The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-05

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CHAPTER TX ga
While l am writing chapter nine
the asylum board is in session in the
suburbs. They have been trying for
just a month to get together. The
board consists of Commissioner H.
K. White, of the public welfare COM
mission; r. J. Comstock, banker
of Rexburg; Arthur j. Snyder, pure
seed grower, of Springfield, the resi-
dent member of the board, and C. A.
Hoover, the medical superintendent.
The meeting was announced for the
first Tuesday in November, and has
been postponed from time to time.
Commissioner White was called east
at the time of the date for the first
meeting, and DR. Hoover had to go
to 'Rexburg with budget of &C.
counts to get Director R. ]. Comstock
to look them over and verify them
and sign them. He is said to have
been so pressed for time that he
could hardly get time to examine the
accounts, so he finally signed on the
dotted line and DR.. Hoover returned
to Blackfoot with them. That is ex-
actly the condition described in a
former chapter, when l explained
how official boards did their buying
under the old system. No matter
how good the men were, the better
the men in business, as men 60, in
this country, the more pressed they
are by their own affairs, and the less
time they have for public duties.
Our Undeveloped Men
Perhaps l ought to explain what |
mean by that expression, "as men
go, in this country" We have a lot
of so-called successful business men
in Idaho, who are not successful in
the measure that want to tell you
about. The truly successful man who
starts in with meager means and
works up to where he Is rather in
dependent, starts as a chore boy do
ing his own janitor work, his own
warehouse work and his own office
work. He is the head, tail and body
of his business at the start. AS 1t
goes up the line in successful opera
ton, he hires some help and organ
ICES his working forces so he does
not have to do the janitor work ex-
cepting at times when his help gets
Indifferent and has to be fired. Then
he does perfectly good job of
swabbing out, himself, till he hires
and trains a new janitor. That same
principle applies to all of his other
help, and he prides himself on being
able to do any part of his business,
which is right. But he takes him
self so seriously that he thinks he
has to do all he possibly can of the
work land keeps busy with details
when he ought to be planning the
larger conquest of business. When
his own time is worth ten dollars
day planning and organizing his bus
mess, he is doing detail work that
could be handled better by six
dollar a day girl or seven-dollar
man who concentrates on that Job
and has no other larger and more
matter in mind at the
same time. The thing for this sue
cessful man of affairs to do is to
train the six-dollar girl to absolutely
take care of the work and business
OF her department, so she seldom has
to trouble him with it, Train the
seven-dollar man to take care of his
part and to learn as rapidly as pos
sible all the things related to it.
Give each of them more information
and more responsibility each month,
and train himself to stand from un-
der and let the others do it without
his help. He should train himself
not to do anything that, he can hire
somebody else to do. BY sticking to
that program, and only by that
means, can he keep his own time
open to look after the larger prob
lens Of building business and organ
izing forces to take care of it. The
man who is a successful banker like
Mr.. Comstock, probably has two or
three. right-hand men in his business
who can sit in and take care of the |
important things that reach his office
each day, and let Mr.. Comstock sit |
down in privacy and examine those
asylum accounts. If there are no |
men in as fine a bank as |
he operates, there are probably good |
men or women awaiting promotion
and advancement If he would only |
,all them over to his desk and lay |
he larger measures Of responsibility |
open to them.
See for Yourself
II you will 60 about among the !
,minently successful merchants,
and other leaders in bust
hess in this state and observe what
hey are doing when you go into
heir places of business. YOU will |