Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1913 — Getting a Line on Robert. [ARTICLE]

Getting a Line on Robert.

The president of a large manufacturing concern decided a little while ago to start his son in the business, letting him begin at the bottom. After the boy’s first day in the factory, his father asked: “Well, Robert, what did you learn today?” “Oh, there’s nothing much to learn in that place,” the young man airily replied. The father looked worried, but he refrained from giving expression to his disappointment. After Robert’s second day at the works the father asked: 4 “Well, what did you learn today?” “Oh, I learned a good many things,” the young man answered. At the end of the third day the father again asked: • “Well, Robert, what did you learn today?” “Gee, dad,” the boy replied, "I never can learn that business.” Then the delighted father clapped a hand upon his son’s shoulder and said: “Robert, you’re all right. I guess you’ll be able to take hold of things when I have to let go, but you had me worried at the start.”—Chicago Rec-ord-Herald.