Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-06-08
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bond.
Due to the attitude Of the street rail
way company on matters considered OF
vital Importance to the city, the city
| commissioners of Duluth voted unani-
mously to condemn the property, and
| take over the system. And why
shouldn It Duluth or any other munich
patty own it's public utilities?
| Sam Y. Gordon, editor of the Inter-
Lake Tribune at Browns Valley, has
been named state printer, succeeding
Joseph Mannix, who has held the posi-
! ton for a number Of years. The change
| is said to be due to the fight over the
public domain bill in the last session
of the legislature. Secretary of State
Schmahl favored the retention of Mr..
Mannix, and Auditor Preus and Treas
ureH. Rhines favored Mr.. Gordon.
Forty-two corporations showed an ag-
gregate increase in net profits in 1916
over 1914 Of four billion dollars. The
steel trusts earnings in 1914 were
$23 ,496,768 and in 1916 the tremendous
profits Of $271,531, 73v, with greater
estimated profits for the present year.
It seems more reasonable and proper
to levy a heavy tax on those profting
from war conditions, than on those suf-
fering from these same conditions.
The announcement Of the Northern
Pacific railroad and other employers
that women labor is to be substituted
to replace men going into The army and
navy is laudable enough, and it is to
be hoped that where the same work is
to be done, and the same duties and
responsibilities involved, that the pay
will be the same. However. it seems to
US that the employers arc forgetting
class Of labor which for several years
has been unjustly Disseminated against,
due to false conceptions Of efficiency.
We refer to the middleaged man. Of
course age is a relative matter. It is
truism that man is as old as he
feels. Some men young chronologically
are old in other ways. If man has
reached forty and beyond and has not
got certain valuable experiences and
disciplines out of life and out of his
occupation, he is no good anywhere.
But if he has had these experiences
and is still we'll and strong physically
and mentally as hundreds OF thousands
Of men in this country are from forty
to sixty years and even more, he is a
valuable man, and ought to be used
and not relegated to the rear, as has
been the policy of many concerns. Pos
sibly he may not always have the
"pep' of the younger man, but he
has learned life's values and has got
beyond rashness. There is no oaddcr
sight than to see men who have been
faithful and efficient and who are still
capable Of doing good WORK or better
work than ever, thrust aside remorsc-
lessly simply because they have reach
ed whatever age in the judgment OF
the manager is the chloroforming age.
Often the salary received has not been
commensurate with the value of the
work done, and the faithful employee
may not be in rosition to face the fu-
ture as he would ten or fifteen years
later. There are untold numbers Of
these tragedies, for that is what they
are. The worshippers of the great god
Efficiency think it fair to drain a man,
and when they think the orange is
sucked dry, to throw it in the ditch.
If they only knew it, there is plenty
juice left. The greatest conflict Of the
ages, while it is being fought bv young
men, or has been up to date, is being
directed by men the efficiency experts
would have discarded long ago, and in
fact did discard in some countries. In
all the warning countries, with ex-
tremely few exceptions, the generals in
the field and the statesmen in the cab
met, are men of middle age or far be-
yond, many Of them indeed around
three score and ten. Unless some ex-
traordinary military genius develops
and is recognized, we do not think any
second lieutenant is going to be placed
in command of the armies Of the Unit
ed States, no matter his abundance Of
"pep.' Why should not the employ.
ers in this time of crisis, when it is
possible to be fair to the middleaged
man, use him. He is not going to bat
tie. not unless the war is much pro-
Ion ged. It will be great opportun-
itv to inject some common sense into
efficiency engineering, and to render
justice to deserving lot of citizens.
A LAW TO PUNISH PERSONS DIS
COURAGING ENLISTMENT
claws of 1917, Chapter 1857
Section l. Tt shall be unlawful from
and after the passage of this act for