The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-28

It is most unfortunate that strongly under the influence of the idea that to catch some bodys attract admirng attention. to get full credit for what we do, is the one element which we piece of work and not get the credit for it is lit tie less than calamity
 Not very long ago it was urged :n an article intended to stimulate the ambition of young men, that they should endeavor strenuously to do some thing that would catch their bosss eye.
 The surprising point about this advice is that it given by employer himself. Had it been written by an aspiring young workman it would be easy to account for; but how boss could utter such counsel is beyond ordinary power to explain.
 If all productive operations were manned by who s.raining catch the bosss eye, industry would become sort of vaudeville, game of catch-as-catch- can, race for recognition
 Of course. there are certain factors in this de de before deal intelligently With it.
 beyond dispute that modern indus trial system has warped this desire terribly out of shape and rendered it almost an obsession There time when mans personal advancement depended entirely and immediately upon his work and not upon anyones favor; but nowadays it de- bends far too much. as we all know upon the in divtduaPs good fortune in catching some infiuen- tial
 It is perfectly clear that long this situa- ton exists, will strive to meet it; that is, men will work with the idea of catching somebody's eye; they will work with the idea that if they fail to get credit for what they do, they might as well have done it badly not have done it. at al
 One result of this far the work itself is concerned it becomes secondary consider The job we doing the article producing the special kind of service dering. turns be not principal work at all. No. Our main work is personal advance ment This thing are doing now is not being done for its sake, this service we are doing is being because it is a service, but because it is platform from which practice the of catching somebody's the of skillfully attracting credit bringing attention to ourselves
 Now submit this habit of making the work secondary and the recognition primary, is unfair to the work. It makes recognition and credit our real job. while the job paid to do is used merely kickng-off place.
 unfortunate effect the a ambition which neither lovely productive It produces the kind who imagine that by standing in with the boss" they will get ahead Every shop knows this kind of And the worst of it is there things in present industrial system which makes it appear that this kind of really pays should be flattered by being made to believe that they hold the veal of workmen in their hands It is natural also that being fattery their self-seekng subordnates should fatter them still more to obtain and profit by their favor.
 The trend of industry is and ought be far farther away condition which gives any individual the power of life and death for that is virtually what bread and butter power is-over another. We don't want of who fancy they control human destiny; and don't want race of workmen who think they have to cringe and ca1ole to get recognition of their merits
 The desire for recognition is natural. But it is far from being the highest desire The work knows that his work is his unswearable wit Far higher than the desire for recognition the creative desire which finds its satisfaction work we'll whether anyone that 1t done we'll not.
 But of course, some modern industrial condf- tions tend to smother that kind of workmanship Whether the emphasis is quantity ex- expense of service. wherever the com rnercal side of production is emphasized cost or the human ano servlceanie sade' then the work benefits whether of money rank 5ob> and he can hardly help becoming infected with the resenerats tendency.
 Now everyone will agree that the person who i. over-anxious about getting credit for what he does = -