“Well, couldn’t I stand on a box?” suggested the young seeker of
    employment.

    That day a box was added to the equipment of the freight-office and
    the name of Frank A. Scott to the payroll.

    (4)

    (New York Times)

    NEW YORKER INVENTS NEW EXPLOSIVE AND GIVES IT TO THE UNITED STATES

Nine young men recently rowed to the middle of the Hudson River with a wooden box to which wires were attached, lying in the bottom of the boat.  They sank the box in deep water very cautiously, and then rowed slowly back to land, holding one end of the wire.  Presently a column of water 40 feet through and 300 feet high shot into the air, followed by a deafening detonation, which tore dead branches from trees.

The nine young men were congratulating one man of the group on the explosion when an irate farmer ran up, yelling that every window in his farmhouse, nearly a mile away, had been shattered.  The party of young men didn’t apologize then; they gathered about the one who was being congratulated and recongratulated him.

The farmer did not know until later that the force which broke his windows and sent the huge column of water into the air was the War Department’s newest, safest, and most powerful explosive; that the young men composed the dynamite squad of the Engineer Corps of the New York National Guard; and that the man they were congratulating was Lieut.  Harold Chase Woodward, the inventor of the explosive.

    (5)

    (System)

    WHY THE EMPLOYEES RUN OUR BUSINESS

    A BUSINESS OF THE WORKERS, BY THE WORKERS, AND FOR THE WORKERS—­HOW
    IT SUCCEEDS.

    BY EDWARD A. FILENE

    “I know I am right.  Leave it to any fair-minded person to decide.”

    “Good enough,” I replied; “you name one, I will name another, and
    let them select a third.”

    She agreed; we selected the umpires and they decided against the
    store!

It had come about in this way.  The store rule had been that cashiers paid for shortages in their accounts as—­in our view—­a penalty for carelessness; we did not care about the money.  This girl had been short in an account; the amount had been deducted from her pay, and, not being afraid to speak out, she complained: 

    “If I am over in my accounts, it is a mistake; but if I am short, am
    I a thief?  Why should I pay back the money?  Why can’t a mistake be
    made in either direction?”