Newspapers / The Messenger and Intelligencer … / Aug. 16, 1918, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Messenger and Intelligencer and Ansonian (Wadesboro, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
The Mtmiigw and faleffifaicer SCHWAB, THE LEADER OF MEN Maa H (aWmMsTTrled te Bay as- the Prialaw n" Expect te Ships Th.s Ti i" "r Havr DrmaiKlrd. By Frank Parker Stockbndge n Greenoro laJM New. ) Charles M. Schwab, the biggest chip builder in the world, has taken over the biggest job of shipbuilding the world ever undertook. As di rector general of the Emergency Fleet corporation his task is to build almost a literal bridge of ships across the Atlantic, to spend unlimited bil lions if necessary to do it, but to do it We are getting ships faster than hips have ever been built before, and every "an in every sniPvard in Amer ica is working harder than ever before to produce ships even faster since Mr. Schwab took hold. What is the secret formula this man possesses that en ables him to get things done where other men, big men, able men, have failed? For Charles M. Schwab is the fifth man in a year to take a hoW of the shipbuilding job. The voice of approval that greeted his appoint ment was practically unanimous. What has he done to warrant the be lief that perhaps the biggest thing President Wilson has yet done was to make Mr. Schwab director-general of the Emergency Fleet corporation? There is only one answer person ality; the quality of leadership that makes men want to "work their heads off" for him; and already in a single month his personality has made itself felt Ships are slipping off the ways a little oftener, because be is on the job; every detail of ship construction has felt the quickening touch, and the whole ship programme is raining momentum from day to day. The credit, first for discerning that leadership was needed to speed up shipbuilding and then for command eering Mr. Schwab, belongs to Ed ward N. Hurley, chairman if the United States shipping board; but it took President Wilson's appeal to persuade the steel man to undertake the task. The appointment was made on April 16th. That very morning Mr. Schwab had told Chairman Hur ley that he regretted very much that he could not take up the work. Mr. Hurley had an ace up his sleeve, how ever. That afternoon, while Mr. Schwab was in the Washington office of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, the telephone rang. The White House would like to peak to Mr. Schwab." The steel man took up the telephone. When he pot the receiver down he said: "Buys, I guess I'm gone!" He drove to the White House and when he came back the expression of his face told the story. They got me," he said to the "boys" in the Bethlehem offices. "Now that I've got the job, what am I going to do with it?" The "boys" knew. Everybody who knew Mr. Schwab knew that he would deal with this "job" as he has dealt with every job since he first be came, at 19, a leader of men. Perhaps Mr. Schwab's methods of getting results are best explained by saying that he works with men as his instruments as other business men work with dollars. You can't get him to talk about ships or shells or steel fer more than 10 seconds before he begins to talk about men the men behind the product. It is the man that interest Mr. Schwab not men hi the mass hut the individual man He wants to help that particular man to do his work better and get more for doing it. When he talks of his Bethlehem Steel employes as partners" he means it. 'my "DR' Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin has proved more satisfactory than any other laxative I have ever used. The other members of my family also use it and we re commend it highly." ( From a letter to Dr. Mr. Charles Fenske, rmiaaeipnia, r"a. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin The Perfect Laxative Sold by Druggists Everywhere 50 cts. (22) $1.00 A combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin that acts m an easy, natural way, and is as safe tor children as it is positively effective on the strongest constitution. A trial bottle 2? SS nf? "5 of chare by writing to & !f" u 9Mdw.e11' 458 Washington Street, Monticello, Illinois. , He Rewards aad Praia- Good Work. Mr. Schwab beheves the bonus method is the beat means of getting the beat work out of every man asso ciated with him. Salaries have been merely normal, many of the moat im portant executives drawing only $100 a week. Bonuses for good work, for increased production, for economies in operation, and for actual achieve ment to the benefit of the company in many other directions, have been distributed all alon the line from the president down to the men in the blaat furnaces. So one of the very first things Mr. Schwab turned his attention to, when he became director general, was some means of applying the bonus system to the government's shipbuilding operations. There was no congres sional appropriation that could be id for that purpose, but that did not bother him. "I'll get some of my business friends to chip in for a hundred thou sand or so," he said to one of them, "and we'll see what we can do toward speeding up that way." A few days later he gave a dinner to the execu tives of the Hog Island, Bristol and he would personally to be divided among the men oi we yard producing the largest surplus above its program during the year. The president of each of the three companies at once offered to double Mr. Schwab's bonus, if his particulai yard won the prize. That was the beginning, only, of the application of the Bethlehem corporation's bonus system to ship building. Bonuses alone the money prizes-re not enough, however, Mr. Schwab has found. To have one's work noticed and ap preciated by "Charley" Schwab is f reward to make thousands of young men in the steel and allied industries work their heart out,. His Speech to the "Tuckahoe's" Builders. Wp in Washington do not deserve the credit for this," he told the work men at the Camden yards who built the Tuckahoe in 27 days. "We can but smooth the wheels that will oper ate this great industry. It is the management here, it is the foremen on the ship, the foremen under the ship and the workman in all parts of the ship that deserve public credit for what they have done here, and I shall be the one to see that they get it. "There is but one thing necessary to satisfy the President of the United States and the people of the United States, and that is the energy and loyalty and enthusiasm of its work men. Now, boys, go to it. Let us put our shoulders to the wheel and let us make a record here that will be remembered as long as the history of the war is read. "I an with you all. I shall be with you in spirit every day and I shall never be happy until the sea is filled with vessels. God please that you have vour