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SPEEDING UP BUSINESS.
[BY STATHEN LEACOCK IN TUR "VANCOUVER SUN."]
We were sitting at our editorial desk in our inner room quietly writing up our week's poetry, when a stranger lookeil in upon us
He me in with a burst-like the entry of the hero of western drama coming in out
"You talk too much," said the Stranger. Don't do it.. Learn to listen. If a young man comes to me for advics in business- and they do in thundreds, lots of them- almost in tears over their inelliciency-L
M but don't spent." ay, Young wan, never talk, listen: answer, But even all this is only part of the method. Another sile of it is technique,"
hods
Technique?" we said pleased but puzzled.
Take the building trade, I've revolutionised Yes, the proper use of machine devices it. Till now all the bricks oven for a light of a snowstorm. His manner was all ex-building were carried up to the nasals in citement. "Sit down," we said, in qur couriepas way. "Sie down!" he exclaimed, By my method instead of carrying the bricks Madness! Think of the waste of it. "certainly not! Are you aware of the
to the son we take the musun to the brick Amount of time and energy that are being lower him on wire a wastel in American business by the practiced up he goes again. As soon as he wants rope, give him a brick, of perpetually sitting
down
and stand another trick he calls down, I want a brick. ing up again down and stand up
Do you realise that every and down he comes like lightning." time you sit
you make a dead lift of" he looked at
Two hundred and ofty pounds! said quietly, wote Never" we
of it. "You didn't!" he sneered.
"This," we said, "is litthy short of " "Cat it out. Even that is not all. An. other thing bigger than any is organisation. rather go on lifting 250 pounds through and the business in this country is not or, two ganised. As soon as I sent out my cireu ar fect an average of 500 foot pounds, No. 4, Have You Organised Your Business practically 62 kilowatts of water power. I got answers in thousanila. Hearthwoken
you know that by merely hitching paliny to the back of your neck you could it! Here, for example, is a letter written by ruany of them. They had never thought of generate enough power to light your whole a plain man, a garioner, just an onlinary. office."
man, a plain man—”
Wo hung our heads. Simple as the thing was, we had never thought of it. Very good" said the Stranger "Now, all American business men are like you. They don't think-do you understand me! They don't think."
We realised the truth of it at once. We had never thought. Perhaps we didn't even know how. Now, I tell you," continued our visitor speaking rapidly and with a light of wild enthusiasm in his face. "Tin out for new campaign-ethiciency in usiness-speeling things up-better or ganisation."
"But surely," we said, musingly, we have seen something alxat this before in the papers?" "seen it, sir," he exclaimed,
I should say so. It's overywhere. It's a new movement. It's in the air. Has it never struck you how a thing like this cau be seen in the air!"
"Yes," we said, "quite so.". "Well, here is what he writes: Dear Sie:
As soon as I got your circular I rend it all through from end to end, auf I saw that all my failure in the past had come from my not being organised. I sat and thought a kag while and I decided that I would organise myself. I wont right into the house and I'said to my wife, going to organise myself." She said." Oh, John and not
another word, Lat should have seen the look
on
So the next morning I got up early and began to organise myself. It was lated at first but I stack to it. There were comes when I felt as if I couldn't do it. It seemed too hard. But, bit by dit, I did it, and now, thank God. Lan organised. I wish all men like me could know the pleasure I feel in being organised.
But I get lots of letters like that. Here's Touching, isn't it?" all the Stranger another, also from a man, a plain man,
Hero again we were at fault. In all our lives we had never seen anything in the air. We had never even looked there. "Now," continued the Stranger, I want your paperworking on his own farm. Here what he
to help. I want you to join in: I want you
give publicity."
Assuredly, we said, with our old-fashion- politeness. "Anything which concerns the wolfare, the progress, if one may so phrase
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'Stop," said the visitor. "You talk
too much. You'ro proxy. Dont talk. Listen me. Try and fix your mind on what I am about to
We fixed it The Stranger's manner became somewhat, calmer, "I am heading," he cried, the new American efflciency movement. I have sent out circulars to fifty thousand representative firms, my methods. I am receiving ten answers a day--hero he dmgged a of letters out of his pocket from from New Hampshire, Som Vormou
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,"
we murmured.
