Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-08


sence. But his idea is not to depend on one
man. carefully chosen superintendent. He
thinks that organization depends on every
single man employed. To make 100 per cent.
efficiency you must have 100 units of eff
cheney in his quantity expressed motto.
That is to say, there is no way OF knowing
whether a man who works with his hands or
a man who sits at a desk with stenog-
rapher within call is the more important to
an organized activity. II you are never to
know which of the two is more important
then the only thing to do is to take as much
pains to have the best available man in the
humble job and think Of him as equal in i'm
portance to his superior in regard to the sue
cess Of the whole. One bad link breaks the
chain, and the smaller that link the stronger
1t should be.
From "Bikes" to Bakeries
One of Kolb's activities is the business of
wheels. Not those skyscraping wheels on
which he used to perform in a manner that
made him intercollegiate bicycle champion
while he was student at the University of
Pennsylvania Che also became amateur
champion of Amerca), those wheels five or
six feet in diameter with a little wheel on
behind" The wheels he was later to ex-
plot are widely used on automobiles and
motor trucks,
But man can often be sized up as we'll
in an athletic as in a business accomplish
ment. There is about the man every sign OF
the dazzling energy with which bicycle racers
seem to be endowed. It is not hard to i'm
agine kolb In a six-day race. He keeps a
conversation up to breakneck speed as II to
get somewhere" and with an amazing de-
gree of youthful enthusiasm Gle does NOT
look four fifths of his so years.) He ex-
presses his opinion without any considera-
tion for his own political welfare, and in this
connection 1t must be said that he has tried
to get into the race for Mayor the best ma
terial Philadelphia can produce. He acquired
an Idea year ago that Alba johnson would
make good Mayor, and as soon as he saw
MIN told him he ought to run. The head of
Baldwin's informed him that he was not eli
giole because he was not resident of Phia-
delpha, ma
Il still think it's pity that Johnsons NOT
IN the running for the job" Kolb said the
other day.
1t looks like the old, old story, of course
wheh a candidate says he is Indifferent
ABOUT the outcome but in this case the cam
utua'e Is apparently pushing forward the
pooiI'S OF other men with the idea of get
tIne soou heid and picking not only a good |
man. but good man who can win Sc -
any rate he energeticaIly expresses b,,,,,,s
There ought to be a good man IN ha Sa,,,,s
for the place without going outside az
party" he says. "o
In regard to his attitude toward +ba ~
ganization. the chief fault he 8nds with az
organization type of mind seems IN he ,bat
II Is incapable OF choosing for high otf7oa 10
Digger man than oneself" His cabinet s.,,
his friends, would be chosen from amons tha
eity's big men" ''o
kolo would doubtless appoint an Orsa,,tz.
ton man to job II that particular 0rga,t
4a'ioh man was the best man for that tob
iie : seems 10 have an open mind as to the re-
is'ioh between past political records ana
present aollty TO serve the city He has al
Ways voted the Republican ticket IN nationeI
elections but has voted "alI kinds NJ tlo,,at-,,
IN purely local elections. As'S
Dut 10 GET pack to the subject OF indus+.,,
ne Is prominent in the manufaet,,ra ~ ,--s
ana that suggests bread. He % ta'
"hiie his plants have grown enorD,0,,s1l.
proportion to the original size Of the h,,s, -
ne Is not altogether the aseIf-uaas,s -.
,hat Americans never tire of readin, .ts'-.
ne inherited from his father modsst 80
.ns pant with u wagons TO distribute hraas
sps,nsss s'l.'s u the drivers in the expanded
',,s.i'sss maze as high as $4,000 a year
4hat would suggest, to an imaginat,y. -.
1919 1ll' 'a' Aoio mas more than $4,000 a wear 81.
himself He is said to have about q "a aon sof
" aatsYer the sum Is. I've made Il N, -
= 'lssh =. hands he remarked once. Fset ~ ~
Aoio.s employees receives from him - ,zoa ~
ite insurance policy free. ''''H 1900
= Is natural that kolb. former prssts.n.
7 sne Poor Richard Club. shouls 49, s,sss,'s =
.aNe Fnilaaelphla business man ss..4 =
'7'ieA 4hoas who DO not Ike e elsot bass