| Show SEVERE ON THE BOYS Th The policy recently adopted by the telephone companies and being fol tol followed lowed by the telegraph companies ff the country to remove ale ale operators as soon as practicable and to fill their places with young women omD Ie is rather severe levere on tb the boy boys though boUlb from the standpoint of ot the em- em employers em employers It hardly can oaD be said t to b be an Injustice lUC to them In the classes of employment named as well as in oth other er ers th the sterner sex Is ie being gradually out until now In ID Eastern cities and in many in the West only girls are engaged an as a operators The young men and aDd their friends t took ok tb the matter up In several pl places with a view to effecting a aDaID the evolution that is going ODe od They proceeded upon the theory r ut t th the policy was wa followed because this companies could get girls to work per The young men pro proposed paled to 99 how the employers that while this froe the fair sex could not stand so much eb work or such long hours bour there there- for fOt forthe the be cheapening argument w was a But they were met meS at the IIa threshold l oW by a statement that they thy dor do r 1 u f-u t not seem to have been able to reply to since they have bave not made themselves heard beard on the subject again This Thil was given by a leading telephone representative representative who was approached and who flatly denied that the companies were trying to cheapen the service by bythe bythe the change It is not for the purpose ot of economy he be said for we will wUI hire bire more girls than we have bave boys and will have bave to provide better accommodations accommodations accommodations in the way of ot beating each station We are making this change because the girls give better satisfaction satisfaction tion They dont don't go to sleep on duty They dont don't smoke or get saucy to our customers and they are more active and make less ml mistakes takes For these I reasons before we are through we will have bave every department filled by young ladies ladles I There is a good deal in in these state statements ments for tor the youn young men to think about The declaration of the tele tele- telephone telephone phone manager which will wUl be con oon- concurred concurred I in by many engaged in bu business occupations in effect is that by com com- comparison comparison comparison parison with the girls who are given employment the boys are lazy Jazy blunder ing blunder blunder- blundering ing impertinent and generally In- In Incompetent incompetent in incompetent competent and ne neglectful of ot duty It may also surprise the young man to know that his bis employer regards him as 88 asan asan an inferior interior workman because because of ot the smoking habit to which boys are be- be becoming becoming be becoming coming generally addicted The ar- ar arI arraignment ar arraignment is a severe of ot course there are exceptions to its application But ao as regards regard a 8 large proportion ot of the young men meo its truth cannot be disputed And if it things go on as the tendency of at the present indicates it will be quite a question as to what will willbe willbe willbe be done with the boys in their heir trend toward uselessness in io the employments that need trustworthy persons The words of ot commendation for the young women are very gratifying but the fact that they can oan be truthfully made to reflect on the efficiency of the I sterner sex lex should cause the latter from very ery shame to make an improve Improve- Improvement Improvement improvement i ment in iD their condition habits and qualifications If they do not oot in andI all I business callings where the change is practicable the Mongolian anti cry will willbe willbe i be modified into a rule that the boys must go except in such tn instances tance where there is II developed a manliness that will cause them to throw aside habits habit and customs that are drawing the sex lex fn tn a retrogressive lve movement |
