The Harvester World: Volume 9, number 9, September 1918

              How vacationists on the farm were happy though useful this summer, according to King in the Chicago Tribune.

How a Famous Executive Executes

CHARLES E. CARPENTER, president of E. F. Houghton & Co., editor of the Houghton Line, tells in a recent issue how he keeps in trim and manages to do a thousand things a day.
"I never do anything I can get anyone else to do for me," he says.
" I never open my mail or read any of my letters ex¬ cept those my secretary tells me I should read."
"I seldom apply myself to departmental details and if I want the details analyzed, I have someone do it for me and give me the results."
" When I start to concentrate upon any particular problem, I forbid all interruptions. No one can get to me by 'phone or otherwise if I am engaged upon an important matter."
" I have an ofiice in my apartments where I work day, night or Sunday, as necessity demands or inclination prompts."
"I never tackle work when I am brainfagged."
" I am not carrying an overload or working myself to death. On the contrary, I positively refuse to worry about anything."
" I have never bought or held a share of stock out¬ side of my own company in my life. In other words, I never play the other fellow's game. I never speculate. I have no desire to amass a great fortune."
" I detest the exactions of a pretentious residence. I prefer the simple life."
These are only excerpts from Mr. Carpenter's confes¬ sions and we consider his a pretty good philosophy for the manager to follow. He says be plays golf, sails a yacht in races, drives an automobile, bowls and plays billiards.
Get In Tune
BROTHER    O'MINE,   an   automobile isn't  worth much unless it's in tune.
A fiddle — the finest Stradivarius — is only a sound¬ ing board and four strings, unless it's in tune.
And a man, is nothing but a combination of flesh and bones, unless he's in tune.
In tune with his job, with his organization, with his boss, with his self and with life.
Are you the manager of a whooping big industry and would you be a better manager and a bigger man? Then get iu tune! Get in tune with your department heads and their assistants and the office boys and every man in your organization.
You may sit in a mahogany. Eastern-rug office and have four secretaries to guard you from the hoipoUoi.
You may think that your present position is abso¬ lutely secure, behind those closely guarded doors; it is — if you keep in tune!
Are you a sales manager, a salesman, or an adver¬ tising man, a clerk or an office boy? And would you be in a better, bigger position? Would you grow and develop until you crowd your present job like the grown kiddie crowds the cradle?
Then get in tune with your job, with the organiza¬ tion of which you are a living breatliing part — with yourself and with life.
Look up, not down. Look forward, not backward Love all and hate none.
You are a living part of the great law that governs the rising and the setting of the sun; that makes the flowers bloom in the spring and fade in the fall. Stretch your arms up to the blue sky above. Take a long deep breath and say "I will."—The Quieterion.