Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-19
A FINISHED JOB
IS A SUCCESS
Finish or Fail, Was the Topic of Rev. K. J. Wyckoff's Shop Talk to Cres- cent Firearms Men.

| Finish or Fail was the subject upon which an interesting address was gs--- en before the employees of the Cres- | cent Firearms company, Monday noon i by Rev. H. J. Wyckoff, under the aus | pices of the '. Nj. C. A. He spoke in | part as follows:
 It is easy for us to approve of a ! truth when clearly stated but it costs something to put that truth into prac | tice A task must move straight on l 10 completion 10 avoid Dec on:i i9 failure. We can all readily approve 1 the truth of this statement. But put this truth into stern and vigorous ac- | tion and see if it is as easy as to give
 mental assent to the statement. Let us consider some task which | you have been working on all morn 1 ing in the shop. The job has had five good solid hours spent on it; and if you are working on time, you can claim | the wage of a halliday for what you have done. But suppose you have talk | en a contract to finish gross of 2S | inch, 12-gauge shotgun barrels, and your five hOJrS this morning were spent in cutting two inches off a gross of 3O-inch barrels. how much have you earned2 Nothing at all; unless | there is in your contract a stipulation | of payment for the Accomplishment of certain stages of tLe joD; otherwise, | you will have to complete the work, and finish the barrels, before you dra% | your pay.
 But let us take a little larger view Cf the matter, and, forgetting for moment the wage question, consider could quit right here and now, and draw the haIf-day's pay for as much as you have done on those barrels what about them ? The choke is de- stroyed. the ends are ragged. and even if the breech could be slipped in to a finished stock, and the gun hand ed to an intending custorleE, he wouldn't have it, because it is not a finished gun. So unfinished work is d
 loss to the employer, however the employe gets out of it. The raw ma terial must be bought, and capital is tied up where it earns nothing for it's owner; nor il is ever lOCSeG again with it's earnings until that raw material has passed through each successive stage of manufacture, and comes forth a finished product All the time and strength and money expended urol the accumulation of the raw material, and d place to work it, and men to
 shape it and give 1t form and useful ness-al1 this great sum is lost. hope IessIy lost. unless the product is ac- tualIy finished to a point where it can De marketed.
 There is another point wherein we are more greatly concerned than in the poclketbook; it has to do with the job wherein the man is both capitalist aad JbOreT. He has the task of mak' n5 a man of himself Some opportunity demands more knowledge and skill
 
 and qualify for the work. He goes to ight school or studies at home. Then in a week or two he grows tired and quits What does the time and money expended bring him2 Nothing. H fills to get the knowledge he sought because he would not continue his preparation and the investment he
 has made is lost. Often a man starts on January l with a good resolution, but in short time he ceases to make an effort and fails, because he will not
 finish the joD.
 This is why others smile or laUgi a tur good reso lutiops and fresh begin nings: they feel sure that we won't finish and will fail. The way to make them take back their jokes and jeers is to finish and succeed: for every
 job that is finished fs a success, and 1t ts never a success, however 1t may
 be called by careless folk, until IL is fully finished. This is the challenge of the talk today: Finish, or Fail!