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Show H j CLEAN HANDED JOBS BBBJ Two men woro discussing tho other BBBJ ' day, In tho hearing of tho writer tho BBBJ question 0f relative pay In dlfferont BBB employments. Ono man was a book- BBB deeper, and ono was a locomotive en- BBB BBBJ I Apparently tho first was getting J something Uko 2.50 n day, and tbo BBBJl I latter nearly twlco as much. BBBV 1 1 "Everybody's getting pretty tit oil BBBl u ot tho way your crowd Is hogging It" BBBJ il was tho way tbo bookkeeper put It, BBB U after his dander had risen several BBBJl degrees. "It takes as much bruins BBBJ to be a bookkeeper as to bo an en- BBB I glneer, and yOt you get nearly twlco BBBJ ' tho pay. It raises tbo cost of living f for ovoryono elso." Tho abovo mentioned dlsputo raised rais-ed a question that U1I3 newspaper could not try to settle. About all you could' say Is that tho two cnU- BBBJ' lngs roqulro two very different types BBBj' of brains. One mny not bo suporl- BBBJ) or to tho other, though as things go BBBJl on0 '8 m greater demand. Tho engl- BBBj' necr would have mussed tho other BBJ I man's books In a hopeless tangle ot BBJ i wrong credits. Tho bookkeeper BBB ! would scarcely havo known the bell BBBT'. ropo from tho steam gauge, BBBJ Not many years ago bookkeeping BBBJt? jobs wero deemed nioro gentlemanly. BBT A bookkeeper could belong to select BBB : clubs from which the red flannel shirt BBffJ 1 cd engineer was excluded. Hut now BBffJ.' tbo presence- of women in clerical BBB , work has lowered wages. Anything that can bo dono with pen, Ink and i typewriter, women can do as well as men, and often with a more methodical meth-odical accuracy. The trend of the times Is to drive men Into more constructive work, even if a "bllcd" shirt Is discarded 'for overalls. The man who grapples BJBB'i nt flrst llaiul wltl1 8leain a,(i 6lccl BBBJ' nnd electricity usually gets hlghor BBBa pay than tho man who sits In an of- BBBB Ac and who merely records tho BBBfl things that other men havo done. BBBM Wherofore don't bo afraid to got BY!' your hands dirty, boys! Ronicmber BBJj that It's a world of dirt nnd dust and BBBii smoke. Tbo farther away you got BBvFj! from all the grlmo, the less your BBJl'l sharo of Its rewards Is npt to be! |