How 1 Judge Men 



By Harrington Emerson 



Illustrated with Photographs Copyrighted by Harris and Ewing 



Mr, Emerson is a pioneer in efficiency engineering, an apostle of what has 

 come to be known as "scientific management." Long ago he came to the 

 conclusion that although the best cost-accounting system had been installed 

 in a factory, the best machines bought, the best arrangement of the machines 

 devised, the best method of feeding raw material to the machines worked 

 out, efficiency had not been truly attained unless the right man was given the 

 right job. But how can you tell the right man when you see him? While 

 Mr. Emerson does not attempt to answer the question fully in this article, 

 which he prepared for us, he tells very clearly how humanity may be 

 appraised by well-defined standards. — Editor. 



ANY food is better than none. But if 



/-\ there is possibility' of choice why 



not select the best which it is 



possible to obtain for health and purse? 



The difference be- 

 tween the fine, large, 

 perfect apples obtain- 

 able every-where now 

 by the box or piece, and 

 the rusty, shriveled, 

 wormy and rotten ap- 

 ples I used to find in the 

 bushel basket is very- 

 great. I like good ap- 

 ples, and not being in a 

 star\'ed condition take 

 no other kind. 



How is a good apple 

 created? 



By selection. 



The prospective ap- 

 ple-grower rejects all 

 stocks except the one 

 he intends to market. 

 He next rejects the en- 

 tire surface of the globe 

 except the one field he 

 thinks best suited for 

 his orchard, best suited 

 as to climate, soil, exposure, so that the 

 good stock will have best opportunity. 



The grower cultivates and fertilizes the 



il. He favors useful and drives away 



oxious insects. During growth he may 



ruthlessly pinch off all undesirable buds, 



but in any case when the crop is gathered 



he sorts and selects. 



If Cattle Are Carefully Selected, 

 Why Not Men? 



How can we expect to secure anything 



Field Marshal von Hindenburg. Strongly 

 motive; determined and inflexible; very 

 practical, hard and intolerant; great 

 physical strength, power and endurance; 

 a rugged, coarse- skinned man; stubborn; 

 bulldog type ; immovable character 



good, a good apple, a good bee, a good dog, 

 a good cow, a good horse, a good man, or a 

 good woman, except from good stock, de- 

 veloped under favorable opportunity and 

 care, and strictly se- 

 lected as to individuals? 

 I do not expect it. 

 Therefore I apply selec- 

 tion. 



Before going any fur- 

 ther it is to be noted 

 that the family to which 

 apples, pears, quinces, 

 strawberries, blackber- 

 ries, and hawthorns be- 

 long is the rose family. 

 All these roses are noble 

 and respond rapidly and 

 greatly to opportunity 

 and care. 



Unfortunately there 

 are on earth genera as 

 vile as the roses are 

 noble. A Luther Bur- 

 bank could not develop 

 an ignoble rose, nor 

 could a Mendel elevate 

 a cimex — in plain Eng- 

 lish, a bedbug. 

 But there are living creatures in which 

 the good or the bad is not so overwhelming- 

 ly in evidence as in the rose or the cimex — 

 species in which it is possible by successive 

 selection to retain the good and breed out 

 the bad. By following the laws of heredity, 

 the thoroughbreds in domestic animals have 

 been established. The racehorse man 

 will enter an unfoaled thoroughbred colt 

 in a future race and bet more money on him 

 than he would dare risk on the most 

 promising-looking and acting colt whose 



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