The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-16
says UNCLE CIV

Truly, your old uncle has pre-
viously remarked, the millennium is
likely to be ushered in by the vote of
the board of directors of something.
Also, the captain of industry who is
onto his job is a soldier of the Lord.
Out of the west comes the news that
one manufacturer has at last come to
the aStontSh1ngly sane and astonishing
ly simple conclusion that it pays to fit
the task to the laborer as well as to
try to fit the laborer to the task
The world has been jolting along
complacently for few odd thousands
of years without waking up to the first
and most important principle of in
dustrial life. 1t has discovered what
kind of metal makes the best money
what kind of material makes the best
buildings roads and railways. 1t
knows to the flicker of an eyeIash
how much weight a certain material
Will bear under given condition. 1t
knows all about building everything
but men. What it has vet to learn
about the labor that it employs so
hugely preponderates what it doesn't
know that the latter is a negligible
quantity.
The universal rule has been to take
any old kind of a human being and
jam him into any old kind of industrial
inches and let him and his employer
suffer the consequences The most i'm
portant raw material in the world is
human energy, and it Is the last thing
We think of taking into scientific con-
sideration. Some attention was paid
to it in slavery days, but in these days
of freedom when men can work for
wages or starve without loss to their
employers. nobody is inclined to in
quire whether a square man is being
spoiled by being damned into round
job. If he proves to be too square or
the job proves to be too round
so much the worse for him, his
employer and society at large.
If he proves impossible he is
thrown out with the brand IN. c.
on his back, and left to shift for him
self. Nobody in particular is to blame
for th1S-its just the condition of a
more or less unenHghtened age.
But out of the west comes thinker
who believes that it is a crime to waste
human energy. Strange nobody had
thought of it in just the way he thought
of 1t, but nobody ever had. OF course
we have moranzed and philosophical
upon the problem since the dawn of
civilization and lot of US have trav-
eled all the way around Robin Hoods
barn to find a remedy, but this man
took the bull by the horns and went
after results by direct application.
A lazy man is a sick man who is
sick. usually, because he hasn't found
his proper work.
An incompetent man is a waste of
that divine energy which gives the
earth the promise of the millennium
He who has found his work is
blessed above all men and keeps out
of the hands of the police and seldom
if ever gets into the divorce court.
The biggest problem of the time is
the conservation of natural resources
ana the recourses most in need of
conservation are human brains and
Drawn.
1t is no longer cheaper to wear men
out than to enable them to live and
grow strong.
The man who has hit upon the
simple plan of finding the right task
for every man is thousand years
ahead of the fellow who is merely !
looking for dividends. The time is |
coming when his bust is going to be |
placed in the hall of fame. His name
would be mentioned here if it weren't |
for the rule against free advertising. |
1913, by the Mcclure |
Newspaper Syndicate.)