Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-15
MEN AND
BUSINESS
By RICHARD SPILLANE
Special to Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
ON THE ROAM 6

special to Indiana Daily Times
ana Philadelphia Public Ledger
ON THE ROAD, Sent. TX
A MIDDLE WESTERN banker says
| ~ the losses some men suffered in
the great decline never will be
known.
| Zone Of our directors" he said, 'is
the head of an establishment that Is
the largest OF its character privately
owned in the world. From activity it
! dropped suddenly to nothing. In six
months Its losses, which ran into mil
lions. equaled the profits of the previous
ten years, In the year Of It's losses the
owner had to pay very heavy tax on
the profits Of the previous year. Some
times a man, no matter how good his
assets, has to make great sacrifices to
obtain the money necessary to meet his
obligations. This was the case with this
gentleman.
"At one Of our board meetings some
thing was said about how heavy a bur
den he had been carrying He smiled.
Throughout the whole period of Huui-
dation he never complained. but met
conditions with calm and resolute com
posure. His great plant was closed at
the time Of our board meeting, and I
remarked that I was proud to have a
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such loss as he had sustained and wak.
sustaining. He didn't say anything. hut
/ Just smiled
| Wen, his business has revived 70 n
Ialr degree. His plant is operating and
/ ne Is making some profit again, not much
for such a great enterprise, but some.
/ His fortune has been cut in half but
you wouldn't know 1t from his bearing.
/ DelleEe he would have lost his all
without a whimper. He's game. There
are men who are physically brave who
break under financial loss. He is NOT of
that kind. He has both physical and
financial courage, together with that
scrupuIous honesty Of never evsding an
obligation, even il 1t takes the last
/ dollar"
= RoSSING a street in some Of ths
~ Middle Western and Northwestern
cities is more difficult, If such a
thing is possible, than in the most cor
gested sections Of New York or Pbila-
deIphia You certainly have to watch
your step. Traffic regulations ara not
SO well Observed as in the larger cities.
ana automobiles seem to come from all
TOUR points OF the compass at the same
time. Perforce, the person Rfoot eivez
more exercise TO his neck muscles than
ever before, turning his head this way
and that to see where danger turks and
where opportunity appears. Then he
steps lively and. not infrequentIy, does
some artful lodging and gets across.
Is hard to tell where st. Paul leaves
on and Minneapolis begins. Some
day. remote perhaps, the twin cities
VIII be one physically If not actually.
TIE great highway between the two
municipalities has a large volume of
traffic and the residential and indus
trial development along it has been so
/ pronounced in the last ten years as TO
leave no conspicuous break at any place
along its length
/ It's a beautiful stretch Of road. The
Industrial structures are Of the best tyne
and there are few or no drab dwellings.
/ n n lNNEAPOLIS and st. Paul COM
/ IVl mand the trade OF the Dakotas
/ and Montana. That doesn't seem
SO much when you say 1t. but you can
get an idea of the immensely of this
territory when It is said that it is
shorter distance from Minneapolis TO
Tampa, Fla, than from Minneapolis to
westernmost MOntana.-Copyrigh 1921.
by Public Ledger Company.