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Pot Punchings
Forty Years of Age
What will you be at forty years of
s-ge? Will you be working with your
back or head? With your back in nor
mal times (and times are rapidly return
ing to normal) you can earn between
two and five dollars per day. With your
head there is no limit to' your earning
capacity. The company can find a
thousand men to punch pots, and but
few out of that thousand rise to head
potmen. Why not? Just simply be
cause they iDrefer to work with their
backs, not with their heads (every man
connected with the company, from the
president down to the head-potman,
started by punching pots and using their
heads). They didn’t get their jobs by
pull. They got them by personal effort.
You can get a job by pull, and the
same pull that put you in will pull you
out if you don’t deliver the goods. Do
you come in the Plant just to make
eight hours? If you do, then at forty
years of age you will still be punching
pots and drawing the base rate; and if
the other fellows don’t do their work
any better than you do you won’t draw
any bonus, for the simple reason that
someone has to put out personal effort
to get any bonus at all. What do you
do with your spare time off duty? DO
you spend it to improve yourself, or do
you waste it? Why not spend this time
studying to improve yourself, so you
can go up another step in the house of
success?
There are no elevators in the house of
success
But the stairs are long and steep.
And the man who would climb to the
very top
Before he dares walk must creep.
There are no carpets in the house of
success
But the floors are hard and bare.
With slippery places all about
And pitfalls here and there.
There are no lounges or easy chairs.
Nor places to rest your spine.
But when one has arrived on the roof
' at last—
Ah! but the view is fine!
You can only climb the stairs in the
HousQ( of Success by personal effort.
Would you like to run a section instead
of being a pot-puncher? Here’s the way
—Personal Effort. Would you like to
be head-potman instead of meter-reader,^
again, personal effort. Head-potman to
floor-walker—Personal Effort again; and
so on up the stairs in the House of Suc
cess. At forty years of age, will your
Personal Effort have made a success
of you, or your lack of personal effort
have made a failure of you? Will you
be shift foreman or superintendent?
Somebody has to hold these positions,
and by your Personal Effort you can.
The man forty years old who depends
on an alarm clock to hold his job is a
failure.
What will you be at forty—pot-puncher
or president? It all depends on your
own
PERSONAL EFFORT.
From the Aluminum Plant Bulletin for
the Month of November, 1920:
November 6
“Alcoa got hold, of our Bulletin of
October 23, and the article ‘THEY
SHALL NOT PASS’ got their fighting
blood up. The important point, how
ever, is that they have accepted our
challenge to MAKE ALUMINUM FIT
FOR SHEET MILLS.” Careful, Thad:
Oh Thou waster of wind. “This week
saw our Bonus grow. !^ooms 28, 32, 34,
and 36 smoke cigars.”,
November 13
“Room 22 makes the most metal per
pot. Room 26 makes the most No. 1
metal. Room 22 lias tlio lowest copp^^r.
Room 38 has the lowest carbon con
sumption. The whole plant averages
96.8 No. 1 metal—everybody smokes
cigars.
November 20
“Hooray! Hooray! Room 38, Sec. 2
made the first cast of A-1 metal poured
in North Carolina in nearly four years.
It consisted of forty-two pigs, and
weighed ,1869 lbs. Rooms 22 and 32
averaged E-1 metal for a day. Rooms
22, 26, 32, and 38 are running very low
in copper. Copper is fine in all rooms,
and is under Mr. Moritz’s standard.”