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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE WASHINGTON TIMES TO SEPTEMBER 1918 WtMtmmmm THE NATIONAL DAILY XUC O. 8. FaUnt Otflca. ARTHUR BRISBANK. Editor and Owner EIX3AR IX SHAW, Publisher Entered as second elm matter at the Pototflc at Washington.

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11.85: 1 Month. C5c THURSDAY. SEPTKMJJtR 1, 1111. Don't Do Just Enough to Earn Your Pay You Will Never Get More Unless You Are "Worth It. t- Among the young' men who are fond of making sar castic references to Fate because they have not been more successful this expression is very common: "I'm earning all the money I'm getting.

I don't in tend to do any more work than I'm paid for." This rule a great many men follow very carefully. They estimate what they think they ought to do to earn their salaries, and they do that and no more. They feel that they are absolutely just' to their employers because they are conscientious in their effort to earn exactly what is paid for. This logic may be sound, although usually a man's estimate of what work is worth is not very accurate; but it is about as dangerous a mental attitude as a wage earner can take. If a man is not worth more than he is getting, it stands to reason that HE WILL NEVER GET MORE.

As long as he is earning his present salary, his employ-ess have no object in paying him one which he doesn't earn. Xi When a man who owns a business raises a salary, he dees it because he finds it profitable to himself to do so. There is very little sentiment concerned in the transaction. The employer doesn't pay a lazy man any more money in the hope to make him industrious. That hope would never be realized.

'He does not advance the salary of a man in the expectation that the man will be worth more to the concern. The employer knows that an expectation of that kind would be idiotic. When salaries are raised, they are raised to meet the growing value of men who are earning more than they get. The business man knows that to keep good men working for him he must pay them according to WHAT THEY DO, not what they would do if they got more money. In all kinds of business where men are employed there is large class of clerks and other wage earners who work only for pay day.

They are continually haunted by the fear that they will do more than their neighbor, who is paid the same, or that they will wear out their brains in order to make another man's fortune. They will always continue to work for pay day, and their envelopes at the end of each week will always con tain the same amount of money or less; for when a man lacks interest in what he is doing he soon begins to fall off in nis earning power. Meanwhile, the men who keep interested, who are not afraid pi domg more work than they are paid for, and who are not so much worried about wearing out their brains as they are about using them too little, are the men whose wages are advanced. Employers learn that such men steadily earn more than they are paid, and while their salaries may never keep pace with their value 4here would be no profit in employing them if such was the case they at least are progressing, and soon will leave their pessimistic young friends far behind. Another thing which the man who goes out after success soon learns is that when he does another man's work he must do it better than his predecessor did.

If one bookkeeper or clerk takes the place of another, he will attract no attention as long as he does the work EXACTLY AS IT WAS DONE BEFORE. If he does not do it as well, he will not be likely to last very long in his new position. But if he does it BETTER, he will be noticed, and will stand an excellent chance of promotion. In any business ruts are soon formed, and the man who takes the place of another finds it easier to get into the same rut, and plod steadily along there, satisfied if he brings down upon himself no criticism. He is usually sorrowful because he is not paid as much as- the other man.

He does the same work, he says, and he ought to get the same pay. But the man who is doing the paying is not looking for that kind of substitute. He is in a rut himself, and the fact that every thing is going on as formerly makes no particular impression on him. But if the new man once gets out qf the rut, and does things that the man whose place he took could or did NOT DO, then he begins to be noticed and marked out for advancement. All young men are naturally anxious to earn more money to get, somehow or other, that valuable and useful thing which is known as success.

unhappily the systems of employment in use by the great corporations limit the opportunities of vast numbers of their employes, and make it necessary for many of them to work for far less than their services are worth; but the men who DO advance are not those who are the most careful to do only that for which they are paid. And big corporations, as well as individual employers, are alive to the value of men who CAN LEARN TO BE WORTH MORE, and that is the kind of men who get the big salaries in the end, or acquire the information and experience which enables them some day to get into business Smr themselves, and become employers on their own account. Beatrice Fairfax Writes of the Problems and Pitfalls of the War Workers Especially for Washington Women SOME one a man, of course has written a letter asking me to define the difference between an old maid and a bachelor girL I don't know what the dictionaries have to say on the subject, or if they discourse to any extent on the space that separates these two states, but to the world at large the dissimilarity is as the poles. To be an "old maid" denotes a state of mind rather than a state of single blessedness; and is by no means confined to the female sex. Old maids in trousers and derby hats and taking pride In mustaches and pointed beards infest our street cars, professions, and public offices.

