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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09

Many a foreman who gets angry on
the spur OF the moment cools down
quite bit by the time he reaches my
office Perhaps the foreman got up
with a groucl that morning or had q
Tiff with his wife tefore he came
away. or he might be taking an I'M
fair advantage of his position and au-
thority: Besides, no man is ar eff
cient WORKMAN If he knows tina. The
man just above him has the power
to fire him on the spot 1t makes the
workman feel good to bring his trou-
bles to the head of the concern where
he may have a calm hearing"
The supe -intendent of l2rse stee!
plant found his forces were being alb
solutetly demoralized by the practice
of his foremen and department heads
in "ca az down" and ''hawling out"
subord mates. He began to harmonize
his slatfbns with The workmen by
sts1ping out the disgusting practice
and ordering all cases of complaint
brought before him-busy as he vas
Complaints went into decline and
only few were reported to the su-
perintendent The organization now is
so per cent more efficient, according
to the superintendent, and the men
are at least 100 per cent more satis-
fed and contented with conditions
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
~An Ounce Ct Prevention. .

Illness is a weight which turns the
scale against the wage Garner. III
health is a handicap for any one, but
even an occasional disorder is more
than those whose margin Of subsis-
tence is small can afford. 1t follows
that to no class is preventive medicine
more important than to the wage earn
er, especially the women. The Wom-
ans Trade Union League, through its
president. Mrs Raymond Robins, has
taken up this subject and viii issue a
monthly bulletin similar to that issued
weekly by the health department, but
addressed especially to the needs Of
working women. Sound general ad
vice and helpful suggestions thus will
be distributed to thousands of work
ers, who undoubtedly will be induced
by 1t to take a more cautious attitude
toward their physical condition.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
The Human Factor in Business
Has Much to Do With
Success.
MUTUAL INTEREST BIG HELP
Employer Should Know How to Meet
His Employees on Common Ground
OF Understanding So as to
Turn Them Into Eff
cent Units.

Knowing your employees, how to
handle them, how TO meet them on a
common ground of understanding,
how to turn them into efficient units.
Is All essential element 10 the success
Of every business enterprise, whether
department store, wholesale house, or
manufacturing establishment The
human factor in business is an ex-
tremely important factor and the ccn-
tract between boss" aud worker Is
one of the things which determine the
efficiency and Importance of that fac
tor.
A successful Chicago jeweler has
built up a large business principally
through his knowledge of men and his
ability to handle those under him with
proper regard for their rights and
the commonest Office courtesies. This
enterprise started very modestly years
ago. Three clerks were employed
during its early years, and as an ap-
probation of their continuing with the
company the pre- Jrietor installed a
system of his own whereby each clerk
receives an automatic increase in sal
airy of 81 a week each year.
This continues until a certain lib
eral wage is reached, when, If the
profits of the business warrant it. en-
ployes are given Christmas presents
In casn. This business man finds that
the voluntary increase in salary
means greater efficiency on the part
o. the employee. besides an increase in
business through the employees added
effort. These two factors more than
compensate him for the additional
cash outlay.
The president Of a big industry In
the middle west makes 1t his business
to know every one of the 1900 en-
ployes of his plant and he is contin-
ually going out of his way to speak
to them intimately. Last year he held
"open house" once a week at his home
for the purpose of getting better &C
quainted with his department heads
and their wives and families. He be
lieves thoroughly in the personal,
democratic side of his enterprise, aid
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
unsiahtIy City eateways.

The ugliness of the approaches to
most American cities. the desert
spaces of the empty lots, the hideous-
ness of the billboards, often cutting off
from our eyes vistas of green fields,
the slovenliness of back yards and
dreary alleyways, the burning piles of
rubbish on the dumps asphyxiating
whole district, are at last getting on
the nerves" Of the American people.
Perhaps no contrast is more humii-
iating abroad thdn the banality of the
environs of our great towns and the
desolate wastefulness OF the suburban
klands, as compared with the beautiful
economy with which the continental
people turn waste into productiveness.
You see pretty garden spots instead Of
vile vacuity, and verdure clinging al
most to the rails of the cars Let us
frankly confess that we hardly know
what a civilized city is!-Christian
Register.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
Give Them No Heed

