Show 1 The Th Duty Dodger Dodger 1 r rBy By JOHN BLAKE Sometimes while working in an office where perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps a hundred people were were employed I have hav wondered wondered won won- dered how anybody could grumble about the difficulty difficulty culty of advancement For in every hundred workers there are at least fifty duty dodgers And the fact that these workers either will notor not notor notor or cannot take sake the trouble to do their work properly ought to make it easier for tor those who do to get ahead In one office which h I visited d from time to time there were more than girls in various department d depart depart- part part- merits ment and It seem seemed d as if half the number could usually be found employing and mirrors Instead of their typewriting machines and stenographic ste- ste stenographic stenographic ste ste- pads Many of these duty dodgers would hurry to the restroom as soon as one of the managers appeared with a job to be done in m order to 0 avoid it Had they worked half as hard at their jobs as in trying to to evade work worl they would not have had bad to look so sourly at their thin pay envelopes at the end of the week It I 1 Is hard to understand what profit there Is Inthis in inthis inthis this sort of ot thing The day seems short when there Is plenty of ot work to do long and tiresome when there is not The fatigue at its end Is Just the same whether a 11 person has been kept l ept busy or idle It is s interest in work Vork York that makes for tor contentment content content- ment And almost any job can be made Interesting if It the worl worker er thinks continually of ot better and more efficient ways to do it The old story of the hod carrier carTier who when the whistle blew carried his hod down from the top of I the ladder which he had just r reached ached Instead of depositing It on the scaffolding is as far fr farfetched fet fetched hed as one might imagine There are plenty of people who feel some somO how that they are getting ahead of ot their employers it If they do as as' little work worl as possible As a matter of fact they are getting behind themselves for the only chance of ot promotion comes conies with good work and the only way good work can be done is by bIt plenty of practice I The cases I speak of ot are not cases In which theoffice the theoffice office boss was a driver or was trying to get the thelast thelast last ounce of ot effort out of his employee The man whom I visited was waa good natured well disposed toward his office force an antI and only too willIng will- will willing willing Ing to send them ahead if It they deserved it for he had plenty of ot higher places to to fin fill Bu But he got only about 75 75 per cent as much work workout workout workout out of the girls he employed as he was entitled to get And the duty dodgers among them got only about half th the pay they could have got if they had been willing to do all their work and do it as well as they could It is the type of oJ girl who lets her mother wash the dishes while she goes to the movies who makes the duty dodger And It seems to me that perhaps the mother who lets ets her go to the movies and does does' the so that she can may be in part responsible for the failure failure failure fail fail- ure of her daughter ever to be anything more than thana a a. low paid most of wh time is spent trying to see how little work she can do Copyright 1925 by the Bell Syndicate ate Inc |