Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-25
NEW "PENNsY" DIRECTOR
Howard Heinz on the Pennsylvania
Board - WastefuI Expenditure OF
Money stu charseterizes Most -
Working Men--vlews OF
Two Bankers |s
BY GEORGE NOx MCCAIN

cent years. He Ia forty three years of age.
He will unquestionably be the youngest
man at the board table when he takes his
seat.
All the present and recent members Of the
directorate are and were men of mature
years, who have been conspicuous in finan-
cial and corporate management for many
decades.
They are men of gray hairs and experience.
Mr.. Heinz is a great business man. He
is at the head Of the largest food products
establishment In the world And he is
young!
He will bring to the exercise Of his duties
as director of the finest railroad system
in this country new views of the complex
problems that are facing railroad executives
and managers everywhere.
HOWARD HEINZ Is an executive. For
- that reason there is no question as to
his fitness for the position to which he has
been elected.
The concern of which he is the head has
factories and branch organizations all over
the globe.
Last year there was held in Pittsburgh a
meeting of the managers and supcrintendents
OF the branch houses. factories. farms. glass
works and plantations of the Heinz Co. over
the world.
They came from every state in the Union
from the British Isles, Spain, France, Italy,
North Africa. South Africa. India, South
America, Japan and Australia.
There were more than 1000 Of them.
Every man was manager or head Of a
department
1t was Howard Heinz's introduction to his
own people. for he had then but recently as
s9med ss S,l the them management; following the death
then in Turkey at the head of hhe Near East
food relief commission
told at the time how Pittsburgh caterers
baked at the contract of spreading a ban
quet Tor 2OOO persons at the same time under
the same roof.
The vastness of the scheme never feazed
Howard Heinz.
He marshaled his forces snent tens ~
thousands OF dollars for china silverware.
glassware, napery, kitchen utensils, ranges
and tons of food for the function
Then he recruited chefs. walters and soul
lions from as far east as New York and
as far west as Chicago.
On the night of the banquet he sat at the
head OF the table with his 1000 coworkers
around him. The great event moved off with
the celebrity of the Pennsylvania Limited and
the perfected movement of clock
And Howard Heinz is still climbing the
slopes on the sunny side Of fifty
TT is the consensus Of opinion of n number
L OF bankers and business men that tens
inc aoIdor onras,...;. sn!eu necnanics are vast
and tbo;r fnn,;';aa ~ p.''..t themselves
ro;nv day that no,,,s -, ~ ,He ,:s lnev,taole
every ua,o ,''ou,.o. eUn'' Ill 'ne iiie OF almost
Skilled mechanics are receiving the high
est wages ever known in the history of labor
in this country. A majority of them are
spending their earnings with reckless prodi.
gniity as fast as they earn them.
hs.
rho orr taS toS. .he CT! curing the war. 1t is
.ho. .oua.. oaseu on the same evidence,
Mos, ~ oth, thasn ooserva.,oh. ~
doIorons dovs of s,ap,, np"u'nrLts, l, when the
come will be in no cord;t;on MHan ana nail . time
Tha;r T h;n pu ~ no condition to meet them.
fool;sb, ,,.;th a.S, WIN nave Deen spent
Tb;. ;s os;d. t.s " sio" ior IL.
,os. 80 ,;',; itoii se iact that the high
er,s earninos ,han a,,a. n'oie VI the work
still bio ,o.r;, ,.an tstr oeIore. But there is
for actnai naaSs 80 Ieeh wv .he money spent
contents OF the weekly pay envelope.
.
NTILLIAM GIBBONS il president Of the
w Haddington Trust Co, He has excen.
tional opportunities for observing conditions
/ have referred to above.
1t is the opinion of Mr. Gibbons uho h.
been a bankers and merchant in West S"T pbid naS
adelphia for a generation, that the AVERAGE
working man Is taking M hood fo ,.'ase ase
morrow WV
II am unable to discover that with ,bo
| high wages prevailing our American ~" u.ano amo
| earners are endeavorinp TO save dur;no thi,
period of prosperity. e Wis
| II have had occosior 70 do ,.., -,
ing from time TO time and boro o'p.r,. hoa.
struck by the multitude NJ trorniora o'r.,
their character. People who never travoIod and
before are travelling now And ;rdn;a a.eitu t
their appearance they are work;ny foILs w., "
for a good time. Money anna rantIy ip'NS j. "u. m
object to them. Is "'
''The savings funds Of rim ba,Ls o,a .a.
| companies With corto;n nsoo.;N s sns ana trust
show the increase in denosits tbot "' ,ho. no.
| The executions are in insf;tut;o,, ,,.L .