The old maid may be determined by a tendency to ossify, or turn to bone, usually beginning at the head. They are opposed to change of any sort, they like things to keep on In the same old rut, because they have always been that way from their earliest recollections. "Is My Hat on RJghtP The genuine article of cither sex is more concerned with things than principles. A world war may be raging, nations perishing of starvation or by the sword, but the real issue of life to the gentlemanly old maid will be: "Are my suspenders where I leave them every night?" And to the ladylike old maid, "Is my hat on straight?" Their world is bounded on the north by Me. on the south by My Things, on the east by What I Think, and on the west by What I Peel About Other People.

Sometimes a genuine old maid marries, bat not often, the responsibility of seeing some one's else shoes arranged at what may be an offending angle Is too great a responsibility. Better go through life unloved, unwed, unmounted, than take such chances. To the simon pure O. M. there are rarely no such things as days of the week; instead there Is: "The day I go to church, ride in a Ford, ferry, or trolley according to my circumstances.

Monday is not Monday, but the day I have my clothes washed. Tuesday the day I eat the last of the cold roast. Wednesday the day my sweeping is done, Thursday the day I go to the movies or indulge myself in some such recreation, etc. In Ilk manner '914 Is not the year of the world war, but the year I set out my scarlet runners, or TODAY'S TOPIC What's the Difference Between an Old Maid and a Bachelor Girl? had my front tooth filled with porcelain. Inrcst in "Prunes and Prisms" Preferred.

This self-centered product has flashes of patriotism, and would honestly enjoy buying thrift stamps, war saving certificates, or even a Liberty bond or two, but it has contracted the habit of Investing in "Prunes and Prisms" preferred, and can't bear the thought of risking a change. For very much the same reason, your typical 0. M. is always an anti-suffragist, for the compelling motive that his or her grandmother was one. Why they do not wear caps and hoop skirts for the same reason, it is difficult to follow.

We have old maids of this type in the Senate, House, and State legislature. We have always had them, and, like the Biblical poor, we shall have them perpetually. The impatient reformer does not always see it, but these reaction aries are a valuable spur to all forward movements. They are the pebbles that give greater momentum to the stream of progress. Bat we think of them and lament their presence in Tennyson's apt phrase: "A yet-warm corpse, and yet unburiable." Not long ago one of these ran for the Presidency, he also undertook an unsuccessful pleasure excursion, at the Government's expense, for which a certain dub awarded him a medal for valor.

I do not know the inscription on this gift horse, but bearing his record on women suffraee in mind, it might have read: "He has not changed his mind in fifty years." Sometimes the old maid is young, as years are counted, but as set as a hard boiled egg in the matter of convictions. The crown prince of Germany, for instance, sees a perishing world waiting for him to set it straight. The Bachelor Girl. The bachelor girl differs from the old maid in that she Is in- Dr. Tindall On Sparrows During my hebdomadal clearing out of my pockets this etenlng I excavated therefrom a clipping from your 'Heard and Seen" column containing a criticism by a "Member Audubon Society of D.

of my plea that the sparrow be permitted to nest la the cannons In Lafayette Square, as formerly With respect to my critic' asser tion that the sparrow drives away other more useful birds, I can only adduce that whenever I pass through that park I see sparrows there In harmonious association with robins, blackbirds, flickers, and almost every sort of winged thing whose habitat Is there, except bugs. Near Annapolis, where my daughter resides, the sparrow has so many song-bird associates that the chorus Is often too exuberant. Before the English sparrow was ex patriated to the National Capital by Gen. O. B.

