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is probably equally true that he does not strive for these things out of 

 any consideration for the employee, but rather because it increases pro- 

 duction. He sees, however, that the one necessarily implies the other. 

 His first step in the attainment of his end has been the invention of a 

 new system of wage payment, and he has been increasingly successful 

 in this direction. But in doing so, he has so far neglected to purposely 

 emphasize the ultimate aim that his critics have lost sight of it alto- 

 gether. The result is that in many instances the unionist fails to under- 

 stand his motive, and the employer does not see its necessity. 



The problem of the efficiency of labor is therefore but a phase of 

 the far wider problem of distribution. What the advocates of labor 

 legislation and reform are striving to do from the point of view of 

 the wage-earner, the efficiency expert is endeavoring to secure, though 

 he may not realize it, from the standpoint of the employer. It would 

 be well if this fact were more generally understood, for then the diffi- 

 culties would be solved the sooner, and there would be less working at 

 cross-purposes. And, after all, it is as Theodore Roosevelt said recently 

 at Columbus: 



We have no higher duty than to promote the efficiency of the individual. 

 There is no surer road to the efficiency of the nation. 



