When two cases do occur in the
same family they usually appear
either simultansously or so wide-
Iy separated as to have no de
tectable connection with one an
other, and are probably due to
common living conditions.
After a thousand years of Inti
mate familiarity with the disease
and nearly half & century of tire
less modern bactericlogical re
search, we know no more of how
leprosy spreads from one victim
to another than we did in the
Dark Ages,
One consoling fact, however, is
almost absolutely cortaln, and
that is, that it does not pass by
direct personal contact. Of the
tens of thousands of lepers under
careful observation in Norway
and In trovieal colonies h the
Past 40 wears, not one has ever
LER WILCOX.
behind yvou, even though you still
hold it. you ree the sun.
Just so if you keep your worr
of poverty, sickness and failure .
before your eyes, hy thinking and
talking of it, you will never see
the light of hope, health and suc
cess shining upon you.
Thrust these thoughts back
and look for the sun and you wil
see it.
Each time I write words of this
kind I receive scores of letters of
protest from people who feel 1
would deprive them of their chief
pleasure—that of talking of thei:
misfortunes. They say, “It is
easy for you to give advice—but
wait until you try the experience
ot. misfortune yourself.”
. Nevertheless, I must continue
to repeat the philosophy which 1
know to be as true as God's law
of love. 1 know that persistent
hope and courage, a persistent be
+ lief in the coming of Dbetter
things, and a persistent refusa!
to talk .about sickness, fallure o
despair, will bring success three
fold sooner than the same effor!
without such thoughts.
PERSON CAN CHANGE HIS EN
VIRONMENT BY THE DIVINE
POWER IN HIMSELF.
1 know that the power of mind
when it comes from the Divine
mind behind it, can nerve the
hand and the brain to do what
. no merely mortal effort ever
achieved. g
I know that a continual discus
sion of {ll health, poverty and
~ misfortune is a crime and a sure
| way to retard and prevent success
- for yourself or others. And I know
‘ that you can change your en
vironment by the Divine Power in
yourself, if you develop it.
All things are possible to God'a
own kin—and each soul is that.
been proved to transmit the dis
ease directly, either to another
member of his family or house
hold or to his doctor, nurse or at
tendants. »
ONE EXCEPTION.
The pitiful and dramatic case
of Father Damlen, the devoted
martyr priest of Molokal, was a
om-ln~twenty-thouuqd excep
' tion; and I.e strong probability
and belief of experts is, that he
contracted the disease as about
one white man in 10,000 may
do, from simply living in the cli
mate and on the food and under
the conditions of the island.
The best authorities are in
clined to the opinion that the
disease is transmitted indirectl:
either through infected or con
taminated food or through the
bite of some blood-sucking in
sect (the mosquito was again ac
cused here, but there is not sufm
cient evidence agaimst him a»
~ ¥et); or through the medium of
some domestic animal, or house
Infesting vermin, as plague, for
instance, Is carried by the rat and
the flea tn combination.
What makes our check and
complete puzzie the more exas
perating is that through the
genius of Hansen, the famous
Norweglan bacteriologist, we have
known the germ or bacillus con
cerned for nearly 30 years past.
and depend on its presence or ab
sence to diagnose or determine
the nature of a suspected case
But we have beeh utterly unable
to cause the germ to grow and
produce the disease in any ani
mal.
And while scores of accidental
infections to the hands of sur
geons and nurses dressing or op
erating upon lepers have occurred,
not cne of them has produced a
case of the disease,
A FOOD DISEASE,
Indeed, thoughtful experis are
Inclined to pegard leprosy as one
of the great food, or food and
living conditions diseases. ilke
pellagra-and veri-beri and scurvy,
That is to say, while there (s cer
tainly & germ at work in leprosy
and probably also in beri-ber!
and pellagra, either that germ re-
Quires for Its transfer infected
and decayed food, or vile and in
sanitary housing and living eon
ditions, or the resisting power of
patienta must be lonered by In
sufficient food and Injurious sur
roundings before it can succeed in
getting & foothold in their the.
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