Bisbee daily review., 1911-06-25

 closing days of the campaign. beine ' under fire. I am glad to say. and getting yellow fever, which. was as bad as being shot. | think Return ing to my home in Virginia, Was ! appointed receiver of a trolly roae that runs into Washington. My mex
 service was with the Hartman lines. I had ideas about organization after studying the subject for sev eTal years. MT. Kruttschnitt gave me an opportunity to apply them What is the unit system for cor poraions?" I inquired.
 T is the abandonment of awkward and roundabout methods by which time is squandered and efficiency Is impaired. It gives the individual man a chance to think Es well as 70 work. It abolishes government by typewriter and paper and makes ii personal. vital aud responsible. N ends the feudal system In business the rule of private secretaries and oi chief clerks acting instead of thelr masters, and establishes a center oi authority that is competent and al ways present. In court, the lawyers address the bench no matter what judge Is hearing the case. Nor can a judge call in his stencgrapher 70 taEe his place.
 Example of Medieval Management
 Under the feudal practice of the middle ages, land was divided into Hsfs and each was cperateG as separate kingdom. There w5s neither cohesion nor cooperation. Sometimes 8 single lord war stronger than his sovereign. That system of governing nations. was transferred to business. Outgrown and discarded by civilied countries. it sti1 fingers, in the United States. at least among com merciaI undertakings.
 Take a, railroad. for instance. as an example of medieval manage ment. division superintendent may have from 300 to 500 miles of track, from 1000 to 5000 men. and from 20 to 200 locomotives, Below him are a mum Der of operating officials with dis. tinct titles. such as assistant s,i- perintendent division engineer, train master. master mechanic, chief dis patcher and so on. Each Of these men is a specialist, the baron of a lief, and is only incidentally inter ested or concerned in the work oi the rest There is a group of officers, it is true, but they have not been cemented into a harmonious and workable staff Changing the figure. each is the attorney for himself.
 Going further irto Che details of cooperative control by present methods. let us follow the division superintendent out upon the road His private car is attached to al train That be has gone is known at headquarters and mp and down the. line. Just the same. orders from the office, bearing his name. continue to circulate by telegraph and mail. The chief clerk, you see. is running the business and a corporal. going to the army for analogous situation. is instructing coioneIs and brigadier generals and belittling his seniors.
 Now, the name of man when written at the bottom of check or a promissory note has certain 'rr0t ecttcrF in law Ir ougbt 10. have the same safeguards, right and i'm rsr1nities when signed rO a letter or a telegram. If I forge your name on a check, l go 10 jail. If. however, ! am your chief clerk or private sec retary. I am licensed by the loose custom Of business 10 attach your name to any paper not calling for money. and even for money. l sup rose. in some instances where the habit of forgery has become an hourly crime against sound princi- pies.
 Bigger Than Cabinet offieer. There in great corporations, and r4F ha rfs=1y we see rule by proxy carried on oy daceution. and to the injury Of all concerued. Indeed, the secretary to the president of the United States mas more authority than Q member of the cabinet What ] say or names. I say also of initials, the writing Of which on an order or a memorandum is likewise a forgery. Rut apart from the legal and eco | homie asuects of this national abuse of power, it is unethical and lli- hammered to write another mans name on paper. Names are sacred more so than property, because they . belong to character.
 Oh some railroad superintendent or governor or other public official will say. q can trust my head clerk. He IS a safe and sensible fellow. Why, am acquainted with his father. Besides, I always know what is going on in my offiue. Severthe- less the whole proceeding which may call legalied counterfeiting, viO- lates the fundamental canOns of busI- ness. it Is feudai, to start with, and begins at the very top of the organ ization. whether the organization is a Faiiroad, a great manufacturing concern or the national government. And the top and not rCe bottom is where modern reorganization IS needed
 we have followed tbe sunerin- teudent out on the iius, where he goes in bis special car ou tour oI inspection Maj Hine continued. Nov. Jet us return with the master mechanic who has come iR from up the road on a tra'n that was behind it's schedule. The engine was all right be m say tc the suDerintend ent. No blame ctan attach to my department. Pressed, he explains that the train dragged at he sa- .Sns. and ba Le seam seemed shoEt