X was--and more SO. Their principal
service in life is to discourage the
young person who is looking at life
with new and inquiring eyes, and who
naturally takes any such expression
as that of experience and therefore
approxinating the truth.
Opportunity exists amply every
where. Not opportunity to become
president, or head of the oil supply of
the world, but opportunity equal to
the seekers capacity. There is in the
world an opportunity for each man
and woman who observes the laws OF
right to come to the height of his
service and growth. The most Of us
being common men, our opportunities
are at our level. but they are as elias
tic as our growth demands. The world
is great machine in which no human
working part is cast away, except
willfully, and such self-incapacitation
in no way affects the easy running of
the machine. This is only saying, in
another way, that it is up to" the
person concerned. Opportunities are
everywhere-wh one are you COM
petent to swing?
Nor are the higher opportunities
lacking. Almost every day word comes
of person making lucky strike, rs
the man In the street would say, but
which is really finding in himself un-
suspected powers which are called
forth by fortunate conjunction of
circumstances. Look at George Tyler,
who is a working Journalist in Lon
don. A few weeks ago he took a play
he had written at odd moments-a
play called THE New Sin'-to man.
ager to read. He had a half penny in
his pocket, which represented all his
worldly wealth Today he has con-
tracts for the next four plays he may
write, and his production is coming
pany. Luck? No! good stuff. and a
willingness to try it out. That is
happening in all lines continually in
this country. There is not and never
was a conspiracy to keep a good thing
down, because it is impossible. Men
who try for the prize and do not sue
coed are ROT justified in turning back
to say mat there never was any prize
anyway. Men who sour are thereby
binding themselves SO that they can
not see Opportunity when it arrives.
And men who are normal and alert
and alive know that any moment may
bring the favored conjunction and are
ready for it. For Opportunity has two
halves and one is in the man. II the
half in him be dead, the other goes
wandering without it's mate. And one
OF the most fatal draughts you can
give Opportunity is the silly, cynical
and untrue thought that it no longer
exists.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
The Parable of the Oxen

Don't tell the master / have gone,
for l shall return before my absence
has been discovered he said.
The other OK assented. and the lazy
one departed. Two days later be re-
turned
Does the master know that have
been away?' he asked.
believe So, was the reply.
Did he seem anTyf
Mono. l can't say that he did,
the dutiful OK answered.
But are you quite sure that he
did not make any commentT the other
persisted
Quite sure was the positive re-
joinder.
II that's the case the other said.
I may as well go again next week
Yes. suppose you may the stay
at-hcme said quietly. BY the way. !
forgot TO mention that I noticed the
master In very earnest conversation
With the butcher this morning"
Before re left tbs. evening the en-
ploye wLo had asked for vacation
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
T"o Sets of Takers to Whom
Young Man Should Turn
Deaf Ear.
NEITHER EVER DID ANYTHING
One Is the Man Who Insists This Is
Day of Opportunity, and Never
Grasps II, and Other Declares
Millionalres Have Gobbled
All Chances.

There are two sets of takers to
whom the young person ought reso-
lutely turn his deaf ear One is the
man who loudly insists that this is a
day OF opportunity and never grasps
one for himself; and the other is the
cynic who, though enjoying an oppor-
tunity up to his capacity to handle,
points to one or two millionaires and
sourly insists that they have gobbled
up all the chances. These two classes
have always existed. We find them
even in the days when million in
dollars was inconceivable outside the
government finances. They have nei-
Their of them done anything to in
crease or diminish Opportunity, which
is as ample and various today as ever
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
How Shiftlessness Of an Employs Was
Rebuked by an Employers
Story.

A rather sporty young fellow got
position with a man who believes
in exacting a full days work from his
employees The new clerk, who prided
himself on his cleverness, decided be
ould Ike a little time on. sc he
asked his employer for vacation OF
three or four days. In order that be
might be treated for nervous CON-
plant The employer gave his com
sent rather sourly.
That afternoon, while the young fell
low was present, the proprietor cas-
ually told the following story:
Once upon a time there were two
oxen. one a hard working OK, the 9th
er a shiftless animal, who preferred
resting 10 working.
One morning the shiftless OK COR
Aded to the other that he was going
10 slip away for a day OF two 10 sam
,le s6nae cew pasture ground
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
WORLD OF SCIENCE.

