Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-27
MORROW BROTHERS
STARTED ON FARM
Canadians Who Planned
United Cigar Stores Deal
Have Won Great Success.
BY JOHN f. SINCLAIR.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, August 27.-George K
Morrow and his brother, Frederick K
Morrow. who headed the group which
purchased the United Cigar Stores Co.
from the Whalen interests for a price
exceeding $100000,000, were formerly
farmer boys born near Toronto, Canada.
George K, Sc. has become chairman
of the board of the United Cigar Stores
Co., while Frederick, AZ, has become the
president.
George left Canada to seek his fortune
in the United States IS years ago. He
was just 81. He began with Swift 81
Co. of Chicago. then with the Quaker
, Oats Co. A few years later he founded
a merchant brokers' business in New
York. His first big job. intrusted to
him by bankers. was the reorganiza-
ton of the American Cotton OIL Co.
During this time. his younger brother,
Frederick, began his business career in
Toronto But the brothers have worked
closely together. First they bought the
American LinSeed Co. from the Rookie
Teller interests: then they secured con-
troll of the Standard Milling Co.; next
the Christie-Brown Co., Canadian bis
cult manufacturers; then Consolidated
Bakeries of Canada. All have been, made
very prosperous.
after another was taken on.
But it was through his development OF
the Gold Dust Corporation that George
Morrow became we'll known in American
finance.
Frederick K. is director Of the Bank
of Toronto, the Gold Dust Corporation.
the Christie Brown Co. and many other
Canadian corporations.
Associated with these unusual brothers
In their various enterprises. are two
other we'll known CanadianS-W. A.
Black, president of the Ogilvie Flour
Mills Of Montreal. director of the
Canadian-Pacific Railway. and also a
director of the Bank of Montreal, and
Sir Herbert Holt, president Of the Royal
Bank of Canada, also director Of the
Canadian-Pacific Railway.
The Morrow group, in addition, has
obtained the services Of r. w. Jameson,
who made such an outstanding success
of the Dominion. Stores in Canada. So
chalk up another score for successful
brothers in industry.
jeremiah w. jerks, who died on Sat-
urday last, was one of the most dis
tinguished of American educators.
Born in the small town of st. Clair
Mich, 70 years ago, he was a graduate
of several universities, including Mich
igan and the University of Halle Ger
many. Early in life he taught such
widely diversified subjects as Greek,
Latin. German. English literature, po-
litical science, social science. public ad-
ministration and public finance.
But his real interest was in the more
practical lines of life. He. was fire.
quently asked by the United States
Government to investigate matters of
special importance. China and Mica
ragua asked his help in untangling
their currency problems. Still he had
time to write a score of books on
economic and financial questions. es-
pecially those dealing with immigration,
money and credit, trusts and combina-
tons, the youth movement and educa-
ton.
I had lunch with Mr.. jerks at the
Century Club in New York shortly be-
fore his death. We were discussing the
tendencies of certain university pro-
fessors to strait-jacket thinking ant
teaching.
THE university should never cham
pion any cause" said DR.. jerks on that
occasion. ut should not take sides. Its
job is to investigate and submit its flnd.
ings. 1t should not pour facts and sta
tistics into the students mind. It
should so develop its teaching staff that
the minds of the students would unfold
before them. The job of the university,
therefore, is the job of student develop
ment. The university should be the one
place best fitted to help the student
unfold and develop. To fill him full OF
facts Is useless task"
So friend of real education has de-
parted.
New York is still talking about the
$50 per cent stock dividend, amounting
to about $500 ,O00. 900, which the Trans
America Corporation declared last week.
This is the corporation headed by the
Western financial wizard, A. p. Gian-
mini, who was the first of the American
financiers to see clearly what would
happen in finance in the decade imme-
diately succeeding the war.
In addition, it was Mr.. Giannini who
saw, as a banking pioneer, that the
larger industrial units would demand