The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11

That OF any other individual we
i; IT., kin. .. man. H.
mot ftheasily into type. He Is
odttct aok he middle west, of semi
meier tin of storm and blizzard,
sun AahdtRoud. Born in decent pow
Y, hey 4hds evolved, by divine right.
pc ptpQudsposition that he now holds.
YET IN the mans composition per-
Al sprides exists only as chemical
Fary is modest, gentle, kindly. and
afX the time there Is. He has the
renQe ability to delegate, relegate
supervise
upersiibion is the greatest tax that
re Is Stoday on the industrial world.
oldenh times, when slave labor
Pundstd, production reached a quick
1t thSrough the necessity of supervi
H. S,@eNNlabor never could compete
free labor, simply because 1t de-
nds ID = constant and costly supervi-
hey xsan 1sr. was the most prosper
Year that America has ever known.
lone because we had bumper crops
COTTON, corn and wheat but because
hslve gradually lessened the cost of
'ervlision by evolving a better type Of
rkrhan than the world has ever seen.
aEyes are bound to increase in
erich as the expense of supervision
reask
o Put It In another way. every la
er. levery employee pays for his own
perv4sion. and the man who not only
DIS mo supervision, but can supervise
wprk of others, is bound to get a
q H. n o "
RM s}ntofnatc proposition. When we
Wise enough we will discover also
ne whole system of rewards and
ialtfes Is automatic in it's working
Adafn Smith said that wealth was
Poufed by labor applied to land. He
uldi have come nearer the truth II he
said that wealth was produced by
ar applied to land.
he success OF the United States Steel
ppration is simply a question of
af applied to the Mesabe range. In
fnpplstng of these ideas. let the
n|S OF Elbert II. Gary stand first
the list.
The Corporation Lawyer
sary was born in Wheaton, Ill. 30
es from Chicago, in the year 1916.
father was farmer, and the lad
brought up to do everything that
{er on. baking day, keep the wood
Null. shovel out snow, and churn
Then when he got a little bigger,
flltivated with one horse; then
fed with two. He kept up his sta
with the binders when harvesting;
sed corn, and this without com
Ing, when the frost was on the
kin; broke colts. drove steers
Id cows, cut down trees, Laid out
kays. and went to school when the
nd was frozen up so he could not
out of doors.
the boy got an education, be-
\ he had an educated mother Ana
He'd his round head with the idea
III would be fine to go to the
Hemy'
zen there was desultory course at
Normal school-the school sup
ly where schoolteachers were
But it was fine substitute for
tersity for a vast number of boys
Erls In the Mississippi valley.
I'm the Normal school to the Law
81 of Chicago university was an
Jump; and when.21 years of age.
ert II. Gary was duly admitted to
ofice at the bar.
he little town of Wheaton then
Ma population of 800. Ebert II
had ambitions. He thought Whea-
should be a city And so he brought
4 subject before the people of the
IN, and they were inoculated with
Amunicipal microbe.
Mieaton became a city, and Ebert
tary was its first mayor.
IL praetised law in Wheaton, run
III the entire gamut of justice of the
He TO mayor.
Here was not much money in this
III of work, but 1t was good expert
fe. In due course he was elected
unty Judge of DuPage county, and
rved two terms.
He had turned into the forties and
Is cultivating becoming bald spot
fore he moved to Chicago to become
neral counsel for several railroads.
F'orporation law came along as mat
of course. and Judge Gary became
ted as the principal authority in Cook
|unty on the subject of corporations
Lawyers-and Lawyers
Tie other day l said this: There are
zee kinds of lawyers: The lawyer
lat gets you into trouble; the lawyer
at gets you out of trouble. and the
wyer that keeps you from getting
10 trouble
That listens good. and after writing
l went down to the Roycroft spring 4
d treated myself to a Roycroft Mar
hi on the strength of it,
The fact Is, however, that the law
7 who keeps you from getting into
puble isn't much of a man. after ALI
he sole object of life isn't to keep out
trouble. The dead are out OF trout
IE. and for the most part. so are the
by and the stupid.
Julius Caesar had a way of bringing
kout peace, but always and forever
a IN a fIII
Caesar, the vultures scared and
He'd
ISpain had way of bringing about
Utilization, and her method was to In
Ict every idea. every method every
lterprkse. every ambition. every de-
nj anS "a not have the sanction of
=, s,'.,. dusty past.
an m one rSStdhere are two kinds OF
,tha, " side OF expense and
- =, r side of income. The
IN the business is tho
|Wsr other is the pretty
IThe lawyer win
Npaloosa: the oth, 49, 49,
a sometimes ba a.Ia. D'N N''''e"'
WIN none is all right. pro-
.so,,,t,.,, -, ,hSncIude death and
sn.ss. -, - brn.ula.
noios ~ s..good lawyers have
hi rat 7rsei vro,,b fon't do that; you
- keep you away
-, ta nd certainly It Ia
~. 49, ,r' from the court
"a. .hsoiafld mako googoc
l..Iinen, ~ Saa..l goddess.
/ s,vmnjc Aast .t, That II you take
= .h,~n~r, IT,, nsrGc good law
-,.,nt ,,s,, I'll; Hour counselor
/ Th. rar,rs ~, ,,.SW DO anything.
!. roth1rE ~ .ns,,,,A criticism 10,
al ro AZ. O,,t,,, DO nothing.
nnnr' ~ = t,s~ t,,sava [uirk. Cannon
at heart that ho agts "a III, n.s o,e"sr &c ~
S tha~ scls ,,,, siHes tha,r ,r'iu ho1o. ~ n
tlF them And ftos. hA a4n ndn n,,nrh