Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-10-12
CHEATING ONESELF.


young lady working a paper said she did not
try to do very good work for her employers because they
did not pay much This doing poor work because does
not pay much just what keeps thousands and thousands
of young people from getting in the world Small pay
is no excuse for doing half work soveny work In
deed the pay which receives should have nothing to do
with the quality of his work The work should be mat
ter of conscience 1t is question of character not of re-
enumeration person has right to demoraze his own
character by doing soveny haffnished work simply
because it doesn't pay much conscientious person will
do his work just well if he receives nothing than
his board for it, large part of the best work that has
been done in the history Of the world has been only
half paid Tor
An emplOye has something at stake besides his salary
He has character There are manhood and womanhood
involved compared with which salary is nothing The
way one does his work enters into the very fiber of his
character 1t is matter Of conscience and no one can
afford to sell himself because his salary is meager
Besides if puts his very best self into every little
thing he doespus his heart and conscience into it, and
tries t see how much and not how little he can give his
employer he will not be likely to be underpad very long
for he will be advanced Good work cuts its own channel
and does its own talking What matter if you do twenty
five dollars worth Of work for five dollars? 1t is the best
advertisement of your worth you possibly give Bad
work half done work. slipshOd work, even with good
salary would soon ruin you No. the way to get on in
the world is not to how little you give for your sal
ary but how much Make your employer ashamed of the
eage salary he gives by the great dspoporton between
what you do and what you get Character is very great
factor success and the personal impression you make
on your employer will certainly tell If not it will at
tract the attention Of other employers.
Mr. Fleet is evidently British partisan and radical
one at that Anything that England might do would be
ustfabe in his eyes, and it would seem that he should be
IN the firing line with his countymen instead Of pursuing
The less dangerous occupation Of wagng with oun
tain pen in the security of neutral land AS to the Jaur
nal not publishing the full report of the Belgian commit
vee sent to this country to advertise alleged German
atrocities had been discounted fully by advance pub
catiops in the dispatches that its value was not
material and only handled very briefly in press
epor which is devoted mainly to carrying live news in
stead OF routine matters Of interest only to limited num-
ber Of partsans like Mr. Fleet 1t is only sufficient to
say further on this subject that the United States is de-
termned to remain strictly neutral in this great war;
but Knowledge of this desire should not be taken advan
tage of by Great Britain any other begeent to dis
regard the rights Of our government which is in duty
and honor bound to protect the interests of its citizens
sea and land alike and can permit no interference with
their personal liberties or business affairs egtmaely
carried on.