Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-20

ton of education. civic, commercial
and industrial activities. He had the
cooperation of all the workingmei.
as well as the backing and personal
\ assistance of manufacturers and clti-
zens generally. While he was direct
| ing their improvement drive he built
a hotel that cost a million and a half
| dollars, had a city plan adopted. Sc
! cured million and a half dollars for
| a high school and a ffty-acre site
I costing S750.0o0-
! The way the people of that COM
munity appreciated his labors among
them was shown when he was leav
| ing them. Several men came to his
home one night and urged him to go
to the theater with them TO pass upon
a show He was tired after a
strenuous day and preferred the COM
forts of home with his family, but he
/ went. He noted practically ali the
leading citizens in boxes and in the
/. orchestra seats. When the curtain
| went up he could not believe his eyes.
On the stage was the latest model of
lone OF the best automobiles M nu-
( featured. and seated in it were his
| wife and two children. whom he had
4 left at home, waving to him. The
car was gift of apprecia alton from
| the friends whom he had made while
| working among them as a-city doc
tor.
After three years in this work. all
the time maintaining his home in
| Dunkirk. N. Y. the people of his
! home district decided that he was
the sort of man who ought to help
| work out progressive. betterment
/ plans for the entire country, SO they
| elected him to Congress by big
| majority. and then reelected him by
more than 10000.
| Since he came to Congress he has
| been more in demand than ever as
! speaker and in an advisory capacity.
| throughout the entire country. On
| account of his congressional duties.
| which he takes very seriously, con-
| sidering his first duty is to the home
| folks, who sent him here, he can
/ accept only a limited number of sick
/ calls. However, he manages to get
this month he is to speak and confer
| with civic leaders in Dayton, Ohio;
| Reading, Pa, and other places.
| 1t really is at considerable self
sacrifice that Representative Reed is
| continuing in Congress = from "a
! financial point of view, because he
| can command a much larger salary
| as civic organizer: but a sense OF
/ obligation, duty and satisfaction IN
| the work of Congress $ one of the
i best ways in which a man can serve
his country keeps him here.
lite is recognized as one of the real
experts in this line of promotion
work and has the support of the
! largest manufacturers in the country.
in spite of the fact that he tells
! them in the bluntest kind OF Ian
guage when he thinks they are MAX
! ing mistakes and what they should
| do. He spoke thus frankly to them
| recently at a conference of the United
| Industries of the State of New York,
| at Syracuse, discussing the impor-
| lance of housing and providing good
| living and recreational facilities. He
1 emphasized to them that as
| surfing living and recreational facilt-
| ties comparable to American stand
| ards of living was the surest way to
| cure the turnover in labor, which
is one Of the biggest industrial haz-
/, ards.
| Representative Reed emphasizes
that the labor turnover at several
| plants in community generally
would pay for all the Improvements
| called for by his prescription. And
he insists when talking 20 the manu-
| facturers that this is only fair to
| labor. That the manufacturers take
| this in a good spirit is shown by the
! fact that he has been called to Day
| ton, Ohio. three times within year
| for conferences on contemplated i'm
! provements.
This appreciation Of his work is not
Representative Reeds own version by
any means, because, while he is in
tensely interested in it, and thinks it
is one that can command the best
| talent of any outstanding American,
he seldom talks about it and few of
his colleagues even realize that
specialist along these lines is sitting
among them. Public opinion in the
communities where he has worked
and accomplished has pronounced
these appreciations in newspaper edi-
toria1s and in the Endorsements of
leading men who have come here to
try to get Reed to come back and
lhelp them some more. These include
men like F. A. Aldrich, secretary. and
J. D. bort, president. Of the bort Motor
Company; Leonard Freeman. president
Of the Freeman Dairy Company. at
Flint, Mich. and Edward Vaught. pres
ident of the chamber Of commerce OF
Oklahoma City.
Representative Reed has no fixed
plan of ten commandments or eight
beatitudes or anything OF that sort
| to be preached and applied generally
| rejuvenation. He works with the
communities that want to improve
themselves, studying each locality in
dividually and applying whatever
| corrective measures are best ntted
to that particular place and the local
needs. not only OF today. but also Tor
tomorrow.
But Dan Reed does establish one
constant valuation for citizenship,
which he sets forth everywhere he
goes. 1t is this: mo man Is worth
more than he contributes to the So
tupbuilding of the community In which
he lives"