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?AOE EIGHT RATING FLAN HAS j FAVOR OF wooers; Classification of Men According to Ability in Corporation. Over a million of our soldiers an 1 ' J 1 ! ' army officers wore classified according to special abilities and the ofl'i<trs periodically rated for efficiency curing the \\vorld war. Tile weii krown "armf officers' rating s-oalo/ - 1.'? -/ \\??i tftC ingenious invention ui w. ??ai !ir Dill Scott, was adopted a 'be i official method of recording et :'iei?*ucy for every officer in the C litrci States amiy at homo and a'oroj. says Henry Wood Shelton in the Phil adelphia Ledger. Progressive employers and employment manapets have long been looking for accurate ways of sizing men up. Today they are employing the most scientific psychological tests anil expert ratings. These ratings generally, as in the army, involve judgments only downward from above. The mutual ratings developed in the Emergency Fleet Corporation added judgments in from the side (by those of equal rank on each other) and up from below, giving three points of view instead of one. At the same time these ratings were so simple that they were carried on by the employes themselves on their own initiative. In this lies their peculiar value as an example for industrial ground in general. "What's the use of trying to do a good job? Pull is the only thing that counts. If you want to got ahead, you've got to play up to the boss!" This outburst from cne of the employes of the Emergency Fleet Corporation is not only echoed but acted upon by thousands of work ers in this country who have been driven to such cynicism by the inevitable logic of experience. 'Most foremen are chosen because Viov aw liValv InnVinir fpllnws Thf?rO is not much else to judge by." The man, who said this to me the other day was assistant to the president and in charge of industrial relations in one of our largest Philadelphia manufacturing plants?one recognized by both labor and capital as having made distinct progress toward democracy in industry. Coming from two extremes in the industrial scale, these remarks touch the same canker sore in our industrial life, viz., individual injustice. How can an employe keep up hi s interest and enthusiasm when time and again he sees the wrong man get ahead? Hrw can the executive hold the confidence of the crowd when, however innocently, he picks the less deserving man? Simple justice in recognizing and rewarding nv rit is the ro<-k foundation of morale. Yet our whole system of judgment, merit from the top down, is constantly destroying morale instead of buil Mng it up. Nor can morale be manuf' ctu.ed by any amount of humanitarism or welfare work, tn the minds of the lank and Tile these never take the place of simple justice. The executive knows his handicap. T1 fr ?-l 1+ K i?Vvn?lt .Irthn HUW tV llll/l V* VI llvil V* V V v.-. Jonos than is revealed in his "likely looks'* is a real problem. Some executives resort to espionage. Others who won't stop spying ask the opinions of those they trust. At best the information gained is fragmen&nd to some extent prejudiced. So lank. No matter which rank knows The employes would only be too glad to help the boss with their judge ment based on first-hand knowledge of each other, if they could only get it across safely in some impersonal way. Lacking tho opportunity, they naturally relax into an attitude ol irresponsibility?"every man for him self and the deveil take the hind most." What is the way out of this two homed dilema? If constructive de mocracy is to succeed, the way ou must sacrifice neither the executive', responsibility to make decisions no the employes' interest in the justic of those decisions. Who knows man's real merit best, his superior} his equals or his subordinates ; rank No matter which rank know him bast, each knows him from a dij ferent angle, and sizes him up accorc \r All rtf t.hn ancrles must 1; J"6V *? -- ... brought together in any fair effoi to get at the whole truth. This I bi lieve, is the "way out." It has a coi crete, practical illustrtation in tl mutual rating plan developed by tl employes in one branch of the Emo gency Fleet Corporation home offi< during the administration of Vi< President Howard Coonley. This branch, meeting at a who! voted to get the collective judgmei of each rank?higher, equal ar lower?on each member, as well as H. L. Buck, President T"? Farrr AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS p.The better you prepare lar CUT STALKS with STALK CUTTER When the season comes ii tivating your crops. We Farm In WILL APPRECIATE YOU] > put all three judgments together into f a total rating. No effort was made > to force the use of the results in ac- ^ tually determining promotions. They 0 simply recognized the moral force of t such collective judgments publicly t expressed The branch members f chose as qualities on which to rate each other?personality, ability and e industry. The voting was by secret ^ hallot, the ballot form containing a list of all members, with a column for each quality. A voter indivatod his estimate by a percentage between ? 