The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-09-06
LIE MINp THAT oReANIzEs.

THE MIND THAT +OhSAN4ZEs'
An extract from an article published
in the News Democrat Of Paducah,
KY, by Mr.. C. W. Post. the great food
manufacturer:
was a workman for many years and
my hands give evidence of that fact,
and can yet do a decent job on the an
vii or with the tools of a carpenter.
Later on this workman turned himself
into an employer and started to build
a business" Worked days. nights and
Sundays. thought, planned, organized,
spent literally millions of dollars with
newspapers, paying printers, and pay
ing hundreds and even thousands of
work people good round satisfactory
wages. They have made money and he
made some. Is that a crIrua? A few
years ago he bought one ludred and
forty seven acres Of land that was a
wheat field. You can look at it to-day
and find it covered with factories and
residences for good, decent, frst-class
workmen, not anarchists. They get
good pay, own, their own homes and
work right along 1865 days in the year.
These workmen did not think out and
Organize the business. They were not
built that way That was my job, and
many a night for years, when they
were sound asleep in their beds, was
lat work planning how to get. business
land how to get money 10 pay them.
They do their part and get their pay. I
do my part and try to get mine. I lose
money many times in new enterprises,
but these workmen lose no money.
IThey get their pay steady whether
Hose or win. = ..
When a workman like myself begins
Ito think, plan organize and put his few
dollars into operation in the building of
a business, rhen that workman heromt S
Ian employer, and there is plenty of
room in America for any workman to
become an employer if he will. Then
begins his session of care, worry, plan
lining, organizing, looking after money
Ito pay for wool, iron, paint and what
mot that he must buy, also the pay for
Ilabor, for you VIII please remember
THAT when you count the cost of IN ar
ltiele, say of sewing machine, there
lare so many pounds of cast iron at so
lmueh per pound, so many pounds of
lsteel. sonany square feet of wood, so
much nickel and 50 much labor, 1t is
lall part Of the cost, but the man that
furnishes the labor does not build the
business, nor does the man who mined
1.-THE iron ore nor the man that did the
nickel plating, nor the man that did the
lathe work, nor any other workman
build the business. 1t Is the mind that
lorganizes and directs the hands, tools
land machinery that builds the BUSH
mess; don't make any mistake about
THAT.
Suppose the owner makes a mistake
lin his financial methods, in other words,
This mind outlines a certain policy and
The directs his workmen to do So and
slso, and the enterprise fails, are the
lworkmen to be charged with the fail
lure? Certainly not, nor credited with
tits success, unless they think it out and
ldirect it to success. True, each work
imam Is a part of the enterprise just as
leach clerk, each wagon and horse, each
hammer and plane, but the plane must
be guided by the human hand and the
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his mind by the manager or owner,
upon whom alone must rest the respon-
lsibility for success or failure.
The enploye does not .'build a BUSH
iness'' until he does the planning and
Idirecting.
q 7 want to repeat again that I am
thoroughly in favor Of the intelligent,
capable first-class workman, who
knows how to do a job, does it and
knows when he gets full wages for do
ling it. I can get along with that kind
y Iof a man, but the man who works with
his mouth, shouts down the decent
workmen, and really cannot do a first
class job himself, is the man whom the
IIfirst-class work people Of this country
must down and relegate to the real