The Washington times., 1921-06-18

duced, and he says IL In dollars, for
Grace's salary and share OF profts
have far exceeded a million dollars
in boom years.
Eugene Grace Is one OF the hardest
working executives in the United
States and he also plays equally hard.
They tell me here that he often
brings Chick Evans or other star
players and goes at golf with the
same concentrated intenseness as he
applies to business
GOLF is NOT GAME.
Edison says golf is not game,
but q profession.
Grace has put so much energy and
Intelligence into his golfing that he
could earn his living at II as pro-
fessionsL He believes that what's
| worth doing Is worth doing with
might and main and brain.
He was the same way at college,
both in studies and athletics. He
became conspicuous leader at both.
Have you not noticed that many
dynamic financial and business lead
ers throw themselves equally whole
heartedly into sport?
Apparently. the leadership spirit
developed by some men prods them
they take up. be IL business. sport.
philanthropy. music or anything else.
Frank Vanderlip. when president
of the largest bank in America,
used to look for fellows who became
leaders in some direction at college
whenever he had q $4,000 year
job to be filled.
He didn't care whether the leader
ship had been attained inside or out
| side the college walls. What he
| wanted when selecting a responsible
lieutenant was the stuff of which
| leadershfp is made.
VanderlIp's latest successor, Charles
Il. Mitchell. by the way. won un-
| usual distinction. FIRST in athletics
and later In studies, and graduated
| cum laude. the highest scholastic
honor his university could confer on
him.
Like Grace, and so many other
| fellows who have climbed to the top,
Mitchell is an enthusiastic golfer.
Charles II. Sabin. president of Amer
ica's largest trust company, is an
other man who believes in playing
with as much vigor as he applies
| to his work. lie WAS nrs- drawn
into banking because he was a star.
baseball pitcher. AMI the local bank
ing team, one of some note. badly
needed an expert pitcher.
Later Sabin took up that most
strenuous and dashing OF sports
polo. Now he sp.nds more time on
| the golf links than on the polo field.
He vows that The man who hasn't
learned to play hasn't learned now
to work most effectively.
FARRELL Is BOATING EXPERT
James A. Farrell is as export at
handling a boat as he is at directing!
as president. the operations ~ the.
two o-billion-doilar steel corporation.
and his rather scanty leisure is spent
mostly on the water.
Judge Gary doesn't go in for sport.
| Schwab would rather have music
than golf, or any other form Of ath-
letfcs-
Coleman DUPONT Is a crack shot.
| crack swimmer, crack wrestler and
an all round athlete His college
| record as an athlete, not as stu
dent. was exceptionally notable and
as versatile as his subsequent
| achievements in business have been
J. p Morgan has not made any
mark in any line of recreation. He
has little ambition of any kind.
But his partners have. and the house
of Morgan Is today the most influen-
tial banking house In the world, bar
none.
II. p. Dawson. the star Of them all.
is still out of the ring because Of COM
plete collapse OF his nervous system
| Tom Lamont is the active Morgan
leader at present; his reputation
| abroad is ace high. He takes very
little, probably too little, time for
| recreation; a mistake that / rather
| think Is being committed by several
other Morgan partners including
Dwight Morrow, Tom Cochran and T.,
R Stettinius-
Quite a number OF leaders neglect
| pbysicai recreation on the plea II find
| nv recreation in my work" This, /
have often noticed. The men who
devote a fair amount of time to some
form OF sport are nearly always more
| popular, better mixers and warmer
| hearted than those who are Nall work
and no play" fellows. DO you know
| that some Of our multimillion7'res
self made, are so engrossed In their
money-making that they are abso-
| lutely barren OF close Intimate first
name friends?
could name list OF such tragedies
| nat would astound the public and
| perhaps afford a little consolation 10
those who are richer in friends than
| In pocket,
The need is for most Of our young
| men to devote more time and thought
| 10 their work and less to play and for
most of our men of grave affairs to
devote more time to play and less to
work. After all, the business OF life
Is not business, but living.
INDIA WANTS U. S. TRADE,
| cAvc ROMRAY MERCHANT