The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-20
WANTED AMERICAN
BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
Lloyd George Purposely Named Sir Al
bert Stanley to War Cabinet
For that Reason

OF Itl1C heaSOl
LONDON, Jan. 10, Correspondence.
business experience is what
Lloyd George was looking for when he
upset all traditions and appointed Sir
Albert Stanley rs minister OF commerce
and president Of the board of trade III
the new cabinet.
The title ''Sir Albert sounds quite
English, but its owner Is about rs
American as a man can well be -
brought up as boy at Detroit, Mich,
educated in the public schools there
getting his first job on the Detroit
Street railways and gradually rising .
the management Of that large concern,
then becoming manager of the New
Jersey Public Service corporation. and
incidentally, enlsting as a sailor in
the United States naval reserve, where
he served through the Spanish war on
board the United States auxiliary crui-
ser Yosemite
This crowded twenty-five years OF
very active American experience into
the life OF Albert Stanley-the plain
name by which he was known at tho
old Duffield school in Detroit - and
flushed with his successes, he came TO
England to put his American training
to practical US, in the business world
here, becoming manager OF that vast
system Of surface and underground
traffic IN London-the greatest in the
world--known as the London Consoli-
dated Underground and General No
torbus Association, Limited. His title
came TO him later, and now tho great
er honor has eome-the first man OF
+ Arrn
British cabinet.
Sir Albert was iii his ofice at the
board OF trade when a representative
OF the Associated Press called by ap.
pointment to learn something Of his
American experience. The board of
trade is q huge establishment in White
hall, Immediately opposite the foreign
Office. with Cir Albert office Jus.
across from 10 Downing street, where
the new prime minister, LLOYD George
imports his strenuous personality t.
ali the branches of the new regime
Sir Albert S long life i'll America III.
given him the look OF an American
business man. lie speaks like a mar
fsom. the Middle West-with con
slant strain Of good nature and GOO
= humor, particularly WREN he recall.
the hard knocks he received when h,
was gaining his American experience.
- American experience is a great is
set 70 anyone, said Sir Albert
Travel ard experience: Those gre III
only means Of getting an actual nsigh
! into TIE real character and method
Of country 1t can't be done by read
4 ing books. 1t is not matter of theory
but of practice. You must go to u coun
I try II you want to understand it; liz
a III it and grow up in H.
And this led Sir Albert, in reply :
inquiries as to how lie had lived an,
grown mp IN America. 10 relate some o
the ups and downs and starting on a
American business career.
Nearly Became Minister of the Gospe
IS q strange thing, said S;r A
bert, = how ! nearly became ministe
4 Of The Gospel instead Of cabinet mir
lister. That was in the days when W
wore living III Detroit, over Oh til
East eide, en- Joseph CamPan aycRu,
| had already wanted to 90 into ii
street railway business, and had aske
4 che minister at our church, Rev job
Il Mun9ay, for letter to Strathcsn Hei
q dIio, secretary of the Detroit City raj
way. But the good minister and ii,
family thought / was better suited fc
4 tho churrh and I We thought latel
how rlosc came to being miHistt
d at Detroit instead of 1T London. 81
n worked cut the other way and
4 fnally got lstter to Strathern He'
Z die.
z ~ remember going to present III,
iottcr to iIendrie. | stopped on the "a
4 and sat down en- bench in the sma
z bark Grand Circus park, in the 5ent'
Of the city. As sat there the stree
cars were iolting and jinglinr pas
q for those were the days of the @
Z horse cars, before Pingree and To
4 Johnson had coma on the scc2e. Nj
A As J sat or the bench looking # I
Il ramshaehe cars going by md felt
my pocket the letter 20 Hnndrie.
4 said to myself right there, by joy
\ nj going to get on top Of that 60
Germ
B "Oh yes, we never lacked self
fidence end cgotisn, added Sir /
\ bert. as he laughed at the audacitr
\ his first project to "get on top of
hic street railway plant at Detroit.
"When the letter was presents
4 Strathcrn ITendrie rave me my f
Il job, but | really believe the idea "
TO make it so hard I would tire {
N withih meiith aid 20 bad, 10 stho