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The New York herald., 1921-01-09
Seemingly Highly Paid Executives Most Cases. Have Risen
the Ranks Those Who Draw $4,000 Run Into the Thou
sands, Though Accurate Estimates Cannot Be Made

to the National Employment Agency of this
city, however. the search for the men who
can make good is being carried to all parts
of the country and the agencies are asked
to search every field for high priced men.
no matter who else may happen to have
them. In one day this concern placed q
mine locator at $4,000 year and a railroad
engineer to go to China for like sum.
For the presidency of hundreds of indus
trial corporations in this country according
to B. c. Forbes, an annual salary of $4,000
is not unusual. while much larger sums are
often paid Production engineers who have
succeeded the unlamented efficiency experts,
are receiving enormous salaries. although
they seem only relatively SO, as they are
based on results. One wen known master of
mechanical processes is getting $4,000 a
year, of which $4,000 is fixed salary and
the balance based on output.
In banking and trust company circles
large salaries are given to those officials
who demonstrate their ability as getters Of
new business. In the large metropolitan
bank, for instance, the chairman of the
board who is rated according to his acquaint-
anceships and his influence draws from
$4,000 to 100000, the president $4,000 and
the vice-presidents $4,000, $4,000 and
$4,000, according to their rank and number.
In the transportation circles railroad
presidents often command 100000 year
termined by their ability to raise capital TO
direct the traffic details and above all to
develop new sources Of income or to find
men who have the brains and the creative
ability to do so.
Many of the men who receive large sal
aries also have other means of income
from royalties on Inventions, or from the
earnings Of companies in which they are
interested. which may double or triple their
fixed honoraria
These rewards, however, as are their
salaries have been earned by making new
opportunities. instituting economies. or In
some way adding to the sum Of human
wealth or to the commonweal
All phases Of human endeavor which have
been crowned with the high rewards of from
s25 900 to s50.oO0 a year or more are re-
vealed in the accompanying sketches OF
men and women who have won recognition
for themselves and also served humanity
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Continued on Eighth Page.

ager Mandel Brothers Department Stor-
II. X. kurrie, president Monon Railroad
Nnaries IL Markham, president Illinois Cen
trail Railroad
Harold F. McCorrnicl nrostaor, Y-.
uonal Harvester Company
Cyrus Mccormick. chairman ~ hoard rr,o,
National Harvester Company
oeuen Trevor McClurg. president A. c. Nc
Clurg & Co, publishers.
Arthur Meeker, general manager and vice
president Armour & Co
III. II. Merrick. president Chicago Great
Lakes Trust Company.
John J. Mitchell. chairman hoard ui,,oi.
trust Company Merchants Loan and
Trust Company and Corn Exchange Bank
George NJ. Reynolds, president Continental
and Commercial National BankN
julius Rosenwald. president Sears. Roebuck
4 Co.
r. Rudolph, vicc-president American Can
Company.
Frederick w. Rucckhelm. president RLeck-
helm Brothers & Eckstein.
John $, Runnells. president Pullman Com.
pany
Charles Schweppc vice. president ana ron
eral manager Lee. Higginson a. Co.
John c. shedd president Marshall Field &
Co
w. r. sidley. vice-president and general
counsel Western Electric Company.
'"i"cS Slhpsoh, Nlce-pres1dent and general
manaser Marshall Field & Co
Robert w. Stewart. chairman board stand
ard OH Company Of Indiana
w. b. Storey president Santa Fe Railroad
Silas IA, Strawn. president Montgomery
Ward & Co.
b. Il. Sunny, president Chicago Telephone
Company
r w. Upham, president Consumers Com.
pany
r-rar, 4, vx,o,,,o~e ..,- ,., -
Bank
Thomas f. Wilson. president Wilson & Co.
There are about as men who are known
10 he in receipt OF $4,000 salaries. which
they reached by making themselves indis-
pensabe in their respective fields.
The New York herald., 1921-01-09
By JOHN WALKER HARRINGTON.

