El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-12-13
DO YOU REMEMBER?

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no YOU REAfEMBER2 You were
= the proprietor OF a successful
business house in those DAYS Those
were the good old days when your
clerks could get good board and
room for s. che week, when one could
raise a good sized family in reason
able comfort and respectability on
$500 per month, when your daughter
one Of the best dressed girls in the
city. rarely paid more than 50 cents
Tor a pair OF stockings. When you
could buy a piano box buggy and a
span Of thoroughbrads for five hun
dred. You we're making good money
iu those days too, weren't you.
Every single dollar vas worth a Iull
100 cents. Your profits were large
Tou lived In ease. comfort and real
luxury. You ran your big estaplisl-
ment, took a trip when you pleased
kept two or three o. the Do@s ana
girls at expensive colleges. yet you
were able DO DO all on less than seven
plus back into the business, kept a
good account at the bank
Employees Valued Positions
You were never bothered about the
overhead. Clerical help was plentl-
ful, labor was cheap. Instead OF your
fearing continually that some OF your
good men might leave you. YOU knew
1ull well thaI lney Valuel - HllL l 80
Lious highly and were in constant tear
Of losing them You didn't have 70 De
particularly tacttul with any or your
men. When you pressed the Dullon'
they came on the jump ana STOOD az
attention until you had given Lnell
YOUR orders. You we're someW nat o.
q GEAR" In those days weren't yo4+
y You soon got into the socalled capital
istic class. You didn't rear L-at any
of your best men with their LnorQu6n
lznovgledae Of the business could ever
save enough money out OF lnelr
ueager salaries to leave your employ
and start up a competitive business
On their own account Inere vas no
chance Of that In those days you
and many others Ike you haa INNS
pretty much your own way Dlcnt
Felt Generous at Christnass
When Christmas came AROUND you
would slip your general manager a
$50 bill. hand out q Few orders -ur a
dollar necktie 10 your clerks, eiNe
your laborers an order Tor pound
OF coffee on the general store Ils
my. but didn't you feel Eeneraus Wnen
5-o.l walked home on Christmas eVe+
You felt so generous and exception
ally good hearted that you Wputl
stop In at the big store and Eet
Isabelle a fur cost, magnlIicent
e-o7d v-atch Tor your son J0hE. and
beautiful cavalier tor little -aauel-e
al the jewellers. would complete your
generosity for The season 1Qu uldn
ask the price OF those WonueI-ul- pl 49,
ents for the members OF your family
did vou2 They were bought Tor your
family. The very best from gener-
Gus father Ike you was none 700
good for them
The years rolled by. Your general
manager was growing OLD IN your
service You hadn't raised ms saLaIs
because YOU didn't have TO IN those
DAYS You paid your men about Lzlat
others were paying mes. 49,
should you do more 1or them lnan
others were doing. In other WORDS
you had things all your own way
You were gradually becoming SCI
fish old man You were not the only
one OF YOUR type me 4l4Aa-tlaA
eenters were fun OF men of Just YOU
1zind-seIfish. hardened slave drivers
self satisfied, cold business men z GU
had about as much real sympathy il
YOUR make I'D as a keeper IN the I'd
Tor1ffe" ward tn a penlteutiary- Some
times when you figured on big con
tracts and labor was pient1ul IN
those DAYS, II vou feared competitor
you would cut the LABOR COST ~ ne
last miaute. You were a student OF
men. You knew them and rather Llan
leave your community you knew they
would stand cut OF rWenly-llEe
cents a day. You we're generally
right in your judgment 100 Werell {
Real Captain Of Industry
Well anyway. you had IL figured OUT
that you were a real captain OF IN
dustrE- Now, really were yout Don
--ou think that you were really q
cold blooded, calculating mlser anc
with not a single thought OF care
REGARDING the lives OF the many men
in your employ2 oh, Bill there were
many, many men just like you n
realize what they really were Mnen
YOU dropped your contribution into
the basket az church Sunday morning
and looked at the stained glass VIM
dow you had given through your
generosity you telt pretty We. aa-l7-
lied with yourself, didn't youz
Don't Won remem Der that nunQay
YOU and Isabelle walked home rom
church alone lIhe boys ana glris
were away at SCHOOL, You happened
10 notice your general manager and
his wife sitting IN front Of their NOD
est little cottage Isabelle noticed
them too. 'How thin Georges VIE
looks, Bill" she said y oelleVe she
should have a change OF climate.
wonder II George can afford 10 send
her away for O time" There was an
appealing lOok IN lsabeLles eyes
when she said 10, wasn't there. 4naL
look sci you 10 thinking. Didl't it,
You knew Isabelle and you knew
that she knew YOU. and you felt that
Won saw q little trace OF d1Eappolnl-
ruent I'D that glance, in that cleai'
level glance. Could George afford TO
send his wife away2 He had been
with vou 20 years. whose tault was
ft IL he Couldn't he had never
neglected a duty OF shlrked a respon-
si-iiifv Tor YOU. You turned your
ewes away from Isabelle's. didn't youz
They couldn't stand that clear level
knowing glance. Don't you remember
taking her haud2 You were passing
rhroueh the park. You pulled her