The Washington times., 1922-11-05
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plants throughout the country there
would be better relations between
bosses and men.
Since the days OF the founder of
the Pullman Company its heads
have not been practical men IA
miliar with how TO run machinery
or the like, The other day the com.
pany's new president, r.. +. Carry,
was I'm the works, and while in.
specting rather important job. re.
marked that 1t could be done better
by doing IL in different way.
which he briefly outlined.
A nearby workman overheard Mr..
Carrys comments and remarked, in
a tone OF intense amaZement TO one
OF his co'workers:
Great heavens; he understands
it."
The American public will by and
by begin to understand that the
Pullman Company is now striving
industriously TO provide improved
travelling facilities and also to re-
store the genuine courtesy and
civility we used to receive from
Pullman conductors and porters in
pre-McAdoo days.
nave JuSl ilNO - iS' oN'iiNS
the brilliant and interchangeable
comma nder.in.chiet of the National
Cash Registers army Of statesmen,
and he declares that October was
the best October in the company's
long history and was also the big
gest business month OF the year.
was particularly glad 10 learn
that the company has been re-
"a
machines and not attempting TO
boost prices.
Mr.. Steffey is on his way home
to Dayton after conducting a long
series OF conventions OF y. {. X.
statesmen all through the West and
IN Canada, where. by the way, con
ditions are even better than they
are in most parts Of the United
States The best business or all
says MIR. Steffey, is at present
coming from northern New Eng
land. where the settlemnt OF
strikes has brought a notable busi.
ness rebound. California is doing
extraordinarily well. The South. as
a whole, is manifesting gratifying
recovery.
This will interest those who are
always eager to note how a big
mans son shapes up as his dad S
successor. Frederick b. Patterson,
the only son Of the late John II.
Patterson, and who took over the
presidency of the n. G. X. not very
long ago, headed the party OF Off
cials conducting the conventions.
but when Mr.. Patterson received
word while he was on the Paciflc
coast that Dayton could hope 10
retain McCook aviation field only
il $350,0 or $500 900 were raised
to provide the Federal Government
with necessary land, he Immediate
ly jumped on the train. threw him
self whole e-heartedly into the rails
ing of this large sum, and carried
! the job through to success.
! Apparently, although tremendous
! ly interested in building up the y.
C. X. to still greater dimensions,
the son is a chip of the old block
and means to devote part of his
time and talents and resources TO
public and other worthy purposes.
New York likes to claim IL has
the biggest this, and the bigges;
| that, in the world. Well, New
York hasn't the biggest advertising
mems association in the world.
Chicago has that.
When / went to address the men,
bers at luncheon l was astounded
to find an attendance of something
| like 500. There wasn't vacant
seat in the whole place.
| Happily, II wasn't one-man al
fair. After my talk anyone was at
liberty to ask questions. | Couldn'
but note that the nearer the Allan
tic one travels the greater becomes
the interest in what's what and
what's likely to be what in Europe.
can't attempt today to discuss
European problems further than tC
express. my opinion that things
have been so bad for so long in Eu'
rope that they can move on the
whole only in one direction. name
ly, toward composure and better
ment.
1t would look as If a college edu
cation and the packing business
don't go hand in hand. Horace y
Wetmore, son of the live-wire presi
dent of the First National Bank oI
Chicago. has just left the sopho
more class at the University of Wis
| COnSln 10 start WOih dS IL 1tiuti ~
the stock yards here.
J. Ogden Armour didn't finish col
lege, as he also was anxious to get
into grips with the packing business
Louis +. Swift, now head of the
largest packing business In the world
wanted to get into the cattle pens
az soon as he graduated from grad'
school, but his father compromised
by agreeing not to send Louis T.
college II he would stick until III
completed the high school course.
Thomas +. Wilson is another
leading packer who didn't ~
through college.
My recollection Is that Eddie
Morris also was so much in low,
with the work at the stock yar'l'
that he likewise didn't stay a.
school long enough to earn a col
lege diploma.
To those of us on the outside, the
stock yards do not seem particu
larly attractive, but somehow they
seem to get into the blood of IN,
packers sons, and win them away
from school and college at an early
age.
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