The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-01-27


ing and would do much to keep down
bolshevism and some other disagree
able isms that were damaging to the
peoples best interests.
Side-Stepped a Woman
Then the chief of the department
told me she had, crow to pick with
the men who engineered the news
paper convention, for she had made
an arrangement whereby she was to
be called in to address the conven-
lion for short time to tell them
about the free travelling library, and
now they had adjourned and gone
home without calling her. told her
there was far better way to accom-
plish her objective than that. IL she
just wanted to get the information to
the people about the library, write
1t out in very short, concise state
ment, easily understood and short
enough so people would read it, and
hand it to the publicity committee.
That committee had been instructed
to prepare some information to give
to the press to give to their readers
If they cared to use It, and If she
would get busy right now and deliver
her little article into their hands
without delay it could just as well
60 to the public with the rest of it
as not, and following this plan would
lie hundred times more effective
than talking to forty editors who
might be tired and too busy to write
the articles, each one for himself.
A Neglected Opportunity
l did not see any indication that
she acted upon my suggestion, and ]
felt that ] could do some good for
the kids of the state and for the
better-homes idea, by doing what ]
could to spread the library message
among all the lao newspapers in such
form that could mark it for them to
reprint if they would, so on the
eleventh of December, six weeks
after our, conversation, ]. wrote to her
and told her that if she would write
the article | would give it run.
urged upon her the necessity of MAX
ing it short and to the point, because
publishers would be more likely to
reprint it and people would be more
likely to read it if it were short.
told her l wanted her to write it be-
cause she had been in the work so
long she knew exactly what to- say
and was so busy operating my
printing house short of help that 1
did not want to have to study up on
the subject and write it.
She Failed Again
1t takes three or four days to get
returns by mail sent to Boise if the
Boise office has efficient manage
ment 1t took twelve days to get
reply from this message, and when
got it what do you think got? When
| looked it all over l wondered if |
had anybody working in my office
who had so little comprehension or
was SO inefficient as to do as this
library office had done. Just to get
a line on what somebody else would
say about it, | showed it to my girl /
friend in the office who has been
four years out of high school, and
has been my stenographer and office
girl for three Of those years. T.
showed her the returns" | received
from my Offer, and asked what she
thought about it. She replied, well,
Mr.. Trego, if. attended to your bust
less as badly as this has been done,
would not take your money for it,
Girl Was Sincere
And knew there was no bluffing
lbout that remark, for not long be- 4
ore that | had invited her to raise
Ter own salary from $50 a week to u
1890 and she had said, well, / K
hink it is all right for the others
,ou mention to have their raises. 1
hink they deserve it. but as for my
ny work up to the mark lately, and N
will just pay myself the same salary Il
will just pay myself the same salary Z
or the present till ] get the work in VI
land like think it ought to be- !
The voluntarily returned to the office
nd worked evenings till she got the +.
BUSINESS so much better systematized
nd handled it SO much better, that
vhen invited her, to give herself /,
wO raises at once, she felt free to ac-
ept them because she was accom- ,,
fishing something to justify it.
Something Aside
II want to leave the main subject j
1ng enough to say few things that !
vill help the reader to understand
le better when tell what the as !,
lstant librarian did about my re-
uest. ]
i like to see employees earn their
alaries. / like to see employers pay
heir employees all their services are
rorth. like to see the employer !
rain or have somebody train the 3
'orker SO his or her work will be !
fficient and effective-sweepingly i
.. Then when they have found +
hort cuts to results like to see the i
mplOyers point out to the employee 1
ow further Improvement can be j
lade by his or her own efforts, and /
8 the worker improves in efficiency, '
It the employer attend to raising +
le salary so there will be a fair >
vision of the profits arising from +
ne better service. .