The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-10-11
SLACKERS NOT WANTED;
EFFICIENCY NEEDED
Large And Small Firms i'm Cities and
Towns Disposing of IncOmpetents
Remington Arms Company Lays
Off 1000 Employees.

Nearly every business firm in the
United States, from the corporation
employing hundreds of men, down tc
the small store in a country town.
which affords only one clerk, has dis
posed of employees who have not
manifested a keen interest in their
work. The economy and efficiency
plan is being soundly tested; fnan-
iciers finding it economy to pay high
salaries for men rather than to risk
their business with incompetentS,
who have no further interest in their
work than to draw their envelope on
pay day. Colleges and universities
in the leading cities have also adop-
ted measures against enrolling slack
ers, and men who go to college to
have good time, the faculties OF
these institutions preferring to have
fewer students and higher standard
of education and morals.
The firms most prominent in this
movement are the munition factories.
Since the outbreak of the war these
plants have attracted hundreds of
loafers, and fioaters, willing to do
this kind of work because of the
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the Remington Arms Company, in
Eddystone, has discharged 1000
men whose work has not been salts
plant.
From the cellar to the roof a
weeding-out process has been inau-
the press one of the officials said:
ssyNn t0 hra
lacks. Where interest is shown in
the work the workmen are valued
accordingly, but the company is de-
termined that the payroll shall be
composed of competent workmen, and
will not harbor a lot of workmen
who selected the plant for an easy
thing"
The commercial department of the
Cambridge High School has con-
tributed its share toward increasing
the efficiency of office employees in
this city. Before this department
was established there were but few
girls working in Offices who had any
knowledge of shorthand, as conse-
quence of which the oyster packers
and others requiring stenographers
were compelled to send to the city
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the past six years the vast amount OF
work done at this season of the year
has been handled entirely by gradu-
ates of the local high school, and
their ability to attend to business
matters is unquestioned.
The type of girl, who sat in the
Office and chewed gum, watching the
hands of the clock move YEARLY
around to the figure five, has been
supplanted by the active, brainy girl,
who is capable not only of taking
letters, but is also acquainted with
bookkeeping and general office work,
and who, when the Office is crowded
with an extra amount of work, glad
ly spends an extra thirty or sixty
minutes at her desk. Wages have
jumped up with the advance in eff
fciency, the girl who was receiving
only 81 or So on Saturday night has
dropped out of existence, and her
place is filled by the level-headed
girl, drawing about four or five times
this amount.
Employers are asking for results.
It is not alone necessary for men
and women to work during the hours
that they are employed, but it is re-
CURED that they spend their time ad-
vancing the best interests of their
business house. The man who does
a certain amount of work because it
is assigned to him, gets into rut
and stays his progress because he
is of no value in any other place.
There is another class of workmen
which is of little service, notwith-
standing their willingness to do any
work to which they are assigned.
These men lack a vision; they plod
along without accomplishing that
which they are supposed to; they fail
to realize the value of time in con-
nection with their work, apparently
not understanding that the using OF
two hours time to do one hours
work not only means the loss of thei1
own time, but there is also a cores
ponding loss of time upon the part of
every man whose work is connected
with theirs.