Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-07-25
BUSINESS MEMS WAR; FOR GREAT
BRITAIN and THE UNITED STATES
Most Efficient and Powerful Men In Commerce and Industry Give
Services to the Government That Could Not Be Purchased
What the National Council Of Defense Is Doing for
This Country.

the way in which they have onstsd
the old, slow, easy-going methods.
None Of these men was especially
DESTROYS Of being known; they did not
care to emblazon their names before
the public. Perhaps but few Of the
British, aside from those in shipping
circles, know Andrew Weir,-who 10
now surveyor-general of supply at
the British war Office. Yet he was
one Of the foremost shipbuilders on
the Clyde before the war and is now
saving the British nation 5000 900 .
week by efficient methods. !.
The new financial secretary to the
chancellor of the exchequer is Sir
Samuel Hardman Lever. He was never
member Of the house Of parliament
and for this reason there were many
groans when he was named Tor this
position. He, too, has saved the gov.
eminent millions Of dollars. shipping
is controlled by Sir Joseph 1faclay, q
formidable business man on the Clyde,
who was called into service and who
has since made remarkable Roadway
with difficult proposition. ~, :
Sir Eric Geddes made possible the
transporting Of troops from one sec
tor OF the western front to another.
yet politics has always been distaste-
full to him and he hitherto confined
himself strictly to the big Job Of run.
ming the Northeastern railway.
cowdray In War.
A mighty job faces Lord Cowdray;
head Of the Air board, and has faced
him since he took Office. He is bet
ter known under the name Of Pearson,
being the head Of the oil firm Of that
name that successfully battled with
the Standard Oil company. Lord
Cowdray himself personally directed
many Of the marvellous engineering
feats the firm has carried through in
Mexico and Canada. One Of his part,
ners, Sir Ernest William Afoir, is In
charge Of the inventions department
Of the ministry of munitions. Sir
Ernest was resident engineer Of the
tunnels under the Hudson river in
New York, but this is simply one Of a
long list Of achievements.
Lord Rhondda, new food controller,
is commercial man Of front rank In
England. He was once In politics,
but later quit, and when he waf
called to his present post he was hea,
Of great colliery alliance employing
10000 men, and he also found time to
be director In not less than 20 com.
panies. e.
Lord Rothermere, who has charge
Of the army clothing department, 10
president and founder Of the Anglo
Newfoundland Development company,
which developed the resources Of that
colony to marvellous extent. Sir
Alfred Mond, who commanders
hotels, tills public parks and erects
buildings needed by the government
overnight, made millions a. manu-.
facturer Of chemicals.
This list IL necessarily incomplete:
It does not narrate In detail the ex
ploits Of the men mentioned. It gives
however, some idea Of the caliber Of
men who have enlisted to aid the Brit
ish government. Their aid has been
invaluable; their success to be meas
urod more than by savings Of tens o.
millions. Their savings, 1t might BIZ
said, are real and not imaginative.
Following England.
What these men have done In Eng
land-and their results will best be
told after the war 10 over and men
carefully analyse just what they have
done-is being done in America to Z
remarkably similar degree.
Never before were men with such
earning capacities and with such
keen ability to organize and direct
NIL gathered for the same purpose.
When It 10 considered that such men
AS Howard Coffin. ona Of the great.
est engineers Ia the country; Julius
Rosenwald, a mercantile power q
particular acumen; Thomas Edison
the electrical wizard; Daniel VII.
lard, transportation expert, and 9th.
ers, are all working toward single
g0al-the success Of the United states
In the war-it II truly remarkable.
The entire personnel Of the I'd.
visory commission Of the national
council Of defense breathes power. L
naturally would with men like Thee
dore N. Vail, head Of the Bell Tels--
phone system; Wallace D. Simmons,
head Of the largest hardware company
in the United States, and others On
the list, all actively engaged In the.
councils work. There are men who;
are on the committees who leave IN.
portant work to 50 to Washington
and unravel knotty questions on trans.
,portation, food and kindred subjects.
Most Of the big railroad men In the
country are doing what they can to
aid; the big financiers are joining in,
90 are the manufacturers. Although
they have accomplished wonders since
their organization a feH months ago.
II we could but ascertain the real e..
tent Of their efforts. Of which only a
few leak out now and then, It would