Judge — August 4, 1917 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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August 4, 1917 ASKING FOR A RAISE ‘AVE you ever asked for a raise in salary? If you have not, there is something coming to you in the way of a brand-new feeling: I mean the sensation you experience while approaching the boss on this quest. It is not just like seasickness; it is not ex- actly the same as dropping ten stories in an elevator; yet there are points of similarity to it in each of these. Walking into the dentist’s office with a tooth aching to be pulled approximates it as nearly as anything else, although in this case the pain is re- versed: the boss is the one who has the pain, and you are the one to do the pulling. As much depends on your approach to the boss as does on your approach to the green, to use an expression of golf. You must not shoot too far; neither should you foozle and have to make an extra attempt. But go right in as if you belonged there. Never mind speaking about the weather as a self- starting device; say what is on your mind. He can find out about the atmospheric con- ditions by looking out of the window. When you go in on the green carpet the boss is very busy. He is frowning and looks decidedly squally. The thought comes over you that you will not say what you meant to; that this is not the time anyway, and be- sides, he probably won’t give it to you and you will feel chagrined and that you are an ass for coming in there at all. These are not separate thoughts but one sickening, panic- stricken lurch of your brain. It is lucky that the boss does not look up and see the expres- sion on your face, because he would think that you had either lost your reason or had been taken violently ill. As it turns out, he leads. “Well, Percival?” He manages to put a fatherly tone into these two words. He also contrives to in- ject into them a something which tells you that he is about to refuse your request, if you have courage enough left to make it, and that he is going to feel hurt about the whole thing. You could feel sorry for him if you were not so busy feeling sorry for yourself. How he manages to do this is a mystery and a subject on which only a boss could write. The panic-stricken feeling abates just enough for you to see a mental picture of General Putnam going down the long flight of stone steps after something very fierce (you cannot remember just what), Nathan Hale making his famous wish, Horatius at the bridge, or Washington crossing the Dela- ware. With these examples of heroic en- deavor prodding you on, you say the words. They are not the words that you have re- hearsed; no, indeed. They are very extem- Poraneous. They are simple Anglo-Saxon words, not grammatically put together and totally different from any that you had planned to say. However they are out and you do not feel like Atlas any longer. A fleeting pain seems to pass through the boss, as if he had been secretly and suddenly stabbed. This wears away, to be succeeded by a long, thoughtful look, suggesting that he has been not only hurt, but surprised. (The old rascal knew what you wanted when you came in.) “Well, you know, Percival, times are not what they should be. We're under a big ex- You tell him, and he swings in the swivel- chair the employces gave him last Christmas Answering the Nation’s Call N this “supreme test” of the nation, More than 10,000 miles of special sys- Private interests must be subordinated tems of communication have been installed to the Government's need. This is as for the exclusive use of Government de- true of the telephone as of all other in- 4 4 partments. strumentalities of service. 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