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If Dr. Hibben, Home From Europe, Tells of Reconstruction I
II Princeton University Head in Urging More-
Americanism Cites Foch and the
U Lesson of the Marne
WHKV rrsstdent Tohr. Orler Hibben
Of Princeton University returned
the other dav from hit vacation In
Furrpa he brought back M settled com lr -tlons
two Idea that he had taken over
with him to try them out. Neither one ap
pear under a new arrangement of color
rut a they are -tin under general dlvuaaion
they need not be laid on a aheif ticketed
like moral but dull maxima. Aa he put thee
conviction into deliberate language hi
lltUOlr trove to impress every wed on hi'
! nrmory in order 10 top.i thm wl'ii equal
W deliberation.
M "I took oer with me the Americanism
hat 1 know by my contact with our youth
trom every part of 6ur land to b the
true Americanism, one of confidence and
aspiration." said Dr. Hibben. "I Inrrnded to
welch this spirit with the doubt and de-
(aporidnc cf Europe to be able to proil ieoi
which would win out if they came In con
fltct. The recent bomb horror In New York ha
placed on the scale the bitter hitred of
wealth and ordered livlnc that has crown
out of feneration oppressed In Kuropo and
' he spirit of our youth In whom it would he
impossible to Inculcate there dark lesson?"
nvery one of the hoys In this and th other
Treat achoola know he ha a chance to be
like the man he would emulate and this
Wllnjf i at th firm foundation of our In
stitution. The lesson we should apply wa
taught us by Foch at the Mnrne to Strike
on the offensive when the moment has coins
to abandon the defensive
Where Princeton H eroei Rett.
1 "Although, the stay of Mr. Hibben and
myself In London for ten days or so of
r 1 rarly Full was madi delightful bj our pei
ajB ilcipatlon in several enjoyable festivities to
HI ' . l h I shall terer again we were neverthe-
IBlB W anxious to croe to the Continent, to start
doing what we went over to ojo this was to
visit the graves of our Princeton boy who
Bi Oil In the war. I need not recall what the
Hi ytari 1916 1117 1 f 1 8 meant to Princeton.
In a way it was our war Just as the Victory
gjtjik' seemed like our victory. The othe- great
mA schools that displayed equally potent patriot'
E Ism will pardon us the possessive
B There wort many Princetonlan who did
H not come bade and our quest had to take a
K devious course; now to crowded cemeteries
Bj where they .slept In numbers and now to
H little, obscure corners where two or three
of them lay aide by side. From Zehrugg.
where we rowed out to see the ruined sea
wall, we plunged at once into devastated
Belgium, drawing breath at Nieuport and
again at Ypres. At the latter place, the loss
Of whose exquisite town haM and cathedral
la mourned by artist and tourist alike, we
began tG get sense of th gigantic v. ork
of reconstruction to be done "
"Toll If. these sections Is Incessant but
It seems a if the surface onl' Imd been
cleared off a little. The mass of debris to be
taken away ( inconceivable: The sites of
village, site and no more, make one think
of depressing things . . . they are hu
man ant heaps with the busy Inhabitants
driven out. a-at'ered and destroyed. Wbat
histories, farces, tragedies have been played
out in the vicinity of these ruinous piles of
stones, all forgotten In the culminating ex
tinction !
"But alongside of these dreary heaps
bloomed fields of waving grains the most
bounteous harvests. Bvery available square
foit of ea:ih producing in abundance and
kindly nature promising. sweet resurrec
tion !
Evidences of Prosperity Reviewed.
"Oor search, rewarded hero and there by
the melancholy satisfaction wo felt In stand
Inj b) the grave of one of Princeton's own.
led us through western Belgium eastward
to Namur. Liege and other tcwns and cities
that did not suffer to the extent of those In
the weal. and. In fan. In these eastern Bel
gian cities there arc to be seen many evl
denCOS of proapcritv renewed, factories of all
kinds, woollen mills, iron works have re
sumed production on a vast sa!e
1 heei-ed by these sights, we passed to
niieims. to Verdun and the Argonne. till at
lwat we stood at the fcot of the hill of Ho
mesne and our eyea could take In the gentl'
incline, where In a garden of green shrub
bery and beds of flowers sleep S4.000 of 0'ir
American dead. The national banner float.
