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tic crjzccu luiijay jcuhal, rc?.TLAiT, cukday mchning, i ..uahy V ?c 7 1 "I j. .. . r, i -Bram Wosimae lis Only Homiest Man;" Tale of r-ORfoury.M JiChleomtood Lm inside breas hp looked upon by I - 1,000,000 people of all egee, mx, and eoadtUona, who In lb aggregate aave .-paid we fl.000,000. for which Z have , bMs' Individually responslbl to my mploy. rs. In these fqnr years I hav tailed back to ' th window 10,000 ptnoM who have aot walt ' ed for their change and who would hav lft It In my, window to tb aggregate of $10,000 bad I not don so.: . . . ,."'-.. -;.;jL-i in tho tour years,' on my side of too bam. I hava bea " abort" an. aggregate of $280, . unaccounted j for. ln-lBteurryM MPM.n(rr thoush the navmenU made by tho down tba lino outside. i OUtaldO. . - But not until Wedneeday morning, uec la, 7.Tt:,7Zr.Z:Z7 rjL ETi4 r fmTTV - . , .... . . r of any aum oVarpaid to him. . And thaCwaa 1 woman., who bad recelrad IS too much In , ebanga on Monday veiling, who had dla-' eovrad It on Tuaaday, and who eama In T Wadnaaday morning aarly." aaklng ma If I " 'hadn't paid bar too much money on Monday. ' , "I paid aomabody about M too much," I s ' aatd," gaaptng for braath. ' - - -. - Iha began digging down Into a handbag for bar pura and cam up with It, atnlllng. : " Wall." aha aald, " X bara about that muck money too itiuob," and whan aba apraad tha tbra ft bill on th ahalf I thought I needed a bottle of antetllng ealta about badly aa evr I had needed It la my Ufa, -. ' , - . Ftw 4m Priaaaxlly Baaaat. i Do yon wonder that I always have had an rpeoei heed watchlngf That tha old poeelbillty of getting " something for nothing la on of tba moat aeduetive inilo enee that aaasila maaklndT Can yo aak jn: " Don't yoo think moat people ar non eatr . :. . -- . I hay been asked that question. Alwaya It ha prompted another question oa tha epoM ' What do yoa mean by honesty T" For four years prior to Dec. IS last It had been my dev auction from experience that moat people would take any eaoass ef ekange paid t&era at a cashier' window and satisfy their oon- science with the remark. " Well, he's paid to look out for himself: I didn't do It that other thousands might, have" taken money' unwittingly; and that perhapa only a few of the 8,000 callers a week, would reach lno tha cage and take money if than had an op port unity and a chanoeof escaping discovery.- ' Now, educated In the school of experience, it I should ever start out In the Dloganaetad search for aa honest man In the full ertia, 1 shall expect to And that he Is a woman 1 , :. . ' ' : - Tart Dollar Istaraei 0 f tM, ' This particular womam that has material. k Hsaorinrinyraar l)arr.r wa f th clasa to which a S bill htoka tha part. She was comfortably dressed and ahe had been having enough to eat. I should aay If . she waa th mother of several good children, tIM A She could smile, and her vote was of the VIA kind described aa .".af excellent thing in. If I woman.'.' I think her eye were dark. She , it ebout a bead and a half taller than the Ink window Jedga, But as for hex name and ad. I I dress, everythlng.was so blurred and bussing " YfJ I vben she poked th three $1 bills Inside that I Dtvrr unibjm w hi stri :-, - Succeed IF , young Benjamin Wlnchell, . whtf la starting out to learn the railroad bust . hes InTusFTh same poeitlohlhat his father did 32 years ago, makes a career I for himself, he will do a greater thing than hi father, who started In absolute pov erty. ' . - There ara men Who would refute thla. But" facta have to be taken a final evidence, and the number of fnen who have succeeded In pit of poverty show thla to be a simple and everyday affair beside th success which is achieved In apite of riches. - . Men who work to carry on a great buslneaa -which has been built and mapped out for' them are common, but tho who have ' passed what haa bean don before, or bar carried an old buslneaa Into new territory, or have started In an Independent business career of. their own, or hate