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SURELY EVERYONE KNOWS BY NOW EXECUTIVES HAVE NOTHING TO DO
“As everybody knows ... an executive has practically nothing to do . . . That is . . . except ... To decide what is to be done ... to tell somebody to do it . . . to listen to reasons why it should not be done by somebody else . . . or why it should be done in a different way... to prepare arguments in rebuttal that shall he convincing and conclusive . . .
“To follow up to see if the thing has been done . . . to discover that it has not been done ... to inquire why it has not been done, to listen to excuses from the person who should have done it . . . and did not do it . . . To follow up a second time to see if the thing has been done ... to discover . . .
“That it has been done but incorrectly ... to point out how it should have been done ... to conclude that as long as it has been done ... it may as well be left as it is ... to wonder if it is not time to get rid of a person who cannot do a thing correctly ... to reflect that the person in fault has a wife and seven children . . . and that certainly . . .
“No other executive in the world would put up with him for another moment . . . and that ... in all prob¬ ability . . . any successor would be just as bad . . . and probably worse ... to consider how much simpler and better the thing would have been had he done it himself . . . in the first place ... to reflect sadly that if he had done it himself ... he would have been able to do it right . . .
“In twenty minutes . . . but that as things turned out . . . he himself spent two days trying to find out why it was that it had taken somebody else three weeks to do it wrong . . . and then realized that such an idea would
strike at the very foundation of the belief of all employees that . . . “An executive has nothing to do.”
THE HOMEMAKER'S PRAYER
Lord of all pots and pans and things; since I’ve no time to be
A saint by doing lovely things, or watching late with Thee,
Or dreaming in the dawn light, or storming heaven’s gate.
Make me a saint by getting meals, and washing up the plates.
Altho I must have Martha’s hands, I have a Mary mind:
And when I black the boots and shoes, Thy Sandals, Lord, 1 find,
I think of how they trod the earth, what time I scrub the floor;
Accept this meditation, Lord, I haven’t time for more.
Warm all the kitchen with Thy love, and light it with Thy peace;
Forgive me all my worrying, and make my grumbling cease,
Thou who didst love to give men food, in room or by the sea,
Accept this service that I do — 1 do it unto Thee.
When Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago visited the Breakfast Club, he told this one. .4 young couple were in Chicago just to see the show. Being from the country they arose early and about six o’clock they took a cab. “ We want to go to the Breakfast Club,” said the husband.
“Sorry, mister,” replied the driver, “But Kelly closes all them joints down long before dis.”