ny JOnN WALhEN 1ANNlN1iO ON.
w yITH what measure of money man
\A/ shall be paid for his services is
the question Of the hour
Since the close of the European war
the dollar-a-year men have gone back
TO their desks and the ranks of executive
management are closing in compact forma
ton. Salaries Of $25.000 annually are grow
ing frequent, If not common, while there are
hundreds and perhaps thousands, of men
who are actually earning $4,000 and more
each year. So great has become the in
centive to reward special ability that there
are also women in executive positions who
are very near the $4,000 class and many
more are on the way. The invention OF the
typewriting machine In 1875 was the fore
runner of the feminine element in business.
but 1t has not been until the last decade that
the high salaried women Of business have
exceled as earners Of real money.
Surveys of the large cities of the United
states made by correspondents of THE NEW
YORK HERALD reveal an increasing demand
for men and women who can get results, for
human beings who can actually produce
instead Of pose and evolve theories.
As the metropolis brings to it talent from
all parts Of the country looking for mar
ket the number Of $4,000 and $4,000 men
is large IN New York, although Chicago is
a close second. In the large industries OF
the lake front there are from forty to forty
five men who are getting s5oo00 year or
more, while 1t Is estimated that about 375
are receiving a yearly stipend of $4,000 or
over.
1t is hard to find men who worth
from $25,O00 to $4,000 year. albeit there
is a surplus of those who think that they
are. Gen. T. Coleman du Pont was once asked
the secret of success and he summed it up
in the words: only ordinary work brings
ordinary pay" There is the quest for the
near superman In the realms of industry
and commerce, and especially is this so in
these days of readjustment and reconstruc-
tion.
Most of the promotions i'm these fields
come from within organizations to which
men belong, although lately agencies have
had hand in negotiating for candidates to
fill the advanced positions in the armies of
finance. industry and commerce. According
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may often be seen at some favorite .'loca
tion sitting in her own specially marked
camp chair and ordering the goings and
comings OF a mimic world
Miss Marion is interested especially in the
enterprises of Mary Pickford and Douglas
FAIRBANKS, who are reported to have enor
nous incomes II is estimated that the two
Vi men, realize half million dollars an
nually, but whether this is the exact f,ur,
ooes not matter so very much, for everybody
knows that the salaries of the screen folk
are very large. even after the salt of puh-
licity has been removed.
Charlie Chaplin is said to have an annual
salary of s650.00O, and other bright lumin.
ares OF the moving picture skies who began
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activity alone. and gives away most of it
to help poor young men cut the facets of
their talents on the wheel of education.
Starting as a poor boy himself DR.. Con-
well managed to get through Yale and law
school, and then turned from the bar to
what is accounted the most Improbable
calling on earth. that of the ministry. All
the same. he has made in his most interest
The New York herald., 1921-01-09

Ing career as lecturer, author. journalist
anc clergyman no less than $11, ,000, 900. At
the age of 7S he is still very much vitalized
and filled with the spirit of .hepfulness and
prophecy
When he started the Baptist Temple In
Philadelphia, one of the largest churches in
America. he had only ifty-seven cents. which
was contributed by little sick girl who said
that in her opinion the building ought to be
started at once.
He is also the president of Temple Uni
versity in the City of Brotherly Love.
For poor youth. born of poor parents
and having felt the sting of poverty, DIR.
Conwell has had the friendship of more
Of the great ones of the earth than many
men who were born to high estate. He
knew intimately Lincoln, Longfellow oliver
Wendell Holmes. Emerson and Bryant and
abroad he was familiar terms with Dick
ems. Tennyson and Garibaldi
In himself he is the best example of all
that he breaches and teaches.
r OLTDAYSBURG. Pa. is not at all the
II cheerful place that its name implies
= 4 For boy born on farm near that
hamlet life did not loom much In the way OF
$4,000 year. but to Samuel Rea came
vision of the world beyond. He was clerxing
in a country store when he heard strange
stories OF the railroad survey, which led him
TO apply for place as a rodman. II does not
require high order OF brains to carry and
hold a colored staff for others to sight at
through the theodolite. and some men stay
in the occupation OF acting as a lay figure
for years.
To Samuel Rea appeared the possibilities
of the great railroad system. and out of the
engineering department of the Pennsylvania
he proceeded by steady strides to the head
of the entire corporation. He was for time
in the employ of the Baltimore and Ohio.
but II did not take the Pennsylvania long to
realize that he was too valuable to be away
from the organization which initiated him.
AS q superintendent of bridge construction
and creator of road beds and embankments
hc followed out the best traditions of engi-
neering. His hold on the art of railroading,
however. was due to his ability to see big
things far ahead. His supervision OF the
work OF construction OF the Pennsylvania
tunnel under the Hudson and the East
rivers, and of the monumental and classic
pile known as the Pennsylvania Station
brought him the degree of Doctor of Science
from the University OF Pennsylvania when
his giant task was done.
II LBERT HENRY GARY as chairman
of the board Of the United States
- Steel Corporation gets 100000
year, nominal sum, which does not nearly
represent his annual income, as he also has
certain stocks and bonds.
When he was graduated from the law de-
partment of the University of Chicago he
was glad to get $12 week as a clerk, and
at the end of three years and.a half he had
risen to the high estate of taking s45 from
his Saturday pay envelope. He branched
out into the practice of law on his own ac-
count and made a $4,000 cleanup the first
year. At this time he was living in his home
town of Wheaton ILL.,, where he had gone
to the public schools as n farmers boy. and
he also practised law in Chicago.
Among his first clients were William
The New York herald., 1921-01-09
Personal Sketches Reveal Secrets of Success

