The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-05-24

look well after the physical health or
their subordi nates Do not put on
them any unnecessary fatigue. meyer
could understand why the drivers ON
our city cars must stand allday when
they might just as well ISL t; down and
drive. 1t seems to me most UPRIGHT
eois that so many Of the female clerks
In our stores should be compelled to
stand all day and through those hours
when there are but few or no custom
ers. These people have aches and an
noyances and WEAKNESS enough with
out putting upon them additional
fatigue. Unless these female clerks
must go up and down on the business
Of the store, let them sit down.
The Duty OF Employers.
But, above all. charge you, o en-
ployers, that you look after the moral
AMI spiritual welfare Of your employees.
First, know where they spend their
evenings That decides everything.
| You do not want around your money
drawer q young man who went last
night to see Jack Sheppard. = "A man
that comes into the store in the morn
ing CHASTITY with midnight revelry is
not the man for your store. The young
man who spends his evening in the
society Of refined women or in musical
or artistic circles or in literary i'm.
provement is the young man for your
store.
One OF my earliest membrance is
of old Arthur Tappan. There were
many differences of opinion about his
politics, but no one who ever knew
Arthur Tappan, and knew him we'll,
doubted his being an earnest Chris
tan. In his store in New York he had
a room where every morning he called
his employees together, and he prayed
with them, read the Scriptures to them,
sang with them, and then they entered
on the duties Of the day. On Monday
morning the exercises differed, and he
gathered the young men together and
asked them where they had attended
! church, what had been their Sabbath
experiences and what had been the
sermon. Samuel Budget had the larg-
est business in the west of England.
He had In a room Of his warehouse a
place pleasantly furnished with COM
Portable seats and Fletcher's Family
Devotions" and Wesleyan hymnbooks,
and he gathered his employees together
every morning and, having sung, they
knelt down and prayed side by side
the employer and the employees. Do
you wonder at that mans success and
that, though 80 years before he had
been partner in a small retail shop
in a small village, at his death he be-
queatled many millions God can
trust such a man as that with plenty
OF money.
Present Surroundings.
Sir Titus Salt had wealth which was
beyond computation, and at Saltaire,
England, he had church and chapel
built and supported by himself the
church for those who preferred the
Episcopal service. and the chapel for
those who preferred the Methodist SER
vice. AT the opening OF one OF his
factories he gave great dinner. and
there were $500 people present, and
In his after dinner speech he said to
these people gathered Ss.'I cannot look
around me and see this vast ASSEMBLE
age Of friends and work people with
out being moved ! feel greatly hon
lifcred BY. the presence Of the nohleman
q at my side, and am espgclaiiy Dc
Il Lighted at the presence of my wor
Il people. l hope to draw around me
population that will enjo the beautie
{ of this neighbour ood-a population q
4 we'll paid, cOntented, happy opera
ttves. / have given Instructions to m
architects that nothing is to be spare
!; to render the dwellings Of the opera
. tiyes pattern to the country, and
my life is spared by, divine Providenc
!. 1 hope to see contentment. satisfae
], ton and happiness around me.
That Is Christian character demon
strated There are others In this coun
& try and in other lands on smalle
scale doing their best for their EN-
ployes. They have not forgotten; thel
own early struggles. They remembe
how they were discouraged, how hun
CRY they were and how cold and no,
tried they were, and though they ma
be 60 or 20 years OF age. they kno,
just how q boy feels between 10 an
20 and how young man feels BIZ
tween 20 and 80. They have not fol
gotten 1t. Those wealthy employer
/ were not originally let down out 4
heaven with pulleys Of silk in wicke
basket satin lined. famed by cherubi
wings. They started In roughef