Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-12-27


 earning from five to eight thousand dollars a year, but they are women who know how to spell, who are train ed, efficient and are not afraid to work-who are, in fact, rather fond of their work. There are men in the same company who started in at any thing they could get, who are mak- ing from five to twenty-five thousand year, but they worked hard to fit themselves for the better jobs. As almost any of the young disciples Of Little Brighteyes will tell you, "That sort of stuff don't go anymore; it's too slow"
 But it will, children, because in the end it has got to go or the world has got to go hungry-and when a show down and a shakedown come it is the incompetents who will go hungry first and stay hungry longest.
 If you will look around you will find that Little Brighteyes is talking to a mob of this half-grown, half-baked and wholly incompetent labor in terms of the undeserved and unearned wages that they received under stress of con- ditions that obtained when four nlil- lion he-men went out to fight. Though We were told that the re- turned soldier would be the great problem of Reconstruction, that he would come home restless, lawless and unfitted for work, it is the stay-at- homes, who profited in big wages through his withdrawal from industry, and not the soldier, who are the Recon struction problem. With only the nor nal exceptions to be found in any large body of men the soldier is set ting right down to business and keep ing an eye on would-be disturbers of the peace.
 Even people who work for works
 sake want all the money that they are worth, and properly insist on get ting it. No wise employer objects to
 paying a high price for skill and com
 petence and ambition, but this flood of
 grammer- school kids, without practi-
 cal experience-who at best have had
 six months in business college-with
 their eternal What do you pay? and
 What are the hours? make even the
 mildest boss yearn to spank them anc
 to send them home to learn something
 if only decent manners.
 The old breed of. Americans were
 seasoned oak and hickory. They learn ed in a hard school, and they stood uI . under fire and lasted under strain
 There is a big admixture of the kiln drie6 in the present generation, ant judging by the experience of the em ployment manager-and it is fairly typical-the coming generation rum strongly to sapwood.
 These experiences of the employ ment manager simply indicate the be ginning of the trail. Follow i through your neighborhood and int your own house and you will hav' a fairly comprehensive idea of thu first and most pressing problems O
 Reconstruction
 l Too many youngsters want to be , gin at the top, to cut out all the in
 termediate steps; too many grown-up . want to make five years profits il : one. The boy wants the good jol z without learning the poorer one; h. demands the wages of skill for hi capital of ignorance. The young gir wants to be the confidential secretar, P of the boss before she has learne' : how to spell; she expects to dray down the pay of experience while stil a blundering amateur. Many younl , men are slow to marry because the, a do not care to share with anyone s least of all a wife. Many youni women do not care to marry unles they can start in where their mother left off, and have Suitable estab /. lishment." They do not want to wor a for anyone, least of all husbanc 1 But what can we expect so long a ! their elders ,and presumably their bet . ters, set them an example of grab, o s ignoble ambitions of competitive liv 2 ing? Reconstruction for them mus v come from above, by precept and ex s ample, from parents and employers s but the precept that one hears often ? est is, "Get it while the getting r good" While this continues true c 5 the exemplars, it need surprise no on
 that the new children's crusade l. for cash! You will find all this an Il more in looking round your neighbol r hood, but you will also find a quie [. majority of sane sensible American r who are fed up on reds, professions Q and parlor; on profiteers, big and lit n tie; on incompetents, loafers and was' h CTS of all sexes and ages; on fail + haired Olga and her cussedness and o
 Little Brighteyes and her foolishnes' if They want to see little deportatio :" that will deport, a little Reconstrut # tion that will reconstruct and whol
 lot less of this prodigal spending q Once a program of personal Recor
 struction gets under way-and ther q are signs that the country is wakin