The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-15

ct sat down with Walt to read the let
ter with him.
Dear Janet II haven't answered
your note of resignation because |
waited till l grew UP to the full man.
size l had to be to answer it properly.
Had | answered it right away / know
l should have been emotional, or
wounded, or foolish, or all in one.
But | feel that it Is a big experience
we have all gone through, and l want
to benefit by it and act accordingly.
Now that / have waited, here is
my best thought on the matter:
ut seems to me needless for you to
resign. Will you think it over?
There is the world of work, and
there is the world of personal rela-
tions. Sometimes the two overlap:
but they don't have to. The great
majority of people who work together
have little to do with one another out
side of work; yet they can go on
working together. Why cannot we?
Put aside the personal equation
| with us for a moment. You are of
value to the magazine. The magazine
is willing to pay you what you are
worth. Why sever the relation? 1t
Is business relation, and need not
be anything else. I am talking to you
exactly as l talked to John Marker,
my pressroom foreman. John is a
rabid Socialist and made a speech
against all capitalists and employers
as the incubus on the workingmen' 8
backs. 1t was fiery. 1t got into the
papers. John assumed that / would
read it and fire him. He came to beat
me to the separation
"'You've probably read of my speech
In the papers, he said. AS l don't
expect you to stand for what l said,
I've come to resign
Will your speech make any diff
ference in your work. I asked.
"'No!' he said, looking surprised
that l did not blow him up
"'Then go back to the pressroom,
John, and forget it, I said. Your
work is all that interests me in our
| relationship
Janet, why can't you stay on at
the same status as John Marker?
"You may say, Because John has
not gone through what l have
well, without wanting to go into
the painful thing, what have we gone
through but an experience from which
all of us should come out the bigger?
| And isn't the test of bigness our
ability to keep on doing the work of
the world, regardless Of what the
world has done to US?
you don't avoid the open air just
because a storm once caught you?
/ was tempted to do that very thing
myself l was on the point of selling
the magazine last week just to help
me get my mind off things. But l
thought better. 1 decided TO take a
trip on the other side of the ocean
for a couple, of months and do my
forgetting there. So l am leaving
in few days.
eff you can't see your way to keep
| ing the job permanently, Will you at
least keep it for the time l am away?
Sincerely your friend,
"ROY NICOLL."
| Janet and Walt sat in silence for
some moments.
1T seems to me it is true that as
Roy puts it, there's a grown-up way
of treating this, and a childish way
Janet said.
Walt nodded assent
yes, the grown-up way is the con-
structive way. The childish way is
either negative or destructive" he
unused. whatever you decide, Janet
girl, will be the wise thing"
81 shall give Roy his chance to for
| get by not missing mel" answered
Janet, slowly.
(To be continued.)