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RELATIONS OF EMPLOYER AND
EMPLOYED
Here is something for the proprietor to consider.
If he wants to make his business successful he
will from the first get '.he best help that it is possi
ble to obtain, for the better bis assistants the more
friends he will make and the better he be enabled
to conduct his business. Having secured his em
ployes, he will pay them well and treat them as they
ought to be treated, politely, and, in that way, set
them a good example.
Don't ignore the people who work for you, for
that will be one of the most serious mistakes you
can make.
Treat them kindly and encourage them to take an
interest in your business, for no man can succeed
with employes who fail to interest themselves in his
interests. He is then carrying*dead wood in his pay
roll, and he is bound to suffer for it.
It is a fact that when the help are not treated right,
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