Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-06-22
BEAR HEAVY LOAD
Some of the Trials of Present.
Day Executives.
man Who Complained That There Were
NO Efficient People in the World
Had Some Excuse for His Bitter.
ness-TroubIe Is Moral.

''eo SoTne EXCUSE Tor his bitter-
ness-TroubIe Is Moral.
several years ago, when / had just
-been promoted to my first real job, |
called on business friend of mine. He
is wise and experienced handler of
men. l asked him what suggestions he
could make about executive RESPONSE
bility, writes Bruce Barton, in the Red
Book.
Y GU are about TO make great dis
covery," he said. within week or
TWO you will know why it is that eX-
ecutlves grow gray and die before
their time. You will have learned the
bitter truth that there are no efficient
people in the world"
am still very far from admitting
that he was right, but l know we'll
| enough what he meant Every man
| knows, who has ever been responsible
for piece of work or had to meet
pay roll.
Recently another friend of mine
built house. The money to build IL
represented a difficult period of saving
Oh the part of himself and his wife;
it meant overtime work and self-de-
NAL. and extra effort in behalf of Il
!ong-cherished dream.
one day when the work was we'll
along he visited it, and saw a work
man climbing ladder to the roof with
a little bunch of shingles in his hands.
Look here" the foreman cried.
cant YOU carry whole bundle of
shingles?"
The workman regarded him sulIenly.
Il suppose l could" he answered.
IF l wanted to bun the job"
BY bull the job" he meant do an
honest days work"
At 10 o'clock one morning l met still
another man in his Office in New York.
He was munching a sandwich and
gulping a cup of coffee which his sec
rotary had brought in to him.
Il HAD 10 work late last night" he
said, ''and meet a very early appoint
ment this morning. My wife asked
orr maid to have breakfast a half hour
early so that | might have bite and
still be here in time.
when ! came down to breakfast
the maid was still in bed"
She lives in his home and eats and
is clothed by means of money which
his brain provides; but she has no
interest in his success. no care what
ever except to DO the minimum Of
work.
The real trouble with the world to-
day is a moral trouble" said a thought
full man recently. "A large proportion
of its people have lost all conception
of what it means to render an ade-
quate service in return for the wages
they are paid"
He Is a generous man. On almost
any sort of question his Sympathies are
likely to he with labor, and so ara,
mine I am glad that men work short
er hours than they used to. and in
certain Instances | think the hours
should be even shorter. am glad they
are paid higher wages. and hope they
may earn still more.
But there are times when my sym
rathy goes out to those in whose be-
half no voice is ever rAised-tO the
executives of the world whose hours
are limited only hX the limit of their
physical ana mental endurance; who
carry not merely the load of their own
work. but the hearthreaking load Of
| cnrelcSSness and stold Indifference in
50 many of the folks whom they en-
ploy.
Perhaps the most successful eyccu-
tive in history was that centurion Of
the Bible
"For am a man of authority, hav-
ing soldiers under me" he said. And
I say to this man go. and he goeth and
to smother come In6 he cOmeth; AMI
10 my servant. do this. and he doeth
IT."
Marvellous man.
The modern executive also SAYS,
go. and too often the man who
shnuld have gone will appear a day ~
two later and explain. 81 didn't under
stand what You meant" He says,
"CCmc" and at the appointed time
his telephone rings and a voice speak.
saying II oversIent and will be there