Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-09

had a long, enlightening, heart
J to-heart talk the other day with
Judge Gary, commander-in-chief of
the greatest industrial army in the
world. perhaps the hardest, and GER
tainly one of the filled positions
in America.
Judge Gary Is democratic rather
than autocratic. He has always fav-
ored vigorous campaign against the
overworking and underpaying of en-
ployees, against all dangerous phases
OF work and in favor Of enabling
workers to become personally inter-
ested in the annual profits.
with q frankness that startled his
political inquisitors at Washington
some time ago, Judge Gary declared
he had not the slightest objection to
having the Government regulate in
dustry even to the length of limiting
prices in certain cases and under GER
tain conditions He is not bigoted,
as you will thus sec
Before quoting what Judge Gary
said to me, l should explain that our
talk was strictly confidential and
that not one word OF II was meant
I for publication. ! was so impressed,
however, with some OF the Judges
statements that l 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 at stake in the outcome Of
their acts.
They are little affected il they
turn prosperity into depression.
Few Of them have large bodies
of employees dependent upon
them for regular work at living
wages. II they had they would
count the cost of action, they
would feel a heavier weight Of
responsibility.
After all. a nation Is dependent
upon It's business activities and
success. Unless you can fill a
mans stomach 1t 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 have had
time to think things over. to
tudys the general trend. AS you
know. I have felt uneasy for the
last two years could see many
dangerous elements in our social
and political life.
But I haze changed my 0tet0S
sonetohat. / nolC feel more opti-
nistic-RiOre like my old self. /
believe the public are beginning
to see things in the right light.
They arc less ready to be STAN
pedcd bp dcmdgOgueS. They are
getting tired of cOrpOrdtiOn-bdit-
fngs, of SenscIesS attacks upon
capital.
Then are beginning to realise
that their OiCH toetGre is bound
up 10Th the 1elfGre Of general
business more than 10Th the Sc
ditiOus demG0Ogues.
The great ma jority OF the peo-
pie have stopped listening to rev
olutionary proposals. They don't
want to turn our Institutions up
side down. We have. / hope,
passed the outburst OF hysteria
that at one time threatened to
prove frightfully disastrous
What has all the political
| clamor against our company
| amounted to? What have ali the
| investigations revealed? Has
anything underhand - anything
whatever-been discovered?
| This corporation early in it's
| history laid down these maxims:
I'VE are very big. The only way
we can succeed is by being abso-
| lutely fair and above board
| fair 10 our men, talr TO Compet-
| tors, fair to consumers and frank
with the public.
We have tried honestly and
consclentiously to live up to that
standard. And nave you heard.
in all the noise raised against
US by the politicians, one word
of condemnation by any competi-
tor. customer or employee? Have
they complained OF unjust meth
DDS? Have they not testified that
we have conducted our business
on fair and reasonable lines?
We may not be entitled to
praise for this, but we certainly
do not deserve censure.
Questioned on the business out |
look. Judge Gary referred to the |
damage sustained by the crops and |
to the uncertainty that would I'M |
avoidably attend the initiation of the |
new tariff but said that neverthe- |
| less, he was hopeful that general |
trade would be Of satisfactory vol |
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