systems remembered that bright young man
named Hedley and induced him to return
and apply his trains OF thought without
brakes to the management OF the traffic
through the big tunnel Mr.. Hedey has
been on the upgrade ever since. He Is now
one OF the busiest men In New York in his
efforts to keep the Interborough on the move
The New York herald., 1921-01-09

TT Is far reach from $50 week
stenographer to a $4,000 a year eff
cheney expert, but Miss Sarah II.
Young has had the system Of the magic
touch with which she has accomplished
feat in the business world.
After an education in the public schools
of Minnesota she took course In business
college. She then became secretary to Gov
John A. Johnson, and was thrilled by deep
interest in executive work. She had fallen
in love. head over heels in love- with her
job--and she has been ever since. Although
she is far from tickle, she has the habit OF
loving the last position best and doing her
work with all her might. While she was
secretary to George T. Simpson, the Attor-
ney- General of Minnesota. Miss Young also
studied law at nights at the st. Paul Law
School
When for while she grew tired of the
routine OF office life she tried homesteading
in Montana. The young woman. however.
felt that farming was not In her line. and
while she worked at IL she went after another
mental grub stake. This time she booked
up on all the kinds OF efficiency she could
learn about and then made some of her
special kind which proved a great success.
she soon made for herself place and a
name in the city Of the Golden Gate and Is
as much as ever infatuated--with work.
The New York herald., 1921-01-09

~ NE Of the highest paid professions In
L. J the world is that Of the expert min
Ing engineer. who Is paid for SER
vices on the basis of the results obtained
through his advice and counsel.
John Hays Hammond, whose salary and
fees from a well known firm of copper
miners is said to have been $1,000, 900 year.
Is typical of the men whose function Is TO
separate Mother Earth from her treasure
trove. He is a born explorer deliver into
the mysteries of the world and has in no way
been hampered by a varied technical educa-
ton. After boyhood spent in San Fran
cisco young Hammond entered the Sheffield
Scientific School of Yale University His
father graduate of West Point and a thor
ough going person. insisted on his going to
the School of Mines at Freiberg for that
was In the days when everybody believed
that education had to be made in Germany
The first man he tackled for a job was the
late Senator George Hearst noted gold
mine owner.
The only objection that l have to YOU"
said the Senator. lis that you have been to
Freioerg and have your head filled with a
lot of fool theories. Don't want any Kid
glove engineers"
IF you promise not TO tell my father"
rejoined the applicant. "I will tell you
something
All right" assented the Senator
II didn't learn n single thing in Ger
many"
So IT was that at Z O'Clock the next morn
ts.rr fhn f..l -
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fun of ideas. He rose in the confidence of
the Pennsylvania and when several large
locomotives were being built at the Baldwin
works he was chosen to go to the Baldwins
to supervise their construction. This was
his first introduction to the establishment,
Of which he became the head In three years
after he entered its employ. Such is Samuel
Vauclain. whose chief hobby is work and
who gets along, as he says. by attending
strictly to his own business. Decorated by
two nations for his services in the European
war. he stands in a prominent place ms the
head of a great industry.
The New York herald., 1921-01-09