London has the Best health record
among European capitals.
One aviator was killed for each g..
900 miles flown last year.
Less than one-third of the area OF
Korea is suitable for farming.
Salt and vinegar form an excellent
cleansing mixture for copperware.
The metric system Of weights and
measures went into effect in Denmark
April J.
About 100000 more tons of coal
were mined in France last year than
the year before
The seventh international dry farm.
ing congress will be held at Leth-
bridge, Alberta, in October
Cleanliness and durability are claim.
ed for new chicken coop that is
stamped out of sheet metal
Simple apparatus fer the manufac-
ture of gas from SO per cent. air and
2 per cent. gasoline vapor has been
invented by an Australian.
An elaborate memorial is planned
for the now unmarked grave in Phil
adelphia of Dr. John Morgan, who es.
tablished the first medical school in
North America at Philadelphia in 1865
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
DUBIOUS
About What Her Husband Would Say.

A Mich. woman tried Postum be-
cause coffee disagreed with her and
her husband. Tea is just as harm
full as coffee because it contains caf-
feine-the same drug found in COT
fee. She writes:
MY husband was sick for three
wears with catarrh OF the bladdea and
palpitaticn of the heart caused by
coffee. Was unable TO work at ali
and In bed part of the time.
Il had stomach trouble. was weak
and fretful so l could not attend 20
my housework-both of US using cof-
fee all the time and not realizing IL
was harmful.
"One morning the grocer's wife
said she believed coffee was the cause
of our trouble and advised Postum.
took it home rather dubious what my
husband would say--he was fond of
coffee.
But took coffee right OF the table
and we haven't used a cup OF 1t since.
You should have seen the change In
US, and now my husband never COM
plains of heart palpitation any more.
My stomach trouble went away IN two
weeks after began Postum. Ny chill
dren love it, and it does them good.
which can't be said of coffee.
a lady visited us who was usually
half sick. l told her I'd make her 3
cup OF Postum. She said it was taste
faSS stuff huf she urnfrh,1 MA max a
1t. boiling it thoroughly for Is minutes.
and when done. she said it was splen-
did. Long boiling brings out the fla
vor and food quality" Name given by
Postum Co. Battle Greek, Mich.
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
hook, The Road TO MELVILLE"
Ever read the above letterg new
one appears from time 10 time. They
are genuine, true, and fun OF human
kntercxt.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
Know Your Workers

says that he gets big returns in loyal
ty and efficiency from paying more
careful attention 70 that side
Some proprieuors and managers still
insist upon Maintaining their personal
relations with theii men. The presi-
dent of an industrial corporation
which employs 1900 men says .hal he
has discontinued the old practice Of
allowing foremen to discharge his
men. The practice had been resorted
TO so much by ioremen who were
prejudiced OF overoficious that the
entire force was demoralized half the
time
Every man against whom a COM
plant is lodged" said this president,
is now brought before me, by the
man who makes the complaint-gen-
orally the foreman. In my Office we
go over the entire proposition In a
matter of fact. sensible way, without
heat or bias. If the man should be
dismissed I do the dismissirg myself
The result Is that not one-third of the
number of men are dismissed now
that were under the former practice.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
WASN'T A FIVE O'CLOCK TEA
Glass One of Chess Fanatics Properly
Objected to Garruousness of
His Opponent.

Two elderly chess fanatics were abb
sorbed in game at the Mechanics
Institute in San Fra-cisco recently.
Both were experts and rigid follow
ers of all the rules OF the game. writ
ten and otherwise. For nearly five
hours neither had spoken word.
Backward and forward. moving and
countermoying, the game swung, with
no perceptible advantage to either
player. Finally one of the old fell
lows made a fatal break. Quick as a
fash his opponent moved his knight
into position and softly murmured,
Check"
The other player, making no effort
to conceal his displeasure. rose from
the game.
What's the matter?" demanded his
friend, Going to quit?"
Il certainly am. I'll be hanged if /
can play chess with a darned old chat
erboxn'-Saturday Evening Post.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
Rather an open Secret.

