New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-22

maudlin sympathy expressed for the
"downtrodden denizens Of the sweat
shop" and the homeless wanderer
searching for honest employment" and
with 1t all often go many hard words
for the men in power.
Nothing is said about the employer
who grows old before his time in vain
attempt to get frowsy r-do-wells"
to do intelligent work, and his long,
patient striving with "help" that does
nothing but loaf when his back is
turned. In every store and factory
there is constant weeding-out process
going on. The employer is continually
sending away "help'' that have shown
their incapacity to further the inter-
ests of the business, and others are
being taken on.
No matter how good times are, this
sorting continues; only if times are
hard and work is scarce, the sorting
Is done fner--but out Gnd forever out
the incompetent and unworthy 60 It
is the survival of the fittest Self
interest prompts every employer to
keep the best---those who can carry a
message to Garcia.
know one man Of really brilliant
parts who has not the ability to man
age business of his own, and yet who
is absolutely worthless to any one else,
because he carries with him constantly
the insane suspicion that his employer
| Is depressing, or intending to Cypress,
him. He cannot give orders and he
will not receive them. Should mess
age be given him to take to Garcia his
answer would probably be, Take it
yourself
Tonight this man walks the streets
looking for work, the wind whistling
through his threadbare coat. No one
who knows him will dare employ him,
i Tor he is regular firebrand of discon-
tent. He is impervious to reason, and
the only thing that can impress him
is the toe of number nine boot.
Of course, l know that one SO NOR
ally deformed is no less to be pitied
than physical cripple, but in our pity
ing let us drop tear, too, for the men
who are striving to carry on great
enterprise, whose working hours are
not limited by the whistle and whose
struggle to hold in line dowdy indiffer-
ence, slipshod imbecility and the
heartless ingratitude which, but for
their enterprise, would be both hungry
and homeless
Have / put the matter too strongly
Possibly have; but when all the world
has gone a-slumming l wish to speak
word Of sympathy for the man who
succeeds. the man who, against great
odds, has directed the efforts of others
and having succeeded finds there is
nothing in it-nothing but bare board
and clothes. I have carried dinner
pail and worked for days wages, and
have also been an employer of labor
and I know there Is something to be
said on both sides. There is no excel
lence, per Sc, in poverty; rags are no
recommendation, and all employers are
not rapacious and high-handed any
more than all poor men are virtuous.
My heart goes out to the man who
does his work when the "boss" Is
away as we'll as when he is at home
| And the man who, when given letter
to Garcia, quietly takes the missive
without asking any idiotic questions
and with no lurking intention of
chucking it into the nearest sewer or
of doing aught else but deliver it,
never gets "laid off" nor has to go on
a strike for higher wages. Civiliza-
ton is one long anxious, search for
just such individuals. Anything such
q man asks shall be granted His kind
is so rare that no employer can afford
to let him go. He is wanted in every
city, town and village; in every Office,
shop, store and factory.
The world cries out for such. He is
needed and needed badly: the man who
can carry message to Garcia.