worked up to Success Problem fan Bp Snlvprt in Fig'nrA., a m i position is sale manager tor a AI large publishing house, and my duty V 1 Is to employ men for salesmanship ' no It Inns, and each Insertion of an advertisement brings from 20 to 100 applicants, and from thla amount hot over ' 30 per cent can qualify for the position they seek. Out of this 30 par cent, aot ever one fourth of them make a success of the work, and out of those, that make a success of sell ing, noS more than 3 per cent can stand pros' .' parity. , , ;, . . . My greatest difficulty la In getting men who can stand to make money. When th man I employ first begin to work they are enthuai- - astlo, and work from BM in Jha morning un til 8:30 In the evening, and the result Is that tbetr earnings run from. $26 to $100 per week. After a few such week their tnthust asm wears off, and they become overbur dened with money, and Inatead of placing It In a saving bank, retaining only enough to live comfortably, they keep It all In their pockets, and then they want to show . their : friends what good fellows they tea ba. They begin to stay out lata at night, fighting King Boose a finish battle, with the decision al ' ways for King Boose. .After these flghta they are unfit for. work, and goat It In a listless manner, with tha result that they be . gin to produo las business, and Invariably they .blame their failure to produce big busK rlt firf?!. ." Ith 2. m,T. ness to the supposed tlon Is worked to death, ate., while at the same time new.nien are coming Into tha field a to take their placae,- and succeed In getting Just aa raucn business as tb first fellow got when they started. ". . ;,:rTr' . . ..; " ' ? r " , . Iniaa Dedro to Spa4 Moat?. ' I have one man In particular working that never earn, less than $100 per week when. e work, and hava tried many time, to get him lo put hi. surplus earning. In a saving, bank and Anally succeeded, and when he had saved up some $300 I thought I had at last got lm on the right road. When ha came one morning and asked for hla bank book, from the look In hi face I knew what wa. -up. Ha wanted to get hla money and blow It In. After giving him a long lecture ; full, of .more advice I aaw It wa. ao uaa and asked him why It waa that he eould not let th. inbnav aLnn He reDlied. " Tour eru- . nienta ar all right., but when I got to think- - trig last night what If I should die before I ' OJ. fV. lwV'kw- .Tan thouaand seoulo eallad back to my window to got an aggregate of 10,000 laft bahlnd thtm in four years I . And only oaa loaa woman to return on tb strength of bar own eonaoiano S out of a cag shortage of f 280. Couldn't you have f org ottan to ash btr nam before ah got away 7 ',' Of couree, aha didn't atay a long at the : window aa moat woman do who appaar thr to tranaaot business. Ordinarily on woman ... m Kw h.lf Ihlll tllOM Blidt fc .h. ,.- ah. ,.. n for tha raa- ar two bava to ba aocommoaata on in kos -before, aha geta- at tha eaah allp which la -poked through, tha opening. I pick up the allp, hold it a second or two, and then aug- geat money. 01". to th ateraotypd ea , clamaUon on tha dot and aha grab at her ; handbag and Aiyea for the para. ' " It la full of nickel and pennle especially. ' There ara counter check In It, key, coupon. oernana noma cards, and a few bill a. Tha eaah allp- may call for Only ante and ahar may have il in nlckela. dime, and pen nlea Juat under hr forennger ana tnumo, but aha diga up another bill-da or SS-and when, change la mada agala tho total of bickela awl pennle may ba Increased by 90 par cent. Bat ahe doeaa't eare. of eourae, for the reason that aha can count the pen fiim wfii' tp etreet ear epn1iinnr ar to tha fare takera ea tha elevated roads while sh stands In the, turnstile, ea using four men to miss the express train Juat pulling up to the platform. This looks Ilka mean comment under th circumstances, but It Is too much to expect a cashier to forget four year of experience with women customers at bis counter. Just ' because one Jewel of a woman