A very important citizen was drawn
on jury, a week or two ago. and
met him after he had been discharged.
He seemed to think that he was en-
titled TO be on the bench. at the very
least.
what was your verdict in that
case?' | asked.
The defendant was unanimously
acouitted on the first ballot
Indeed? And how did you voter
That, sir, is one of the sacred Sc
crets If the juryroom.' "-Cleveland
Plain Dealer
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09

"HAn." said John, saf IT had been
rassei TO you first, which would you
have taken ,"
The small piece, OF course" said
Frank. with righteous indignation
well. then. what are you kicking
ahouts" responded John. that's the
piece you've got isn't its"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
OF Course Not.

Jimmy said; MY pa is a church
member"
so is mine," boosted Henry.
He amt neither. My pa says your
pa don't come to chruch, and even
when he does he doesn't put nothing
in the collection box"
Hun. My pa is an honorary mem
Der, and honorary members don't haf.
ter chip in!'
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
On Land and Sea.

Circumstances alter cases even in
human nature"
yes. Take Jorkins, for instance.
He's one of those grandiose Chester
fields who would give up his seat in
a lifeboat to a woman, and then make
an attempt to lead the saloon orches-
ira in Nearer, My God, to Thee as the
ship Sinks
81 see. On land, Jorkins is the fell
low at o'clock who horns through
the women and children and gets a
window seat in his homebound street
car"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
Unreasonable Protest.

Frank and John, two brothers who
1--we with their parents in city fat,
had friend visiting them recently. In
the course OF the afternoon their
mother brought in a plate with three
pieces OF cake on il, two were of equal
size. but the third ives much smaller.
The plate was first passed TO the
friend who took one of the larger
pieces. then TO John. who took the re-
naming large piece. AS Frank took
the small one he looked at his broth
er. and SAID in an aside" Hog"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09

wood fire in the cook stove and sit
around as IN his old boyhood days on
the farm What memories it re-
calls" he would say, ito hear the
. crackle of the wood and sniff the
smoke that seems to be purifying
rather than oppress vel" Affairs
and Folks" Joe Mitchell Chapple, in
Joe Chapple's News Letter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09

A splendid and highly recommended
remedy for tired, weak, inflamed eyes
and graduated eyelids, is Paxtine An.
tiseptic, at druggists, 25c box or sent
postpaid on receipt of price by The
Paxton Toilet Co.. Boston, Mass.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
The oId-Fashioned Fire.

Could anything be more refreshing
than the smell of the old-fashioned
wood fire in late spring or early au'
tumn? There is something grimy in
the reek OF coal, and the odor of gas
is nauseating. Modern inventions
may have brought their convent
ences" but a staid old senator, who
lately passed beyond. Insisted that
when he wanted a real night of COM
fort after the family bad all gone
south for the winter, he would HE
himself home, build an old-fssbioned
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
Watching Odd Things

value to some one who wanted it for
what it was worth and in this case a
no less distinguished patron than the
United States government reached out
for 1t and got it, while Mr. Bremen is
now engaged in work of his own cul-
tivation and desire.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
SAVING Something.

This is a dreadful downpour."
Yes. and my umbrella Is far toe
small to shelter your picture hat"
We'll, try to hold il over that vel
vet bow, anyhow. "-Washington Her
aid
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
Death shuns Man who is Prepared.

Ernest Feidkirch. Gottinsen Ger
many carpenter of Sc years of age.
has cheertully looked death in the
face for 20 years. His first Illness.
which came when he was 90. suggest
ed to him that, having no relatives,
be should provide for his burial him
self. and as soon as he recovered he
set TO work and made himself coffin.
which he placed conveniently beside
his bed After a number OF years il
began TO decay. and he was obliged 10
make another. TIE second is now in
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
When Your Ewes Need Care

Try Murine Eye Remedy. No Smartng-Feels
Fine--Acts Quickly. Try IL for Red, Weak,
trated Book in each Package. Murine is
compounded by our Oculists- not "PateDt Med
icine"-but used in successful Physicians Prac-
ice for many years. Now dedicated TO the Pub
lie and sold by Druggists at 2c and Soc pei Bottle
Murine Eye salve In Aseptic Tubes 25c and SOC
Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
Tlme erinas IMPROVEMENT.

