Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1918 — HAD SEEN THEM “AT WORK” [ARTICLE]

HAD SEEN THEM “AT WORK”

Tommy Had Little Need to Puzzle His a ßrams Over Question Propounded by Teacher. Here is a little story that was told at a social session by Representative Hubert D. Stephens of Mississippi, as an illustration thfrt the best industrial results cannot always be obtained through team work: Some time since, the teacher of a public school in a country town was instructing a Juvenile class in matheimss when she turned to a small boy named Tommy. “Tommy,” said she, “if your father cun do a piece of work in six days and your uncle Jim can do it in seven days, how long would it take them to do it together?” “About ten thousand years," was the rathei 1 startling rejoinder of Tommy. “Ten thousand years I’ exclaimed the teacher. “Why, Tommy, what do you mean?” “I mean,” was the prompt response of Tommy, “that if you put them to work together they would sit on the fence, smoke ana swap fish stories.”— Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.,