The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29
HONESTY ISN'T MADE
BORN AND BRED, CAN'T BE GULL
 TIvATED BY MACHINERY.
No Substitute For it-Little Depend ence on Modern Artificial Devices
 Use of the Time Clock.

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 Use of the Time Clock.
 Honesty in the young man who is
 making stat ip this world of strenu-
 ous living Is just as much an asset as
 ever 1t was in the past. says The Chi
 Surety companies are acting as ponds-
 men tor increasing thousands of young
 men every year.
 me casn register has become as much
 one Of the fixtures of the small retail house as ever a showcase was or is.
 Sales inspectors have multiplied into legtons in the great retail houses and
 department stores of the cities.
 Time clocks in half a dozen patterns
 are turned out of factories by the tens Of thousands every year.
 The auditor" travelling and stationary,
 is one of the ogres of modern business life.
 No sustitute for Honesty But in spite of all these precautionary devices, methods and systems, honesty still is the best policy in the young man who Is searching for salaried position
 of trust. No supstitute has been found for the virtue. No mechanical means has been perfected for making up for the
 lack of honesty in the individual. A surety company may be on the young mans bond time clock may register to a second the hours of his coming and going; cash register may account for his sales, or an inspector or auditor may be always at his elbow. But if the face on the man, in regard to openness of countenance, frankness, and general good features. should not come up to the standard of his employers ideals, his position Is insecure, and his chances Tn the struggle for an honest existence are discounted.
 "Waiving all possibilities of bond siv- ing" said one of the heads of the Con- | tinental National Bank, "the applicant | for position here who cannot show | credentials in his face and manner has | no show. We have some readers of | character here. Bonds in a surety com pany mean something. but young man | face means quite as much. As between | two young men, one of whom is quick. | active, shrewd, and adaptable, yet with | the hidden something in his face that | challenges confidence, and the other young man with honesty in his face, but with some of the earmarks of the plod- der in him. we have no hesitation in choice We take the honest man. NO surety company could make good tne
 discrepancy that exists between two
 Cash Register Only an Aid. The cash register?" repeated the pro-
 prietor of d retail mouse in Madison Street. One half-sentence in the Lord $ Prayer defines it's sociological position: Lead us not into temptation
 Il believe that my men are honest. I wouldn't have hired one of them if
 had not been reasonably sure of the be- lief. But there is great measure or truth in 'the aphorism that opportunity
 makes the thief man may be hon. est yet weak Why should leave an unnecessary temptation in the way of | any man! If a man who is honest Tn widest measure comes to me TOT pOsl- l ton he finds a cash register as an offce | fixture. It is convenient place foi | money. It is here when lie comes anG l! | is no reflection upon his character But | in time of possible temptation 1t becomes | stay to his instability" Time Clock Too Mechanical. | AS to the time-clock." said the time- keeper of a great wholesale house in Ad- l ans Street, which numbers its employees | by hundreds, the clock has feature | that on the face of it is bad. If man | comes in at s o'clock in the morning
 takes one hour for noon, and remains till 5:30 in the evening, these facts can | not show whether In those hours ne mas done his whole duty. And just there is
 the possibility that a certain class Sl S | conscientiously exact in their dutles are | impelled to shirk when occasion offers. | .'But, after all, timekeeping is a recog'
 nized necessity in any business 1T q, ad ad l employer has three men and has hxed | number of hours in which they shai | work, every man so employed know | that he is under the supervision or ms | employer. However, if the employer mas ass
 
 | time; his heads of departments can U | no reasonable number Of timckeeper | can do so. Not only time-clock. put | clocks by the dozen are necessary, TOT | the most consci entious individual knows | that in the great masses Of men m large element which must be watched l and supervised in order to keep 1t up to | the scratch of effectiveness. Three thou sand men coming to work on an aver | age of two minutes late for one day woulu l mean the loss of more than twelve | working days to the employer.
 Does Even Justice to All. The time-clock has been accepted | however. When they were first intro duced in tiis house many old employees protested. The facts were made plaln to them however. Employes here are go | ing to luncheon, for instance. from ll;3t
 a. m. to 1:$o D. m. No reasonaple s aa. nun. sary check on these people. EverypooS but the heads of the departments turns the clock now. But even with the s9s
 tem's temptation to 's9ldasring @ 1., there aw ',
 make it a little easier for the compar- atiyely untrustworthy man to compete in the labor market with the honest man, man bat the clock can gc no Ihr;hcr 'nal, tha to record comings and SoinSs: ali the rt st is left to the men. and the squar man always has the bulge. As to the honest man who Is sure or
 himself in present, past. and future; lne
 
 I>v ork a small hardship upon hlc', Tn Una he has to give the same bond that ms ms co-workers give, and has to Day the same yearly premium for it. Beyond thls he Is not affected. ,, ,.
 Tn no possible way except tnis 1oes
 the surety ,mpany initiate against the
 honest man in favor of one Who mas
 more lax principles said William b. Joyce agent for one of the great surety companies of the country.
 Searching Investigation Made. When it comes to investigating l mans character we do it more thorough | lv and impartially than any one em1 | blower or firm could do. We go beyond | hls birth, even asking as to hls 1atner, | mother. and anteced ants generally we ! know where he was born and Wheh' now l far he is educated. where and how long he has work d. whether or not ne ls married. and whether or not he owns his own home; his habits of life are closely scheduled and ne must give us Ave references as to the truth ot these general statements. ., "Then we are ready to investigate thor ouphly. Just how thoroughly nay De ln- dicated in the fact that of the 24Oooo per sons now under bond by this company not one-tenth of 1 per cent. Of them go
 wrong in a old-blooded, wiltul way. Most of the losses which We nave t, W to make good come from weak men. lnes s
 are honest in their own hearts. @ hu! some emergency arises whereby they -.,l ,,,.b GOnSDne dear to them