The Washington herald., 1919-10-20
Industrial Conference
Play Of Personalities
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the one man whose personality was
able to break through the group was
Judge Gary OF the Steel Trust In
spite OF his group he was q capitalist
and voted for and with the capital
ists group He ID the most notable
figure IN the conference, the best
known man there.
Gary Dspperest OF An
Judge Gary sits in the midst Of
the public group generally thanked
by some one OF his kind, like MI
Langdon and Mr. Endieott ana
watches the convention with a
rather cold gray eye. exceedingly
bright terrier-brtght he utters never
q word He 10 the dapperest man
IN the room Some times he
wears a light brownish gray suit
with rather a splendid vest- Gen
orally in his buttonhole there is q
boutonnier. He Is dressed as II sit
ting for his portrait with clothes
creased and linen immaculate and
hands manicured. They generally
rest clasped together in his lap as
though sustaining his stomach,
which is not large and needs no
support. He impresses one a. be-
ing a nerveless man He sat for
thirty minutes without moving o
muscle except once or twice TO
brush his chin while Samuel Com
pers stood arraigning the Steel Trust
and all its men in q powerful speech
one afternoon. HIS tsrr1er~brtght
eyes glistened as they Fased dfspas-
sionateiy at Gompers' face. but they
did not finch at Gompers' climax
and no color came or went IN his
face a. the tide OF Gompers oratory
rose and fell The whole confer
ence, fifty reporters and q room fun
Of spectators were looking at Judge
Gary while GomperS spoke and
Gompers was looking at Gary with
rather a fiery eve, but never a
twitch moved Gary's face. Not even
by a movement OF a foot or hand ara
ne indicate that he was under the
slightest nervous pressure. The
cold. determined. indonlitable phys
icaI nature OF the man never had a
more perfect test than Il had that
afternoon under the Gompers ar
raignment.
Gomper. Most Interesting.
Gompers. himself, is something OF
q figure. probably on the whole the
most interesting hgure in the con-
ference. He is a little man. five
feet three or four. probably stocky,
almost fat but not quite and. with
moth-eaten hair. smooth-shaven
features and rather leathery pink
skin. sloping rather than square
shoulders. long armed and short
legged. He is Judge Garys anti
thesis. Gompers rarely sits still.
One might know how the confer
ence is going by looking at Com
pers' half bald head which rushes
pink and pale. white like the bulb
of a barometer as the proceedings
go forward. pleasing or displeasinE.
He does not idCet but he rarely
may be- found in the same position
ten minutes at a stretch. He has
his group we'll in hand: indeed, he
is the soul OF his group. There is
not much consultation in public,
but Gompers sits by Frank Nor
rison and keeps up q running FIRE
of whispered talk to him. Gompers
is nervous. He likes to sputter in
speech. He shows in q thousand
physical ways his pleasure and dis
pleasure. His face is mobile. His
mouth is large and strong. His
jaw is rather brutal and indomit-
able. He has the big nose OF the
ruler. but his eyes there is the
mystery-they are sheathed with
thin saturnine lids, when he opens
them wide he gives q flaming effect
to hts face. Generally, they are
half closed and back Of them sits
the Jew, the quiet, Oriental Jew.
grim, purposeful, imaginative. the
eyes of man who sees great
visions. The soul back OF them
dreams. high dreams. and yet the
face around the eye is q mask mo-
bile. but on the whole. secretfve. fur
tive. Gompers looks tcuriously un-
Western. curiously Oriental curious
ly like a Persian potentate. all he
would need would be the front hall
rug. q fez, to- simulate the satrap
in his power. Yet he Is the ideal
Of the doughty bunch OF Irish labor
men who surround him and his will
prevails without discussion or srgu-
ment They have learned 70 believe
in him. They know they can trust
him He is absolutely true. genu-
inely square IN his relations to
those about him For all the fur
tive Oriental cast to his face, his
character is Western. fundamentally
American.
Vol to BE Heard From.
Near him sits . short. dark, young.
pugnaciouS active little man named
woll. II he lives the world will hear
much more OF Vol; he brings some
strain Of blood TO America that is
idealistic and yet his whole face is
full Of strength and q peculiar power.
Incidentally. he Is ambitious. he talks
well. has q big aggressive face and q
pugnacious parliamentary manner.
His trigger is q little loose and he goes
on sometimes when he should not
He has not the self-restraint that
Gompers has but he is not as old as
Gompers by half and he 10 not orien-
tai for a minute. He might have come
out Of the Mennonite colony in Kansas
or from around the gas works In Chi
cago but America has claimed him
for her own and he will go far II some
Of life's handicaps do not throw him.
In the public grosp aside from Gary
and half a dozen interesting figures.
the leader Of the group is Bernard
Hsruch, stx feet two. probably. trim.