The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

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 banker, Senator Wheeler first won his spurs in Montana as a lawyer and fighter of corporate interests there. Governor Bryan, somehow, neglected to become a lawyer. Incidentally, more than two-thirds of our senate at Wash ington usually are lawyers.
 The door which leads to the law school would appear to lead also not only to high public office, but to the mountain tops of the business world.
 The head of the largest industrial enterprise in the world, the United States Steel Corporation, was a lawyer and judge when he first became inter- ested in business matters, namely, E. H. Gary I rather think that the re- markable success achieved by Judge Gary at the helm of the Steel Corpora tion has influenced some other corpora tions to select men of legal training as their chief executives.
 No enterprise in America is showing a more wonderful record than the Gen. eral Electric company. When its Yete- ran founder and upbuilder, c. A. Coffin, decided that the time had come for him to hand over the rein to younger man, he chose q lawyer, Owen D. Young, whose ability and fame have since spread to the farthest corners of the world. Mir. Young early was drawn to the electrical field through handling important problems for Stone and Webster.
 The wonders being wrought by hydro-electric companies in California have been repeatedly proclaimed to the American people. And with good req son. The two largest power companies in the Golden State have made history. Both are headed by men of legal train ing. John B. Miller, president of the Southern California Edison company, began life in law office, while Wig ginton E. Creed had won brilliant reputation as a lawyer before he was called upon to take over the reins of the Pacific Gas and Electric company.
 The oil industry has become one of the largest in the country. Here also legal lights shine The Standard Oil company of Indiana, which supplies more gasoline than any other company in America, and whose expansion has been phenomenal, is guided by an ex- tremely able man, Robert w. Stewart, ex-lawyer Edward l.. Doheny spent the first twenty years of his active life ens4a prospector, but while lying in a koI 10 Op- casiOn to study law and was admitted to the bar, although he never hung out his shingle as q lawyer.
 The Texas company, another of our very big oil concerns, has a lawyer at its head, Judge Beatty. Only the other day. announcement was made that lawyer; Jacob France, had been elected president of .Cosden and. company. Curiously, on the same day the news papers recorded that another member of the France family, although no rela- tive to Royal W. France, also a lawyer, had been elected president of the Salts Textile Manufacturing company, de scribed as "the largest raised fabric cr'nnany in the world"
 ''.The president of the largest sugar refining company, in the. world, Earl D. BabSt, was a lawyer. - ~f-
 The president of the gas company supplying the largest city in America, George B. Cortelyou, of the Consoli- dated Gas company of New York, was lawyer.
 The president of the largest financial institution in America, Charles E. Mitch ell, took q night course in law to equip himself the better for handling business problems.
 William A. Gaston, leading Boston banker, was lawyer,
 You often hear it said that almost every railroad head has come up through the ranks. This is in the main true, but lawyers have managed to annex a few fthe biggest railroad propositions in the land.
 The New York Central for many years had lawyer at its head, the in trepid Chauncey NJ. Depew, who is still on the job daily as chairman of the board. And recently when q practical railroad man was made president the board selected a lawyer, A. H. Harris, as chairman of the finance committee.
 The president of the Chicago, Bur lington and Quincy, Hale Holden, at one time practiced law in Kansas City.
 Charles Donnelly, president of the Northern Pacific, was lawyer in Washington, D. C.
 The Southern Railway has been brought to its present stat2 of efficiency and placed on a dividend basis by a lawyer, Fairfax Harrison, president of the company.
 When Harrison looked around for a man to become his chief lieutenant it was Q lawyer he selected, Judge Lovett
 One of the foremost members of d. r. Morgan and company, Dwight w. Morrow, is lawyer.
 Alvan Macauley was lawyer until he took hold of the Packard Motor Car company.
 One could go on, but the allotted space is filled.
 Has the time come when young men should no longer be given Horace Gree ley's advice, Go west, young man, but should be told, Become a lawyer, young man?"
 LIVE STOCK CHICAGO, July 91.-Cattle: Receipts, 5000. General trade was uneven and spotty; better grades of fed steers were steady to strong; others were weak to 15c lower; native grassy and short-fed plain quality offerings showed most de- cline; top matured steers, $11.65; next high, SLIGO; several loads at $11.254 11.50; handy-weights, S11.40; no strictly choice yearlings here; best, $1O75; bulk