El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-14

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! report by A [. Tadiock, manager Of
: the traffic department. speaks splend-
{ idly for itself. The last paragraph OF
! his report, and most modestly put on
al the end reads;
In closing let me call your atten-
tion to the total OF the reparation and
freight bill checking figures pre-
: viously mentioned They total $20,-
{ 206.32. Our operation expenses. ac-
I cording to figures Of the finance de-
partment. amount TO sS,440-1l Look
I ing at these figures from an invest
ment point OF view this means that
I this department has earned ST.
: 1851 OF 1885,
Came to Fl Paso.
When Tadlock came to FL Paso from
: the southern shipping board. where
T he was director Of traffic during the
war for one Of the biggest corpora
lions in the world, the traffic depart
ment was divorced from the eXecu-
/ tive department and made into unit
7 all its own Tadlock is as much 3
I professional man as a doctor or. law I
yer, and in his development Of his
department he has followed at all
times sensible, wholesome plans with
the result that he has made more 3
friends for the chamber OF commerce
among the jobbers and manufacturers
and larger shippers, than the manage Q
ment could have hoped 10 achieve in 1
many years had not he been here 10 4
put over a real program
As to his study Of traffic matters. E
his counseIing TO business firms and
traffic men his effectusl work among
the railroads, his achievements IN
traffic problems when government
ownership was constantly operating
against him, all may be said to have
crystalized when the Traffic club OF
FL Paso was formed on Tuesday, jan
nary 6. In that club is the possibility
OF big things for the Southwest in
rate adjustments and in the solution
of traffic problems: and having come
TO stay, the club VIII be a monument
TO the work OF a man who has been
tireless in his service, courteous and
considerate in every demand made
upon him and frank at all times.
direct and to the point in all things.
So FAR as equipment is concerned he
had nothing when he came here save
an old high top desk a depressing
OF old files a set OF presidents and
traditions that made the heart Of the
young man sink when he first ap-
preached them. But he got down to
business and he was stenographer to
himself. office boy to himself, checker
10 himself and everything.
But it didn't last that way. Soon he
had neat and trim office OF his own.
The joint stenographer which he
shared with two other departments
became the traffic department stem
ographers he was later given a rate
clerk to check freight bills so that
he would have more time for the
preparation Of briefs and the fight
ing Of traffic and rate cases for the
Fl Paso shippers: later still he was
given an assistant and a second office
Today he has an excellent file OF
tariffs IN fact, one Of the best and
most complete files in the Southwest;
he has an organization that is loyal
and faithful and in his own words:
Everyone does his or her work with
the idea that we are all working for
the accomplishment Of one purpose.
Not one member thinks OF his or her
work in the light Of. I'm doing this
Tor 50 much month Instead. eacs-
member is Imbued with the idea that
I'm doing this the best I can because
Il means the success Of the depart
ment, and, therefore. the success Of
the entire organization. They have
interest in their work which is not ex-
lant IN all business It is 70 them
that I pay tribute for the success
with which 1 believe we have met in
our work"
Now as to Tadlock's report said
he is a professional man. Let him
speak out This he will do when the
year book rolls around And in that
report he will state interesting facts
matters that are far reaching; 50 far
reaching IN fact, that only the power
to look ahead TO the future alone
prompted them
only Two Departments.
There were only two departments
when We came The agriculture and
traffic and both of them were prob
iemstical departments. I do not mean
by this to cast reflection on splendid
work done in the past by splendid
men; only a new day had come about .
A great war had changed the think
ing OF men, and just as one genera Fl
Ton supplants another, we came when
that change which is a natural law I
vas taxing place The old order was /.
passlng-the new was at hand; there ?
was no credit TO ourselves We simply u
were swept in on a wave Of revived I
interest In commerce and industry. Il
following almost two years Of war. :.
and Il is to the credit Of the business /.
men OF FL PasO and their CAPACITY TO .
DO things that the chamber OF com Fl
meIce IS the effectual machine today
tnat any business man who will come n
mere may find and see and receive
the benefits therefrcm. n
Before I entered this work. I looked 4
upon chamber OF commerce work as
q place for men who had lost the grip
or things; / felt Of them as boosting
temples where loud praise was given
daily OF attributes and qualities that
are fine enough but which are mono
tonous and dreary when repeated like
so many counting Of beads, with no
prayer in the heart. I never saw in
them an agency to serve business.
They seemed created with the para
Lefty, much show and glamor: no
real settling down to a constructive
business and commercial program; p
Just as A Schwartz puts it: so much
bunk-then more bunk" n
When Roberts was offered the place E
out here he asked me what / thought /.
OF the outlook We sat down and we =
talked / guess we talked all night. 4
1 told him that the only program he I
could possibly have ont in FL Paso I.
would be one along civic lines; that
thing else; that everything revolved
around selling Of land, opening up ad-
ditions, describing the sky exulting
over the altitude and climate. II
Needed n Program
be said. What they need is a pro
gram that viii serve the business in
terests and build the town CONNER
cially, and il I go out there that will
be my thought If the city is solid
in business and finance and industry,
and II has the additional assets of
climate and altitude. the tourists, the
healthseeker all viii come in time
With such mining resources as
there are in Arizona and New Mexico
and northern Mexico; with the irriga-
ton project completed; with the high
line canal and cheap power and water,
with city planning commission. with
good range for the cattle and sheep,
with unboundless timber in northern
Mexico and in the timberline Of the
southern rockies. with everything con
ceivaDie, from coal TO wheat at her
very door. it's nonsense to play the
tourist and the healthseeker. They
are only a small part OF the program
The real work out there is grasping
the posi- bilities and developing them.