:i majestic folds overhead and the peace
anc beauty of the cemetery, which la now
American ground, are unequalled.
This re-time leads me to the first of m
. nvi. tions. it Is that these devoted one
vhould be left where Ihry lie 1 feel amass
ment when I read that attempts are stil 1
making to bring them back. I had though,
sych mistaken efforts had been thwarted
It appears not. and. since this false sent!
n ent prevails in some minds, let me say to
tj t mourner that could he see. as r did. I hi rij
beaviiful God's Acre.' with lis plants and r
fowera tended so lovingly, he would sav to
mtl me that there l every reason for lea" w n
Ips the boys where they are and no good
"a?ftt4J' tiff &r '
y7?yysysv. o.xv)5vAArYlvjf awa' vV' wv-v a"X.v a a'
DR. JOHN GR.IER HIBBEN
0 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
iscn lor bringing them home. J fc-el
ofgly that our Printetonians would Mnn
be left by the side of ihein comrades
ere they fought
llornagne graveyard '. as much a monu
Great South American Republic for More
Than a Century Has Benefited by Yan
kee Business Enterprise
victorious "reconquuiiudore." ari(j the van
OUlehed "invasoies" when the terni of
acuation were being made He took a'
prominent part in the revolution of 1S10
and waa lnst umental "in connecting Will
iam Brown, ihe Irishman who afterward
1 came the Argentine Admiral and who
- :-mmenced hb- naval career in Philadel
phia with 'he revolutionary authorities.
White previously formed h business part
nership with Brown, and together they car
rkd on. before Brown took charge of the
Argentine navy, a profitable shipping and
commercial trade.
The American, however again got Into
di:favo. with th Government and in 1815
was promptly banished to Uruguay with
ome others, mostly foreigners. He re
turned to Buenos Aires when a more favor
srle administration assumed power and In
stituted law proceedings against the Gov
einment 'for recovery of property, which
l'oceedings ere remarkable a.s an example
cf "the law's delay - ;i decision in the case
net having been Anally arrived at when the
pia ntiff died. In 1S4J
An American who i rarely 1 poken of now
adays In the Argentine o: anywhere else,
and yet who is inseparably bound to one of
Argentina's grandest figures. Gen Belgrano
was Dr Joseph Redhead. Some writers have
set him down as a Britisher but the "Docu
mentos te 3elgrano" leave no doub: about
this matter After practising his profession
for some, time in Ihe lirst years of the nine
teenth century at Buenos Aires he removed
to the then very remote city of Tucuman,
where the first Argentine National Congress
was held In 1S1C
The two great battles of Tucuman and
Salta were won by the patriots under Bel
crano. and Dr Redhead was not alone the
General pbysh ian but his close and trusted
friend. Something even jti.tv than a per
sonal friendship spiung up between the two
men, and it wan with Redhead's assistance
that the brilliant Aigentine soldier and
statesman translated our Declaration of In
dependence Into the language of his own
country for the Inspiration of hisjeople.
.Juat a hundred years ago last June Bcl
Rrano, while his Government owed him a
considerable sum of money, died in e.Mreme
poverty, and the only recompense he was
able to make to his physician and collaborator
was to bequeath to hlni an old silver watch
and the warmest expressions of affection
and gratitude.
To an American Thomas Lloyd Halsey.
our first consular representative in Buenos
Aires is ii,e the honor of being also the
first to make any practical effort to improve
the breed of live stock In the great Pampa
Und. which long ago became one of the prin
cipal stock raising countries of the world.
