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Show "Efficiency" Carried to Degree of Absurdity Charles Cole, of the Union Pacific, was talking about efficiency. "Of course, efficiency is a wonderful wonder-ful thing. It is an essential of successful suc-cessful business, but the so-called 'Efficiency expert' is seldom the man who injects this necessary asset into a business. Some of them are silly. "A young man who claimed to be one of these experts was sent to me by a friend. I was not impressed nnd the chap tried to sell himself. 'It's this way.' he explained. 'You put a man on the job he's fitted for; you make a virtue of his failings. What I mean Is this; "'Suppose a man has insomnia. I would make him a night watchman. , Then again. If I found a fellow wtiose hand bad begun to shake from smoking smok-ing too mnny cigarettes, I'd make him a mandolin player.' " Los Angeles An-geles Times. |