The Washington herald., 1921-10-02

"NiIENENf.E ,Arre was promotion to
w be given out" said Martin Barnaby
Madden, 81 got it. That was not because 1
was any smarter than other boys nor be-
cause I had any better start. but because
was the lad with the information.
IT believe that the plan which fol-
lowed from the very beginning IL the surest
Of al ways to success. studied the job
was on, read books that told about that par
ticular thing, went b night school and took
the courses that showed me how to master
the thing at which I was working.
ANY youngster can do the same. II -
is sweeping out shoe store, he can learn in
cry on the shelves. II he 10 washing auto
mobiles in q garage, the door Of the great
industry Is open 10 him If he begins to study
machines II he is hoeing cotton, he can
master the scientific principles back Of cui-
tvation and become q better man at Il tAan
the fellow who merely hoes cotton.
Wherever he Is working he has but b
study the thing be Ii doing and his employer
viii find out that be knows more about IL
than his fellows and the opportunities for
advancement will be offered him. There will
Be 30 few other boys doing the same thing
that he viii have little competition"
The speaker has recently come to one of
those four or i've top jobs in the administra-
ton of the affairs of the greatest nation in
the world. Martin Barnaby Madden wa,
recently chosen chairman of the Appropria-
tons Committss of the House of Repre-
.kk A.
COMMITTEES, that committee which under the
new scheme of things must originate all the
legislation which sets aside money for run
ming this Government, whether it be $2400
for q consul down in Siam or $500, 900 900
i0r this years maintenance Of a peace time
army.
And when Consress chose this new chief
q its Budget Committee It forgot all about
that matter Of precedence which 20 often
figures In committee appointments. 1t
needed Q man who knew the job, % It picked
Madden, hurdled him over the heads Of other
men in line who had not subscribed in early
boyhood to the theory of studying the job
and who were, therefore, not so ready for
promotion.
MY mother and father were both born In
England, though my fathers people were
Of a quite pure Irish strain. Despite pov.
srty they managed to get to America and
planted themselves with their family of eight
children ut the town Of Lamont in the rock
region of the Des PLANES Valley, just out
ode Of Chicago. This was more than fifty
years ago, and Chicago was Q spravled -oul
struggling town and the Illinois and Miehi-
gan Canal, which ran down through Lamont,
was one Of its principal arteries Of trans
portation. Chicago was just beginning to
feel its growing pains and this rocky valley
through which the canal ran furnished it,
best and most available supply Of building
material. 80 It was that quarries began
to develop and prosper In this region.
sT WAS but ten years old when went
i over to q quarry near our house and
got q job carrying q tin bucket of crystal
water from a nearby spring from one gang of
workmen to anothef. I got fifty cents q
DAY for this work, which money carried
home on Saturday night and turned into the
family hoard.
The first practical thing In behalf of my
employers that ever attempted vas IN re-
rard 10 this same jcb Of watR-earrying.
] showed them how Q pipe could Be run from
die spring to the quarry, thus doing away
with the necessity Of hiring boys 70 carry the
buckets back and forth all that distance. Ny
susssstion was followed and thus . saving
was made- A little later On I called the
attention Of he bon to the tact that wh9-
ever the men finished 4 days work thsy lsfs
their tools uncarsd for and exposed to the
weather and danger Of lo0. These tools rep
resented considerable investment and the
effectiveness Of the work depended very much
upon Their being kent in good. eondition. !
showed L0s they could b gathered m anl