At big risk, and with what would seem al
most insurmountable difllculties, he managed
to have smuggled out or Spain and trans
ported to Buenos Aires In 1813 some 35 ewe
and rams with which to begin the improve
ment of the sheep stock of the counti How
muc li Argentina's world famed wool industry
OWea to the costly venture and persistent
zeal of thaw enterprising American cannot
be entered into in an article as short as this
must be but he ought to be about first In
lhat line of Argentina's beuefuctors.
Another of our countrymen who has left
bis name indelibly written on the scroll f
ihe meritorious down there was Stephen
Ifailet. who In 182S gave to all South
America. In the city of Buenos Aires. Its
first dally p.per. La Gaceta Uercantil. The
Gacrin was taken over some twelve yean
later by the Dictator Don Juan Manuel de
Ras ;ind continued .c the Government
organ until the fall of that most terrible of
.Souih American rulers. In February, 1852.
At the time the Harrta tlprcatltll was
founded there was a very Important iii rl
can colony In Buenos .Vres. and uj IO tins
date and for several yearfl after the Ameri
cans were the only foreigners who annually
celebrated their national holiday In Argen
tina ; the Irish being a good second them
The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Pirate
In 1SDS h Yankee boy who had run away
from home to become a pirate on the ro
mantic Spanish Main was put off his pri
vateer, as a tenderfoot, at Buenos Aires.
This boy afterward wrote a book entitled
"Twenty-four Years in Argentina.'' but be
fore he- wrote the book he had fought a
hundred lights for Argentine freedom and
had become a Colonel In the liberating
armies His experiences throughout these
years, as told in his book, give one a won
derful insight Into Argentina of a centu'V
mint to our country as It is to the ol
d't-r.. , it is a tie between France and Anier
ev rhe French in spite of volatility-, nr
a (l.-'p feeling loyal mmde.i people. Wher
icr we went In our yuest we found th
What Americans Did to Build Argentina
iBY THOMAS MURRAY.
T"T rlTH the exception of Mexico alone
no one of the republics to the
south of us has in recent years
ben ittractinr so much of our attention as
( ,"- thai one furthest below us on the map, but
closest up to us on the laborious climb to
the heights of first-place national progreaa
To win and hold our due share of the trade
nf the great countries of the Plaie has
been so much the desire of American manu
facturers and exporters that at '.east half a
dozen commissions representative of these
interests have visited Buenos Aires in as
many years.
ni diplomatic representation there has
been raised to the grade of an embassy, our
consular establishment has been given an
efficiency and importance which puts It at
the top of its class, and the Argentine cap
ital was one of the first places to which we
snt one of our new commercial attaches.
It is no exaggeration, then, to say thai
Argentina is one of the foremost of the
American republics in our official, and the
very foremost in our commercial, considera
tion Argentina' Rie.
In view of the sudden rise of Argentina
to not only a first place among the Amer
ican republics but to a very high place
among ;hs nations of the world, and in
- view of the natural and strenuous effcrts to
expand American trade there, this position
of Importance in our consideration may no:
at all seem strange. And yet It is strange
strange, and very interesting.
It is strange that the special activities of
our Government and the business orders
alluded to should he necessary to the ob
taining for American trade and commerce
the position which it held a hundred years
ago. and interesting to tudy how a tiade
that at the end of the first third of the last
century was almost wholly In American
hands should hae passed to those of others
before the last third of the century svas
reached. But lhat interesting study is an
other question, a thing aprt from the pur
pose of this article, my aim here being
merely to remember the names of a few of
the Americans who made our country be
loved In that distant land three generations
ago
In 1S30 the statement was made In a
commercial paper of Buenos Aires .hat two
thirds of the carrying trade of the Plate
parts was done by American ships Sir
Woodbine Parish. British Consul to Buenos
Aire, tells that when he reached that city
in i S"4 most of the furniture to be found in
the family houses of the capital was of
American manufacture American coaches
P were then the only light vehicles Vnown In
' rhe country and American (lour hid found
Its wa there long before it became popular
In Europe About tho time Parish wrote of
thut was h movement of Irish and other
"migrants from this country to the new
republic of the Far South.