Fashions in typography change Ike
all things mortal. but the typograph
ical fashions of 1855. as illustrated in
the American Printer by a facsimile
of the invitation card for the first ty
pothetae dinner might well have
been changed before they were
adopted The work Of type founders
and printers has certainly improved
greatly in taste since the times when
those crudely ornamental design
were popular.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09

4rd revision OF TIN existing Elgh,
and in many cases, prohibitive tariff
duties, insisting that material reduc-
tions be speedily made upon the nee
essaries of life. Articles enterina in
products and articles of American
manufacture where sold abroad more
cheaply than at home could be put
upon the free list
I'VE denounce the action of Presi-
dent Taft in vetoing the bills to re-
duce the tariff In the cotton, wooden,
metals and chemicals schedules and
the farmers free list bills, all of
which was designed to give immedi-
ate relief to the masses from the ex-
actions of the trusts.
THE Republican party, while
promising tariff revision, has shown
By it's tariff legislation that such re-
vision is not to be in the peoples in
terests and having been faithless to
its pledges of 1908 it should no longer
enjoy the confidence of the nation.
High Cost of Living.
The high cost of living is a Sc
rious problem in every American
home. The Republican party in it's
platform attempts to escape from re-
sponsibility for present conditions by
denying that they are due to a pro-
tective tariff We take issue with
them on this subject and charge that
excessive prices result in a large
measure from the high tariff laws en-
acted. and maintained by the kepub,
hcan party, and from trusts and com.
mercial conspirators fostered and en-
couraged by such laws, and we assert
that no substantial relief can be Sc
cured for the people until import du-
ties on the necessaries of life are ma
terially reduced, and those criminal
conspiracies broken up.
Antitrust Law.
"a private monopoly is indefensi-
BILE and intolerable. We therefore IA
vor the vigorous enforcement of the
criminal as well as the civil law
demand enactment of such additional
legislation as may be necessary to
make 1t impossible for a private mo-
nopoly to exist in the United States
I'VE condemn the action of the Re
publican administration in compro
missing with the Standard Oil Com
pany and the tobacco trust and its
failure to invoke the criminal pro
visions of the antitrust law against
the officers of those corporations aft
er the court had declared that from
the undisputed facts in the record
they had violated the criminal provis-
ions of the law.
I'VE regret that Sherman antitrust
law has received judicial construc-
ton depriving it of much of it's eff
ficacy, and we favor the enactment OF
legislation wcich will restore to the
statute the strength of which 1t has
been deprived by such Interpretation.
Income Tax and Popular Election OF
Senators.
1--WE congratulate the country upon
the triumph of two important reforms
demanded in the last national plat
form, namely, the amendment of the
federal constitution authorizing an in
come tax and the amendment provid-
ing for the popular election of sena-
tors, and we call upon the people OF
sll the states to rally to the support
of the pending propositions and secure
their ratification.
I'VE note with qualification the
unanimous sentiment In favor OF
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
Asto ,ishlnn Exnerlence.

The whale, after parting with Jo-
nah, was gazing after his retreating
form.
IF any one had told me-" murmur-
ed the great mammal, bitterly, that
would find a man ready to jump down
my throat, l never would have swal-
lowed 1t whole"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
Sion the Palm.

The hurt of a burn or cut stops when
Coles Carbolisalve is applied. 1t heals
quickly and prevents scars 25c and Soc by
druggists For free sample write TO
]. w. Cole & &C.. Black River Falls, Wis.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
A Special Favor.

Customer want ton of coal.
Dealer-Yes. sir. What size?
Customer-Well, If it's not asking
too much, I'd like to have 1000
pound ton.-Brooklyn Life.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09
E,erIin,s Disposal Of Sewage.

None of the sewage of Berlin is al
lowed to empty into the river or
canals of that city. 1t is all pumped
through large pipes 10 the city sew
age fslms