50 and 100, entered opposite any ~ name he knew and under any quality he knew about. The secrecy of the r ballot, as in a political election, in- ? sured freedom and safety in express- * ing or withholding judgment. An a impartial representative from outside the group was elected to total ' average and tabulate the results, t Under each quality all the names were listed according to relative ? standing, standing with the highest * at the top. The actual percentage of ratings on each person were given 1 opposite his name?first, the rating c by all voters without regard to rank, * and then the rating by each rank, ^ (higher, equal and lower separately. 1 Each member received a copy of the 1 complete tabulation of "score card." LEAP YEAR SOURCE i OF TROUBLE TO MEM i r N j 1 Scotch Women Have Law En-:1 ! i acted That Starts Famous < Custom. < ?- < < Anent leap year, the Baltimore Sun ( has the following to say: The first day of 1920, came on ' Thursday, but, more important than < that, it is the first day of a leap year, the sort of year in which a gentleman finds it difficult to continue to be a gentleman. In a leap year a man may say "No, thank you," in the sweetest possible manner and straightway get a deputation as an utterly worthless brute, who probably would beat a wife if he had one any way. All this has nothing to do with th< , real meaning of leap year, and to [ some people who have the peri oil all ' mixed up with woman suffrage a f brief statement of its real meaning may be a bit of news. Julius Caesar's astronomers are to blame for it. In the year 46 B. C. - somewhere around the time the lean - and hungry Cassius was getting tiro 1 t of being hungry and began plotting s to get rid of the biggest eater in the r empire?namely Julius himself? c these astronomers decided to divide a the world's time up into solar years. After a long conference the subcomn mittee brought into the conference a s recommendation that a year consist P- of 365 days. This displeased a cer1 tain faction, which is said to have >e wanted an extra day in which to rert cover from Christmas celebration;? e- Their argument was that a man i- scarcely had time to sober up in six le days, and how could he make decent io New Year's resolutions if he wasn't r- entirely sober? ce Ended in Compromise, cc After a stubborn fight, during which prices went up and strikes wcr< e, frequent, and the world was believe' nt to be going to the dogs, they com id promised on a solar year of 365 day) to and 6 hours, saving up the six hour! THE HORRY HERALD, CON i Implemen SUCCESSOR TO Burroughs & Collins Go's Implement Dept. j J OA f . V-. " ^ id, the easier cultivated, and th % DISK DEEP with 2-HORE DISK i we will be ready with all th-j make a specialty of "F A R M I nnlfimfint ft gv m w m w v ^ CONWAY, S. C. El BUSINESS. or four years so that every fourth ' roar would have an extra full day. lie agreed opinions finally was that >nce every four years was enough 1 ime for making New Year's resoluions, and that there wasn't any such estival as Christmas yet anyway. Hence leap year. They stuck the xtra day onto February, which had >een treated niggardly by the Caesar an astronomers in the matter of lays. Then, so legend has it, the ladies < rot busy. Here was a nice, long year ?bigger by a whole day than an orlinary year?in which one's age was lot added to one bit. A sort of "barrain year"?an extra-good value for he money. 'So the ladies grabbed it md took it for themselves. Why it first became a subject of ; aw in Scotland is not recorded in the looks, unless the reason be that the ( adies were particularly strong in Scotland. They certainly got Bobbie < >urns all worked up, and they pro- ] luced "The Lady of the Lake" and hat other lady to spoil whose wed- . ling plans young Loch invar came all he way from Denver?or was it Los 11 Vngeles? At any rate, in the yea-. ' 28S the following law was enacted n Scotland. Woman's Rights in 1288. "It is a statute and ordaist that luring the rain of hir maist bl'ssit ( dcgcstc, for ilk yeare knowne as lepe reave, ilk mayden lad ye of bothe lig'ie and lowe estait shall line liberte o bespoke ye man she likes albeit he ( xiuscs to taiD nir to do nis lawiui i vyfc, he shall be mulcted in ye sum me pundis or less, as his estait may >e; except and awis gif he can make t. appeare that he is bet roth it anc t ?ither woman he shall then be free." Which statute need not mean much ' :o our Baltimore gentlemen, the sum )f "ane pundis or less," being too Dbsecure a matter for even a Supreme Court judge to settle upon. fBut there are worse things than ''ane pundis or less," and they may come to pass in the most unforseen j ways?an extra low bow when surrendering a seat in a street car, picking up fallen gloves and handkerchiefs, waxing too eloquent in dissertations upon women's rights, getting chummy with telephone girls. Worse?or better? You'll have to ask Julius Caesar's astronomers. Or pick out any 10 married men and average up their answers. o HAMMONDS-ELVINGTON. A wedding of much interest will be solemnized at Floyds School House Friday night, Jan. 30, 1920, at 8 o'clock, when Miss Hyks Hammonds becomes the bride of Mr. Lanneau Flvington. The wedding party will enter in the following manner to tho strains of Lohengrins wedding march rendered by Miss Ruth Bailey: Miss Tobias Rowell with Mr. Houston Price, Miss Guthrie Hammonds with Mr. Mjipa Horn. Mihs Rufiis Rail ey with Mr. Cordie Grainger, Miss Emerson Grainger with Mr. Ira Ham monds, Miss Ford Rowell with Mr. Hobson Grainger, Miss Fuvman Hooks with Mr. Lee Causey, Miss Percy Huggins with Mr. French ITam monds. i Next will come the dainty flower > girls, little Misses Tiffany Huggim and Horry Martin. Then' comes the * lovely bride leaning on the arm ol : "her" foster father, Mr. Nas Buffkin followed by the tiny little ring bear er, "Miss" Carle Hooks, bearing th< > ring in the heart of a cabbage. T'n? - bride will be met at the alia;* by th 1 groom, who enters with hi? best man - Mr. Truett. The ceremony w?)l b ? performed by "Rev." Ches Hooks. A' 11 i ? + ? ? ? * ? * I added teature win ne tne presence o ! " i * WAY, S. P., JAN. 22, 1980. |||aBaHMaaaaaaaBaiH J. H.Marsh, Sec. & Treas. t Co. FARMERS HARDWARE e more you make. TURN WITH A CHATTANOOGA or VULCAN PLOW CtonHorrf Dl/vt.ic f/\r /Mil I'l viunuai u i iuiko i vi v/ur ERS WANTS." impany the bride's negro mammy, "Miss Law rence Bailey. While the audience waiting "Miss" Alec Martin will sing "Perfect Day." This wedding will be given by Wannamaker talent at Floyds School House. The proceeds will be used for re-building Wannamaker School House. Admission: Adults 50c; Children 35 cents. Come and get your 50 cents worth of fun?(adv) lj22 It. o Citation Notice. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Horry. By J. S. VAUGHT, ESQUIRE, PROBATE JUDGE. WHEREAS, Mrs. Alice Floyd made suit to me, to grant her Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of Sandy Floyd. THESE ARE THEREFORE to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Sandy Floyd, deceased, that they be and appear, before me, in the Court nf P i?nl>o to tn Ka V?a1/1 .... * lui/wtv, bv uc nciu ai> \junwajr v/u Tuesday, February 3rd, 1920 next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to shew cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be ^ranted. GIVEN under my Hand, this 19th clay of January Anno Domini, 1920. Published on the 22nd and 29th days of January 1920 in the Horry Herald. * J. S. VAUGHT, Probate Judpe. "tobacco canvass 100,000 Yards Tobacco Can vass. 112 5 Bags Plant Bed Guano. 150 Tons Whale Guano. 500 Tons Obers Tobacco Guano. 500 Tons V. Goat Guano. 200 Tons C S Meal, best Grade. 575 Barrels Beat Flour. 450 Bags Head Rice. 4 Solid Cars Hay. 3 Solid Cars Oats. 4500 Pounds Tobacco. Come to see ns, please. We nave tbe goods and want your trade. PALMETTO GROCERY CO. 4'Cooper?Mullins" ?12|25J1S et ? CAPT. F. W. LACHICOTTE DEAD Georgetown, Jan. 20.?Word was received yesterday of the sudden illness and death of Captain Francis W. Lachicotte on Sunday morning at his residence at Waverly Mills, this county. Capt. Lachicotte was taken ill Saturday night after retiring but refrained from calling the members of the household and medical attention was not sent for until Sunday morning, arriving too late to give relief. Death was probably caused i by an acute attack of indigestion. Capt. Lachicotte was seventy years of age but extraordinary vigorous ? physically and mentally to the last. * For many years since the abandonF ment of rice planting he and his , brother, Capt. St. J. M. Lachicotte - have operated a saw mill and marine - railway at Wavcrly Mills and the " former has acted as postmaster there for a number of years. Many visi tors to Pawley's Island will rear ' with real sorrow of the passing o! * Capt. Frank, the genial wholesolce f gentleman of the old school, in whose Cooper-Smr Wholesale i In Stock, al 100 OASES TOM/ 15000 Yds TOBA( 150 BARRELS H FLOUR 1 CAR DAIRY FE 2 CARS NO. 1 Til 1 CAR BURT OA1 1 CAR FEED OAT . 