VERY employe pays for superin- 

 tendence and inspection Ji> Some 

 pay more and some less. That is to 

 say, a dollar-a-day man would re- 

 ceive two dollars a day were it not 

 for the fact that some one has to 

 think for him, look after him and 

 supply the will that holdshim to his 

 task. The result is that he contrib- 

 utes to the support of those who superintend him. 

 Make no mistake about this: incompetence & dis- 

 inclination require supervision, and they pay for 

 it and no one else does. The less you require 

 looking after, the more able you are to standalone 

 and complete your tasks, the greater your reward. 

 Then, if you cannot only do your own -work, but 

 direct intelligently and effectively the efforts of 

 others, your reward is in exact ratio, & the more 

 people you can direct, & the higher the intelligence 

 you can rightly lend, the more valuable is your life. 

 ((The Law of Wages is as sure and exact in its 

 working as the Law of the Standard of Life. You 

 can go to the very top and take Edison for instance, 

 who sets a vast army at work and wins not only 

 deathless fame, but a fortune, great beyond the 

 dreams of avarice. And going down the scale, you 

 can find men who will not work of themselves and 

 no one can make them work, and so their lives are 

 worth nothing, and they are a tax and a burden on 

 the community. Do your work so well that it will 

 require no supervision, and by doing your own 

 thinking you will save the expense of hiring some 

 one to think for you. ELBERT HUBBARD 



