The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-01
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Bx LEMuEL F. PARTON

and no cheering mob for the moor
ATopnotcher but runs run. Similar r
Lightly Touched " the man
BY the Spotlight CORPORATION
may bat a steady stream of steel
ingots all the way to Tunis and still
the bands aren't playing. A steel
mill and its master don't fit easily
into any pattern Of high romance,
but it may win war.
Witness the bulky and baldish
Robert w. Wolcott, president Of
the Luken's Steel company, who,
since the war started has re-
leased more steel and less pub
iicity than probably any man in
America. His ingots and armor
plate output increased more
than 400 per cent in the last
fiscal year, while his column
inches in the newspapers have
slumped off, IL anything.
At its Coatesville, Pa, plant, his
company rolls individual armor
plates weighing more than 100000
| pounds each. In addition to rolling,
instead of additionally forging the
| plates, it turns out plates 1876 inches
wide as against the previous 155-
inch limit. The 1912 output has
yielded enough arnor plate for a
dozen big warships and hundreds Of
army tanks, and large tonnages for
lighter-gauge armor plate. The COM
pany reports, for the 1912 fiscal
year, which ended October 10, an
all-high, all-time record not only in
| the production of the rolled armor
plate but in all other types of steel
for this plant.
II he could somehow work Joe
Di Maggie and Rita Hayworth
into his report Mr.. W0lcott
might get a big cheer, east and
west. He is man Of manage
ment rather than finance, stead
lily moving up with the Luken's
company since 1922, elected
president of the 131-year-old out
fit in 1925.
The First World war interrupted
his college term at Lehigh universal
| ty and sent him to Boston where
he was a lieutenant in naval avia-
ton. With the end of the war, he
apprenticed himself in the steel BUSH
ness with the Bethlehem Fabrication
company of Bethlehem, Pa. He
| Joined Luken's as manager Of its
| warehouse and fabricating depart
ment. When he became president,
at the age Of 80, he was one of the
youngest top executives in the his+
tory Of the industry. He has kept
his mind on his work.
TN APRIL, 1882, the depression be-
gan gnawing at the vitals Of the
United States congress. Congress
men suffered illness to an almost un-
Dr.. CALDER Keeps d Ra fre.
Health of Solons quently di-
On the Upgrade Dr.. George
| w. Calver, congressional physician,
as worry ailments. While these af-
| fiictions were varied, frequently
marked by cold developing into
something worse, they were in the
general field of fatigue and frustra-
ton, and frequently led to coronary
occlusion, or heart trouble, the men,
ace of men who fret too much and
| exercise too ittle-a common dis
ease of the ''intelligentsia," said DR..
Calver, although that is fighting
word to many congressman.
Ten years later, after q year
CO Of war, burdened with perhaps
greater responsibility than any
| other, this congress Is as fit as
1. quarter horses. Only three
members died this year, against
L an average Of IL during the 20
years in which DR.. Calver has
been attending physician. Trou-
blesome, but not fatal illness, is
similarly away down. DR.. Cal
yer attributes this, In part, to
the lowered imminence of high
blood pressure, as incidental to
heated debates and COMPRESSION
al milling in general. There is
much less Of this now, as the
solons get together easier ON
WAX issues
DR.. Calver also says the good
showing is attributable to steadily
improving health education in con-
| gress, with more careful attention
to diet, exercise, rest and healthful
mental attitudes. All this, he has
pioneered diligently, coaching con-
| gressmen on how to take care of
themselves.
The tall, genial DR.. Calver is q
captain of the navy medical corps.
Congressman like him immensely,
but for some reason of their own
they turned down bill, in 1896,
which would have given him the
rank and pay of a rear admiral. He
is not allowed to charge fee for
his services, but gets it in his own
way in the form OF the autograph
Of each congressman whom he
treats. His Office is fully equipped
and stated to take care of anything