Glacier County chief., 1940-03-22


pensation," frequently cited as
the sparkplug of business in the lat
ter's resistance to governmental in
I'll trusion, is
70 'Spark-Plug down to an
For Executive intra mural
Engagement
in George w. Hills argument with
certain stockholders of the Ameri-
can Tobacco company, of which he
is president. He fights resolution
to reduce the profit percentage
bonuses of the five top officials Of
the company, and says, 81 cannot,
with sef-respect, continue in the
company If a decision is made
which I must regard as repudia-
ton Of proved successful policies"
In the depression year Of 1880,
Mr.. Hill famed up sales to q figure
which yielded him So, 283 900 for his
years work. In 1898, his was the
top salary of American executives
1891 ,348, in addition to his bonus.
He did nicely in the years between,
and reminds his stockholders that,
during the IA years of his presi-
dency, the company paid $358, ESQ.,
AL in dividends and increased its
surplus. He thinks MANAGEMENT
like that needs incentive"
II it comes to a strike, it won't
be sitdown strike. Mr.. Hill never
likes to sit down if he can help
it. His staff discovered that when
he was pioneering radio advertising
with his personally supervised or
chestra in which he ran rehearsals
and whipped up terrific pace.
He has put q fast tap dance
tempo into his promotional
work, and has fielded more hot
advertising slogans than prob
Several of the most famous and
durable are his. He is q rather
small, .good-looking man with
vivid personality, highly ener-
gized, the Daniel Boone Of new
sales ideas.
Mr.. Hill was graduated from vii.
liams college, joined the American
Tobacco company in 1904 and be-
came president in December, 1925,
succeeding his father, the late Per
cival S. Hill.
THIS courier heard an argument
L the other day between a radio
technician and an amateur sociolo-
gist. The radio man said this new
modulated, or staticless radio, just
New Radio Idea would S'r nesn
Has Possibilities free air for
For a tFree-Air the people.
that it would
provide space for all corners to say
their say, that no government or
wave-band monopoly could block it,
and that it marked a tremendous
gain for free speech. The sociolo-
gist said the innovation came at a
time when the air was loaded with
international snarls and whines,
worse than static.
For good or i'll, it is Maj. Ed I
win F. Armstrong, Columbia
professor, who brings in the
change. More than 20 years
ago, back in the days of the
cats whisker and crystal sets
he has been crowding the future
with new radio devices. Wars
are apparently propitious for his
inventive spirit. In the World
war, we couldn't catch German
signals. He caught them, with
rig which brought along the
super-heterodyne, and other fix
ings which led him into a 20
year legal battle with Lee de
Forest. He was a hayloft radio
experimenter, and has been a
professor of engineering at Co.
lumbia since 1884.
This writer drives by his great
steel tower on the, cliffs at Alpine,
N. j., on which he staked $500, 900
to bring through today's frequency
meditation. We never understood
it, but, hung with red lights at
night to warn aviators, it had
Wellsian look of the shape of things
to come"
M ABILENE CARROLL, the
w moving picture actress, is
back from Europe expressing deep
concern over the fact that French
soldiers behind the lines earn only
80 cents a month. At Hollywood,
Miss Carroll organized a knitting
brigade for distressed French CT
villains and soldiers, and took with
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