came In and restored U which didn't belong to. her. This r woman, aa I have aald. was so business Ilk ; aod quick that I hadn't recovered from the shock before aha got away. Jam not making . the slightest Insinuations against bar. , Let sf Caskler TJaaapwy Oaa). This lot of tho cashier la the cage la not ' a happy one. Merely that no la put in a cage with his money and th window eut-te the j width of a dollar blU Is a challenge te bis patrons outside. It makes the correcting of ' errors doubly hard for tha customer who getk too much. Then, the oaahler himself '.' la cocky about errors: he doesn't liks to ad rnlt that ba made them. The other day .- k aataeman. for a ebangcmaklng machine ii tit m erlndaw. f - be asked, miiaiy. ,- . . gure-and I wlah I didn't," 1 aald; sadly, (t W.tl ,M Ik, Am MriilM (it nhlMM that has admitted to ma that ba ever old," he said, smiling a foot wide and reaching under the railing to enaae nana on it. - In my especial work, which tnvolvee only tha taking in 1 of money In email amounts with frequent odd cents In tha sum. I have ' found that persona at the window ara much more likely, to walk away leaving bills la ths window than they. are to tear lew in Spite of ' a position paying large perqulslt; ea their own account, are extremely rare. ' . r - ! Hatthisttwa Saccsas fret start. - ' Conrad Matthleaaen Is ons of tha moat . conspicuous of ths latter class, and like all 'such men he bas shown himself constitution ally different from tha ordinary type from the start. When he came to Chicago to take charge of the eugar refining factory be waa only 28 years old, but ha soon proved that he knew all about the augar Business. It had not been considered a paying buslneaa and when the young man was sent to Chicago, there waa, not much expected of It But aa soon ; as he took hold It developed that ho knew . what kind of an article waa being turned out aa well aa the man who waa doing the work. ' He also knew how to reduce the rate of pro . ductlon and to fix price ao that money could Tl if . TT ' " ;. wr , . spent that money, I Juat eould net stand tt -.' any longer and I cannot work until I apend it.'! ' .. . ago It waa a a salesman. Just as T start men to work today, and at that time there were twenty-bn men in, the crew I was working ' In. Today there are twenty of theee men atlU working at odd Jobs and not making over $18 a week, while my earning for th last year amounted to $11,000, and prospects ' look brighter to ma today than ever before. ' , Mow, what was the reason for mo being tha only one to succeed 7 I did not have a dollar when I started, neither did I hava an education, having left school at the age of 10 to make my living, ao had no ad van-' tag to start, and today my earnings amount ' to $I.000 a month and not a penny invested, ao money Is not a necessity today to ba able to euoceed, neither la education, but If one baa one or both he has an advantage, . ,...; : , ...! a ::' ' Wajr tho Othtr Twenty ralleu. ' . The explanation for the nonsuccess ef the 'other twenty men Is 'simple enough. In th ; morning when w started out to work we bad .even blocka to walk to get to tha busl- nM" ,Uoa h olt'r' B u 'tet out - t0,th'r DUt by th Unw 1 " tewttory to wnn won ine remainder or in crew would stop In at a convenient saloon where" there were many soft cushioned seats pro- vlded, and tbey would then hare a drink around and talk over the business and pos- albly curie th. manager for refusing to ad- vance them all he money they wanted. By that time It was noon and they would eat their lunch, and, s on usually 1 lasy.direaUy after eating, ao they would consume another' hour or two In getting over the lair feeling, with the result tbey only got In three or four honra work each day.