Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-04

it is easy to see how tremendous is
the national cost. Consider for one
item. the huge total of servant girls
waste of coal, gas, soap and food
because she doesn't foot the bills.
Looking out of my office window the
other day, ! saw a young man in a
nearby building cheerfully grind away
for a full half minute on a pencil sharp
ener-if this was a habit he was tax
ing his employer to pay for the clerks
carelessness. Recently l asked a clerk
to make a computation-she did so
upon the back of new printed reply
envelope. Every business man knows
that many employees will constantly use
engraved stationery, for memoranda,
and for useless uses" And every
house owner knows how prevalent is
the disregard upon the part Of one
artisan for the work of another-wit-
ness the splashing of paint over fine
woodwork, the gouging of walls by the
carpenter, the crushing of plaster by
the electric light worker, and a thous-
and and one like instances. Here is
work for the labor unions, for when
the conscience of labor is educated to
respect the work Of an artisan in any
collateral line the whole nation will
benefit.
Think Of the Other Fellow
A long while ago / was told about
an old lady who went about the streets
picking up glass, nails and other sharp
things or which the little children in
the summer might tread and hurt their
tiny bare feet. They told me that this
old lady was crazy. 1t seems to me
that it was a beautiful insanity. In
San Francisco you will see boys going
about the streets on bicycles doing
nothing less than picking up glass,
lacks and nails that might puncture
These lads are paid by the Automobile
club 81 a day for this work. Are o
and ! toe proud or too thoughtless TO
stoop in the street to pick up a nail
or a piece of glass and put it in our
pocket or thrust it into a sewer en-
trance, so as to save the tire of some
m%otorist? Why should we not think of
the other fellow?
The history of most destroying fires
may be traced back to disregard of
somebody else's property. Most auto
mobile accidents arise because someone
did not think of the other fellow. You
may compute the physical loss in all
such and similar instances in terms Of
billions. but what expert accountant
can reckon the human agony that daily
results throughout our land because we
are not thinking of the other fellow?
Society "Pays the Freight"
| want to emphasize the fact that
part of the increasing cost Of doing
business is directly ~chargeable TO such
widely prevalent practices as sending
for samples and ~catalogs of goods that
we nave no idea Of purchasing. The
man who allows his child TO answer
advertisements carelesslv and thus
start useless correspondence and the
sending of expensive printed matter is
indirectly teaching his child to be dis
honest. The man who encourages his
wife to have sent home on selection
goods which she has no well founded
purpose of buying. or the person who
thumbs over goods on the shop counter
in such a way as TO soil them. is indi-
rectly dishonest and probably dishonest
at heart.
You have all seen the legend: Jones
He Pays the Freight"-but have VIC
not all some interest in this payment
The freight is eventually paid by soci-
ETY., and since we are all part Of the
same great organism each of us pays
our part of the toll. 1t is simply not
true that the average business man of
today is figuring his tariff on the basis