Ogden Daily Standard | 1903-06-20 | Page 11 | "Reward of Merit." Section

WARD OF MERIT now well I 1 remember that highly bated legend reward of merit on the cards I 1 got at district school long ago remarked a at an uptown hotel brother night 1 I felt as it I 1 had been decorated with the iron cros whenever I 1 carried one of the things home to my mother it usually for good behavior either but for scholar phlp ant anyway mother always kept them for both of us to gloat over and I 1 agneas grownups are boly children of a larger growth after all for we are albara going after ome reward of merit or other its a great incentive now you folka up here are bailog a lot of about your street car transit our traction company could give your follows borne pointers about ways 0 getting good service just before christmas the company distributed to its conductors and motormen who had bad no accidents for the preceding ls months the gifts were given out according to the conditions announced the summer before and more than tour fifths of the men got a mighty merry christmas out of it aad incidentally the public got safer and better service by it up here your traction magnates take the other way round they make the men stand the loss by delays paying them by the hour and never think about the other side the reward of merit business they ought to take the the old question for debate that used to come up in the literary societies 30 years ago resolved that abo hope of reward 1 a greater incentive to action than the tea 0 punishment fand themselves less often called before a judicial board of inquiry I 1 think