- Today tt Is the same way,- -Ton can go Into plaoea where comforta ble seata are provided and you will find men by the doserts who are drawing their em ployer's money for work they never perform. If I had my way I would have a taw passed which would not allow saloon, to ha v. a chair or any (Other convenience to alt on, making arery en who goee Into a saloon stand up. and people not having a place to sit would hot atay long. .T I wrwee cant there. If t oodU ere oomtng to a man or woman oat of half a dollar there la not on ohaaoo In a thouaand thai th person ' will walk away and leave It. . If th ohang , ba 13 even, a dosea poraona In 1.000 ara Ukaly to b eallad back to tko thair change. , ' -' " ; ' .' a : : . , ' imrt Baa la Greas. Tbaa arrora of th poopl ara mad outalda in cag every day. Jaalda I hava dlsoov .rann. i, .... . . .. . - . ,vi 1. Iort $lfi io $26 iaeideef thre w..k, I cant unkli t. h.iinu.i i. k. 1i -r raih- aama way eonnterfelU aid mu tilated iplna come la pro lna for a day, a week, a month thea they ar gone, perhapa not to bob ap again notloaably for alxlaoatha or a ear. Handling 1380.000 a year at my cage, my ahortage may raa from M to $100 a year. My employer eoneeda aa mach aa this, eonaiderlag th character of tb work and th eeoeseitle of tb ahangamaklng with all kinds ef people In all kind of har- riea and all degraeo of stupidity. . This be comes necessary, also. fo tba reason . ef calling- back tba patraa whaaavar his own mistake la discovered, . , ' - In th banking house among tha tellera on mistake may right another until the mln- months' period of aoeounting. A teller who jg behind $50 or 75 In six month mi y, have the abortage restored to him by tb bank, but In the month ba wlU have been carrying the record of his errors as they have accum ulated from day to day, and they wiU be un ' pleasant reminders of bla Inaoeuraclee at mare Inaccuracies. To have paid out Si toe much I an error which aa easily might have been a 1100 bill too much. It doesn't look good to a bank official at th end of th atx month : period- . '" : ' , la the aggregate a big bank's toes, from Ka . tellera la not greet, for the primary reason that one error Is likely to balance another, even In the eaah windows. Again.' there ara so many occasion where the teller In the effort to keep bis record wm make good tha petty miataaea or a aay in ma win. imrm are many men who would pay a dollar out' ef a day's salary rather than chalk aa error to their discredit. In soma of the great banking institutions a aum perhapa (290 a year Is set aalde to the credit of the teller as sufficient to ovr all his shortage and beyond which the bank will not are la restoring his accounts. At th , . elation of bla services. ; ' O) ) . - Strala Oftsa Ovtrwatlaii Haa. ' Always the man who banfllee another , malt's money as casttler or teller Is ra a. trying position. To be over-careful may be worse for him thad to ba at hla ease In every ; transaction. There are typee of. aarvoua men who In handling large sums never gat away from th fear ef abortaaes. One of tbsea, who may have paid out aO.OOO- bills 9. y sf" ' T " Bry W ' sfUT w . a jawa T bs mad.- He mad radical changes at once and la a short time the house waa earning money. Later be bad evolved from the old company one In which eom of the greateat capitalists wars hot only willing to risk their money, but of which they mads blm presi dent with a salary ef $78,000. "Where did h learn ItT" Hla father had made million in tha sugar business, but the business experience ef the younger man before he came west had been limited to two yara whleh be bad spent In his fath-.fac- torlea. la looking back It waa remembered that bis course In Tale had appeared to be for a purpose. Hs bad been quiet there to the point of being oonaidered exclusive, and bad gone hla own way and attended- to hla earn buslneaa. it was noticed that ba waa "be great trouble with moat man Is that on driving them all th time, " a a Saccaat U HatktxaatiCaJ PTfelnu . In tar onlnlon success la a mathsm.tir.l advlce tl. success will be according to hla ability and not to chance or luck. Tha mind should dominate the body, and In order te auceeed one must understand his weak points. - Boms men succeed because uncon sciously they follow the law. of nature, but these same hieh. If they