Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1921, Page 26

26 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 5 “OUTSIDE PACKERS AGREE. FEmbor Secretary Recelves Message From 25 More Concerns. e #*“Twenty-five more of the independent packing concerns in the Chicago dis- trict have accepted the agreement of “' Secretary Davis of the Department | 59f Labor. reducing wages and con- ,;k_nuln; the Alschuler agreement in e packing industry. The Department of Labor shortly arbefore noon yesterday received a joint | Tam signed by representatives of e manent as well. nat only for a few months after they are varnished, but for years to come—are always the case when you use Liquid Granite. It is tough, yet elastic— waterproof, of course, but really per- cago, giving their assent to the agreement, which ‘extends until ths middle of September, to give the packers’ employes time to draw up a new schedule of hours and wages. _Last Thursday telegrams were re- ceived from twelve of the independent packers in the Chicago district, as- senting to the agreement. Employes of the Independent Pack- ing Company and the Davis Packing twenty-five packers i and near Chl-' i What’s Wrong With Your Work? ' BY WILLIAM MAXWELL, (VICE PRESIDENT. THOMAS A. EDISON, Inc.) Company, near Chicago, went out orn today, ~according to a telegram re- ceived 'at the Labor Department. About 1,300 men were affected. (For the past twelve months an interest- ing series of experiments has been com- Edison plant, at Orange, N. J.. with 183 young men and young women milaried employes as the eubjects. The object of thiese <texts was to discover and analyze the underiying causes which pre- vent many workers of the so-called ‘‘white " from getting out of the busi- ness rut. Mr. Maxwell, who devived ai chaln the fect of many salaried employes to the lower rungs of e ladder, but tells how these fetters can be cast off.) = £ No. 6—How’s Your Initia- tive? A great many business sins are com- mitted in the name of initiative. The business world is already too full of half-baked young men who mistake nervous energy and feverish enter- prise for this valuable quality. A leap in the dark, or a guess at the truth is not true initiative. Success- ful initiative is more likely than not to have a deliberate impulse, and rarely does it manifest itself in a fan- tastic or spectacular form. According to the dictionary, initia- tive is: ‘““The power of commencing, originating or setting on foot”; but that is only part of the definition to be found in the book. 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Quality Brought to Fore. Nsually initiative is 2 quality which Is promptly brought to the fore in discussing a business man’s qualifica- tions. It may be wondered, therefore, Wwhy we have delayed considering this quality until now—why it has not been discussed earlier in this series of articles. The reason why we have placed it so far down on the list is not because we do not have a full ap- preciation of its importance, but be- cause the experiments we have been making at ourplant to determine the fundamental weaknesses which keep many salaried employes in the busi- ness rut have convinced us that a man | or woman cannot show inteligent ini- tiative until he or she has developed the qualities. which we have previous- 1y discussed. In other words, we have first taken up the subjects of" concentration. | thoroughness. faculty of analysis | and logic of mental processes,, be-! cause we believe that these are the| four hasic. mental qualities on which | are founded all of the other mental qualities—including initiative—nec- esary for success the business world. in Initiative belongs to men who know what to do. Obviously if you know what to do you are going to do it, provided you possess the authority, and the moral courage to act with- out authority when the circumstances feem to justifv it. Therefore, if you develop (1) faculty of analysis, and (2)logic of mental processes, you will ordinarily know what to do, and this, when coupled with a reasonable amount bf imagination and moral courage practically insures that you will possess initiative. Capacity for Deeision. Knowing what to do is sometimes called “The capacity for decision.” No one can become a successtul execu-| tive without it, and it is a quality Which cannot be counterfeited, al- though many attempt to do so. Snap judgment, intuitive judgment, and whatever .else the counterfeits may be called, are nothing but guess- work, and, as I have already point- ed out, there is no room for guess- work in business. Whenever you make a decision there should be an airtight, holeproof reason for it. The ability to analyze.and interpret facts quickly is not a gift; it is the result of practice. You must learn to con- | centrate, and you must acquire the ! habit of digging down to the roots of a problem without regard to ob- stacles. Do not attempt to cultivate speed. If you are thorough, and think logi- cally, self-confidence, courage and the requisite degree of speed will be developed without conscious culuvl-l tion. . Please_remember that you do mot need to hold an important executive position in order to develop the ca- pacity for decision—which is the greater part of initiative. No matter how relatively. unimportant the sub- ject of your decision may seem, try to make the decision an intelligent and_comprehensive one. When it is your duty to make a recommendation to a superior pre- pare your recommendation with the same " care and thoroughness you would use if you were wholly re- sponsible for the final decision. Fol- low- these rules consistently and you are likely to find your mind expand- ing to a capacity for deciding more | important problems. < Edison Values Visfon. I have said that a certain amount of imagination must be combined with the capacity for decision in or- der to produce theskind of fnitiative that is useful in business. Thomas A. Edison, in fact, values imagination above all other purely mental quali- ties, but he does not mean the kind of imagination which ‘weaves ro- mances or devises impracticable schemes. The brand of imagination with which we are concerned is Vi- sion”"—an_ orderly process of reason- ing based on facts, and projecting human system, if such impurities. mature hardening 58,372 grains. Tl G. G.-Cornwell & Son, Coben & Dorfman, i { Ry mineral salts such as lime. water contains a considerable amount of Continued drinking of such water for years results in these mineral deposits finding lodgment in the cellular tissue and joints of the bedy, giving rise to pre- various chronic disorders. ~ In contrast, Paradise Water contains but - one grain of mineral matter in a gallon of is so utterly pure that the most delicate 1415 itself into the future along the lines of logical probability. The (magination that is essential to initiative is the flame that trans- mutes cold reasoning into inspiration, but it always retains the quality of logic. It is that part of initiative which is least easily acquired—but it can be acquired. You can develop your imagination (along with your capacity for decision by making your- self proficient in the faculty of analy- sis and the logic of mental processes. Here are some questions which may aid You in appraising your initiative: Do you dread knotty problems, or dos you attack them with zest and pleasure? Do you try to avoid the responsi- bility of deciding or recommending the decision of a perplexing question, for fear of making a mistake? Do you put off the decision of hard problems which require analysis and painstaking consideration? When you do a piece of work, or take action in a business matter,.are you always able to say to yourself in eftect: “[ know why I did the thing that way. I believe my reasoning was sound. and T don’t think any one can pick flaws in it?" Do you ever have to say to your- self: “I didn't have time to think. 1 had to do something. Probably I did Wrong, but it couldn't be helped?” Regarding this last question, it should be borne in mind that there is always time to think, provided yow keep your wits. If you have ever been, or believed vourself to be. in great physical danger, you have prob- ably discovered how much thinking can be done in a second. (Copyright, 1921, by Trade Service, Ine.) Press Feature Merely Advisory. Mr. Neversweat—I can't get out and hustle up a job. The doctor's for- bidden me to work. His Wife—Fergit it! the business The doc ain't ent of vour union. 5 minutes TWO FEET OF SNOW FALLS | ALONG PACIFIC COAST One Life Lost on Fishing Smack. Much, Damage to Pflli.t Crops. 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