Babcock, of blessed memory, eVory elm tree In this city that I saw was denuded of Its leaves by measuring worms before the end of July. That such trees escape that depredation since the sparrows' appearance I constrained to accept an instance of effect and enure I Prof C. Riley and Or. Elliot Cones years ago. and in my Judgment the sparrow had by far the better side of the argument The havoc which the swallow a wrought with the vnteen-year locusts when tboro Insects last nppearrd here signally refuted the Imputation thnt the MrJs are strict vegetarians Tne immunity of our shade trees from wirm ravages is.

in my opinion, largely dm to their vigilant activities. It is jtrue, as my critic ascribes to Frank Chapman, that the vocal emissions of the Hngllsh iparrnw are nit, as the late President Cleveland oalrt of his early married experience, "one sweet song." but the same can truthfully be said of the notes of the rubln. the blackbird, the wren, the Jazz band, and the mule. Nevertheless, such melodious deficiency Aoea not materially Impair the practical usefulness of either of them I therefore submit that It Is not fair to subject the sparrow to a musical test as a criterion of Its right to exist. On the whole.

I fall to discern that my critic has made out his case, and I still appeal to Colonel Ridley to remove those unsightly tar tampions from the muzzles of the guns around the Jackson statue In I.afayette Square in order that the sparrows may multiply, and that the predatory huirsnmt xnrnn may ronsrquently get their coup de vice era i WILLIAM TINDALL. variably feminine. We have no bachelor girls In trousers, and wearing moustaches, and beards, as we have old maids and mil too many of them. The, bachelor girl is a spinster and as progressive as the old maid is reactionary. The bachelor girt almost always marries, and if she does it la for enrr reason but lack of opportunity.

She dresses well because she realizes that a good appearance Is the best introduction, and while a dowdy jacket may cover a noble heart, she realizes it will obtain slower recognition than if Its nobility was masked by one that is up-to-date. The bachelor girl is humane, genuine, and refreshingly free from cant. She is never a Polly-anna glad because an automobile ran over her, and thereby secured her a ride to the hospital or some such nonsense. The bachelor girls were the first to avail themselves of the higher education offered to women, and to fill the colleges and prepare for the professions. They were the first to organize units in France and Belgium to feed the refugees, care for the lost children, and nurse the sick, and they went prepared for these duties.

They did not invade stricken countries full of futile sympathy and inability to speak a word of the langarpe. They had less of: "Oh, you poor dears," and more of "Je parle francaise." They did the first thing that came to hand and they did it mighty well. A famous war correspondent tells of a group of them from Smith College whom he met in the north of Prance helping to repatriate the peasantry in their wrecked and desolate homes. They stayed by the work till the Huns were upon them, and then applied the torch to the model village that it had taken thousands of dollars and months of labor to build, rather than let it fall into the enemy's hands. And when they did leave, each one of them came driving her own motor brock and bearing in it a load of helpless natives.

One girl actually brought to shelter a troop of terrified dwarfs, dropped from a stranded caravan. Now she was a bachelor girl, modern, resourceful, humane. An old maid would have said, in reference to the dwarfs: "Haven't you something more pleasant for me to drive To be an old maid indicates a state of mind, to be a bachelor girl denotes a state of grace. Let's Walk to Work And Thereby Make Ourselves Healthier fey Far aatl Metier By Cwfm Saved. B7 EABL GODWIN.

Nearly everyone who kicks about the street car service could have breakfast half -an hoar earlier and walk to work Perhaps it would be hot and uncomfortable walEing in the summer time, but now the line fall days are nearly here and it will he one of the greatest pleasures to walk briskly downtown in the crisp morning air. The trouble with most of us is that we wait until the! last minute, and then rush but, breakfast hastily eaten, to catch an overcrowded car that wilL get us to the office, barely on time provided no accident occurs. Probably one hundred thousand people all try to get down to the office at 9 o'clock, and all of them try to get there on the same car. THAT feature of "Washington's traffic problem was what staggered John A. Beeler until ho hit upon staggered hours.

Now that he has recommended them, they have gone' into effect in someof the departments, but not in all. And the morning crowds grow worse and worse. Perhaps as many as a hundred new people a day come to Washington to help along the war work and add to the congestion. At the best the street car" service is to be improved only by seventy new cars, and thatdoe'sn't seem to me to be enough for the constantly growing population. EspeJ cially in view of the fact that it will be extremely difiBculf to, get seventy new car crews out of tho present shortage of labor.