understood nature's ' laws, would ba even a greater success. ... la every man there ara positive and nega' live qualltlee; for every positive there to a negative and for every negative a poeltlve. If negative qualltlee predominate the man Is a failure. If positive qualities predominate ; the man la a success, and as to how much his poaitiv qualltlee predominate ever bla negative qualities so Is his auccess meas ured. '; 4 ' y, ; '., It applies In every lln of industry tn lh same way, and If evry man desirous of mak ing a suocers will cut out th. accompanying chart and carry It with blm and eonsuH It at least once each day, and practice the principles, h. will be Just a. great a sue eess a hla ability will permit: ' First. let him examine hlm..ir T.b2 . Inatanca. tha-poaitlva uitr of wm power. Almoat every man will aay that he haa will power. To prove the point, let him eay, if be IS k amoker.' " will not smoke for a week." If he can hold out th week without smoking be haa some will power. Or. If not "a amoker, let him aay, M From now en I will ' get up exactly at 6 o'clock every morning," and, tha minute the clock strikes . sat un. If b can do 90 It ehows that bla power of Will predominates, Lei - hltrr-oontlnu to practice oa different thlnga, and tha result wilt be hla aavtnga .account In the bank will ' nave a steady increase. rHAKT OF CCaUTtM. Pttelure. T.Are, Temperance. PolitnM, Will pnr,. , ClranflnMs. TruthfuinM, ftn!Himnt, Prompt, Otodlrnc. NMI Rat. . IntoKleatten. lltarnurteoua, rem per. S(iisMir. Riches Vntniihftilneaa. 'ulsaraM.- -Always late, lilaobHlleace. . -fUMllOSr- lrpl(oH, , -htii. . .-, JMrtoyariy, , ' l4lnM. Lack sf eeanaeace Jlon.mjy Vnyaity,' findi, )lo,iy. L'entlueaoe. t i n Eflttn tt it ef denomination under 110 without feeling a senee of bis responsibility, may go to pieces under a run of payments where the bUls ara of denominations from 930 to 500 and $1,000 each, 1 1 have a friend In a teller's window wbe last summer fell unconscious from heat as a' was 'paying a euatomer waH known to thaaak. At the moment be fan a man la tka aAtoinlns wieidow raa ha, took the money troia bto bauids, e xevd ap to tb window at""'! l . I Ckk W I ". ' . asvakuwaya aivi r . more Interested In chemistry than he was In football But be did not give any hint of bU faSa'atodi.. .h mJSJZ " "I?!?" 7 "1 v w . .1; .-- - ";" own success Is that he work, because he Ukee It, that he delights In overcoming obstacles. . and that ba could not retire from business if he wanted to. Henry T. Oxnard was a man to whom a Itrttnory of 10,000 was only an xcue for makln, mllUona-JJuthe also gave himself up almost entirely to buslneaa until h waa 40. After a short term at Harvard ha went Into the reflnerlee and went through every department Just like aa ordinary workman. ' When bia father sokloutae understood the , business from the ground up aad ha looked around for aa opening la which to Invest hla money. He waa attracted by the prosperity of th beet snisrsj industry In Oermanv and France and went there to study every phase of tt. He went from one factory to another, Mvlng In the towns where the beets were grown and helping la ttoe Held until ha got that kind of knowledge of the soil which only cornea with working In It. Selecting families from among his agricultural friends In theee places he gave tbatn money to eeme - found th soil and th climate which tbay 'recognised as the borne environment of the beets. ' They reported this from souther California, and it was there that he built hla factories, avoiding the mistakes which pio neers in the business bad made before him. It Scores la Soata Africa. Whan In 1870 reports came to Europe of diamond mtnea that ware found In KJmber ley, Alfred Belt was a well educated young German, the son of a rich Hamburg mar- - chant, who was destined to go Into the ofllo and inherit a comfortable income. ; Trade with, th south African towns became so brisk that tb firm felt Justified In sending aa agent to look over th field. - There was found) a city of madmen, chaos as far aa law waa concerned, and th report was that ths Held was one whioh required the health and eotirag and activity of youth. The reeutt was that young Alfred Beit,, thea 23, found himself with credit, arms, and letter, of In troduction, and th paternal blessing trek- klngaeroMCoeCo)eBy, There were no law. across uape cmony. Toera were no saws and competition already waa nearly ruined. There waa Illicit diamond buying, loose from thefts, sad altogether condition whloh he aaw meant too much of a goo thing even la diamonds. .