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Show PROBLEM By Harry B. Kennon. Suppose that you hold down a job That you couldn't hold down Without being efficient. Suppose your job pays What a brain-salaried Efficiency Expert Figures it should pay To clothe, feed and cover A single man, barely: Say from eight , , To twenty dollars a week. t ." Suppose you are not made Of wood or metal. (Suppose you have been fool enough y' To marry ' ' . And beget children. r- Suppose you unnaturally Love your children And your wife. Suppose you see your girl Growing old before her time; Her ambition for her children stifled. Suppose you have been System-trained 'lj To the job That holds you down; I Suppose that your System training Has unfitted you for higher paid jobs In the concern that works you; Suppose that your very efficiency Makes your chance of cinching One of those better jobs As remote as the Kingdom of Heaven... i The Efficiency Expert Will declare that supposition Fallacious; That is one of the whys Of the Efficiency Expert Suppose that your excellent training Has softened you Out of the so-called Labor class. I Suppose your house rent, Coit of food and clothing Have advanced twenty-five to fifty per cent. Suppose your pay Remains i Snug to your job. , Suppose, in desperation, You ask for living pay; Suppose you aro told i That the increased cost of dbing business Prevents 1 The advance you plead for, V Suppose you see so obliquely J As to see That the concern Is doing the biggest 'business in its history ; That the obvious expenditures of the Heads Betray No diminution of dividends. Suppose you know That an. army hungers for your job If you forsake It. ' Now suppose That these many suppositions Are facts' That confront hundreds of thousands J Of the clerical class ? In this year Of unparalleled Prosperity; rp ' That is the problem Supply the solution! (Reedy's Mirror. |