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When I was nine years old, my ,
father sent me horseback on an
errand to a nearby farm. Our
neighbor, an elderly mart, was
hoeing in his vegetable garden
ttfhen I dismounted, but he came
fo the farm gate to talk With me.
While We stood there* a cattle
buyer passed in a single-seated
vehicle pulled t>£ a spirited
horse. The salutation between my :
tW6 elders W& cool and stilted.
Childlike, I inquired with
frankness: “Don’t you like Mr.
tffoore?” Then my neighbor be
fean “educating” me. He inform
ed me in a low tone Implying a
§reat deal, that Moore wfcs a rich
tnan. Without saying it in so
tnany words, he hinted that the)
trader was not to be trusted and
that his wealth proved the point, j
Wy next question was from the
fieart: “How much money can a
than have and be honest t”
fc.LL FIGURED OUT *
“In these parts ” he said
thoughtfully, “A man can’t get
together more than $10-,O§0 in a
lifetime unless he carries on some |
right shady business.” He did not
Say how he arrived at the fig- j
Sre; probably he was speaking
*om a long life’s Wealth of ob
servations. 1 knew be wds sin
cere, but hiariy years had pass
fed before I knew how wrong he
Was. His Words were a figment
bf"class prejudice.
In the United gtatet, class
prejudice is nearly harmless by
contrast to the misery it deals
people in other lends. Just the
same, we have tome of it and it’s
a curse. Moreover it is not lim
ited to coolness between grangers
and stock buyers. Recently a
high executive of the U. S.
Treasury Department let himself
say this: “No man who works
with his hands can be worth
$5,000 a year.”
CLASS PREJUDICE
He may be sincere as my ven
erable neighbor of years ago, but
he does not know everything
about men who work with their
hands. They think too. In fact
the most effective thinking to
achieve military victory in the!
present war has been done at the
workbench and between the plow j
handles. Judgment, skill, and j
technical knowledge used else- j
where would be bottlenecked in- j
deed if workers used their hands
only.
An equipment manufacturer in
a northern city has used wage
incentives for 20 years. By his
plan, workers get more pay when
they do faster and better work.
They like the idea and so does
the employer. When the men put
their minds on increasing volume
so they could draw better wages,
the price of a welding machine
that used to exceed $500 slid
down below $200. Even the buyer
was benefitted.
THOROUGHLY AMERICAN
Under pressure of war demands
and hurry-up orders, this share
the-profit plah really shined.
Output increased. Users bought
new equlpnfettt ISO per cent
cheaper. The firm lowered its
Jl. A. .ft. .ft. * » *
percentage of profit and still up
held earnings. Average wage of
worker sclimbed above $100 a
week. The government didn’t
like it, however, and assessed
company an extra 1.6 million
dollars a year.
This firm is using our only
safe pattern for post-war pros
perity-wages up and prices
down. Both depend on production
efficiency. This plan means pur
chasing power at home and abil
ity to compete in foreign mar
kets. Labor and industry in self
defense, both must hold* to this
principle. Inefficiency after the
Statisticians figure that if all
t^e lumber cut in the United
States during the past 135 years
were stacked, it would make a
cube exactly one mi|e in each di
mension.
war will bar us from foreign mar
kets, make goods costly at home
jobs scarce, and pay low.
IN SEARCH OF FOURTH
BROTHER IN SERVICE
Three brothers in search of a
fourth, reached San Francisco
recently en route to a family re
union overseas. Reporting to the
War Shipping Administration re
cruiting office, Fred George and
Bob Weiss, all of Philadelphia,,
' Pa., asked to be assigned togeth
er on a Merchant Marine ship
bound for the South Pacific.
“Our brother Howard is with
i the Navy in the Pacific,” declar
led Fred Weiss, age 25. “I joined ♦ 1
the Merchant Marine in 1537, and
talked George, 22, and Bob, 19,
into joining the Merchant Ma
rine after war broke out. They’Ve
both seen enemy action Off Italy.
Now, for the first time^ we’re all
together—and we’re hoping to
find Howard, whom we haven’t
-een for two years, and get some
Japs mixed up in one of our fam
ily scraps.”
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