Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-08
GARY OPTIMISTIC
0VERBUS|NESS
PROSPECTS
StseJ Trust Head Says People Are
Wiser and Administration
Is Just.
Bv B. G. FORBES.

heart talk the other day with
- cary. commander-in-chie of
- creates. industrial army in the
ro-l5 perhaps the hardest, and GER
..,rrv one Of the best-filled positions
in America.
ru5ge Gary is democratic rather
,.,r autocratic. He has always fav-
or.s p vigorous campaign against the
oysrvorzing and underpaying of en-
|,lovees, against all dangerous phases
- work and in favor of enabling
workers to become personally inter-
s..s5 in the annual profits.
With a frankness that startled his
POLITICAL inqnsitors at Washington
some time ago, Judge Gary declared
he had not the slightest objection to
having the Government regulate in
6ustrv even to the length of limiting
,rices in certain cases and under GER
fsin conditions He is not bigoted,
rs YOU will thus see.
Before quoting what Judge Gary
had TO me, 1 should explain that our
talk was strictly confidential, and
|that not one word of it was meant
tor publication. ! was so impressed,
however. with some of the Judges
Statements that I succeeded in per-
suading him to allow me to print
|them. He said, for example:
The gravest menace to this
country is that the politicians
who rule affairs to-day have so
little al stake in the outcome Of
their acts.
They are little affected If they
turn prosperity into depression.
Few Of them have large bodies
of employees dependent upon
them for regular work at living
wages, If they had they would
count the cost of action, they
would feel a heavier weight of
responsibility.
After all, a nation is dependent
upon its business activities and
success. Unless you can fill a
mans stomach it is useless to
talk to him about non-material
things.
You can not build on an empty
stomach. This applies to both
nation and man.
During my vacation l have had
time to think things over, to
tudys the general trend. AS you
know I have felt uneasy for the
last two years. I could see many
dangerous elements in our social
and political life.
But hare changed my Uie,os
somewhat. Hot0 feel more Opti-
mistic-mOre like my old self. /
before the public are beginning
70 see things in the right light.
They are less ready to be STAN
Dedcd by demGgo0ues. They are
getting tired of cOrpOrGtiOR-bGit
hgs, Of seHsoIeSs attacks upon
capital.
They are beginning to realise
that their OWR l0eJGre is bound
up 1rith the Welfdre of general
business more than qoith the Sc
aHtoHs demGgogues.
The great majority of the peo-
PIE have stopped listening to rev.
oiutionary proposals. They don't
want TO turn our institutions up
side down. We have, hope,
passed the outburst of hysteria
mat at one time threatened to
prove rrightfully disastrous.
What has all the political
cidmor against our company
amounted to? What have all the
Investigations revealed? Has
anything underhand - anything
"hdteVer-been discovered?
This corporation early in its
history laid down these maxims:
We are very big. The only way
re can succeed is by being abso-
tuyr-y fair and above-board-
.H-I 70 our men, fair to competi-
L'i>' Ialr to consumers and frank
win the public.
We have tried honestly and
e.AS, .entiously to live up to that
.-haard. And have you heard,
.t AL the noise raised against
9F the politicians, one word
w. incarnation by any competi-
~ ,SSI customer or employee? Have
~ templained of unjust meth
lave they not testified that
wv nave conducted our business
.'' -AIf and reasonable lines?
may not be entitled to
'.se Tor this, but we certainly
MOI deserve censure.
\, Questioned on the business out
-. Judge Gary referred to the
-e sustained by the crops and
,-e uncertainty that would un-
oly attend the initiation of the
e.1 tariff, but said that, neverthe-
- ne was hopeful that general
r11e would be of satisfactory vol
rsc.' hc,erning conditions and pros
Ns IN the steel ipdus+ry- na r,oada