The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1920-04-17
THAYER TELLS HOW
TO CLIMB ON TOP
President of American Telephone
and Telegraph COmpany Ad-
monishes Against self
COnsciOu ness

(Star News Scrvicej.
NEW YORK, y. Y, Apr. 1.-THE
other day Henry b. Thayer was
selected by Henry b. Vail to sue
coed him as president of the great
American corporation known as the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company Thaycr had had many
wears of experience in the electrical
business, thus qualifying him for
this high post of duty. But the one
characteristic that particularly in
teresled former president Vail IN
Thayer was that whenever any dli-
licult problem arose, or there was
anV hard nut to crack in an emer-
gcncy, Henry Thaycr was the man
To solve the riddle. While Thayer|
was "A rich mans son, yet his first
lob paid him only $1,000 per week.
This salary barely mel his living eN-
pcnScS, and il is related of him that
i'm order to get summer suit he sold
his winter suit and added a few
dollars to complete the bargain. Mr..
Thayer has recently given the youth
OF America the benefit derived by
reading his experiences in rising
from an humble station to the high
est position in one of the greatest
and most far reaching corporations
in the world. We quote few para
graphs as follows:
Don't think of yourself at all.
Don't waste an hour of your time
scheming or planning to gel pro
motion. Don't worry about how big
an increase in your salary YOU can
contrive to get--dont let your mind
dwell on money at all if you can help
it. Throw yourself, body, soul and
spirit, into whatever you are doing
Become so interested and SO en-
crossed in your tasks that you have
Ieither time nor inclination to think
about yourself or your prospects or
the possibility of raise
Don't imagine for one moment
that your Supcriors don't know what
YOU are doing or how valuable an
employee you are. Some fellows
have the impression that if they arc
in very large organization their
work is buried and that none of the
bosses has chance to know just
what they are accomplishing. The
truth is that in every organization
some one is taking notice of any EN-
ployee who shows special ability.
"Take the Western Electric conf
pany, of which | formerly was pre-
Sident. Every year we engaged a
humber of college graduates. They
were put through general course
of training. Long before their per-
iod of training was up the head OF
the engineering department or the
sales manager or some other depart
ment head would come and say, l
want So-andSo into my depart
mCnt.' Whether an employee is a
college graduate or not he can make
his work count so much that some
one higher up will want TO get hold
of him to take on responsibilities
and shoulder some of the burdens.
That is just the type of worker that
every executive, every Superintcnd-
eni, every department head is con-
SlaEtly on the lookout for.
therefore, would say to every
person anxious to get on i'm tho
world, Forget yourself in your
work. Lay yourself out to do every
Thing possible for your employer,
and your Employer i'm time will find
that il will pay him to do everything
possible for YOU. If he sees, how
ever, that YOU are more concerned
about VI own interests than
about his, hat YOU are fusSy, about
getting credit for every little or big
thing YOU do, then YOU are apt To
be passed by when a responsible JOB
ha' to be filed"