Among the first Americans lo distinguish
.emeHes in what is now the Argentine
Republic as William P. White a Bos
innian. who settled in Buenos Aires when a
very young man. He was of an advetitur
oi nature an J on more than one occasion
narrowly escaped losing his life as the con
sequence of his part in high Slate matters.
White, it Is said, assisted the English lit
i hen two invasions of Buenos Air. in
and U07. However tills may be. he
pied th part of Interpreter between the
a-" His name was King and he was an
ot her American who should be better know
both here hi heme- and in the land lor ' bos'
Ireedom he braved ,-ind suffered hj much.
The American family of Uawsoii gave
Argentina its greatest constitutional lawyei
so far, uid ihe American cltfcten Willlan
Wheejrignt In the early sixties. Its firs
ffreat railroad pystem So highly have the
Americans bei regarded by the Argcntln
I eople that thr are streets in the ArgCJl
tine . itiev tnd towns in tin- Argentine prov
es sailed after them.
1 was .amused some few years ago n
Buenos Aires to har a very able and sue
cessful 'American business man. who at tl.
time had been !"s than tweptj years in th
country, boast lhat he wj: one -of th
American piofteerj of the piece. Anmng on
i.ijlneMS people his Idea of America s par
in Argentina's rise and progress is by u
means Singular, and yet a hundred year
,. eviOUSly three of the best known com
m 'rrlii houses of Buenos Aire? were those
White, tdncll ft Zimmerman and Miller nl
Americana th' grea' business firms of Big
l v lire T B. Coffin .t- Co. and Samuel E
llale & Co. taking rise within a short Mm
after. i
In 1818. when the United Stales Govern
ment sent Messrs. Rodney and Graham ti
Buenos Aires to report on the advisability o
formally recognizing the independence of th
Aigi-ntlne Republic, they were entertained a
a great banquet and ball or;,.i iljsed In the!
honor !v the Americans or Buenos Aires
There was even an American hotel In Bucnu
y.lres In tho-ce far off days, and America!
business advertiaemerits in the few periodica
newspapers of the time e. crv more numer iu
thai, those of other nationalities;
Met Statesmen at Spa Conference and Dis
cussed League of Nations With Them '
and America's Attitude I
s m Mdences of their love and gratitude
ri is not in France that the name of America
will ever be mentioned without affection
"Sorrowful satisfaction filled our thought
'ben we finally cams to the cemetery at
Ronl near St Quentln, where a great per
BOnal f.iend. a Princeton boy. hep bur.ed. I
have not named the others and T will nat
name him. but as there had been doubts
ni ni . where he ay we were glad to hav
t'.em aolved by reading his name and In
t igrla on the little cross raised over his
crave. Heliatrope and pansy sweetened th
pnt.
Cardinal Mercisr at Hot.
"On July 13 Cardinal Mercier cave a
luncheon for us in his palace a Malines.
Tuc American Ambassador to France vnd we
were the foreign guests and. the rest were
Belg!an friends Cardinal Mercier. great per
sonality lovely soul, tteemed llks a dear
friend: he had stopped with us hre at
Princeton when the University honored itself
by living him a degree and he reciprocated
this simple hospitality of ours In a manifold
degree.
At lx)uvain also we were entertained by
rector of the university and members
Of the faculty. Magnificent donation? have
been made already to the famous I brary.
but what can tuke the place of the wonder
ful old manuscripts that the Germans de
stroyed'.' The work of clearing up the ruins
goes forward without Intei mission and the
university hopes to rebuild, but the work
has not yet been started.
"Our headquarters to August 4 was Paris,
win. h we made the starting point of our
trips to the cemeteries. Day after day we
set forth by train and automob.le. often
oflng turned back when in the latter vehicle
;. impassable roads and closed streets. 1
thought by what 1 had read that I realised
what the destruction meant I didn''. One
must see it with his own eves iti order to
omprehend for no words cin describe the
' monotony of these i ulnd districts
rhe French people havs a lively appi ecia
;n.ii of what American people have done and
me doing to give them back then homea.
