Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-28
INSPIRATIONT TO
YOUNG MEN
Continued from page six.)

Hlul HIS JOD. ne has dlAO SOL W http
in close touch with the people who
live near the mines and make friends
Of them, because they can make him
and the company all kinds of trouble
II they are so disposed. and they will
be so disposed If they are not treat.
ed as they should be. One of the
most serious mistakes an engineer can
make is to neglect getting absolute IL
tie for his employer of all the prop
erty he expects TO operate. This n
thing alone has cos the mine OWL
ers OF Butte a great many millions of
dollars and the loss of a number of
lives, and is largely responsible for
the tough and lawless element that
is a curse TO that city today.
II is these business qualifications
that go to help make the successful
and high-priced engineer of today, and
| want all OF you boys to look IN your
work here more as a business propo-
sition. This world is a progressive
one and the man who a turn out the
most work of a given quality In a CIV
en- time Is the man who is going 10
get the work to do, and you do not
need to fear that your employer will
not notice that you are doing more
work than the other fellow who is re-
ceiying the same pay. In all of the
various mills in which I am interested,
1t is more a source Of anxiety TO me
to find better positions for men who
have shown themselves worthy of
them than it is to the men themselves,
and | am always looking for a chance
TO raise TO a better position a man
who is trying honestly to make a
study Of my welfare, and is trying 10
advance himself 50 that he can bet
ter serve me.
want TO impress on you all the nee
essity of studying and practicing
economy in all OF your work. Time
is money and you want TO learn TO
economic in time; you want to learn
to strike while the ron Is hot. You
go into a blacksmith shop where twen-
ty blacksmiths are employed and you
will see one man put an iron into the
fire and then stand with a far away
look in his eyes, his mind on some
thing else until the iron Is hot, he
will then take It out and lay 1t on
the anvil and look at IL and turn il
over a time or two before he starts
work on it, his iron has cooled off
some and IL will take more work on
his part TO accomplish the same ends
than 1t will for the man next TO him,
who has probably made careful mental
calculations as to just what he wants
TO do. and the instant the iron strikes
the anvil he goes at 1t with all of his
might and every blow counts. The
latter man has done the larger por-
tion of his work with mental energy,
while the former has used more ply
steal energy and a great deal mole
of his employers time TO accomplish
the same results. No matter what
branch of your work you are at, just
try to see how much time you "a
save. When you take a transit or level
out to do field work, just stop and
think for an instant and remember,
that if you had a party of ten men
working with you and that if you
could saw n minute each time you
set up your instrument during an or.
binary days work, that you would save
your employer considerable more than
your salary would amount TO. and If
he had other men in his employ in
the same capacity who did not save
the extra minute. when a slack time
came il isn't hard to guess which one
would be let cut first. When you 20
to work on a lathe in a shop, study
your lathe and try and see just how
much it will stand crowding. You
may go into a machine shop and see
two men working side by side on the
same kind of lathe or planer and the
same kind of work, and one will be
taking a cut a sixteenth of an inch
deep and the other a cut of three.
%sixteenths or a quarter of an inch
each n will turn out tne same class
OF work and use the same amount
of physical exertion, but one will turn
out twice the quantity the other one
will and the boss is the first man TO
notice it.
Another thing you want to cultivate
here in school is the art of making
friends of everybody and also of keep.
Ing them your friends. When you see
a boy who Is always having trouble
with his classmates you can make UP
your mind that either all Of the rest
Of the class are in the wrong or else
he is. and he generally has a pretty
hard time convincing all of the rest
of the class that they are in the
wrong. and when he gets out of col.
lege and up against the cold world
and gets a job where he has a number
of meu at work under him and he
cannot get along tremendously with
them, il is generally he that gets III.
vited into the Office 10 get his time
remember that all men are entitled
TO their own ideas on any subject and
il they do not agree with yours IL is
not necessary for you to antagonize
them or quarrel with them over it.
The engineer in the pursuit of his
profession is probably brought closer
to the hand of nature than he who fol
lows any other profession. Practically
all Of his work is in the development
and use of the various forces and
treasures of nature. II matters moi
whether he looks out a path where the
ponderous locomotive can climb ovel
mountain ranges. or bores holes
through the mountain for II, or har
nesses the waters OF the streams and
rivers Of the country and compels
them TO furnish light, heat and trans
portation for humanity or takes tho
iron ores fro mthe ground and the
timbers from the land and convert:
them into ships Of commerce and mas
sivc buildings or digs the precious
and baser materials from the eartf
or lays the submarine cable across the
briny deep and makes foreign nations
our next door n%eighbors. he is always
dealing with nature direct. and II Il
these great forces and hidden treas
ures OF nature that you boys are here
learning to deal with, and you wan