Evening star., 1931-06-13
COMPANY EXPANDS
PLANT ACTIVITIES
Increase in Sales Since First
of Year Scored by Min
neSota Firm.
BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR.

Special Dispatch to Tie Star.
NEW YORK, June 13-Charles L.
Horn, president of the Federal Cartridge
Co, of Anoka, MINI, is one Northwest
ern industrialist who is expanding his
business.
we have increased our force by SO
men since the beginning of the year,
MI Horn said I'VE have no COM
plants 10 make. Our statesmen are
getting results. and our sales are ahead
of last year. I cannot understand why
more business houses do not at least
make an attempt to send their statesmen
out Most of them have the blues.
They 90 not think anything can be
DONE and hence any such movement
would be merely waste of money.
But that psychology is fatal, I be-
lieve. Its all too prevalent, not only in
the Northwest but through the country.
If business men would just quit sitting
around complaining about what IS going
on. they would be surprised at what
would happen in their own lines. or
course we have had to go through the
present crisis. but I'll bet my last nickel
that the fellow that's on the job cover
ing his territory thoroughly right now
IS the one that is going to b. on top
when conditions become normal
Farmer Labor Party.
Northwestern business men are eager
1y watching the increasing influence of
the Farmer LABOR party in Minnesota.
Eight years ago. the. party first came
into national prominence by the cleo
tion of Hendrix Shipstead to the United
States Senate, defeating Frank B. Kel-
logg, then United States Senator. Last
Fall the Farmer Labor party elected
Floyd B. Olson Governor against a
normal Republican majority of 100000.
This week w. A. Anderson, Farmer
Labor candidate for mayor of Mime
apolis, defeated eX-Mayor George Leach,
veteran of the war, by the biggest ma
jOrity ever given a mayOraliJy candi-
date in the largest city of Minnesota.
With three major Offices, Senator,
Governor and mayor, the Republican
party must look to its laurelS if it is
TO survive as the majority party. The
Democratic party has long since ceased
to be formidable.
The two old parties had better
wake up or they'll find the Northwest
under the complete domination of new
political forces" said a leading Min
neapolis banker this week. We have
taken too much for granted in the
past. The people demand jobs. If they
cannot get them, they insist that their
families must be supported. The
Farmcr-Labor party right now is
reaping the benefit largely of our
stupidity
Competition for Work.
What are all these graduates going
to do when they leave college today?'
President L. D. Coffman was asked at
the graduating exercises of Minnesota
University last Monday night.
The university graduated over 1900
in its various colleges this year. These
graduates are now looking for work.
How many will find the jobs they
"There is a definite number of these
Young people that are needed every
wear in the teaching profession SAID
President Coffman 1T takes by far
the largest per cent of every graduating
class. The others will have to stand
up against the competition Of modern
life and do the best they can"
To an outsider it looks as though the
graduates of today are up against II
harder than were those OF 70 years
ago The competition for places in
professional work is extremely keen
much more than it was two decades
ago.
Vincents Popularity.
DR.. George E. Vincent, who has Just
retired as president of the Rockefeller
n,
dav as a public speaker as he was 70
years ago when he was professor OF
sociology at the University Of Chicago.
Probably no public speaker in Amer
lea has a bigger vocabulary than this
educator When he speaks, every word
is chiseled and distinct. He Is COM
paratively easy to follow. 1t is related
that while he was president of the
University of Minnesota he was asked
to make an address before the Bankers
Club of New York City. On that oc-
Casion, John D. Rockefeller, jr., was
sitting at the speakers table. He had
never heard DR.. Vincent speak.
When the doctor had finished, Rookie
feller turned to a friend and said
"Any man who can speak like that
would make an ideal person to have
with the Rockefeller Foundation"
Not many weeks later the announce
ment was made that DR.. Vincent had
resigned as president of the University
of Minnesota to accept the presidency
of the Rockefeller Foundation. That
was in 1919. DR.. Vincent was asked
recently how much money he had given
away as a representative of the FOun-
dation during his term of Office. He
thought a minute and then said:
Roughly, I should say little over
100000, 900.
Power Consumption.
Net earnings for 1881 of approXi-
mately SAT 100000 are indicated by the
Associated Gas & Electric Co, which
serves 5000 communities and has more
than 100000 security holders spread
over 48 States and 25 foreign countries.
About 73 per cent of its revenues is
derived from electricity and 18 per cent
from gas. The net is a decline of only
2 per cent from the year before.
&c Fo1t re ho hnoT1
realized despite the slump in the in
Gustrial use of electricity, because do
mestic use shows such wide expansion.
The company during the last year has
secured $4,000 new customers and sold
S9.000,000 worth of appliances. This
may seem surprising to many people,
who feel that unemployment and bad
business should cut purchasing power
and, therefore, consumption. But here
are the facts:
During the period named the COM
pany also spent $50 900 600 pushing new
construction. The main projects were
the Saluda hydroelectric plant in South
Carolina, Gilbert Station in Holland,
N. j., and the hydroelectric develop
ment of Botocan Falls, about so miles
outside Manila, in the Philippines. In
Cidentally, this laSt-named job, while
unheralded to the general public, has
been characterized as another great
monument TO American engineering
skill and persistence. 1t was necessary
to cut through a dense tropical jungle
and then up into a jagged mountain
range to build the dam on quickSand-
like base.
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