Show the old settler my dear san Jua ners that boss was a fellow of just one dimension eighty two inches from his long crane like feet to the top of his bald dome like a telephone pole he had no extension north south east nor west and his narrow forehead reached over like a plate of polished ivoin from his eyebrows to the back of his neck but as soon as he opened his cavernous mouth revealing a few long lonesome teeth you forgot that he was serpentine in appearance pe arance for he knew what he was talking about and he pic pictured aured it so clearly before you that he hid behind the picture and charmed you with its unusual consistency sis tency with us its different he declared emphatically we offer mighty little uniform work to our employees we have em do all sorts of things waiting training investigating preparing its not only to teach them what we might want them to do but to ascertain how brash and brittle tafe th e stuff of which they are made 1 I spent two years in experimental chemistry and one phase of what I 1 learned there features big in what I 1 have hava to do here I 1 discovered that certain chemical combinations otherwise very promising in my field would somehow explode as soon as I 1 began to depend upon them when I 1 had wrecked half a dozen important projects and barely escaped with my eyes I 1 decided to continued on page ten the old settler continued irom page dage 1 have nothing more to do with these things that are so prone to blow up one of the first things we want to find out about the people whom we are gong going to trust is liow how ex plosive the lie stuff they are made of how liable they are to blow up about the time we begin to depend on the them some people simply will wil 1 not carry on they must either jump for joy or stop for weariness it chews in the chemistry of their blood bloo 1 that it if avei they get into a place where thy think they are indispensable thy they get offended they strike they the y rebel they are balky ba alky the same as some e worthless horses we can make good use of a almost I 1 I 1 any man or woman who can be depended on not to blow up and among the people who become jur u r trusted employees there are no feelings they have what paul called charity which sufi bereth long and is kind if think it over see that the greater part of the feuds and quarrels and fights among neighbors and communities is because somebody blows up instep instead 3 of carrying on in other words somebody quits his good sense at a certain ce ertain point and runs berserk and there is the devil to pay ALBERT R LYMAN P |