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ABOUT VACATIONS

Shirkers get paid what they are worth.

Co-operation, not competition, is the life of trade

HERE are three good
reasons why all employees
should have vacations.
One is so the employer
can see how easily any-
body's and everybody's
place can be filled.

The next is so the employee can see, when he returns, how well he can be spared, since things go right along without him.

The third is so the employee can show the employer, and the employer can understand that the employee is not manipulating the accounts or engineering deals for his own benefit

Many a defalcation could have been avoided had the trusted man been sent away for a few weeks every year, and an outsider put in his place.

Beyond these, the vacation has little excuse.

As a matter of recuperation the vacation does not recuperate, since, as a rule, no man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one

The man who is so run down that he needs

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Book of a vacation can never adjust or reform himBusiness self in two weeks. What he really needs is to reform his life.

To work during the year at so rapid a pace that in August one's vitality is exhausted and a rest demanded is rank folly.

What we all need is enough vacation every day so that we can face each morning with health sufficient to do our work in gladness.

That is to say, we need enough of a playspell every day to keep us in good physical condition.

The man who is done up and fagged out has not found his work.

And the man who lives during the year in
anticipation of vacation does not deserve
one, for he has not ascertained that it is
work, and not vacations, that makes life
endurable ⇓⇓

There be good people who travel by the
gorge route so incessantly that their livers
go on a strike and palates finally declare a
lock-out. Then they laud Bernarr Mac-
fadden, and proclaim fasting a virtue.
All this until reasonable health returns,
when they again buy commutation-tickets
via the whirlpool and play hockey with
their innards

If you hustle so continually that your
system demands a vacation, you have

gotten where you can not do good work. Book of If you have reached a point where you Business can not do good work, you can not enjoy your vacation,

If you absolutely need a vacation you are
not in the mood to enjoy it, because it is
thrust upon you by necessity, willy-nilly.
Things forced upon us are never pleasant.
The only man who can really enjoy an
outing is the man who does not need it.
And the man who keeps his system so
strong and well balanced that he does not
need a vacation is the one who will eventu-
ally marry the proprietor's daughter and
have his name on the sign.

Before you manage a business you had
better learn how to manage your cosmos.
I know what I am talking about, because
I take vacations myself.

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