The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-26
STICK TO
YOUR JOB,
IS ADVICE
F. Edison White and James
Simpson Declare 'SticktuI-
tiveneSS' Wins.
BY ROY J. GIBBONS
NEA Service Writer


NEA Service Writer
ri HICAGO, Sept. 26.-Stick to
IL your bush!
III II you contemplate chang
ing that job Of yours for a seeming
ly better one just around the cor
ner, hearken first to the advice
proffered by two men here who
have just risen from the ranks, 10
combined control of an estimated
billion dollars worth of separate
industries.
Both F. Edison White and his
contemporary, James Simpson, be-
gan life sharing mental duties.
Simpson was $5-a-week office boy.
White, a handy lad with cattle around
the slaughter houses.
mi ODAY both are Independently
| wealthy, have thousands Of
- people-including many OF
their former bosses-working for
them. and have decidedly reached
that fatryland goal toward which
all Of US are striving-the land OF
the "go-getters" -easy street.
Simpson has Just been elected pres
ident of Marshall Field s. Company,
probably the largest wholesale and
retail department store on earth.
And climbing simultaneously with
him, White, who chose the packing
industry for his particular realm, on
the same day, almost the very hour,
that Simpson came into his own.
was named president of Armour &
Company. largest Of the worlds big
Five" meat distribution concerns, with
ramifcations extending to every cor
ner Of the globe.
Their rise. purely on merit, has
furnished the biggest business ro-
nance of the past decade.
Whites elevation to his high place
means the triumph Of a one-time cat
tie herder. and meat inspector, and
likewise marks the first day, since
Armour 6 Co. was founded In 1852,
that the firm has been operated with
out an Armour descendant in the
presidents chair.
Xvi HILE Simpson. who once APP
NV preached Marshall Field Sr.
IL for a raise and told the mere
chant prince that perhaps he wasn't
worth any more, when Field coun-
tered that when he was a boy he
worked for much less than what
Simpson was then getting, represents
a self-made product who got where
he Is simply because he stuck"
Both men are about the same age,
each bordering close 10 the half cen
fury mark. And each disclaims any
chartered road to success, though
insistntly giving the prevalent rumor
popular with n great many young
men the lie, that the age Of opportu-
nifty is passed and that you have to
have a relative in the firm to get any
where"
TN Simpsons case, achievement,
so those who know him say.
- Eame not from any spectacular
brtlliancy. but from q combination Of
contributing circumstances which he
brought about through his glue-like
'sticlltultiveness" and the never veer-
ing custom Of doing everything we'll"
Today this former office boy runs
score of mills. has a large sized
city Of workers under him in Chi
cago, and In addition IS at the head
Of an army Of statesmen, who require
flfty-hve salesmanagers to direct their
canvass Of every town and hamlet in
the land
Character is the first essential in
any mans progress" Simpson related.
Those who get TO the top In any
line Of endeavor are invariably the
type OF men who have calculated their
rise by sound principle, right living,
and a combination of doing things I'M
der correct and experienced rules"