Eliminating Waste and

Encouraging Ambition

A fair understanding betu'een empl'oyer and employed is of vital .importance to both. As an illustration of a very excellent letter from an employer to all of his organization, we are glad to publish the following, written by Sam T. Hayward, of I-,os Angeles, head of the Hayward Lumber & Invr stment Company, a line yard concern, to his entire organization. It gives the men food for thought, and gives them to understand that men who are seeking for promotion need g\r no farther than the organization they are serving. It is as follows:

,.TO ALL EIVIFLOYEES:

"Did you ever stop to consider'the wastes which exist in an organization thc size of ours? Waste of all sorts stare us in the face everywhere we turn. The disheartening part of it all is that so many of these wastes can be avoided. Have you noticed how many boards are laying around in alley ways beiag tramped oveland driven over by trucks and autos? Take a lxl2 2O Common O. P' It represents 80c, almost a dollar, yet a dozen men will walk over it a dozen times a day without, one man taking one minute of his time to put it in place. This will happen and if you told one of these men he was not working loyally for the best interests o'f the company' he would 'feel insulted. Pick it up ,or let it lay? Which are you doing.