The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-08-10

!, kick him into line. This is the man
who becomes valuable to the bust.
ness-the youngster who enters at
sixteen, and who is brought up in 1t.
! Now, just suppose you have this
strong, young, evolving person, and
you are paying him forty dollars a
week; and along comes your envious
gentleman, picked in his own bust
ness plight, and feeling the need Of
help-as we all do. His eye falls up
on your intelligent rustler and imme-
diately he puts forth solicitations. He
offers your manor commandments
five per cent more, one-third more, or
double what you are paying, in order
to get him to quit you and go with
the caravan. Finally the individual
lsuccumbs; and when he goes he is
very apt to salve his conscience by
getting up a grievance. And when
! he hikes he takes with him half a
dozen of his assistants, to the great
delight of his injured self and his new
found employer. Now the question is,
does this man fill the new position to
the same satisfaction and advantage
that he filled the former one? On
your life. no! The raise in salary
has not made him grow-he has sim
ply swollen. Much is expected Of him
because he Is being paid big money.
This very expectancy scares him. Al
so, alack, he is a stranger now, and
his audience is not a friendly one.
and gently. He takes a trip to Eu-,'
rope-and the scenes that knew him
once know him no more forever If,
possibly, he should go back to his old
place he does so at reduced salary.
A Disappointing Experience.
When you hire away faithful help
ers from a successful institution on
the promise of big pay, the rule is
that disappointment awaits all parties
The man who leaves un.
der these conditions has yellow
streak in his makeup. More pay for
more work is right and natural, but
bigger pay on the hope that the man
is going to make good in new pc,
sition is gamble. / can we'll under
stand how 1t often happens that con-
ditions in certain concern are not
desirable, for personal reasons, and a
good man will go out and look for,
another job. And that is all right.
But let him make good first and get
the pay as a result. To work up in
one place and then make a jump. to
another in the hope that you are GO.
ing to do better work is to fall into
the yeasty deep. You have to work
up in the position that you now &C.
cupy; for all the weaknesses you have
you carry with you to the new job.
A man is not big because he gets
big salary, but he gets a big salary
because he is big; and he should
show his ability to earn this salary
IA thc PiuNt ht otNupltS btlOIt ut
gets the raise. In my own little bust
ness, l have tried some experiences
in this line. l have a list now of
twenty-eight men and women who
evolved in The Roycroft Shops to a
certain degree of skill and efficiency
where they were able to take charge
OF department with ability and pre-
cision. Then they got chesty and
were hired away. The streams of Wis
itors through The Roycroft Shops
make 1t an unfortunate place for a
star actor. People want to hire him.
They think that when they get him
away he will carry with him a lot OF
rainbow tints and the glory OF tho
sunrise, and into new position he
will put color, form, brain, Drawn, art
and dolodocci In every one of these
twenty-eight instances, where the man
was lured away on the promise OF
more money, the individual, when re-
moved from the favorable conditions
in which he evolved, fiatted and failed
to put II over. He may have been
big and strong and fine in the old po-
sition, but when he was flung off into
space as commercial nebulae he failed
to whirl himself into a planet. At
best he was a motor. and a motor
gives of just what power is put into
1t and no more. What the man want
ed who hired the fellow was a dyna-
mo, and a dynamo is thing that
generates power. So the argument
is this: Beware of hiring people away
or Of being hired away on the prom.
Use OF more money. II only the mon.
ey catches you, you are not a man
worth while.
II the man goes for the same pay,