The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 12, 1923, Page 13

Con- 090 to ateful tient." of tn. aldn’t them It's vors fines o's who ance ram 7 8 3 SECTION TWO a EMPLOYER TURNS Big Factory Is Now Property of Em-| ployes; Son Sac: right to Support Ideals rifices His Birth- | } | | | Henry A. Diz of the firm of H. A. Diz & Sons, New York City, has just given his entire business, which yields a rev- enue of over $1,000,000 a year, to his employes. Dix and his| on have withdrawn from financial control. Ali profits ge go to the workers. BY BOB DORM. _ NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—Henry A. Dix, T3-yearold enlightened the prospering dress manutfac- q Dix, 42, was "be says, “ls not what you have, but what you do.” veloping. Now !t ts in the hands of their several hundred employes, who ‘will pay for their stock out of the Profits of the company. “The things that we have done for eur workers,” explains the younger | Dix, “the five-day week, the bonuses, @ick benefits, steady work, vacations with pay, no overtime, recreation centers—all have been sops to ease our own consciences. “We felt that they did not ap- Proach justice to our co-workers. shown by its heads, but t6 the loyalty and devotion of its em- | ploy es. | “Real justice demanded that they be regarded as co-workers, net as employes In the pro prietory sense. | “As for myself, I am ready to take a job with the new concern. My dad jwill_act in an advisory capacity. | | “But first we hope to preach |the gospel of fairness to all em | ployers. | “They wit find that tt pays to be | just. | “At the end of the year, it is the usual thing for the business man to fii out a two-page sheet—on one side are assets, on the other labil- ites, “If the record shows « large vol- | ume of business and a correspond- |ingly greater volume of profits, [the board of directors, or the indi | vidual owner, ts well satisfied. 4 suppose that at the same | hird sheet were placed before 4 sheet devoted to « recort of | what the firm had done towards the [betterment and progress of its work: | ers. | “In how many firms would that sheet be a blank? | “But if such sheet were to become | as customary as the assets and tia bilities record, employers would soon see that it would not be bisnk. | “That is what we want to preach.” | A TIP TO OTHER EMPLOYERS BY HENRY A. DIX Who Has Turned Over « $1,000,000-2- Year Business to His Employes Because I have turned over, to profitable business, some people, in my action radical or’an experiment our employes our prospérous and fact nearly everybody, seem to call To us it is neither radical nor an experiment, but the natural out come and climax of 4 policy pursued during many years. We have been “feeling” our way towards this step for a long time and in many ways and we have found from actual experience that the policy paid. It paid in the loyalty of our group of workers. It paid and interest and co-operative spirit tn the good will and esteem often expressed by buyers and merchants. It paid in creating a spirit, with. out which no business can be truth fully called successful. We found that the more we gave, the shorter hours we adopted, the more liberal our general policy became—the richer we grew. We found that the workers were highly appreciative, not alone of the various innovations and actual deeds, but also appreciative of our attitude toward them. No business can succeed without a good organization and yet—in place of a hearty co-operation between employers and employes—there is generally antagonism and strife; in place of a co-partnership there is enmity; in place of team work and unity there is division of interest and of aim. | woot to have gone ahea the far. ! FARM PROBLEMS ‘v=: << =ccniin ct i. sis a: | famed New England idea of the Sat | | urday baking, but the loaves referred | |to were probably lke the smali| | Beyptian biscuit loaves of today. ! Letter Written 2004 B. C. Gives Data NEW YORK, Jan. 12 —Problems of the farmer have not changed much fn 4,000 years, according to a letter, After all the barley and fodder and species of cattle have been set down, | there is an economical writing in of & second inventory of another year, | when the father was leaving for a| trip to Memphis—even the grove of | trees from which timber ts to be out | {9 carefully indicated. said to be the oldest in the world,| ‘The first letter is full of instruc- which has just been brought to this| tions about the e city. It is writen on # papyrus leaf| grain intrusted to and dated Oct. 9, 2004, B. C. The “fifth year of the Reign, second month of Shomu, ninth day,” is the actual date, which members of the Metropolitan Museum's Egyptian ex- pedition had to work out into mod- ern reckoning from other indications of the document, according to the Christian Science Monitor bureau here. The writer, one Hekanakht, lived fn @ small village near Thebes (in his time Just made the capital of Egypt), but he was obliged to go to Memphis and remain there for months at a time, which entailed much separation from his family. Before making one of his trips, Hekanakht listed all his possessions, which he intrusted to his oldest son, Mermu, and his assstant overseer at | home, and carefully provided for the exact rationing of each member of a large family. The statement of “pread given to Meru, son of Hek- anakht,” for instance, brings a grand total of 7,000 loaves, which includes three different kinds of bread. Bak- ing at a farm house in those days ding of the| uu, in fact, economy in everything is the keynote of all the admonitions, The sugges- | tion of his son at home that the Nile | was rising and the dikes might not {hold calls forth a protest from the | farmer; and he informs Mersu that If there is any flooding of the land and crop-lons, he will know whom to hold | responsible. In a later letter, Te- kanakht refers to # failure of crops, jand urges the family to be patient with the slender stores which he is sending to them. | The story of the finding of these letters, 4,000 years after they were written, Is only a part of the account of H. E, Winlock, who during the past year was in charge of the exea- vations of the museum's expedition in the vicinity of Thebes. Other im- portant results derived from excava- tions conducted by A. C, Mace at Lisht, and the work of N. de Gavis Davies and his assistants In the copy. ing of the painted scenes on the walls of private and royal tombs at Thebes are all part of the interesting new bulletin on the Egyptian expedition, Just issued by the museum, _ The Seattle Star PAGES 13 TO 24 WORKERS SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1928. : OVER BUSINESS T0 F-BValues Smash SalesValues Bang! Crash! Sales’ values topple over just like nine pins as soon as any discriminating buyer compares them with Fahey-Brock- man values. The reasons are fundamental. F-B values are the direct result of a definite merchandising principle—our permanent low price policy. Sales’ values are at least doubtful because a sale is usually staged to get rid of leftovers—to clear out rejected merchandise. (See Sales’ Advertising!) Two Methods of Merchandising : There are two methods of selling clothes. The conservative, leisurely and expensive way. And the F-B swift and economical way. A double turnover annually is quite a feat for a conservative clothier. Six turnovers a year are nothing to crack about at Fahey-Brockman’s. This House is turning its stock every fifty days right now. That fact alone sweeps sales’ values into the discard as far as any fair comparison with F-B values is concerned. F-B CLOTHES Greater Values Than Average $35 Values Greater Values Than Average The Fahey-Brockman Service was organized borg to save money for the men and young men of the Northwest—at all times and seasons. It was no part of our purpose to allow competition to meet our values any single day of the year. We resolved to smash the costly idea of season- al trading by steady selling day-in and day-out the year round. We were equally determined to explode the semi-annual clearance hoax by always operating on a permanent low price basis. Strict adherence to this principle has | built up a great business—made our values supreme. Fahey-Brockman Clothes average higher values than any sales value offered at any place or time. Quantity Buying—Quick Turnover—Great Volume combine to always insure F-B customers Quality Clothes—snappy, new and desirable clothes—at the lowest pos- sible price. F-B CLOTHES Greater Values Than Average F-B CLOTHES | $45 Values =) and save 51022 Sy Third and Pike