-,-; . .;',','.' '1 . . - . Beit waa naturally methodleal, orderly, and oooi headed, and then and there he un dertook the work usually attributed to Cecil "Rhodes.' H did the first combining snd"sys tematlslng of the diamond buying Industry, He began the quiet buying up of aoattered and conflicting claim, with th result of the pe Beere mine, which Is a model of Its klhd, aad which haa for year, paid 20 per cent dividends on its stock, and which is capital land at $40,000,000. Then cam the gold dis coveries, of which Belt also waa Bret to see the possibilities." He eonoelved th Idea of working them on sclentlfla plan for vast" production, and to this enoJ eYigaged Amer ican engineers, paying them what they Millionaires asked In' th way ef salaries up to $00,000 recent meat, and put a premium on worth . and $100,000 a year, Rhode cam along and leaeneas. They have fewered the enth- ton the Paying Toller.- - iX?2 inni cz: - war where the Una waited.. Thar was net a hitch anywhere to all appearances, but that paying teller's window was short a $10 bill that night. Who got tha money Is a prob lem t!U. though It waa carried to the end of the accounting period as a loss for th teller. . .' , . . V The paying telle behind his bars Is not free of the suspicions of thosw whom he serve. H does sot ask td be, either. He asks only a tair.deaV Dlaoredlt baa com !' bebamd the chief figure In the public eye, but linn Iha. w h Arm nf Wa,hn HMt . - - - rf WATtne1 tar a nroflt -whtrh arrrLnst wva . . ,n,in. - BObUM f.agkt Way fj.wara. These are men who la different degree, have 7 accomplished tha feat of making money with " - K .,, ,. Hivirs a aiiv i vt vhmumwv an effort to luoosed financially Just aa any poor maa might. Skt far there hava been only a few small promotions In which bla career doea more than any other to prove this th dlfflcult ot nn(irtakInga.-H bas advantage of tha" millionaire diss, Who Won. Mediocrity Due to System; Turn Worners Into Numbers By James M. Edwards. G REAT businesses in the United States, ail within tna last aecaae, nave neen revolutionized by a thing called " y s tm," a thing which bas destroyed the Individuality ef men, turned workers into mere numbers without rights, feelings, -or privileges, taken away the premium from Individual merit, and stamped every one who la forced to work with the hopeless stamp of mediocrity. " System bas mada the great concerns possible and reduced the self-respecting working person ef the great cities to a mere piece of machinery, crushed the self-respect out of the maa, and branded tha thing that waa a maa with a number and a price tag. The ayatematlsatlon of business", nig bu.lnsss "marked the beginning of a new tTpa of ,uvry. Tim dock, paid watchers, pay Checks with mere numbers on them, are all the. device, of " system," which at the outset disregards the element .of honor and accepts as a proved fact that all their em ployee are dishonest and dishonorable, anx- tous and ready to beat them out of lme aad - money, yet is surprised to una aystemstia steeling- among employee that 'they have schooled In their Immense oollegea of dis honesty. . . It sounds bad, yet It Is true. They save Ignored honor, branded tacitly each person ae a me placed Mm or bar under surveillance, bred a spirit of animosity. . and then expected good service and honeaty of those same employ.. - ". -: - - Uaorsi laalviiaal Worth. Perhaps the worst feature of this carrying ef ayauroetlaatlon to th nth power, I th fact that It destroys