Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-31
The
Once Orer

Russia has a fiye-year plan. A.
merican leaders are talking OF u ten
year plan and President Hoover
recently spoke OF a twenty-year
plan. We propose the following
ONE-YEAR plan for the improve
ment OF efficiency In business. the
betterment OF industry and the re-
turn OF prosperity:
IA so per cent cut IN office
conferences Anything that can
be accomplished In conference In
an hour can be accomplished in a
dozen other ways in fifteen min
utes.
2.-Fewer interviews and more
work.
3-Immediate intimidation OF
golf and adherence to the follow
~ program.
(aj-No discussion OF the lighter
ball during business hours.
tb)-The number Of golf fanatics
ON any board of directors to be
limited to 2 per cent.
CA pledge by al business
executives never TO bring their
clubs to the office.
tdl--A clause in all contracts
requiring that importan5 executives
who find that golf interferes with
the jobs give up their jobs.
"A definite and final dsscon-
tinuance Of the custom of settling
business matters at luncheon. tThe
average luncheon takes about three
hours and nobody ever gets to the
point anyhow
5.--A return to the old-fashioned
business office that suggested work.
concentration and performance
instead Of Incidence. opium dreams
and Oriental splendors.
6.-Plainer looking stenographers.
including a reasonable number
with hair on the upper lips.
IAN understanding among
young women in business
offices that they are dressing for
business and not for the sFolliesr.
8.-Immediate recognition OF the
fact that nothing has slowed I'D
business more than the modern
theory that st~enographers in busi-
ness offices should be chosen ex-
clusively from the standpoint OF
the ornamental.
9.-Fewer yachts among exec
utives who can't afford them.
l0.-Less singing Of The Gangs
All Here" and more singing or
I've Been Working on the Rail-
road"
ia revival Of the slogan The
customer Is always rightl'
l2.-LeSs faith in the theory that
a string of flashy billboards, a coed
slogan, q million-dolIar electric
sign over Broadway, a radio quarter
and six vic~e-presidents with IL
Mstrious names are the chief es-
SentialS TO business success.
13.-Fewer charts showing what
caused 1t and more action to pre-
vent its happening again
IA law prohibiting the sale
or possession Of blue or smoked
glasses.
l5.-The dungeon for chronic
pessimists. calamity howlers and
the-fors Observation-Disclosures.
l6-Rest0ration of the lost A
merican capacity for indignation
over wrongdoing and a more gen.
eral feeling that the bank pres
ident. business executive and IN
dustrial leader who allows his name
to be used on the literature or
Questionable stock promotion
schemes should be boiled in oil.
17.-ShoOting at sunrise for bust
ness figures, some of them direc-
tors OF great corporations. who sell
securities short, contribute to the
stock market collapse and prolong
business depression while posing
as outstanding Americans. good fell
lows and best minds
ia more general acceptance
OF the idea that honesty Is not
something you may consider your
self possessing as long as there has
been no grand jury indictment.
ia retarn to plain home cook
ing and more simple living. OHalf
the business men OF America have
been out of condition for the last
ten years as q result OF high living
and excessive whoopee.
20.-More regard for the brother
hood CT man by business men out
side OF the Kiwanis club luncheons.
the annual Chamber OF Commerce
banquet and the week before Christ
mas.
21.-Underemphasis OF the apple
in American commercial life.
ga little more courage all
the line.
23.-Less faith in fairy god
mothers. wizards. magicians and
more faith in hard work, a com
plete understanding OF the job and
an occasional night sweat due to
0verwork.
"A KINDLY THOUGHT
Granting Germany a moratorium
was evidently like shouting to a
man. sinking for the third time.
that he needn't worry about the
time-payments on his automobile
for a year or SO.
Let's hope II will not be said that
the moratorium was q success, but
the patient died.
DCfttdl Cdnco VI Whisky WEAG
recently from the cellar OF
the German embassy in Washing
ton. Stolen Il a harsh word. Very
likely somebody took IL as q loan
and will return it II allowed a
years moratorium.
DaiLu Health