The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-18

l
 Chicago, August 17.-(Special.) )-"Let her
 come in. Gosh I do hate being inter-
 viewed. But she has letter from Tam
 men of Denver, and I d see any one Tam l men sends" Thus spoke my man-the
 man 1 had come to see because he is one of the big and powerful men of earth, | one of the six richest men alive. wanted | to see him because his name was about | the first l learned to spell out when I was little (and usually hungry). I It was on fences and in the backs of magazines. It was on things in the kitch-
 en. It always seemed to mean food. It
 was as familiar as the words meat" and bread
 I saw it on hams and on bottles, on cans and on bags. On boxes and barrels
 and wagons and cars. It is stamped on
 almost every cake of soap in the hotels where you stay as you travel the country from sea to sea. It is behind many of the dainty perfumes powders and creams upon your dressing table. There isn't day you don't see it or hear it or eat it or smell it, Not only in
 this country either. The allies know it as well as we. You'll find it in Japan, too, looking little strange in it's oriental StEOk6S. DQL U bISl dS IL A5 CNS4S where-Armour.
 J. Ogden Armour rose from his desk, held out a firm brown hand and said: How do? Come in and sit down. HoW's Denver?'
 HIS GREETING IS FOLKSY Of course, there is no reason why a man who owns all the food in the world or has all the money in the world, or all
 the power, should look or behave any differently from the $12O0 clerk.
 They are both just human beings. They
 both work and play and laugh and sigh
 and love and live. One rides in street
 cars and the other in automobiles. And
 that's about the only difference that
 shows.
 Still should not have been surprised if MT. Armour had been a trifle distant
 or preoccupied or impatient or hurried
 or something, for he is one of the busiest, hardest working men in this busy, hard working land
 He was not however. He behaved as If he had plenty of time to chat and as if he were really interested in knowing how Denver was. I almost found myself tell ing him about the folks back home, and
 that Felix, the cat, was being taken care
 of by kind friends in the Bronx. "Why, there's no thrill in being rich, " he said later on, after we had talked about this and that. The rich man has few thrills. It's the boy who, having no dollar, makes a dollar, who gets the thrill!"
 I felt almost sorry for J. Ogden Armour
 because he had never had that thrill.
 His dad had it. Phiriip D. Armour, you remember, trekked across the country in the days of the classic OK team, and laid the family fortunes in the fifties
 PICKING MEN HIS BIG JOB
 There's simply everything" says og- den Armour, lin the way man is fitted | to his job. Now what, for instance, could I do sitting here at this desk, no mat 1 ter how hard I worked, if I din't have 1 the right men to run things for me out side?
 Get man or woman into the proper l business environment and you have a
 happy, loyal employe. Loyalty is worth 1 a whole lot more than ability!
 Find the right people, put them in the | right places and leave 'em alone. Don't | fuss over them or try to make them dc 1 things your way. Give 'em rope. Treat 1 them as you would like to be treated.
 CERTAIN SOMETHING THE KEY
 'I trust largely to first impressions of | people In ninety-nine per cent of cases l first impressions are right. If you think | man has that certain something in l him, he win find success" l. I leaped, of course, to the inevitable 1 question! Here was a chance to find out | from one of the worlds most successful l men his recipe for being successful.
 What do you mean" I breathlessly ! queried, "by that certain something'?' MT. Armour leaned back in his desk 1 chair and grinned a quiet grin. It was 1 as if he said. Your poor, foolish person ! don't you know nobody can tell in SC | many words what makes some men great | and others not?"
 His actual answer was to put his fore I finger on pearl-topped button in his I desk When the most pulchltudinous l male. secretary I ever beheld answered
 the bell, MT. Armour said, Bailey, finc l one of those little books called That l Something"
 1 think you will find that the something 1 which makes success is a blend of intelli- l gence and will.
 : Bat don't confuse success with mere l And when the booklet appeared ht l added: 'The man who wrote that ex- | plains it better than I can. Read it.