~ nee there was youth who wandered
far from home in quest OF fame and
- fortune and returned crestfallen to
the abode Of his parents AS he looked from
his fathers house one morning he saw the
CLINT of very bright pebble and went over
and picked II up. This was the beginning OF
the world famous gem mines of Goconds,
and also the inspiration for the most profit
abls lecture ever delivered. Acres of Dia-
monds," which the Rev DR.. Russell II.
Conwell has delivered six thousand times in
all parts of this country and throughout the
world He makes $4,000 year out of this
The New York herald., 1921-01-09

\ n OST of us in this land have believed
MI at some time or other that we
could write for the movies. Some
times we send scrip" to the mill and when
we get it back, as we usually do. we are sure
to think that we see the grist Of it on the
screen in a cinema drama based on our stolen
story
All the more reason why all putative and
would-be scenario writer's should do honor to
Miss Frances Marion, who is reputed to earn
$4,000 year by writing screen plays thar
arrive. She Is now a director as well ana
The New York herald., 1921-01-09

Seps working twelve hours day for a Ions
time. On his advice his employer invested
millions of dollars. Mr.. Hammond. in order
to further prepare himself for his calling.
Joined the United States Geological Survey
AS an examiner Of gold mines and also took
practical training an ordinary workman
and also as foreman.
The New York herald., 1921-01-09

- ONE one once asked Samuel Vauclsin,
y the president OF the Baldwin Loco
motive Works OF Philadelphia. what
The New York herald., 1921-01-09

UT Of the diamond acre OF baseball
many riches for the salaried are
gathered.
The New York herald., 1921-01-09

T. LBERT HENRY GARY as chairman
o the board Of the United States
- Steel CORPORATION gets 800 900 a
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An airplane capable Of landing
without the need of large aviation
field, able to rise without Il long run
beforehand, able to travel more than
300 miles an hour, and, if necessary,
to meander along at but a few miles
an hour, is announced as the invention
of an Italian engineer Epaminanda
Berrucc of Rome. The inventor claims
that he already tried out the machine
on small scale and regarded his first
experiments as indicative Of the sue
cess of the invention. The new ma
chine is primarily intended for aerial
war chasing and is to be armed with
machine gun. 1t is monoplane.
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Obtain the Discovery in tablets or lio-
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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-11-25
In MoXis l and.

Property Man-You know the big
dragon we made for this piece?
The Directories.
you remember that we made the
tail In several pieces"
"Of course"
"Wel, the pieces got mixed up
somehow or other, and now l can't put
them together"
That's all right. Just call In the
continuity expert. youngstown Tele-
gram.
Good backing helps good front.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-11-25

Hattiesburg Ryan, aged 49,
living about a mile from Lux, in Gov,
ington county, is in Jail here, having
been arrested charged with the theft
of an automobile belonging to ]. A.
Simmons Of this city, which was stolen
from in front of a local theater.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-11-25

Leland.-The Wesley Bible class OF
the NJ E. church, South, has appoint
ed a committee to draft resolutions
commencing the president and Hughes
and others Of the great undertaking Of
bringing to a halt the building Of fur
Their battleships.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-11-25
The Block Signals
Are Working

In some respects, human experience
is like railroading.
Every moment of the business and
social day the block signals are giving
right of way to keenncss and alertness
while the slow and the heavy must
wait on the sidetrack for their chance
to move forward.
The ability to go through" and to
"get there" depends much on tbePoise of
body, brain and nerves that comes with
correct diet and proper nourisbment-
That's why so many choose Grape.
Nuts for breakfast and lunch. Served
with cream or milk it is completely
nourishiag, partly Pre-digested, and it
supplies the vital mineral salts SO
necessary to full nutrition.
Grape-Nuts has a rich, delightful
flavor, is ready to serve on the instant
and is distinctly the food for mental
and physical alertness and speed. At
all grocers.
''There's Reason
for Grape.Nuts
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-11-25

observation-disclosures Of Whit
worth's gymnasium courses presented
a beautiful pantomime called a Doll
Display the work of their instructor,
Miss Cain, to raise funds for the gym
equipment
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-11-25

