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+ because he was stricken with hem
crrhage one night in front Of it and
was told by the free clinic doctors
that only a change of climate would
/ prolong his life.
He worked his way to California
and for five years fought his way
back to health. When he was TWEEN
ty-one ne was pronounced well, and
returned to Chicago to begin all over
again. He took an Office boy job
and acted as salesman when he
got chance. He saved $500 and
bought a seat on the Chicago Stock
Exchange. 81
Then he went into business for
himself as an investment banker and
has Offices scattered over the United
States. Among his many holdings
is the building at 27 Pine Street,
where he has his New York head
quarters.
He attributes his restoration to
health 20 outdoor living and cheer
fulness.
"Dlscouragement," he says, causes
more illness than all the germs in
christendom. ] was what the doc
tors call 'lunger,' and | knew it.
But l also knew the old cepybock
adage that where there is life there
is hope, and / never for a second
admitted that / was going to die.
Since have been restored to health
| have passed the most rigid life In
surance examinations. have won
wrestling medals, golf cups and
swimming trophies. ...-~s
There is no need for any young
man in America to say that he is
handicapped by lack of education,
lack of health or OF money. Hacked
all three and fought my way to the
top. am just the average fellow.
no better, no worse"
Mr.. Andrews employs only young
men IN his vast business. He has
executives under thirty, hand picked.
who are making s25, 900 a year He
never inquiries if they have had
college education. If they have; 50
much the better. if they apply it.
But he believes that enthusiasm and,
a desire to set on are the big assets'
er an, youth. = =
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OUIS r. MUSIL, treas
- urer of the Henry l.. Do
herty Company, points out
that colleges fail to develop
the human nature f7tnda-
mentdls

g., er and executives whose names |
heard wore halos.
EVERY time l go to New York
lam asked by heads of corporations
i l know Of man to fill this or
that position. And these are not
$4,000 jobs nor $4,000 jobs.
They are posts paying $4,000 and
$4,000 and $4,000 year, and
the one outstanding ability that the
man must have who is TO fill them
is the ability to handle other men.
To Sell Ones Self
1T all SINNERS down to the abil-
ity to sell ones self--to the head
Of the corporation to get job and
to the men working under one to
hold it. In the latter instance it
makes all the difference in the world.
If you know enough about human
relationships to make men trust
you and believe in you, they will
work for you. And that means the
difference Of 10 per cent in produc-
ton. or of rs OF SO per cent, that
spells success. All the technical
training in the world will not do il
without knowledge of men and Of
human values.
Mr.. Musil finds, through years Of
experience in handling trained col
lege men, that the greatest failure
of the colleges is in teaching stu
dents even to appreciate what he
calls the human nature funda-
mentals.
Industry" he says, "oHers I'M
limited opportunities to the man
who recognizes that human nature
fundamentals are as important as
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technical training. Until that is ac-
cepted the college trained man will
not be at home in industry; it will
take him longer to find his place
and still longer to develop it. At
present the ability of educational
institutions to develop that appre-
citation in q student is rather alb
sent.
"Never has there been a greater
need for trained men. First, because
industry has been expanding at a
constantly greater rate, and, second,
because, even with the great indus
trial expansion, we have seen greater
and greater efficiency necessary to
supply existing demands. The time
factor Of developing executive cali
ber is so much shorter in the case Of
the college trained man that it is
through a greater supply Of college
material that we can best hope to
catch up the deficiency in the ex-
ecutive requirements Of industry.
Trains Its Own Men
"Our organization has long had a
school through which the college
man has completed his training, &C
quiring in that school the practical
knowledge of our specific needs
which he had not attained along
with his technical education. Out of
CIT college men taken into this
school more than rs per cent are
still in the organization, many of
these occupying the highest execu-
tive positions. We feel more and
more the need Of larger number of
these men, having more positions
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nR. HOLLIS. GODFREY.
president Of Drenel IN
stdt7tte, aO]1o has conceived a
plan for cooperation betWeen
industry and education

many of the major causes of labor
trouble. This will be done not
merely through the development of
the good fellowship that is inevita-
bic. 1t will follow as natural re-
suit of giving every man real
chance. When the foreman is
taught by his industry and in turn
becomes a teacher of the men under
his orders obstacles to each mans
rise will be removed. Every man
will have the same chance to pro-
gress. Nothing makes more differ
ence in industrial unrest than the
foreman; nothing can serve better
to help industry and the workman
than to make him a teacher"
DR.. Godfrey speaks primarily as
an educator. Mr. Brush and Mr.
