To Enjoy One Job Have
Many, Mauney Advises
B, ROBERT BROWN
In Knoxville Journal
Versatility has preserved youth for
John Haralson Mauney.
"Don't work," is his advice, "unles
\ou can love the work."
And to prove his philosophy, this
hospital manager, real estate man.
farmer, dairyman, truck Gardner, ex
, ditive. contractor, father, husband
and guardian has only to be seen. He
j> 4.") and looks 30.
"Many people ruin their health and
prow old prematurely by plodding,"
he -aid. "My advice would almost be
'don't work,' because I believe a per
son ought to do only that work which
i- ? interesting to him that it is not
work at all, but play."
Mr. Mauney is "secretary" of Fort
Sanders Hospital. He modestly gives
himself this title, but as a matter of
fact, he owns the controlling inler
est.
Outside the hospital, Mr. Mauney
wner of a farm and dairy, which
he humorously alludes to as the
"Cow's Country Club." Soon it will
be given a definite name, however ;
either Bear Hollow Dairy of Fort
Sanders Dairy.
Here the humorous and the prac
tical side meet, in his "personal drink
ing cups" for the cows. When a ??ow 1
thrusts her nose in her drinking bowl
a trick gadget automatically turns
on the water.
He is also contractor for two homes
now under construction in West
Knoxville.
Horn in Murphy, N. C., John Mau
ney ftill in high school, was attracted
by the most mysterious thing in the
nciphborhood ? the telegraph in the
railroad station.
Out of school, he set about learning
telegraphy. For a salary of five dol
lars a month, he worked long hours
for a year. Then he was raised to
[eight dollars.
A job as telegraph operator in Cul
berson, a few miles away, came his
way. Here he worked for $25 a
month, not bad for a lad of 17.
After a year, the railroad, the old
A. K. & N., put him with the con
struction gang in charge of all the
time keepers. Soon he was trans
ferred to Knoxville as cashier of the
railroad.
On the same day that he came t<?
Knoxville from North Carolina. Miss
Edith Dore came to Knoxville with
her parents, from western New York.
Miss Dore later became Mrs. Mau
ri ey.
Then a mysterious event occurred. ,
which has never been explained. Dr. ,
George A. Hubbell, president of the !
Lincoln Memorial, which then had its
medical school in Knoxville. came to
Mr. Mauney with a strange message.
The university wanted him to become
I manager of the Lincoln Memorial
hospital, now part of Knoxville Gen
eral.
"Oh. you want l>r. Moonev," the
youthful cashier told him. "Not me;
I know nothing about hospitals."
"Yes, it's you we want." Dr. Hub
bell replied. "You hav?- been rec
ommended to us. 1 will not say by
whom."
"And 1 never learned who recom
mended me, or what he recommended
me for,'" Mr. Mauney said. "I went,
and there was no end of trouble. It
is always that way when everybody
knows more about the job than the
boss. But I made it a littl<- easier by
staying a month before I let them
know I was manager.
"After four years L. M. U. sold the
hospital to the city of Knoxville and
took me to Harropate. as business
manager of the university, and later,
manager of their forestry depart
ment. I managed to pet two year?- <>f
university work while I was there.
"Then a proup of the physician* I
had worked for opened th?- Fort San- i
deis Hospital, and asked me to be
come ma nape r."
The farm kept calling to him, too.
He bought a place of -U'O acres, a*
what was known as Wripht's Kerry,
or Bear Hollow, in Blount County,
and * "re bepan to establish his
< ow>* Country Club." Tom West,
veteran farmer, now runs th?- place
for him. and a modern dairy is now
being built. The farm, across the .
river, ha> brought nearer his home
in Knoxville by his own ferry, oper
ated by river current power.
For several years, however. Mr. |
Mauney has conducted a dairy at j
his home. Bluff View Road, just be- ]
yond Sequoyah Hills. There he pro- j
duce- all the milk needed for the
hospital, and has a milk route be- j
side?
Throuph all his diver- if ied "jobs" |
there* can be seen evidence of the |
direction of the sinple mind. For 1
instance, there is the same scrupulous
cleanliness in his dairy that is neces
sary in the hospital.
And there is the same fipht against
bacteria. When the dairy was first
established, bacteria in the milk was
comparitively hiph. He found that
the milk put into bottles cooled too
slowly, since the center of the bottle
stayed warm lonp enough for the
bacteria to prow.
He remedied this by installing a
cooler, in which the milk trickles
over an ice-filled cone, and cools
from the fresh milk temperature to
below 4(1 degrees in just a few mo
ments. And the bacterial content
is nc-w far below the average, he said. 1
He has been raising on his farm I
about two-thirds of the vegetables
uwed by the hospital, also. And with '
all this work, which sometimes neces- i
sarily includes his milking some of !
the cows, he is a building contractor. ;
One of his buildings, a new home j
for Dr. William R. Cross, on Alta
Vista Way. i> nearing completion.
Another residence in Wtet Knoxville
was started by him last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Mauney have two
children. Helen Elizabeth, 21 and
Ada Ruth. 15. They have taken the
guardianship of another child, Zena
Buslova. 12.
Zena's father ami mother were
both physicians in the Russian army.
Her father was killed, and she came
to America ?vith her mother, who be
came resident physician at Fort San
ders Hospital. Mrs. Buslova died last
' July, and the Mauneys took the
little girl.
Add to ail thi- the fact that Mr.
Mauney has built several pieces of
the furniture in his home, and we
| reach the conclusion he is a strenuous
'worker So it would seem, but:
"1 have the best time imaginable.*'
. he said. "It is the variety. I'd nev
er be able to -it ir; the hospital all
day. and do nothing else. I wouldn't
want to be merely a dairyman nor
to build and do nothing else. We
spend over a third of our time at
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