Identifier: efficientman00west (find matches)
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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r loafing, gambling, motorcycling, baseball, living by their wits, hoodlumism orprizefighting. The greatest space ever given the portrait of a manby a newspaper was that accorded Kilbane, a light-weightprizefighter, by one of Ohios leading Sunday papers fol-lowing his attainment of the championship in 1913. Ex-tended notices of him by our dailies wxre such as to beresponsible for an ovation on the public streets of Cleve-land that far exceeded that ever accorded any Presidentof America or any other worthy notability of the world.Every encouragement to follow sporting tendencies andto loiter, instead of seeking for efficiency in the usefulvocations necessary to sustain civilization, is now suppliedby many of the leading and most respectable newspapersof our towns and cities. Sporting news offers nothing that is educating oressential to direct youths to become workers or soundthinking men. We have today what is conceded the lead-ing respectable papers devoting the whole of several pages
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03d 0)CO §,§ o o oo WW So ^H-l- ;Ort oft 0) o3 OC< z 111 Ih s = § o3 (U g t- U Sh ^J fcl SPORTING YELLOW PRESS LITERATURE 157 to flaming headlines and large pictures of sports andchampions that are flaunted before the eyes of our impres-sionable young people in almost every direction they maylook. It is not enough to give up prominent pages ofthese papers to heralding the wonderful importance andgreat value of being efficient only in sports, but theyare, to still further attract the greatest possible attention,sent broadcast in such colors that those who look but seelittle cannot miss knowing of their existence. When small children and grown minors see adultsabsorbed in sporting news more than any other informa-tion and again will gather in such crowds as to often makestreets impassable by standing several hours, sometimesin the rain, to watch sporting bulletin boards, is it anywonder, in connection with other derogatory tendenciesof today, that parents and instructors, knowing

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