The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-23
Battle IF Personalities at
Industrial Confab;; Notes on
Chief Figures IL Spotlight
BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.

E - 49,
Copyright, 1919. by the Wheeler Syn
dictate. inc.
Washington, Oct. 21.-The industrial
conference is largely a play On person
aiities. It is trying to do the most inn
portant work done in America for the
generation by any parliamentary body
and what it will finally do will be
largely the result OF the part played by
personalities. the give and take which
men are able to stand under pressure.
1t is probably more or less Easy for the
play of give n take to move smoothly
in b National Tennis Players AS
ISOLATION, o X in q Y. n. C. A. Conven-
lion or q conference OF advertising mon.
or even insurance men. Tor whatever
men give and whatever they take In
such assemblages tho second rate
things OF their lives are involved. But
here in this industrial conference men
are playing with tremendous forces,
deeply personal 10 themselves and to
their own fortunes. Here give and take
is personal and personalities are under
great strain
The reaSer must understand that this
conference is assembled in three groups
III labor group, the employers group,
and the public group. 1t is important
to know also that these groups sit in
three separate wings. labor on the left,
public in the center, and the capital
list, or employers group on the right.
They are not mingled one with another.
Each group sits by itself and men in
each group are continually getting a
group feeling and group interest. This
was graphically illustrated n day
when the entire public group. which
is represented by all sorts Of conditions
Of men, manufacturers, bankers. cor
poration lawyers, academlcians, writers,
publicists. all voted against h CAPT.
talist group. excepting one man.
This Man Gary.
The one man whose personality was
Idle to break through the group vas
Judge Gary, of the steel trust. In spite
of this group he was a capitalist and
voted forthwith with the capitalist
group. He is the most notable figure
in the conference, the best known mar
there. Judge Gary sits in the midst OF
the public group. generally thanked by
some Of his kind, like Mr.. Langdon. and
Mr.. Endicott, and watches the conven
ton with a rather cold. gray eye, ex
ceedingly bright and never utters a
word. He is the dapperest man in the
room. Sometimes he wears a light
brownish gray suit with rather a splen-
did light vest. Generally in his button
hole there is a boutonnier. He is
dressed as if sitting for his portrait
with clothes creased, linen immaculate
and hands m~anicured. They generally
rest clasped together in his lap as
though sustaining his stomach which
is not large an -.eeds no support
He impresses ,ne as being a nerve
less man. He sat for 80 minutes with
out moving a muscle except once or
twice to brush his chin while Samuel
Gompers stood arraigning the steel
trust and all its men in a powerful
| speech one afternoon. His terrier
bright eyes glistened as they gazec
dispassionately at Gompers' face. bu
they did not clinch at Gompers' climax
and no color came or went in his face
as the tide Of Gompers' oratcry rose
and fell. The whole conference, SO re-
porters and a room full Of spectators
were looking at Judge Gary while
Gompers spoke, n Gompers was look
ing at Gary with rather a frey eye
But never a twitch moved Gary's face
Not even by a movement of q foot or q
hand did he Indicate that he was un-
der the slightest v pressure
The cold. determined. indomnitablt
physical nature CT the man never had
q more perfect test than it had that
afternoon under the Gompers arraign.