Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1920-12-08
GET DOWN TO REAL WORK.

TloHl Il HdtIoh VI u
, least nominally so--Amerca has de-
/ Perforated into Il nation of shirkers.
We have let our muscles soften until
! their efficiency is badly impaired. 1t
! will take some training TO harden
/ our muscles up TO the real working
1 point again. For years before the
war. prices Of commodities and the
price Of labor had been tending to-
ward too low Il level. Then the war
came, the necessity for doing things
Of great import in the shortest pos
sible time was imperative. Then
came extravagant public expenditure
that quickly bred individual extrava-
gance--thc careless expenditure Of
cheap money" that came easy-that
was handed out readily for half
hearted and inefficient service rem
dcrcd.
We let our muscles get soft
The job now is to put ourselves in
training and harden up the habby.
supcrfuouS flesh that has taken the
place Of real muscle.
The sooner we realize this imper-
atiye necessity the better IL will be
for all concerned. The day for loaf
ing on the job" is passing even more
swiftly thIn the day OF sternly ncces-
sary action and efficiency passed out
once the hcllish fever of war was
forced upon our nation.
Those arc the facts as we see them
We may be wrong. but we don't be-
lievc we are. It is human nature to
think that others are right who feel
and think and express themselves in
much the same manner that one does
himself. Iiencc we quote helow-
giving it for what it is worth (and
in our opinion it will be worth much
il we consider it carefully and fol-
low the advice logically and con-
scicntiously) brief talk recently
made by G. w. Hoyt. of New York
to members Of another business or
ganization. Here is the gist of what
Mr.. Iloyt had to say:
''Nearly all workers have been
getting soft Any kind OF service
could be sold at almost any kind Of
price; and any kind Of goods, bad or
good. could be sold at almost any
kind OF price.
Everybody had money and wanted
to spend it,
Everybody lacked employees and
wanted more.
Everybody was behind in his or
derS. The chief task Of the selling
agent was to apologize for not deliv-
ertng goods--not having enough to
supply the demand
"Business men, statesmen, all kinds
OF workers were living much after
the fashion Of lions and bears that
you see locked up in the geological
gardens. They get what they want
without making any effort.
"You know what happens to the
lion when his meat is brought to him
and pushed inside the cage regularly.
Nature intended that lions should 60
out and hunt for the meat, track it,
bring 1t down. and kill it. When you
hand the meat to him already killed
and cut up. your lion in the cage gets
soft and NANCY.
THAT has been happening to mil
lions OF so-called workers in the
United States lately. Anybody could
sell anything. Anybody could get a
job; anybody could keep a job.
Everybody was becoming as soft
as mush.'
THAT has changed; different times
are ahead Of us. and we have all got
to realize 1t and begin to exercise
harden up-and prepare for real
work"
That is our way OF thinking. 1t Is
better expressed than we could have
expressed it. That is why we have
quoted the terse sentences in when
so much real. hard truth is put into
such form as to prove readily degest-
ible food for thought"
Have you gotten soft as muSh"
during the few years Of inflated
prices and abnormal conditions?
Time to 'hardcn up" a bit-the
quicker and the more strenuous the
training process the better.
'tNfKf.SS ASSEMBLED MONDAY.
senator Harding, Pres -EIrrt