Image from page 124 of “The efficient man” (1914)

Identifier: efficientman00west
Title: The efficient man
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: West, Thomas D. (Thomas Dyson), 1851-1915
Subjects: Success Employee motivation Industrial efficiency Personnel management
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : Gardner Printing Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries
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exterior of the hovels shownwarrant any person in predicting that had the parentsliving within them every opportunity to rise in this worldtheir surroundings would generally be the same, no mat-ter how many lives they could live. The author has known of common laborers receivingthe lowest wages paid who had homes looking as cozyand perfect in sanitary conditions as that of the one seenabove the hovels. This, however, was not achieved bythe parents lounging around afraid of picking up astone or of shoveling a little dirt in their spare hours.We require less pampering of the idle and lazy and morestringent measures to force them to keep everythinglooking clean and tidy around their abodes, though theymight only have woodsheds to live in. Create such conditions as this and the young of the most abject poorcan rise to efficiency that otherw^ise would greatly go onto their ending as they began, many of whom tie to theunderworld and swell our army of toughs, thieves, anddesperate criminals.
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Fia. 15. HOMES OF THE THRIFTY AND NEGLIGENT PAMPERING THE LAZY AND IDLE 121 Blending of Work with Some Play—Youth Calls forCompanionship A factor that must be considered in the lives of allboys is the impracticability of their remaining idle or ofbeing isolated from all companionship. They must, as arule, be kept busy at something. If it is not work, it willbe play; if not legitimately either, it will be mischief ordeviltry. A fair blending of work and some play so that aboy may with these in connection with his studies be con-stantly kept busy is a very desirable condition. Any boywho will take up the selling of newspapers during thehours he may be away from his schoolroom and studiesis to that extent removed from the tendencies which idle-ness and lack of genial associates exercise in turning ayouth to rascality and to depravity. As to a boys want of companionship none should benearer or dearer to him than his own father, and the nexthis brothers, if he have any. If none of these,
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