Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-01-11

He has the largest Individual JOB ever
committed to, aud conscientiously un-
dertaken by, any one living man.
Those who know him haven't the
slightest doubt of his ability to solve
the thousand problems that will con-
front him. He possesses indomnitable
resolution and is not a gutter.
When, in November, 1910, Louis ID.
Brandeis, a Boston railroad lawyer oil
vast experience and now an associate
Justice OF the Supreme Court, declared
that he could tell the rail mans
gers of this country how they could
save $500, 00o, 900 annually, he set fl
nanciers to thinking. He meaut ex-
actly what he said. On November 2S
of that year, o. l.. Dickson, chairman
of the Western Association of Rail
road Presidents, sent Mr.. Brandeis
an offer Of S250b000 per
year if he would take over his job and
make the promised saving. The Bos-
ton lawyer accepted the challenge on
condition that he serve without>com-
p%ensstion.
He knew he could stop 1000 rat
holes of 81, 600 each per day and dc
the trick.
His offer was declined. Senator
Aldrich hadsaid he could reduce ap-
propriations an equal amount If the
finances of Congress were intrusted
To him.
Commenting on The Brandeis offer,
the writer of "Walks and Talks" Talk
ed as follows on November 30, 1910
nCounsellor Brandeis may have q
heap of knowledge up his sleeve, but
he proposes to undertake a large task
II he gets away with il he will de.
serve a niche very close to William q.
Meade \ whom l regard as most re-
markable man. He is seven years
younger than B%randeis, bat, If he puts
his whole mind to the gigantic propo-
sition propouuded by the latter, it is
dollars to shoestrings he would know
ali about it in a few days. 1t has been
nv good fortune to know McAdoo ever
since he came to town-through the
introduction of my old Washington
friend, William McAdoo, his law part
ner, but In no wise related.
"When William g. McAdoo landed
here from Chattanooga, he was the
most innocent,looking chap that ever
got of the cars from a distant point.
Every day siace meeting that tall
Georgia pine / have had nay eye on
him. Like Theodore N. Vail, moth
Ing can stop him from accom- plishing
what he sets out to do. Lawyer Nc
Adoo was told he would need $40, 000, 600
to drive four tunnels under the Hud-
son to New Jersey. Very we'll; he
raised the money without apparent
difficulty, and to show how easy vas
the task, he built the Hudson terminal
Buildings, two of the largest structures
in all this world, measured by floor
space. Eight or ten additional millions
were needed; but that made nc differ
ence, be soon had the money in hand"
On December 4th, | received a char
acteristic letter from Mr.. Brandeis read
ing thus: "Dear MIR. Chambers: You
are entirely right about William G.
McAdoo, in your Brooklyn Eagle ar
ticle of the so ult. Strangely enough,
1 CHANGED to spend a part OF the even
ing of the first of this month with him
and found him much interested in the
possibilities of scientific RAILROAD man
agement. Yours very truly, Louis D.
Brandeis."
Is it not very curious that MI. Nc
Adoo is in the very position to carry out
all the Brandeis ideas and to go much
farther by means OF his own acquired
aud intuftive knowledge of executive
railroad management? No words are
needed from me to indorse the capacity
OF the Secretary of the Treasury OF the
present Administration; every loyal
citizen and enemy alien know that he
has carried through the most stupen-
dous financial schemes this or any
other government was called upon to
undertake. The success of the two
Liberty Loans was largely due to the
cooperation of the Federal Reserve
Banks, his first great idea-a scheme
30 radical that the wisest fiDanciers saw
a revival of the United States Bank
tn at Jackson throttled! They were all
mistaken.
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The side of the mans character,
however, that I most admire is his
intense love of the %humanities. we
were having luncheon together at the
DasIr1aa Ct,h afon fho uoof hriIdE1O