The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-29
Commercial Club Members
Told That Lost Vessel Vio-
lated Half of the Laws of
Efficiency.
RETIRED DIPLOMAT
SPEAKS OF RUSSIA
DIR. Crawford Appeals to
Richmond Interests Not to
Lose Great Russian Mar
esq
ket.-Other Talks.

At the Commercial club banquet last
evening at the Y. M. C. A. building
365 members and invited guests were
entertained by a brilliant array of
speakers. notably Harrington Emer.
son of New York, internationally
known as the creator of the science
of business management" Besides
Mr.. Emerson excellent addresses
were delivered by General Keifer of
Springfield, O., former speaker of the
house of representatives and the last
Federal major general who saw SER
vice in the Civil war; Dr.. J. M. Craw-
ford of Cincinnati, former U. S. con-
sui general to st. Petersburg, Russia,
President R. L. Kelly of Earlham COL
lege, the Rev. S. r. Lyons and Gus
Hoelscher. The banquet was excep-
tionally well served by the women's
organization of the Y. M. G.. A.
The banquet guests were held spell
bound by the statements made by Mr..
engineers. He took as his subject
"The Sinking of the Titanic" and
spoke from the view point of an en-
gineering expert.
Titanic Tragedy Forseen.
Il would rather be on Cunarder
with no life boats than on the Titanic
with its upper deck piled high with
them" said Mr. Emerson
. "The Titanic went down from caus-
les known and pointed out before the
accident. The Titanic was mention
ed by name and the disaster predict
ed six months before BY an eminent
American naval engineer.
1T has been said that the terrible
loss of life occurred because the I'll
tanic did not have enough life boats.
1t had twenty-five. Two of them
were never launched.
"The Titanic may have been built
built under conditions of mechanical
efficiency but it's owners violated their
moral obligations. Ideals, common
sense, adequate counsel, the fair deal
and discipline were all violated-and
these are half of efficiency.
Safety is the ideal of the sea.
Safety was ignored.
THE captain was notified at IL
O'Clock that he was in danger. At
11:40, when the accident happened
he was running at % knots hour.
He violated common sense"
This was the climax of interest at
the banquet. Harrington Emerson
drove home his philosophy of work
with this illustration. He was the
man who furnished the data to Louis
Brandies, "the attorney for the peo-
pie" proving the railroads wasted a
million dollars a day while petition
ing for an increase in freight rates
before the Interstate Commerce COM
mission. He spoke in DR.. Rumely's s
place last evening.
w. %e his work Emerson is precise.
T%.ss.,e chapters of his works were
suhSSiarized by epigrams, though
some of his hearers knew that those
chapters we're summaries of the most
careful investigations. His speech
last night put into practice his own
ideals.
The Problem of Today.
The problem today is the direction
of energy. The amount of energy that
a man can produce can be bought for
$40. We have been treating men as
work units-as creators of energy.
We can buy energy cheaper, what we
need Is intelligence and it should be
rewarded. Too many businesses lose
by economizing on the wages paid the
men because those in charge do not
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