Individuality and re- fuse, to recognli tndlvlduaL,meriC3!hec.es .of : tardiness wag diminished by half.. great firm haa, say, 1.800 place open for em- ployss. It places a wag price on each poal- ' tlon, and fixee trie hours for that position before tho person to fill It Is found. The ap plicant for a position la told that It pays s muoh. He may be worth -twioe that much, or ha may aot be worth. half, yet he gets the aama. He may be unororthy of any auob po sition, or. be may be a bard working, self sacrificing; devoted worker, It makes no dif ference aa far. aa salary goea, Br this system the great firms hkv stifled ambition In the really good workers, caused Il v : "r HJIK I 51 YAH 11 v,,v iv;.' fl v "iiiii -r- 1 r-T -,, .1 ai...-IXt f "T- la time past.' aa VU it te th work of the teller shown In th old circus ticket peelally. Tears ago tha old fashioned cir cus under the-"Hey, Rube" dispensation , was supposed to " farm out " its ticks, sell ing privtlegee. Men paid aa high as $3,000 a aeaaon for the management of the ticket wagon of a big elrcua, counting upon, the abort ebanga" posefblliUeo of th circus day erowd to make rick profits from, tha work.' -. .... , -' What he has not had I that mysterious com- . bitjatlon of circumstances and Incentive . . , . which eeiaoo fress sot lis I need aad Poverty. 11 s. n, thii ezn.rim.nt has been kant u. I1 longer than any other of the same kind. Not ao long ago th. attampt of another young mllllonalr. in the same lln turned out a fiasco. Others, Ilk that of Wlnchell, are still In their Infancy. A little while ago Lady Bybll Cutting, Inspired by the ehanoea of her new country, waa the cans of bar husband, W. Bayard Cutting, starting out la the aama , Tavaw fftt nvaAltoal avnawlattaa (a aKsa tl svSk -L . fining bualneasBut thl wa onlyjBndr.tood to be fort.mporary experience. of their ofTlces aad tb entire character of their employes. ' At times there 00 me a . worker who rises In spit of these ebetaclea. ' fighting hla way upward and forcing himself -to bo vecognJaed. but hlr way la bard, and, when he finally doea reach a position where he can command the firm to some extent, he ' la likely to give leaa loyal service than ha would have given, had he received tb full and free recognition to which he was antttlea He Jeels that he owee the firm M Wis, having forced tt to recognise his worth and he doea ' aot forget that be was onoe merely a number. Others wh "arrive " are likely te take re venge on thnortunateundr them. Taraw Blama aa Warktr. The men who have made the avatam A- Clare that time clocks and checks ara nee easary. They throw the blame upon tha workers. They admit that the time ehecka are degrading and aa Insult to most work era, but necessary. They cannot deny that th fault was with the f ewr and that a few loafed, arrived late, and left earlv. relying upon the crowd te hide their short comings, ths many were punished. A few years ago one of the big stores In Cincinnati conceived the Idea that such checks upon their employes was a distinct affront and that, while submitting, the work- -ere resented the treatment. Without notice " all the time dock keys war called ra and -the device waa removed from the store. Then the employes were told that the dock was . gone for good and that the honor system would be observed. Secretly, however, for purposes or testing the Idea, a watch was kept on each department and tha number ef Also th firm suddenly found Itself able to employ the beat salesmen and el eras In the. city, ' ' . Th time clock breeds dishonesty every. ' . where. ' t becomes a matter of petty pride with some clerks " to beat the dock." aad ' th device by which they register them eelree aa at work long before tbey reach ) the chop are numerous, ' 4 How much ef the carelessness towards e"- -tenters, downright Impertinence, aad ef 1 -solute dtaregard for the Interests of ti v ployer te bred by the " .yetem ." In bit;' cannot be guessed. It Is safe to say, r - -that It ts te t-aa.e for a great lit-. wagons ee- I' J f 1 Ways. i v