So why not walk to work. Thousands of people are doing it every day and are getting to their desks in rhttcsj better frame of mind and body than if they had bee shunted down in a packed and jammed street car. ''But I haven't time to. walk," I hear some one say. The truth is that we have all the time there is; hut Wf don't always dispose of it in the proper way.

Country boys who have had to walk three mfles-to school every know that it is entirely possible to SpA. time to walk tt work. We have interesting streets and -parks here in WasKj ington. It would do a lot of us lot of good id hiker work tomorrow morning, save a car ticket, and fill otng selves with more energy than we've had for many a daar. 3 Try it I'll do it if you will.

jj. HEARD AND SEEN iS As this is written it is my firm in- teatkm to visit the.Hosae of Bepre- seatatives today to hear fee are- wea speech of my good old mead ALBERT JOHNSON, Ceagressraan from Washington. He is in the uniform of aa army captain and" I predict big things for kiss. 1 JOHN G. CAPERS appoints me a speaker for the Jtrarta Liberty loan, bnt all I can say la this: "Bet Your Mosey on the TJ.

S. GUS BTJCHHOLZ -was down to Atlantic City for a speiL See say U-boats, Gas? Well, Went Here's WILL CHASD-LEE. "Within a few squares this morning," says WILL CHANDLEE, the artist, "I picked up enough peach stones to fill a small paper bag, working only one side of the Btreet. "Here is a chance for real service. Any citizen who would not stop to pick up a peach stone deserves to be shot In the wrist watch.

Aside from the value of fruit pits for supplying carbon for gas masks, the act of bending forward at the hips is a nigniy beneficial exercise for the abdominal muscles, and tends to reduction of the flesh in the region, of the waist-band." Ho Comment Needed. Sorry to note that in Tuesday's Times that a cigar dealer refused to let a soldier see a paper: you know Just the happenings. Another man present told you tne cigar clerk made him pay. If I had been that man I should have refused to let the soldier pay, but paid myself, and given the clerk a piece of my mind. All.

however, are far from lfte'tHit Tuesday morals I saw CO GMSSMAN LUNK Seheaeetaay, N. going- dewa aorthwsat, Eight; eeath street otfsrssfpaeVwar workers' and soldiers. saOers. aad asanas a ride to work. He had a FULL CAS after stepping at only two or three car steps.

HARMS CONRAD, 1832 BUtmore St. N. W. sissftlFTPiiSssKJiliiiiiiB When I got this picture of W. F.

FULLAH he was a colonel, but he may be a brigadier general by now as he seems to be going up. He jumped over one grade to be colonel, having been a major only a minute ago. A Washington boy. and adjutant to GEN. HUGH JOHNSON, the youngest general in the army, chief of purchasing, stoi age, and traffic division.

Harrison Joins the Federation 3 f-vIiiiiiiBsssiiiiiiiiiiiB is11111111E7b1111111B IsssKStMraSH i.iiiiiiiiBfl&!sijsflr siiH $isliswllV issiiH BIL fsssssssiiiiiiiK jf Jtor2B If the governor general of thi Philippines finds it dignified and" proper to join the National Federa tion of Federal Employes, I imaging that Government workers in Washington could follow his example without embarrassment. In fact, membership in the federation, I bg lieve, is an honorable and valuable, thing- It will not only help the Government employe personally, bul will indirectly aid the Government itself. The federation is' doing much toward uplifting conditions for the entire body of clerks and will probably be a great factor ia the effort to obtain a review of Government clerk conditions by Cos gress. i THOMAS H. QUINN, of the federation, sends me a letter frora FRANCIS BURTON HARRISON, governor general of the Philippines, and the second highest paid official of the Government.

Governor Harrison addressed his letter to H. M. McLarin, former president of the federation. It Is as follows: Manila, Aug. 2, 1918.

Dear Mr. McLarin: I am in receipt of your letter of May 28, 1918, with reference to the National Federation of Federal Employes, and assure you that I am hi itenrtipst sympathy with the almsa and objects or tne lederanon aa will fca plad to hriirimri a vmsbsmse. 1 1 r. I.