The Washington herald., 1916-06-17
Players in the Game.

SSiPoiatioH ana the lntcrnduOndl mar
Vester Co. of New Jersey doesn't drive car.
What we started out to say, however, was that
MI Kanney, for some years secretary of the
two companies, has just in addition, been made
their treasurer. This was because Harold F.
!! Mccormick, Chicago capitalist and son OF the
1nventor OF the reaping machine, resigned. Mr..
out offices. He is still vice president and MEM
Der OF the board Of directors. 1t is presumed
IN mar IN ne gave up the financial position because
McCormicks health has necessitated during the
last two years, residence in Zurich, Switzerland.
rua "a, any Fnats' n' Mr. Rsnney was his logical sue;
board member of both the company and the
] corporation
| We started out to explain this, but the fact
that Mr.: Ranney doesn't drive intruded
| itself. And you must admit that thing like
that is unsettlng. Why doesn't Mr.. Ranney
! drive car? So many persons who not sec
retary-treasurer of International Harvester SIM
ply can't get on without their cars, you know.
! Really the thing seems, doesn't it, little un-
! conventional?
Much of Mr.. Ranney's work with Interna-
would seem particularly congenal to one OF his
| temperament. He has had to organize and carry
through the welfare ideas of Cyrus Mccormick,
tions in corporate benevolence have come into
being and reached broad development under
his sohcitous hand. As there $4,000 en-
how many there are now during these boom
| tmes-one may that there is broad field
! Tor man OF broad sympathies.
| Mr.. Ranney joined the Mccormick staff in
the days OF the old Mccormick Harvesting Ma
chine Company. That in 1893. Even then,
though he did not have so much responsibility
as now, Mr. Ranney did not drive car. He
sort OF thing Practically his business life prior
| to 1898 had been spent in the Chicago Bank of
Montreal. There they remember him perni-
! ciouS youth who always did his work too much
ahead OF time. He annoyed lot of honest,
hard-working chaps, you know. He was always
forever popping his head into some mans cage
and singing out: 81 say there, old fellow, can't
! you let have that work now-Tm ready for
! il" And you couldn't always reay-really
weren't through yourself. Awkward sort Of
! thing.
! Mr. Ranney entered the international as as
sistant treasurer. In 1905 he became assistant
to the general manager OF the company-so its
official bulletin informs us. In May. 1913, he
companies and year later became one OF the
directors The present May gives him the added
responsibility of the treasury after sixteen years
OF service. If, now, he had only driven a car!
But there is good specializing about it,
Nj. Ranney is in about everything that goes
on at Harvester headquarters but, as mentioned
welfare Developments. With $4,000 corporation
! infants to look after you might think that he
wouldn't have time for home, friends, clubs,
church golf. But he does though-wife, chill
! dren, hrcsidc, everything He married Miss
Cornea Williams, daughter OF Lawrence Will
/ liams, president of the Oliver Typewriter Com
]
is a very nice street in which to live. When
/ he isn't at the office or at his home he is
! probably to be found fooling around with the
/ boys club Of St Chrysostom's or something Of
the kind. Apparently he lives 10 steal outside
stuff for in office benevolences
But he is bit weak on clubs and general
| his-owcd him money or ushered at his we'd
ding something else intimate that way-was
! complaining. "Why,, Ranney,?" he said; darn
! his picture l haven't seen him in two years.
All smeared up with occupation. Doesn't drive
a car, you know
Perhaps not driving car himself and having
to walk back and forth to work makes him more
aPprcciatiye Of the hardships and deprivations Of
others. Sort of likes to see them boosted along.
At any rate, another friend of hsmPerhaPs in
the legal way-ssd Of him 3;s recently: "YGg should
when he found he would be able to announce
the new ,proht-sharing plan as New Years
S to the eHbp0ys Th15s 5 had 1seT r.. legal
be more than about so good to your men. But
when Ranney found he could clear the thing up
he just beamed-looked like I would if my
uncle had given me nice for Christ
mas"
Funny, isn't it, how that car keeps running
into this story and knocking the continuity out
of IL But the details Of the prohtt-sharins plan
| terested in industrial welfare work. The employe
is given three ways of sharing in the company S
profits. The first is the participation certificate
| The young puts in 81 month for twenty
four months. The company at the same time
| puts into his account $50 and adds s2.7o in in
terest. Any workman would like to chance
81 900, 900 such a plan. Then there is the
savings account, The company pays S. per
depositor's previous years wages the minimum
bonus being sIo. Lastly, the workman may
! become international stockholder. He gets
! his stock at three points below the market
and in place OF the regular per cent dividend
on which President Cyrus Mccormick has to
worry along, the working shareholder gets
| something more than II per cent. And an
! this, too, begun just when had killed all
European business.
The company has pioneered in minimum
wages for women, medical services for en-
ployes, night school and shop schools, rule
against night work for women, occupational
disease prevention compensation for accidents
and old age and disability pensions.
Mr. Ranney is AZ years old, but he doesn't
| look 35 And with it all he doesn't drive a
car!-From Chamberlins Magazine.
Thoughts on Dress.
Miss All Sun, Chinese lady went for walk
| in Central Park attred in her of