Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-05-16

ent industrial editor of The Outlook
magazine, orator and writer, came to
Newark Thursday of last week as the
guest and principal speaker at the
Chamber of Commerce dinner, he
was stranger in strange land No
body was personally acquainted with
him or had listened to his talks, al
though many had read and enjoyed
his writings.
When he left town that night, every
person who met him, especially those
who heard his address on passing
the Buck" was his warm friend and
personal booster.
Sherman Rogers is a graduate of
| the great lumber camps of the west.
He was a lumber jack for years, en-
| tering the big woods at the age of
and coming out of the west at the age
| of thirty-one. He has been employed
in the silver mines of Nevada, the salt
mines of Utah, the copper mines of
| Idaho, the gold mines of California
and the big forests of several west
ern states. He was brought up where
men knew what hard knocks meant
and his companions and associates
were mostly members of the |. w. w.
who predominated in nearly western
mining region. Men in whom labor
agitators were constantly endeavor-
ing to foster the belief that the en-
ployer was a tyrant grinding the life
out of employees.
Rogers, who has listened to ha-
rangues of this nature times without
number, suddenly became inspired.
Why could not be interest the en-
ployers with his big idea that "all
men are square?" With this object
in view he went to Seattle and secur-
ed an audience with one of the lum-
Der kings and interested him to such
an extent that he had him visit his
own men int he woods and there at
the camps talk to them. Others be-
came interested and soon conditions
began to improve.
Later he came east and landed in
New York with but a few dollars in
his pocket. After uphill work for a
long time his writings began to at
tract attention, and he finally was in
vited to address one of the most eX-
elusive organizations in that city, of
which William Rockefeller, Jr., was
president There he told them many
plain and startling truths, among
other things saying that so long as
they walked about with a chip on
their shoulder they could always find
a fight, and that there were always
three sides to every question-"Your
side, the other fellows side, and the
right side"
The Masonic assembly hall, where
the dinner was held, was crowded to
it's capacity, and what probably never
happened before, not a single guest
left before the gathering was closed.
Warren Suter, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, who presided,
in a brief address, commended the
members on the hearty cooperation
given the Chamber, and introduced a
number of visitors, including a num-
the general offices, and visitors from
GAINESVILLE, Mt. Vernon and other
places.
Nelson Dodd, secretary and mana
ger of the Chamber, did not take time
to read a detailed report, but spoke
briefly on the coming campaign to
double the membership, and asked the
support of every citizen, and slogan
of "Let's Get Together" was suggest
ed and adopted.
Harry Scott, of the Home Building
Association, at whose suggestion Mr..
Rogers had been invited then intro
duced the speaker of the evening.
The address was a masterpiece.
The speaker favored a doctrine of
love and faith between employer and
employe, and censured the heads and
owners of big concerns, who do not
know their men; never visit their or
ganizations, and he said most of the
strife between labor and capital was
due to lack of contact between those
two, which as consequence produced
misunderstanding on the part of
both.
He stated five PRINCIPLES were
necessary to do away with strife,
namely:
First, that there are three sides
to everv question, yours, the
other fellows and the right side.
Second, that 95 per cent of the
is bound to be a difference in
vision.
Third, that there is no man or
woman big enough to hate and
reason at the same time.
Fourth, that you can inspire re-
spect but you cannot force it; you
can inspire confidence but you
canont compel it.
Fifth, that faith in men is the
gyroscope of civilization.
In conclusion Mr.. Rogers advised