Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-01-02

always hold out tempting PROPOSE
ttions and which in so many instan-
ces results disastrously to the invest
or. II you want something gilt edg-
led, there Is scarcely a bank in the
Estate but that can supply your wants
safely.
THE INEFFICIENT.
Manson Democrat: In all the
walks OF life, the trades, the profess
1sions and the ecallings, General Inef-
fciency, the war lord Of discomfort
and trouble, appears to be in SUI
preme command, with Lieutenant
Laziness and Captain Squander as
his immediate underlings. It was
not SO long ago that men learned
trades because they wished to make
Ia living at them for a while; then
perhaps, with the money saved by
honest toll, embark In. business for
themselves. They learned their
trades well, worked at them faith
fully to their employers and them
selves and turned out a product that
twas salable all the way through
without the effort Of the seller to
get rid of it by putting the best and
the unspoiled part Of it on the top
or the outside. Occasionally yon
hear a man say that It took longer
Ito learn q trade in those times than
lit does now. He is mistaken, always.
It takes just as long now, hut the
men will not put the time into It.
Life is too short, they think, to fritz
tier away learning q trade or a busi-
mess. The years their fathers used
to put in at learning something that
would make successful men and use
Hui citizens out Of them are row cut
I'm two, or three. and the rest of the
time is used up in living faster than
body, mind or purse, Is able to stand.
The result is a class of tradesmen
who are, to use the kindest word,
miserable. They have to lie, cheat
and actually steal to get work and
1get away with it," as they boast.
They claim to have. specialized by
learning one thing, but they soon
prove, on trial., that they have not
even learned one thing well and that
they are four iushers who car not
for skill or efficiency. or who take no
lpride in their output. being chiefly
and almost solely concerned in the
matter OF putting In the least hours
flor the most money and chaiing be-
cause it is not quitting time or Sat
urday afternoon. With them the
enployer is q slave driver and they
themselves r serfs, hence the only
proper and patriotic thing to do Ii
to gouge the boss at every oppOrtun-
Iity. They get cross eyed from watch
ing the clock or shying at the boss
and crazy from brooding over the
fact that they have to work while
somebody else is having a good time.
I might go on ad infinitum, and tell
you about how many trades are ours
ed with this large and rapidly in
I~creasing class of would be workmen
but why do SO? The world knows
them better than / do, for the world
is large and my territory is compar-
atively small. What with the tyran-
[nical employer and the wage squeez-
ing boss, together with the four
flushing artisan in all branches of
Industry. the outlook for the future
GREATNESS of this country as an in
dustrial paradise, is not at ell reas-
lsuring.
There is a time coming, and it is
coming Just as soon as the war in
Europe is ended. when men who
know trades and professions and
know them well and are willing to
work at them honestly and eficient-
lily, will be in great demand and will
l fHta aHgA-fg ~ta-@NE aE lE+L s
command the highest wages ever
paid, while the four fushers. the
tlaggarts and the fellows who live
merely to "get away with it" will be
tleft behind in the great race for a
place in the world to become the in
|digent, the tramps, the loafers and
1.-THE mendicants on the great body
Iof people who have to work for a
living and who love their work.
Happy is the nation whose chill
|dren are educated in the principles
land trained in the practice OF relig-
|ious freedom, are made acquainted in
their youthful days with Its nature
and worth, are inspired from the
earliest period with ardent love for
1T. This will prove the best and most
effective methsd of permanently Sc