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bundle
says:
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Dear Sir:
As soon as I saw your circular on how to speed up the employó I felt that it was big thing, I don't have any hired help here to work for me, but only father. He cuts the wood and does odd chores about the place. So I realised that the best could do was to try to speed up father. started in to speed him up last Tuesday, and I wish you could see him. Before this he couldn't spit a cord of wool without cutting a slice off his boots. Now be does it in half the tinie.
"But there," the stranger said, getting impatient even with his own reading
needn't read it all. It is the so Wethod introduced into the Department all along the line. I've got the Exactly," he said: "from every Stata Stores Before this every, customer who in the Union-from the Phillippines, from came in wasted time trying to had the Porto
and last week I had one from counters. Now we install a patent Canada
Marvellous we said: "and board, with a mechanism like a
te spring. ny one ask what your new methods are As soon as a customer comes in an at-
him, and says, inny."
tendant puts him оп the board, blindfoldly gol Glove counter you want to 'Oh, all right. it the air: No time
You
he answered. "It's a proper question. It's a a typical business question, fair, plain, elean, and
even admitting
an answer. The great art of answering
questions, he continued, "is to answer at lost. Same with the railways. They're
once without loss of time, friction or delay installing the Method, too. Every engineer in place
to place. I'll answer it." who breaks tha Movingid.
from New York to of milk. When ho
"I will," said the Stranger, "My method gets a hundred glasses he can exchange
Buffalo gets a cur
is first: to
etimuinte business to the highest them for a glass of beer. So with tho point by infusing into it everywhere the
doctors. On the new method, instead of *pirit of generous rivalry, of wholesome giving the patient one pill a day for four- competition; by inviting each and every teen days they give him fourteen pills in worker to outdo each and every other,"
one day. Doctors, lawyers, everybody. "And can they do it 1" we asked, puzzled in tine, sir," said the Stranger, in tones and pet fascinated. "Can they all do it ?" of rising excitement, you'll see even the
"They do, and they can," said the plumbers-- Stranger,
The proof of it is that they are doing it. Listen. Here is an answer
But just at this moment the door opened. a sturdy-looking man in blue entered. The
to my circular No. 6, Efficiency and Re-Stranger's voice was hushed at once. The compense, that came in this morning. It is froni a steel firm. Listen."
The Stranger picked out a letter and
read it.
Dear Sir:
excitement died out of his face. His manner all of a sudden was meekness itself.
"I was just coming. " he said. "That's right, sir," said the man, “better come along and not take up the gentleman's time."
A sad case, sir," he said, and he tappel his forehead.
You mean I asked,
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Dur Arm is a Steel Corporation. We roll rails. As soon as we read your eir cular on the Stimulus of Competition we "Good-bye, then," said the Stranger, with saw that there were big things in it. Atrek affability, and he went out. once we sent one of our chief managers to The man in blue lingered behind for a the rolling mill. Ho carried a paper bag moment. in his hand. Now, boys," he said, "every man who rolls a ruil gets a gum-drop." The effect was magical. The good fellows felt a new stimulus. They now roll out mils like dough. Work is a joy to thein. but harmless. I'm engaged to look after him, Every Saturday night the man who has but he
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The pieces-thinks it must be reorganised. He who
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pleasure to see
ee the brave them to the papers with imaginary names fellows clamouring for their ribbons. Our You may have seen some of them. output, after defraying the entire cost of We looked at our watch. We had lost just Good Air. the ribbons and the gumdrops, has in-
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The stranger paused for breath. "Marvellous," we said. "There is doubt the stimulus of keen competition-"
"Shut up," he said impatiently. "Let me explain it farther. Competition is only. part of it. An item just as big that makes for efficiency it to take account of the little things.
It's the little things that are never thought of
Hero was another wonder ! We realised
me that had never thought of them. "Take the Stranger continued, "I went into a
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every
не Herminute, and tying up in the boys being summoned upstairs elevators. Yet and every thus they went up they had to come down again. went up to the manager. I said. I can under- stand that when your guests ring for the bell-
ththey have to go up. But why should
come down? Why not have them go up and never corso down?' He caught the idea at once. That hotel is transform- ed. I have a lotter from the manager stating
that they find it fifty per cent cheaper to hire new ball boye instead of waiting for the old ones to come down."
These results," we said, "are certainly marvellous. You are most assuredly to be congratulated on-3
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