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Show HAD SEEN THEM "AT WORK" Tommy Had Little Need to Puzzle His Brains Over Question Propounded by Teacher. Here Is a little 'story that was told at a social session by Representative Hubert D. Stephens of Mississippi, as an illustration- that the best industrial results caunot always be obtained through team work : Some time since; the teacher of a public school iu. a country town was instructing a juvenile class in mathematics mathe-matics when she turned to a small boy named Tommy. "Tommy," said she, "if your father can do n piece of work in six days and your uncle Jim can do it in seven days, how long would it take them to do It together?" "About ten thousand years," was the rather startling rejoinder of Tommy. "Ten thousand years !" exclaimed the teacher. "Why, Tommy, what do you mean?" "I mean," was the prompt response of Tommy, "that If you put them to work together they would sit on the fence, smoke and swap fish stories." Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. |