They accept gratefully the shelter of the
poilab'.e houses Hnd watcl with eagernei.s
ihe slow proceee of rebuilding their village.
What criticism I have heard of now this
work Is bc-mg done comes from this uidts of
the Occam It has been said that th new
work Is foreign to the genius of the people,
but what I saw of it whs gcing np on the
" eld lines
Chango for the Better
"This reconstruction work is o'. con
ventional character it has So be but the
aim seems to be to preserve whenever pos
io.c ih ancient note in the aichitcclur
nd to raise a clean old village on WTlHl
sTfl presumably a dirty old villaQ-'. Mr an I
light are no longer excluded as In mediaeval
days when many of these building were
first erected and an archaic flavor is some
n how imparted to the modern structure.
a "1 believe when these works aie com-
plct 6 they will be found ccepihble allk
' to artist and resident Old Fiance seems to
have strangely neglected Ait In the
11 provinces, but new France i? keeping it In
1 view. Beauty before the vsar was thought
-' to cm 'only in Parts. Cities do not ex
e haust the cornedle humaine and In the
villages only can the 'vople develop that
sense of special belonging ethlch if tge
root of ?o many virtues.
I "This effort to raise again aiicien'
beauty and Join it to modem comfort IS no-
" sel.'-eontradlctory The thing the bjilder
are trying to avoii is making Die country
e one vast, featureless monotony Mannonl
r ou diversity Is the concept they seek to
realize.
We were at Spa quests Ol the VlUg
R Fraineust by courtesy of th Belgian Am
haesadoi at the time of the conference held
( fhere between Lloyd Gfrge. Miilerand and
II Giolltti Ifere I co'ild measute by mean'
of numerous Important conversations how
I ejoep Is 'lie 'eelii-.p of regret felt by the b1
e minds of Furop?. because America so singU
;i :y seTis to ha ue withdrawn from a posi
tion of commanding world Impprlnnc.
0 'This W the second thought I took with
f me to lurope which 1 brought back
f -MMed conviction. It i that this nation can
t not afford to remain out of a league foundec
r on the hope of bringing to the world uni
versa I order and maintaining it by mori
fi ice. A position of iolAtion will put us
1 Bl s disadvantage These United Slate-"
I should have a very definite place in the
s L?ague of Nations and by accepting such a
r' ec wc would advantage our country of a
rreat opportunity. With refsrence to our H
country's future, to remain outside th
league If an unwise policy. H
"The European nations, embarrassed by H
their own difficulties, of whleh providing H
the means of living is not th least, need our H
moral support and appeal to us for It. H
Frankly I believe that to put the United
States In the position of refusing te j
this moral support is to place our country J
In a false light before the world.
"European statesmen w ho talked w (th. ms
on thla absorbing subject did so courteously.
of course, but with seme bitterness. .
thought. They voiced deep regret because
of America's reluctance to join in an effort
at world regeneration. They would show
me the headlines in .newspapers wars arid
rumors of warn and when I woild sak why
the Lcagu of Nations did not clean no
these troubles their reply was. j
"'It can't without America. Your countrr J
the keyston" of the arch. With tha
keystone in place the arch will stand united;
without the keystone the arch will fall.' i
"I met Ellhu Root at the dinner slven
the British Covernment to do him honor. V
look place on the night of the dedication in
London of Lincoln's statue. The place was
Lancaster HOUSS and Farl CurSOtl presided.
Lord Bryce slid many notable men of both
countries attended. There were no speeches
but the tulle privately between men was of
"he lea sue and Mr. Root's attitude toward t.
Thu belief generally expressed, and I hold
the tame, is that Mr. Loot has taken no
bi-ief to kill the league but lather to preserve
it and to bri',g America, safeguarded by her
constitution, Into It.
Ai to Root' Belief.