Musil both approach the problem of
trained men from the viewpoint OF
executors who arc trying to hire
them and find the supply made
quate. More than hundred men
representing total invested capital
OF more than seven billion dollars
subscribed, at the conference, to
the statement that there is in this
country "an appalling shortage Of
trained men. '' Some Of this is due
to the war. But the real reason,
altogether apart from the expan-
sion of industry and the consc-
ouent creation Of new jobs, is given
by Mr. Brush.
"The educational institutions
have improved since l graduated
from Massachusetts Tech in 1901"
he says, "but their teaching is still
lacking i'll one fundamental. Thew
do not teach man how to sell him
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Mr.. Ince tells me that he lived there
n 1910. when he was in vaudeville
With William II. Thompson. He be-
ame director in 1911, anu was in
california making his Wild West
PICTURES in 1912 when | lived at the
Lartholdi Inn. Later I went 10
California with dramatic company,
vnnt into pictures and became a star
Under Mr.. Inces direction.
Coed Behavior Enforced
Nine. Barthoidi had many inter
es~ing rules at her unique hotel.
Sic expected ladies and gentlemen
TO behave as such~would not toler-
atp noise Of any hind-and she in
sisted upon weekly payments by
every one who was working. Any
actor CT actress who was tempo
rarily up against it could go to her
and secure an extension Of credit,
anl man times I think Nine. Ear
holdi even ad"anced money for rail
road tickets to players who were out
ot work and who wanted to go 10
another city for an engagement.
The other day, as I passed by tr.
barthoidi Inn and saw workmen
tearing down the building, l loohod
ap and picket! out the room | ha(:
once occupied. Il was great sur-
prise TO NE to think Of that litt.e
window there from which gazoa
out upon the vide world, fillct: Wit
hope and ambition; then 7 leane3
back in my limousine, as the drive
tHrned the corner to take me TO the
Century Theater. where I am appear
ing in 'Aphrodite.' / was perm
less girl, struggling TO get along On
q small salary III those days, and
no" am actually receiving in pic
tures ard a. The Century Theatcr
the sum Of $4,000 week. 1t seems
as if ! am still looking out Of that
window of the Rartholdi Inn and
dreaming of the future. and as
though Nine. Rartholdi's dinner gong
ought to ring and wake NE out Of
thct Dream
Other actors who have lived at the
Bartholdi Inn corrobo-ate Miss Dal-
TONS statement concerning fires. It
It said that during the summer it was
a dull day If there wasn't at least
ore awning FIRE Many were caused
by persons rising at IL or o'clocle
IN the afternoon and tossing their
morning cigarettes through the open
windows and down upon the avn
ings.
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uhg Men Who Are Capable of Earning $4,000 Y ear
Big Business Is In the Market for
Executives Who Can
Hold Big Jobs

take advantage Of it the knowledge
gained by the nations most sue
cessful men of affairs in years of
struggle and hard work.
"Spccifications" for Men
DR., Godfrey's views are stated
first because he conceived the plan
of cooperation between industry and
education now being put into eff
feet. and because he "sold" it to
both sides. At the conference
permanent committee was formed.
1t is to compile specifications for
men," drawn up by the industries,
! and distribute them among the edu-
cational institutions. What Dr..
Godfrey says constitutes the es-
sence of his selling argument. 1t
reveals, also, new method of at
tacking the problem of unrest now
taxing the resources. of all public
men and of all nations.
Educational waste has. been 60
ing on for centuries because there
never has been definite statement
or specification written by industry
of the specific knowledge required
to meet its needs" says Dr.. God
frey. "The colleges and industry
have been working along different
lines. 1t is here proposed to carry
out plan of cooperation to elini-
nate that waste by giving industry
an opportunity to state its needs,
and the colleges an opportunity to
state their capacities to meet these
needs.
