The mine law requires two years experience as a miner or miners laborer before being granted a certificate by the examining board. but many of the men hold certificates obtained through fraud or transferred to them by their compatriots upon returning to their native land. If his deduction is true regarding an industry where the law requires experience. what must be said of industries where no such requirement is made. I hold it true that. viewed from the standpoint of the immigrant. his illiteracy and the ignorance and untrained mind it betokens means danger to himself. He is responsible for the application to humanity of the commercial formula that the greatest efficiency is reached by working every machine to the utmost and then throwing it on the scrap heap. The railroad expert says that is true of the locomotive. and though it breaks down in a short time. it is not sent to the repair shop. but to the scrap heap. because it is found that replacement is cheaper than repair.
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Generalization that the immigrant's illiteracy means danger to himself and that he is responsible for the application of the commercial formula that the greatest efficiency is reached by working every machine to the utmost and then throwing it on the scrap heap.