Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-22
BUSINESS HERE
PUTS FOOT DOWN
ON DRINKING MAN
Big Industries Have No Place
For Employe Who Goes
on Spree"
SAY mo BOOZE" PAYS
Genial Johns" Will Soon Be
Unable to Get Street Clean
ing Jobs Prediction
SAY mo BOOZE" PAYS

The men who fire and hire-heads
OF the large industries that furnish
work to the men of Harrisburg-have
unqualifiedly declared themselves
against the use of liquor by their em-
ployeS. Every man interviewed by
the Telegraph declared in essences:
Men who use liquor can expect no
sympathy, much less good jobs, if un-
der my CONTROL
David l.. Tracy, president of the
Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending
Works said: I'VE have no use for
the men who are inveterate drinkers.
To come to work just once under even
the slightest influence of drink is to
receive u warning. The second Of
Tense is to draw the pink Slip"
Despite the size of our works and
the number of men we employ, we
never waste time with drinkers" is the
way Quincy Bent general manager of
the Pennsylvania Steel Company
speaks of the booze problem. Mr..
Bent emphasizes the fact that in mod
ern industry with the use of compli-
Gated machinery and powerful forces
such as steam and electricity, only
men with brains undulled by "a night
out" and bodies unweakened by the
effects of alcohol can be trusted as
high class operatives.
"No Booze"
The officials of aN the railroads that
touch Harrisburg have declared their
opinion on the liquor question before
and yesterday declared the expert
ment of mo booze" started several
years ago has proved a good thing in
every way.
The Central Iron and Steel Company
and the Lalance-Grosiean companies
both take the same stand on the ques-
tion. While not endeavoring to hold
control over the personal habits of
h,A OF Il al ~
company permits its workers to go on
duty under the influence of alcohol.
The inVeterate drinker is marked for
dismissal as soon as another man can
be found to take his place.
Roy Hickok, of the Hickok Manu-
featuring Company, said: THE nom
drinking man has always been pre-
ferred by us. We have a perpetual
embargo on liquor"
Men in banking circles who employ
men for positions of trust and re-
sponsibility said they believed the
drink evil is slowly taking care of
itself because fewer young men Of to-
day are following in the steps of the
"souses" of the last several genera
tions. Several of the men declared
that at the present time they had en-
ployes who were good except for their
periodic sprees.
One businessman said: "I have at
least i've young men VINO VIII soon
supplant older men who are addicted
to the liquor habit. 1 have. trained
the young men for the express purpose
of filing the jobs that will be made
vacant when | can no longer stand
the worry caused by the absence of
one of my men accustomed to little
drinking bouts"
1.-THE newspaperman of Incorporate
habits has long since passed into le
rU al q
by hand. The man who wrote feature
stories in the daytime and slept in
drunken stupor on the desk for. the
night and then rested up for several
days is a thing of the past" said
prominent publisher to-day.
1.-The genial John is doomed. The
time is not far distant when a man
addicted to the booze habit will be
unable to get u job as a street
cleaner"