1.-TWO things are essential to the
salvation of education. One is
cooperation with industry-and by
that mean the whole world Of bus
mess and commerce-and that the
cooperation is now started. The
other is the installation by every
large industrial plant of it's own divi-
sion CT education; division charged
with the duty of teaching the man
agement to teach, particularly to
teach human relations. That devel-
ermcnt will be followed inevitably
by an increase in production and
Increase of executive strain. 1t is
10 secret that in every large indus
try this strain is becoming tremen-
dous. Men Of big affairs are being
"'orA out trying to do the things
that they cannot get enough assist
AIT management men to do, trying
to solve the new problems constant
~ arising because Of the demand
for expansion and changing condi-
tions.
Importance of the Foreman
81 started work in my fathers
mill as stoker and became super
intendent. After that I held seven
different jobs as superintendent in
paper mills and machine shops.
Therefore, I know that the one
man most vitality affecting the work
man is the foreman. When indus
try adopts education, when it
teaches it's management and it's
forelnen to teach, it will eliminate
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ME passing of Bartholdi Inn,
the we'll known actors board
Il ing house, has brought forth

1NHE passing of Bartholdi Inn,
the we'll known actors board
IL ing house, has brought forth
"reminiscences among stars of
to-day of their less palmy days. With
every board that is torn from the
old building and every block Of plas-
tering that drops an IL knew him
when" floats out Of the dust of
destruction.
Bartholdi Inn, at Broadway and
Forty-fifth Street, was the first New
York home Of many an insignificant
little girl from out West who came
to the big city to try her art in it's
true field. 1t housed "has beens"
who could tell of the times when
they had good parts with Booth, and
Barrett, and Kcan. Rising and set
ting stars were at home there, but
seldom were those in their zenith
seen about the modest hostelry.
Among the many stories of the
INNS comforts for the less prosper
Gus members of the theatrical pro-
fession is that an actors trunk was
never held because he was out Of
work and behind in his rent. The
rooms were rented by the week, not
by the day. And in secret Nine. Bar
tholdi often advanced money to help
Thespian who was "broke" until
his show opened.
Among the Boarders
Among the successful members Of
the profession Of to-day who lived at
the Inn before good times came to
them were Fred and Joe Santley,
Nat Wills, Dorothy Dalton, Charlie
Chaplin, Mack Sennett and D. W.
Griffith.
Miss Dorothy Dalton, the present
star Of "Aphrodite," at the Century
Theater, makes no secret of the fact
that in her days of obscurity she
lived in the Bartholdi Inn. What
is more, she keenly remembers that
a number of other we'll known the
atrical people lived there at the
same time.
~ had just returned from a road
.our in 1912 after playing very
small part in a melodrama." said
Miss Dalton, in talking over old
lays. II could not afford to go to
ocular hotel because. ! would .ha |
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self. Too often they turn out slid
ing rules rather than human beings
Their graduates are highly trained
technicians. They know their owr
jobs. But they do not know how
to handle men.
Where They Failed
"Not thing is done in the col
leges to teach man what man te
slap on the back, what man 70 take
by the arm when one walks with
him on the street. I know where
they fail, because they failed with
me, and l have been observing
their failures ever since. Willie
was still at Tech l worked during
the summers on a lake steamer.
One day old John D. Rockefeller
and his entire family came aboard
Mn. Rockefeller came into my little
Office and sat on high stool. He
TAXED TO me at great length, but
there is one thing he sad that
have remembered literally
The ability to handle men, he
said, has become just as much a
purchasable commodity IS sugar
and l will pay higher TO, it than
anybody else in the world
II believe that that ability repre-
sents about SO per cent OF what is
necessary for the success. of an
executive. and the knowledge OF
how to do the job represents the
other l per cent. The most sue
cessful men in the world are human
beings. But it took me fifteen year:
to learn that and some other thing.
that should have been taught IL
college. thought the big bank
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Sres!dences into one building. My
room was furnished with an iron
bed and lot of very nice, homelike
decorations which showed that Nine.
Bartholdi tried to make every one
feel at home. There were pictures
on the walls, not the sort Of chromos
one finds in small country hotels.
The curtains, as l remember them,
wero Of real chintz, and the wall
paper was Of very quiet. refined
design. Even the carpet on the iloor
was IL excellent taste, although
have heard that some Of the rooms
usually occupied by actors who
smoked cigarettes had carpets that
were not so nice as the carpets in
the better class of rooms.
