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Show "HERE, BOY!" Around factories, offices, stores and j any other places where people work ; together, a thing frequently noticed by I 'visitors is the hard-boiled attitude of j j grown-ups toward tho boys who arei I ou the payroll. I The boss usually is salaamed and toadied to as if he were a sacred cow. ;Miss Pansy Plush, the beautiful typist,, gets a lot of fawning consideration.1 jAnd oven the male grown-ups tieuf each other with n mutual deferonce or i jrespect, despite a considerable amount I of facetious joshing But when it comes to the boy who works around tho place well, when he's called and commanded, it generally general-ly sounds as if he were a trained dog that had to be handled roughly on the theory that, give him an inch, he'll take a mile. Rough treat menu lack of consideration, considera-tion, and a stern rebuko are difficult for a grownup to "swallow" despite tho callouses accumulated by the. sen- j sibillties during years of toll and con-' tact with the hostile pack that are trying try-ing to get the same dollar we're after j ourselves. Tho boy, fresh from home and Just striking out for himself, has none of these callouses. His nature Is sensitive, sensi-tive, without Insulation. And making him the target of the unnecessary harp word or lack of consideration la about the lowest-down act that the so-called so-called human being is guilty of. When it cornea to girls, a thousand times more so. Maybe you remember, years ago, tie j heartaches and spiritual injuries and ' 1tsappolntmita that were youre when you first began making your own liv ing. Probably there wore things that occasionally brought a Tew tears to your eyes. If we all kept this memory fresh before us. the boys who work today would get a better deal. Considering the harsh and thought less treatment that most boys get on their first Jobs, it's no wonder that so many of them prow up brutal, cynical and detinul toward their fellows. You can tell how much of real man hood there is in a grown-up, by the Way be treats the boys who work around li!m And you can spot the bully, roughing the lads in a way he would not have the courage to try on men his own size. Another thing: These boys now working with us, and making mistakes due to inexperience (as wo all did In our turn), are the futuro leaders of the world. For all some of us know, our only claim to greatness may be in having worked with some great man of the future, now a boy nervously fumbling at his first Job. A certain baggageman didn't realize this years ago when he permanent I Injured j. train-boy's hearing by boxing box-ing him on the ears for cluttering up tho baggage car with electrical apparatus appa-ratus The 1 rain-boy was Thomas A. Edison. |
