New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-01

After reading How to Choose and
Get Better Job, by Edward Jones
kilduff (Harper's), we understand
little more than we did before the
cause Of unemployment in the United
States. Even the most casual observer
cannot fail to note that hundreds of
thousands of idle men are not taking
advantage of the wisdom which Mr.
Ailduff has set down in his book.
"The dress of the applicant" he
writes" should be appropriate to the
kind of position for which he is being
interviewed. If he is applying for a
position that pays four thousand dol
lars his dress should be such as to
help to make him look like four
thousand-dollar man. If the position
Is that of bond salesman for high
class bond house the applicant should
have in mind that it is especially de-
slrable that his dress be of the very
best he can afford--and oftentimes
better than he can afford-for good
dress is ar asset in such o business,
and the employer knows it. Money
spent in buying good clothing is con-
sidered by many statesmen as an invest
ment."
1t has always been our ambition to
get $4,000 job, but none of the suits
which come in the sizes known as
Large stouts," or maybe it IS extra
long stouts," begins to make the wearer
look anything like as valuable as that.
Also, owing to the practice of hitting
the typewriter with one finger on each
hand, two nails are permanently dis
figured as to luster and contour, which
takes another $1,000 off our income.
Moreover, after passing number eleven
every shoemaker begins to forget about
style and bang goes $500 more from
our potential earning capacity.
In addition there are several local
| rules laid down by Mr.. Kilduff which
seem a distinct handicap devised to
plague US. ain this same connection"
he points out, sit may be we'll to note
that your dress should be conservative,
quiet and businesslike. 1t is best not
to choose to wear bright-colored neck
ties and socks; nor is it advisable to
wear jewelry, such as scarfpins, rings
and large watch chain ornaments Some
employers have personal prejudices
against men who wear such things,
and since you may not know what your
prospective employer may think of
them it is safer plan not to wear
them, and thereby run no risk of In
juring your chances. The same criti-
cism holds good of soft collars, for
there are some employers who think
1t is not businesslike to wear them"
Other employees may avoid injuring
their chances by wearing high collars
if they choose, but it seems to US that
in this weather no job is worth as much
as that Injuring ones chances in
deed! How about injuring ones neck ?
Everything that Mr.. KilduF says
may be true, but we have seen the
group pictures of Henry Ford and
Thomas Edison and they didn't have
crease between them.
The Presidency of the United States
is '"ortn $4,000 year and Warren G..
Harding applied for the job and got it
/ wsarsng a blue serge suit with pink
stripes which was made for him by the
second best tailor in Marion, Ohio.
! BEFORE an employer turns down an
applicant for job on the ground that
he has not got that $4,000 look let
/ him take thought and remember that
Lincoin's boots were disgrace, that
Andrew Jackson took no padding in
his shoulders and that Ulysses S.