New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10


busted, never so-capable hands will
decide it. II is for US to say.
AN OLD writer, no doubt foresee-
- ing later men and things, had
il that 'little wastes in great estab-
lishments, constantly occurring, may
defeat the energies of mighty CAPT
tai"
He was right, as right as though
he had worked to-day. His "little
wastes" were the drops Of water that
wore away the stone Of industry a
hundred years ago, as now, the
wastes that have created out of
hurly-burly of new and unsophisti-
Gated business that sugar-cOvered
term, efficiency, which rang so pleas
antly a decade back in the waiting
ear of the public.
Labor by now is as accustomed
to its practice as the great public
has begun to weary Of its sound, for
while it means more money for the
worker and less for the sloth who
tolls not, it also means because Of
war-made needs less butter on the
bread Of luxury and less Of the dry
crust of necessity to toss each day
into the scrap-basket of national
waste. All of which is something Of
a bother. Nevertheless, whether 1t
comes as intensive operation, bust
ness analysis or system plus, indus
trial foresight or scientific super
vision, much there is still to do If
we would level up and straighten out
these crooks in the street called
Business"
More Than
Just Efficiency
To many all this sort Of thing IS
Just efficiency" and let 1t 20 at
that. But to me it seems that it IS
more-it is business good health and
industrial intelligence, national Sc
curity and everyday good sense. And
if that is not enough for you, it Is
also dollars and cents. For it is all
made possible by extraordinary
needs, completely met, with many
good men to do the work and few
etter-than-common brains 70 hold
the lead. 1t is big game, this put
ting the national shop in order, in
order for the work to-day, in open
minded, clear-eyed readiness for the
Jobs that viii come with tomorrow.
Business as usual?" No, Business
at its best" II is a good time to
part with those inherited methods
and handed-down, pioneer systems
we do not need, cannot afford to use
nor ought TO have.
A new order has come, and a vast
field lies just ahead. It is field, in
dustrially, worthy Of much magma
ton, and the top Of il has hardly
yet been scratched. Let us take to
the job in earnest, not only because
il is big and profitable, and so worth
while, but because it is this country's
opportunity. And when, years hence,
some other country says of US, may
be, america was wasteful; she scat
tered much in the path Of industry;
she cast away resources for a dol
lar" Then, if our plans to-day ma
ture, we should be ready TO make
answer: eyes, wasteful, when she
was growing up. But she found the
opportunity that comes to every ma
ton, met it and recognized it," And
that Is much.
IL is a day Of business GONZALES
cence. The patient, hit hard in the
role Of bystander by war among
others, able TO sit up after the first
uncertain year, has more than strug-
gled 10 his feet and taken the first
sure steps now that the war has
como 20 him and his directly. Cut
up in its component parts, this fel-
low Business may readily be seen 10
consist Of a good many Offices, quite
quantity Of shops, and the raw
materials, probably natural re-
sources, on which these shops run
and by which Offices are worked.
Resources, and How
To Waste Them
By way Of resources, there 10 d
great industry that takes first place
In America n number Of establish