Jackson Secretary Of State Power,
who is president of the state board Of
contracts, has notified printers and
publishers interested that the letting
Of the state printing contracts for the
next two years has been postponed
from Nov. % to Dec, 5, next
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-11-25

Hattiesburg Morris. who
went to Mobile, Ala, a few months
ago as general agent Of the Missis-
sippi Central railroad has again been
promoted, and will return to Hatties-
burg with the title of assistant gen
oral freight and passenger agent.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-11-25

Charleston.-Th people of ITALIA
hacthie county are gratified and elated
over the successes of Miss Elaine Mas
sey home economics agent for this
ounty, and her club members in the
recent fair contests.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-11-25

Coldwater--J. r. Callcott a leading
dairyman Of Coldwater, is the owner
Of a most unusual cow. She is a young
Jersey COW, with her first calf, and
during a period of two days she gave
II gallons Of weighed milk.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-11-25

Clarksdale.-M Sarah Robertson,
Of Memphis, a graduaet nurse, has a.
rived in Clarksdale and will be located
in the future, assisting in the work Of
the Coahoma county health unit as a
public nurse.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1921-09-13
4 MONUMENT no A pEMAeoeul

Gen. Benz II. Butler, known In the
South of former times as Beast" But
Ter. was chiefly famed for his methods
as military commander OF New Or
leans in 1869 and as defeated candi-
date of "the peoples party for Pres.
ident In 1884. The writer of his bio
graphy for the, International Cyclope-
dia intimates that he was violently
denounced" in the South without good
reason. II is not worth while TO go
into this matter, but we may observe
that Southern criticism of Butler in
the long ago, even under great provo
cation could hardly have been more
whitening than that now offered by
the leading newspaper of his own
state OF Massachusetts.
Referring TO proposition to appro-
pirate funds 70 erect an equestrian
statute In honor of Butler, the Spring
field Republican says that such a milf
tary monument would be "a perpetual
humiliation TO Massachusetts and an
object of. derision for the rest of the
world" because there Is nothing in
Buffers militray record TO entitie him,
To such an honor The Republican
adds:
The vwesslon Of the Massachusetts
house In favor Of the proposed Butler
statute seems to convict II of esteem
for che OF the cheapest. tiashiest, taw.
driest. most demagogie figures Amer
lean politics produced in the nine
teenth century. sss
i TAsfaipt.of personal corruption will
ever sNlung to Buffers war record
One OF the foremost historians. after
careful investigation. has deliberately
written; Il need not hesitate to az
! tlm that the weight OF the histories
evidence implies that Buffers course
! IN money matters during the yivi
War Was MOI what isseSpccsea OF mel
placed in. positions u trust heSons
/ reasonable doubt he was maxim:
} mooney out IL his country's life strug
) gsc What glorious epsss ph wonl'
Il o. sAis judgment ii the same hlstor
+. laas. ehlseled an The Rutler statute
MAY we he spared in Future sh'
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1921-09-13

The News regrets exceedingly that
the exegouclos Of the day. causes the
removal from puhll3 once Of such an
able and faithful public official as the
Hon. A. ]. Crovatt. for many years
Referee in Bankruptcy for a division
which has had its headquarters in this
city lor perhaps. twenty years. The
appointment Of waycross attorney
Is the post also removes the head
quarters 81 the division to that city,
m tier which We also regret. Judge
CgoYatt has served long and faith
fully IN the position and IA has earn
III splendid reputation Tor eoaseien
AlsmA assshns gsfsivp always As w
said il tue nrst paragraph II II re
gsess H. shM leonassions are such that
wears ii hcness nprsshs attention q
dmues aaes aog sesaln ran In q po
ssslosg eassAae With a great ladieia
responsibilities rs aneshvr msstor
sans os sers bad system gl'Aass All