Actors smoking cigarettes, by the
way, not only ruined hundreds of
dollars worth Of carpets for Nine.
Bartholdi, but also caused fifteen
fires. There were two fires in the
building while lived there. but not
ore Ct them turned out to be serious.
Meals Cheap and Good
Nine. Bartholdi and hen. daugll-
Ter, Polly. used to sat IN The main
Office at the head Of the stairs. On
the other side of the stairway was
the dining room, and the food we
had in chose days at very reason
able prices would seem perfectly
wonderful! now. The meals were
extra, but you could get very good
dinner for SO cents and an excellent
breakfast for 25 cents.
u lived at the Bartholdi Inn for
almost three months, while I was
looking for another engagement,
and in that time distinctly rcmcm-
ber seeing Charlie Chaplin. who was
in vaudeville then, doing the drunk
ard in al English vaudeville act.
Mr.. Chaplin lived at the hotel and
was very popular with al Of the
guests. Another time I encountered
D. ". Griffith in the hallway. l
didn't know him, of course, but some
one told NE he was the director Of
4 motion picture company with the
Biograph Picture Company, and I
was interested because even then
had thoughts Of trying to secure
picture engagement as an extra girl.
"Another notable who lived in the
Bartholdi Inn, but not at the same
time did. was Thomas w. Ince, the
director and producer, who after
ward became nay manager and
brought me fprward in pictures.
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tale Of Archie NJ. Andrews, a young
Chicago and New York banker, who
is not yet forty and is a multimill-
ionaire, the owner of town and coun-
try homes, an employer Of 5000
persons ard the commander of the
great yacht Sachem.
When Andrews was sixteen years
old he used TO shiver in front of
TIE Chicago Herald Building, in
Chicago, where he sold newspapers.
He bought that building the other
day, just as matter of sentiment,
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RE you capable Of holding a
\ job paying from $40, 900 to
N $4,000 a year?

-
~ job paying from $4,000 to
4 N $4,000 a year?
If you are, you will have
no trouble finding the job. The de-
mand for executives capable Of hold
ing positions paying salaries of that
size far exceeds the supply. There
is so much room at the top just at
present that the upper rungs Of the
ladder are relatively uninhabited.
So great is the shortage of high
priced men that the prediction is
made that unless such executives
are developed American industry will
of necessity stop expanding. Men
who now hold such positions are
carrying a burden too heavy for
them, because they cannot find as
sociates to help bear the load.
Positions Are Waiting
The shortage of high-priced men
vas emphasized at recent con-
ference held in Philadelphia under
the auspices of the Technology Clubs
Associated. Attending the con-
ference were representatives of more
than one hundred individual corpora
tions and more than three hundred
educational institutions. The pur-
y,nco of thu ooNfo~@roo xx,r. b. l.
wise plan whereby the educational
institutions might turn out young
men capable of holding the high
salaried positions big business has to
offer
Three men sounded the keynote Of
the conference and outlined it's pur-
poses. One was DR.. Hollis Godfrey,
president Of Drexel Institute, who
helped organize the Council Of Ma
tional Defense and later became
chairman Of it's engineering section.
Dr.. Godfrey has been working for
years to interest industry in educa
tion.
Result of Big Conference
The two other men are Louis T.
Musil, treasurer of the II. l.. Do
herty Company. Of New York, and
Matthew c. Brush, president Of the
American international Shipbuild-
ing Corporation. The Dohcrty COM
pany is the holding concern for The
Cities Service Corporation. which
controls scores Of public utilities, ip-
cludiag gas, electric light and power
companies, street railways and
others. 1t employs about 10000
men. Mr. Brush's company oper-
ates the famous Hog Island ship
yard. Under full production it en-
ployed $4,000 men, and $4,000 are
still at work there.
Opinions here given of the three
men named were partly the cause
and partly the result of the confer
ence held in Philadelphia, the value
of which to industry and to educa-
ton can hardly be overstated. In
effect, the meeting made available
to each of the 62O colleges and uni
versities in America choosing to
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er competition and regulation Of bic
business.