"1 do not believe that Loot accepts the
argument of league opponents who say that
by entering it Amo-ica automatica'ly en--agea
he.se'f to participate In any and
every European war Only within the limit
ot her constitution shr would b readyto
throw her power Into a combination t-
thwart any diabolical attempt to destroy
society, such aa the last war was
' As I said, there were no speeches at this
dinner, and in England as here at home,
the custom of accompanying with oratory
every prandial event ecms to be happily
dying out Tt never will be missed.
"Earlier In our London stay I went to the
dinner given by the Oxford men to our
Princeton contingent at 'Queen's Club Th
"'xfori and Princeton fe'lows ami down
after training together : Trinity, in Oxford.
and a better exhibition or good fellrwship
a.id s-fruiinr snortsniansh'p wa never sn
They were all brotheis. kn6 displayed true
brotherly sentiments
"Another charming affair of a lmllar
kind was the dinner held on July 9 ,t Dr
Johnson's fapious old club, the Cheabtrs
Cheese. All the Prlncetonlant then in Lon
cion turned out to .his and there wer
seventy-five Oxford men acting as hosts.
Speech" Were barred o course, but there
were plenty or lively sor.gn and a constant
IQSS and catch 0f w ttj epigram.
7 he fiiendly relation between this Unl
rmty and Cambridge and Oxford constt-
te in a degree a league in themselves
fr.e - are growing more and more to like
c as they know us better, and the good
fi el.nc Is amply reciprocated by Princeton
r. v have three men going with degrees ."rom
he re to Camb; ulge and a many to e,tford
In Reitful Scotland
HHVlng sccoinpllMhed what went to
Europe .'or I mean the visits w paid to
'tie graves of our Princeton dead througn
rnofves of luve and admiration we were
t j led. i suppose to play's utile m r,on-
il n hu- we .-o.-.:i ian away from this gay
et to Bcotland and then to the Isle of
St vc where we ti ed to get balanced by
niaking up lob- r-eiiod.-- of sleep Nature .a
t Bkye Just as Khs in at lovely Princeton
i c- same soothing influence and in her
v.ie w could sleep naturally again
"If I slaved up to even a reasonable night
Im ii it was on :he excuse that l wished to
HO the moonhs " ripple over the sombie
Ater In mairai tranquillity. Echoes of
jr IverSlty doings, fragments of London eon-
If occasionaliv floated jj io us. but they
appeared Inconsequential We only worked
Terr over in tue general pattern of the
oeture of our fii' foreign travel since our
'slt to Switzerland id li'U. when our re-
irn waj held up by riie war. At Sky e w-
Waited rather sor.inotentfy for the summon
t'.iat the wider deep would send that Is th
-.ailing of Ihe Olympic, or which we had J
laker return passage."
From Office Boy to Company Head in 25 Years I
TWENTY-FIVE vears ago ari ulert lad
f 16 years walked confidently into
the offices of the waring Bat Manu
facturing Corporation in Vonkeis ;:nu an
nounced that he. had come in answer to an
advertisement in the local newspaper for an
office boy. In about fifteen minutes he had
talked the superintendent into giving bin:
the Job and was busy plying the dust rag
after ;i fashion calculated to earn the utmost
s rn and contempt of 3 modern office boy.
In due course he did everything that a good
office boy was supposed to do in those days:
ran eriands, met rollers filled inkwells an i
mended pens.
The cheerful smile, good nature and good
bense of the new office boy soon attracted
he attention of shrewd old John T. Waring,
who never neglected the slightest detail that
would tend to the upward, and onward marcli
of the business which he formed In 18H.
The boy was given the opportunity of learn
ing every branch of the hat business. When
,,oi employed in the office he would go out
into the factory and watch the mechanics at
work cutting the fur from the skins-, mattln
it into felt and giving the hat its first rouph
shape He soon became fumiliar with th
processes of "sizing ' "blocking.' "pouncuik- "
"finishing." "trimming" and flanging."
Sometimes the new boy was sent out with
the salesmen on the road to bring back or
ders lo the factory, so that ho gained an in
sight into the most important branch of the
organization.