1 CAR RICE 1 CAR WHEAT S] 1 CAR HORSE & 5000 lbs PLUG T( 15000 lbs Flake 50 BOXES CAKE! 75 SACKS GREE1 50 CASES SALM( 50 CASES SARDI 100 CASES SOAP 35 SACKS LIMA 50 CASES LYE 100M CIGARETT] LOTS OF OTHER GROCERI GOODS BOUGHT 1200 SACKS HEi 500 BARRELS F] 3 CAR IRISH CO! POTATOE 1 CAR BU^T OAT 1 CAR FEED OArJ 3 CAR NO. 1 TIM 200 CADDIES SI BACCO 2 TONS HEN FEI 2 CARS SALT 500 BUSHELS 9< VET BEA] 100 BUSHELS VJ ISH SEEE We have lots of Rice, Flour that we can sell you cheaper fljjv's morl/at OIntvio/M* J ? '??mi i\vi. V/IUIIIOUII V/UII nuts, Sweet Potatoes, and V Beans and Peanuts bought before buying elsewhere, wo wise and don't plant all your of the Boll Weevil. Cooper-Smi ED. L. SMITH, BURROUGHS & COL] home numbers found abode in the r summer months. His influence for good in the community was unbound- a ed and the county has lost one of her J best citizens. He was a staunch member of the Methodist church. Sur viving him are the following: Mrs. Joshua J. Ward, Frances W. Lachicotte, Jr., Miss Isabell and Bert Lachicotte and A. H. Lacl icotte.-? ' Exchange. o , i Collaritis. j The collar salesman leaned his linen?like face over the counter at me and whispered, "I'm getting collaritis." 1 "What's that?" I asked, twisting a number 15 choker around my 16 neck. "A disease peculiar to collar salesmen only. After one has sold these it \ m% % t % m linen ana iiannei circles ior any j length of time he begins to think, i walk and dream in circles and spirals, i "Mentally, I can never arrive at < any conllusion. I start to think from a thought which always seems to me to be a bone collar button, and I invariably arrive at the point where T began. "When I take a walk I catch myself describing circles which seem to be made of collars. The streets, the houses, the stars seem at times to be o merry-go-round made up of linen objects. "At night I dream of mounting vast circles up the sky made up of millions of collars, at the top of which is a giant collar box." "Young man," I said "your brain needs laundering."?Cartoons Maga zine. o DEATHS IN CHICAGO. ! Chicago.?Twelve deaths were caus 5 cd in Chicago by influenza and 1,002 ' new cases were reported to the city ; health commissioner. Pneumonia numbered 152 with 34 deaths. 1 Comparison of the figures with ' those of the 1918 epidemic show that i the disease is spreading more rapidly J than it did a year ago, but the death . . ? th Co., Inc Grocers ? ?r: t Conway IlTOES 300 CANVAS IOH GRADE F.n KOTHY HAY 1 's Jk KORTS jC MULE PEED -*?1 >BAOOO ^1 White LARD / 3 COFFEE )N NES * ) BEANS iv SS ES NOT MENTIONED. [\ TO ARRIVE VD RICE * % [ OUR 3BLER SEED S rs rs OTHY HAY iY COON TO 3D 0-DAY VELNS rHITE SPAN> PEANUTS. and other goods bought than we can buy at on toege advises planting Peaelvet Beans, we have for you. Get our prices | can save you money. Be 1 crops in Cotton. Beware ^ ith Co., Inc Sec. & Treas. I UNS' OLD STAND * ?s ate is smaller. "The situation is serious but not larming," Health Commissioner 2 ohn Dill Roberts said. WHY IS AJBDACHE? j /arious Causes for this Com- I mon Affliction E Vnemia or Bloodlcs^ess a I Very Common Cause Pepto-Mangan Overcomes Anemia and Tends to Prevent Headaches o When one has an occasional headache it is usually due to some transient or passing? cause, such as indigestion, eye strain, over-ti redness, etc. When, however, one suffers from frequent periodic headaches there is always some special reason I for it. Among? the most common 8 of such reasons is Anemia or Blood- I lessness. This condition is eft^ecially J fi'nniinnt ..^mvuv amuiiK giris and yo><Phg w0" n.or* and those whose occupations-? 1 habits of life keep them too muctrtW J doors. The one important necessity in such cases is to build up the quan- | tity and quality of the weak and rl watery blood. Gude's Pepto-Man- I pan is exceptionally valuable for I this purpose. It increases the num- I ber and improves the quality I red blood cells, those vital lfttle I bodies which carry nutrition to all I parts of the body. It improves the I appetite, imparts color and strength I to the body generally. After a short I course of Pepto-Mangan the head- I aches decrease in frequency and se verity, and finally disappefl^ If they I are due to Anemia. Pepw-Mangan I may be had either in liquid or tablet I form, as preferred. When buying I Pepto-Mangan be sure the name I "Gude's" is on the package. Without i' Gude's" it is not Pepto-Mangan?ad