Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-14
FOREMAN A PHILOSOPHER
Best Producer Works With Least
Effort. He Saws

lUeTe : a foreman down AT fiCS
Island who goes by the every day name
Of Smith. who is a mighty producer. In
fact, his men are leading in production
at that shipyard. Smith is a natural
cultivates their friendship. humors them.
gives then1-when they deserve it, but
gets the work out of them.
Incidentally. this man Smith is "A
philosopher. Here are q few conclusions
he has drawn from life:
The best producer | have does his
work the easiest"
What keeps me on the jump all the
time Is getting my work to the men"
III there is any hold-up in my work
j consider it my own fault
The work my men are doing today
did long ago
I've found out that accidents are most
alwars somebody's failure to do his
job
MY idea is that foreman is a fore
mana man who Is before-that is
ahead of his men in the. work to be
II tell my men when they want to loaf
to 20 and do it and get it over with"
IF couldn't get the jumps on my
job and be happy doing it life wouldn't
be worth much"
BATTALION SERGEANT KANE. of the
Hog Island watch e has been commissioners %ra
Y. $. A.. and assigned to Camp Raritan.
THE WAR SAVINGS STAMP DRIVE be,
gun at the Pusey Jones wilmington yard
handles i ;"T the ssS'i prodaetion depsrtmsnt has
Stamps ss! for Gnes GT sa Ms
Mcdowell has been 2 close second
Office manager. hands out the stamps and,
q course, that has something II; to .nSi.n do with
IN the yarG in cha eharSH Eo,9is Of Harper
Gloucester will end tonight. 1t has been
literally patronized
The NEW EMPLOYMENT BUILDING at
the Pusey 4 Jones Gloucester plant has
Its can ssvs % With
pisant. before putting then on the y
The employment department. headed by ii.
v. Mason. has begun to move in.
chop at the New JERSEY ysTd, slousestsr;
n spnn L sss Sar9 GHs
first wsen e asleep and be se9s Just
the same. he says.
pusey & Jones boiler and light plate shop.
has 2 story about three wells. Well, let him
ABOUT THIRTY-TwO YEARS. AGO Char
. Smiths nf IS sRipyafd at GiSueester. After ali
again in the same place.
vALROY BARRETTA. of the Pusey q
Jones Gloucester office. lesves today to so
hack to his studies at the University of
Michigan.
,MysTA.cIHEE.s HES HAVE COME BACK tSE at the the
slowly and more or less, uncertain. The
mixing considerably and exchanging views on
sYEsliPg and oilins the misplaced eyebrow"
THERE is 4 CHAP IN the hull-drawlng
room at the Merchant yard who sings Of
his love every day in the office until the
others there have about decided to request
him politely, yet firmly to wait until even
tide and sing it to his girl
MISS MELISSA BORST. of Washington
D. c., is visiting her sister, wife Of Lieu
yard guard,
W. r. PARR. OF THE PRODUCTION de-
partment, Merchant shipyard. is being men
TONED with the heroes in the frst-line
trenches at the marriage license bureau.
YoU WOULDN'T THINK hair cut could
cause such stir as that made by some
Hartman tonsorialist upon Assistant Fore
man Anderson's "crownins glory
Z -. MclIERMOTT AND FRED MANTE.
ySrd. leave for camp Dix next week escS
: with watch presented by his co-workers.
NORMAN g. MILLER. supervisor of the
SrousRs oompsny with him 'rsS wSsn he s"rs rs
turned from his vacation. She is Mrs Mil
Ter. formerly Miss Virginia Townsend Tudor,