Advanced operation is based q,
fundamental principles which. II
themselves, develop executives The
man who could do to-day what hs
will do tomorrow with to-day's ex-
perience would be valuable man
indeed. We can all approach this pos
sibility if we adopt the princip)e
of anticipation to our problems. ".
must first be made to appreciate
such principles, however, and if We
are going to be successful execu.,
tives we must have the ability TO
sell those principles to the organizs-
ton Of which we are a part. The
larger the organization the more
difficult, but the more necessary. is
this executive task s't
Factors of Success
Industry, like all the world. Is
confronted with the greatest of
problems, that of human relation
ship. Prejudice and seltishness in
one form or another undo much
that would otherwise add to the
surplus account of humanity, col
lectively and individually. A mans
proper attitude, his proper frame
Of mind toward his fellowman, his
feilowworker, his employer, is a
great factor in the progress Of all
concerned, himself included.
II believe the principles of psv.
chology, if understood and applied
more generally, would help materi.
ally in creating this attitude. be-
lieve the college man must be re-
lied upon as the man with foun-
dation sufficiently broad to compre-
hend the necessity of these funda-
mental principles, the absence of
which prove such handicap to
others on whom he is going to de-
pend for his maximum progress.
Perhaps | had better give my lay
mans view Of psychology, the prin-
ciples of which / feel need broader
recognition. To me it means the
study of those problems of human
relationship which give q mutual
consciousness Of knowledge and un-
derstanding. If that is not psy-
chology, then give it whatever
name it should have; the funda-
mental principle remains the same.
I'VE need more men in this
country, in industry and in poll
tics, who are willing to recognize
that knowledge and understanding
are mutual, and that where this
recognition is not given the result
is more misunderstanding, capable
Of leading to the most serious con-
sequences; it being only question
of time. I wish every college man,
in addition to bringing his valuable
technical training, could come to
US with fuller appreciation of
these human problems.
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American Industry Is Suffering From
nAcute Shortage Of High
Priced Experts

calling for men than we have men
ready to take up the possibilities
of the positions available.
How. can the time factor of de-
veioping men for executive positions
be further reduced, granting that
the college man has clearly shown
he can progress much faster than
the man that has not the advan-
tage of a technical education? How
can We eliminate the misplacement
Of men that increases the time
factor per man when considered
from the viewpoint of the total num-
Der of developed executives? I be-
lieve this can best be accomplished
by closer coordination of industry
with the colleges, and it is this CO.
ordination which we hope will be
perfected through the work of the
conference. The requirements Of in
dustry must be better known to the
educational organizations of the
country if they are going 10 antici-
pate the quantity and quality needs
of industry, and supply these de-
mands.
Industry must recognize chat the
educational institutions can best de-
terminc how to develop in the stu
dent the qualifications necessary to
apply their technical knowledge to
the best advantage; how to develop
in them the appreciation that knowl-
edge is most productive when ac-
companied by recognition Of other
important human and business prin-
ciples. l have been very much in
terested in the efforts of the tech
nology clubs to accomplish this CO.
ordination, and am even more in
terested in the principles which
believe underlie these efforts: the
principles of anticipation.
Not the Gift of Few
can analysis OF the most success
full enterprises of the past makes
some man or men with vision and
foresight stand out clearly above the
many who participated. 1t is
those minds who look ahead that are
always depended on for the world 5
greater achievements, the post NOR
tenn examinations of past expert
ences only helping to make the vis-
ion of future possibilities clearer
and bigger. This need not be con-
sidered a gift of the few and to a
large degree can, l believe, be at
tanned by the recognition and appli-
cation of definite principles. As the
big business of to-day has justified
itself as indispensable, so will the
future need even bigger business.
With this enlargement will come the
need for a greater number of more
capable executives; technical busi-
ness executives who are able to look
ahead. Budget systems Of advance
operation must be applied more gen
orally by the executive Of the future
who is going to cope with the keen
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the Forty-ffth Street side for tho
magnificent sum Of $6 a week.
II remember | had to climb two
flights OF stairs. for there was no
elevator, as this old hotel was con-
verted from half dozen private
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The Nine. Bartholdi Inn for Actors
Was Home of Rising and Setting Stars

charged at least $3.50 a day at any
hotel in the Times Square district. A
girl friend who had lived at the Bar
tholdi Inn took me over and intro
duced me to Nine. Bartholdi, who
very graciously gave me a room on