The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-19

Brooks avoided the smiling gray eye OF
President Barker He looked diagoually down
at the table top, under lowered eyelids, and
he smoke in voice half resigned and half
sulsn In his heart no regarded the Auto
matte General Manager as the height Of alb.
surdity. But ho knew that President Barker
was determined giving it a trial and he
realized the uselessness of further opposition.
CAN right, sir, he said.
'fI 60 to New York tonight - went on
Barker. ''Monday ] sail for the West Indies
After that ] II be out Of reach of everybody
for two weeks. Monday ] want you 10 20
down and carry out tho orders of the Auto
matte General Manager. l expect some Of
them will surprise YOU
Q. 81 hope you amt going to began
Brooks doggedly, but the president inter
rupted him.
''Now look here Brooks, - said Barker, az
want YOU To look at the Automatic General
Manager in the right way. thought by this
time you appreciated what / am trying 90
do"
President Barker was plainly provoked He
ran ono hand through his hair, With the
other he beat his eyeglasses against the table
top in an emphatic tattoo. He cursed the
dense stupidity Of everybody in general and
of his own subordinates in particular.
Brooks" Barker went on. "once we get
the Automatic General Manager working
properly it make IL easier to manage this
big factory than it is to run country store
in the old-fashioned way, Good Lord, man.
il 5 the greatest thing we ever got up
Eyes / know answered young Brooks
submissively. He had listened TO it all be-
fore
II want the orders Of the Automatic Cen
cral Manager carried out 10 the lettcr-to the
very letter. Some pope viii he surprised. of
course, Mt its orders. II I was within reach
ing distance they would appeal to me. That s
WHY | want 10 be out OF reach OF telegram.
IL hits some people that arc high up in our
organization aud hits them hard. too. IL has
ordered some people discharged ii boosts
salaries and cuts others. I'd hesitate
myself 60 issue some OF its orders. But think,
Brooks the Automatic General Manager Will
do away forever with favoritism it hasn Z
cot any preiudiees; IL can't make any error
OF Judgment. It's purely mechanical aud
automatic. Therefore it can Z make mis-
take. / shan Z interfere with il at all and 1
won Z let anybody else. it puts business, for
the first time, on n purely business basis
''All right. All right!' said young Brooks
ho9elessly.
a. went down myself this afternoon and
attended TO the Automatic General Man
ager. = said tho president "bccause l wanted
YOU TO feel sure that there were no clerical
errors mnde io fixing IL up. You can
carry out its orders Just as you find them
without hesitation. They arc absolutely cor
rect, But hereafter none OF tho officers will
have TO bother with It At all Next month
NY secretary can 20 down with the reports
from the departments and the Table of Mini.
mum Percentage of Efficiency and fix IL up
Just as well as ] can. Perhaps we had better
appoint private secretary to the Automatic
General Manager-but that can wait until
get back -
'tHsdu Z we better 20 down and look il
over togetheri' pleaded young Brooks, who
saw that argument was useless.
No. cir. / don Z want you 20 90 near it,
until Monday. BY that time II be out of
reach ] want the demonstration OF the sue.
cess of the Automatic General Manager TO be