Step by step the newcomer was promoted
W illiam V. Campbell's Rise in Hat Industry
Credited to Hard Work
as other men qui I or moved up higher, until
fl the nge of I'S he was supennt ndent over
nil the Waring plants, :md his u K. had to
g'j on millions of hats destined to adorn the
heads of men and women the world over.
Five Ncirs later he was made vice-president
of the cbm pan jr, and a few weeks ago he
wa offered and accepted the presidency.
Thus at the age of 41 William V. Camp
bell finds hiin.stlf directing the energies of
thousands at the head of one of the most
important factors in the hat making indus
trv In the United States. He succeeds Ar
thur B. Waring, who retired after half a
etiitury of activity in the corporation.
Mr Campbell, who is one or the youngest
executives In the hat industry. Is a tru
type of a successful American business man
of the modern school, dean cut, quiet .spoken
and modes! He has a muscular develop
ment bespeaking much exercise out of doors
When a;ked to what he attributes his suc
cess he usually teplles. ' Hard w-ork and op
portunity. I guess." and lets it go at that
"I was no different from any other boy."
bc-san Mr. Campbell in reply to the epjery as
to how he got his start, "and 1 tried two or
three Jobs before 1 found the right one.
Few men g'-t mlo their life work at the
start, you kmr.v. 1 applied for the Job in
ihe Waring Ht Manufacturing Corporation
because 1 decided that there arc greater op
portunltiCH with large concerns They paid
nie 53 a week lo start.
It occurred to me that 1 could rmii;- more
money in the factor where 1 aw boys
earning 'wo or thre times my salary and
I sought the advice of an old factor;, hxnd.
He urged me to stick to the office end of
the business and I took his tip. Ho was one
of ihe first to congratulate me on my good
luck the other day. After that I was more
cum Hnd begaji to enjoy my work.
"Hnvnig decided to stick to the hat busi
ness buckled down to work and 'r.ed to
learn everything there was to learn, both
in th factory and the office. Things c D B
my way and I alwav a seemed to be around
w hen opportunities were going."
"Do ou think there are as many oppor
tunities in this age for young men with
nothing but ability?" Mr. Campbell was
asked.
"I believe." replied Mr. Campbell ear
nestly, "that under our democratic system
industry there is always an opportunity
fci the individual who is willing to lake
himself seriously. I should say there are
greater opportunities to-day than hereto
fcte. After all. It is th man and not th 3
.ob which counts."
Asked to define the qualities thai wn 'n
'vmesf. Mr Campbell said he though'
1 cat integrity, loyalty and enthusiasm wars
int. traits most valued in employees bv bust
r.e.vs organizations.
"' think that many young men to-day
want to get ahead too fast," he went on.
"They :nart well, bu' oun get discourage,!.
Frequently they are not willing to worx
'lard to attain their desires, but would rather
S-end their tim idly dreaming of the for
tir.es other men have Young men of this
raracter are always easting about for way.
and means of gelling something for no'.h
Itagl and old age generaJly finds them stl 1
looking. "
Without the art of pleasing, however, a
Man risc.t heavily, according to Mr. Camp
':e'L opinion ITe attributes much of his
advancement to the fact that he was able
tn Inspire bis associates with confidence in
Mmself.
Seeing Lightning Strike
ONE July a scientist had the unucaal
fortune to see a bolt of lightning
strike an isolated Cottonwood tre
about a quarter of a mile away. The flash
appeared as a superb column or shaft of
light about four hundred or five hundred
feet high and eight to twele inches in diam
eter, perfectly straight, vertical and steady.
The shaft was white, with lis base tinged
vMth red. This column seemed to stand be
tween two diverging trunks of the tree, and
lasted about two seconds.
Afterward the scientist found that ons of
the two trunks of the double tree had us
bark stripped off In the shape of a ribbon
six Inches wide and two yards long. Th
other trunk showed two furrows beginning
ten feet above the ground. They looked as
If they had been ploughed by a piece of steel.
There was no sign of fire.
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