The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-01


But when YOU see such a one. he is
In his prime, at his best: his star is at
the zenith. not on the horizon or at
nadir.
a man as he is now.
His future lies behind.
He is not growing into q better man.
He is not in the line of evolution.
If YOU wan a man WHO will train
on. flee the cigarettist as yOu would a
peStilence.
He will surely disappoint you.
And the better and brighter your
young man. the faster his descent to
Avernus.
Cigarette smoking is all right until
the habit begins foreclosure proceed
1ngs, then Reelzebub himself (prince
OF laWyers) cannot Nacate then-you
go to the devils auction.
AS q close observer of men and ar
employer Of labor for twenty-five
years, l give you this: Never advance
the q of a cigarette smoker-never
promote him-never depend upon him
to carry a roll to Gomez, unless you
do net care for Gomez and are willing
to lose the roll.
L say do not promote the cigarette
smoker, for the time will surely come
when you will rue the day you ever
placed him in a position where he can
plague you by doing those things
which he ought not, and by leaving
undone those things he should have
done.
II you have cigarettists on your pay
roll II are doing work, do not dis
charge them. Simply keep them as
long as they are of profit to you, and
when YOU find they become a care
gently lay them off, n say YOU will
send for them when you need them.
And then never send for them.
TO protect your peace of mind YOU
cannot afford to put a man in a posi-
ton where you will nave To humiliate
yourself by asking him to step down
and out.
T." reduce a workers pay is a very
embarrassing thing for two parties
the man and yourself. 1t means that
you have been mistaken in your judg-
ment, and the mar will always con
slider himself bitterly WrOnged. Usually
for you his usefulness is gone, his en-
thuSiasm vanished.
He cannot explain things to his wife
and relatives, and so he damns YOU
and they do, and soon they grow TO
believe their handmade yillifications
therefore, as a general proposition.
1t is better to eliminate absolutely q
person whom you ironically call your
helper than to reduce his pay and
curtail his power.
in q month. When he has had tirne to
cool, If you desire. But to KEEP him.
out Of kindness, is a mistaken kind
ness that rays a penalty.
However,, there may be exceptions.
I once knew a foreman who had. at
times the habit of making things I'M
comfortable for his best men. If one
forged ahead n did particularly we'll,
he got that fOreman's d~ispleasure Just
as surely q. a SchOOl-teacher'S official
life is cut short if she sets her col
leagues too warm a Dace-a thing. by
the way, that is seldom done.
And so it happened that a
remained at the shop all night re
pairing some machinery without be-
ing told, and thereby did he get the
grand call-dCwn the next morning
from the foreman.
The matter accidentally came to the
attention Of the superintendent and he
being a man of decision and a bit Of
a philosopher withal, issued a curt or
der that the enterprising emplove and
the foreman should change places. Did
the former foreman now take the
mental place and work under tho or
ders of a man who had orke for
him.
Aye, that is exactly what he did. he
was big enough to take his medicine.
He choked down his choler. said not
a word, but reported in blouse and
oVcralls, and went to work under the
orders of the man he had wronged.
He worked diligently, quietly ard
checrfully. On the third day these
men,, who bad up to this time merely
glanced at each other, met face to
face. The foreman said to the former
foreman: Bill, my pay has been
raised fifty dollars a month, yours has
been cut down the same amount. | see
YOU are try ing to make it easy for me,
and surely you know | am not going
t. make it hard for you've will di-
vide our pay equally and he held out
his ham
The other mans eyes filled with
tears.
Both had won.