hearts as full of patriotism as mine and to hell with the kaiser every time you drive a rivet!" Any one could have said that sure ly. But there are not more than one or two men who could have said it in a way to make every man who heard it believe in the genuineness of the sentiment, the utter sincerity of the speaKer. There were silver medals for all the men who had worked on this ship at Mr. Schwa Vs sugges tion and i fac-simile o President Wilson's letter of congrat Nation, on White House stationary. These were fine, but after all, it was "Charley" Schwab the men felt they were work ing for. Like Reading the Bible. To attempt to interview Mr. j Schwab and really get anything out Caldwell written by ) 5005 N.5th Street, of him is as futile a task as a Journal ist ever undertook. It is like read ing the Bible one only gets funda mental troths General principles that no one can possibly find fault with constitute the entire stock of topics on which he will talk for publi cation. After observing Mr. Schwab's daily, hourly application to the task in hand of the principles he encounters, one acquires respect for the man as well as the principles. "I believe that for real work the way to accomplish results is to get the man with his work yet to be done. "There are two ways to .build an or ganisation; one is to take a given group of men and make places for them; the other, and the way I al ways build is to sketch an organization in skeleton form and then fit men into it as I can find them. The thing to be done is the important matter. And when I put a man into a position I give him the full responsibility for his particu lar part of the work and full authori ty to act in accordance with that re sponsibility." "Making money is no longer the prime concern of American business. It is a question of service now, and we are all serving under the same banner of freedom and democracy. "The way to get things dor.e is to stimulate competition, I do not mean in a sordid money getting way, but in the desire to excel. This must al ways be coupled with placing respon sibility and credit or discredit on the man doing the job. "The way to develop the best that." is in a man is by appreciation ana encouragement." These are the sort of aphorisms in which Mr. Schwab deals. He believes in them, too, and uses their princi ples in all of his business relations. How effective their application has been nobody knows better than him self. He Values British Appreciation. One reason why Mr. Schwab be lieves in the power of public appro bation as a stimulus to the earnest worker is his own responsiveness to praise. There is no possible salary or financial inducement that could have tempted him to undertake the colossal task he has shouldered; there is no question in the mind of any one who knows him that the public com mendation he knows will be his if he gives the country ships' faster than the public has been expecting them is the big reward he is personally stri ving -for. The story of Mr. Schwab's trip to London in the autumn of 1914 is one of those romances of real life that only occasionally come to the surface for the edification of Hhe public. Britain found itself plunged into a war of defence, without men, muniti ons, or even an adequate idea of how to organize its resources against the Germans. The nation looked to Kitchener and Kitchener sent for Schwab. The steel maker sailed on the Olympic, and it was on this voy age that the big White Star liner ar rived on the scene just as the Auda cious, the first British war ship of size to fall a victim of German sub marine warfare was sinking. The crew of the Audacious was rescued by the Olympic, which was held at en chor for a week in order that the news of the fate of the Audacious might not leak out. Mr Schwab alone, of all the passengers was per mitted to go ashore. He was landed in a small boat at a little fishing vil lage on the Irish coast, whence a steamer was scheduled to sail that evening for Liverpool. Inquiring for an automobile, he was told the only cne in the vicinity ! belonged to a doctor five miles away. "Get me th?t car and get me to Lon donderry in time to catch the night boat and IH pay a hundred pounds," he told his fisherman informant. The The car was got a Ford and Mr. Schwab reached the steamer's pier. An officer stopped him and asked him for his credentials; England was at the height of its spy hysteria. Mr. Schwab presented his card. No, the officer had never heard of him but he knew a German name when he saw one! He called the captain, who demanded to see his passport. That document, however, had been left in the custody of the captain of the Olympic, now at anchor more than 75 miles away and Kitchener was waiting. Mr. Schwab tried to explain but the captain had never heard of him and he had his orders. Finally, Mr. Schwab himself wrote a telegram to the war minister and showed it to the captain, asking him not to sail until he had a reply. The captain conferred with the agent of the line, then turned to Mr. Schwab and said: "You are under arrest. I will take you to Liverpool in charge of an offi cer. If there is a wire there from Lord Kitchener saying you are all right, you will be liberated; if not, you will be taken to the tower." At Liverpool, of course, there was the reassuring message from K. af K. and Mr. Schwab took the first train for London. Kitchener was waiting for him. ' "Can you make a million shells?" he asked. "Yes." "How long will it take?" "Ten months." "Can you make guns?" "Yes." "What else can you make?" Mr. Schwab told him, briefly. "What about prices asked Kitchener. "I think our company is entitled to a war profit," -suggested Mr. Schwab, Kitchener assented. Then he added: "This is not going to be a short war. I foresee five years of it at least, I want your pledge that control of the Bethlehem Steel corporation will not be sold by you and your as sociates under five years from now." "Have the papers drawn and I will sign them," assented Mr. Schwab. . He had barely returned from his visit to Lord Kitchener when he sailed again, this time on the Lu sitania, and cane back with a $50, 000,000 submarine order in his pock et. Mr. Bryan, then secretary of state, objected to the delivery of these submarines to the British on the ground that it would be a viola tion of the spirit of nutrality. Final ly it was decided that the parts and machinery of the submarines could be built in America and the vessels themselves assembled in Canada. This was successfully done. Contracts for guns, ships and mu nitions for the British government executed by Mr. Schwab's companies before the United States became a belligerent have been estimated at $150,000,000. For the Russian gov ernment approximately $75,000,000 worth of work was done. The plants of the Bethlehem Steel corporation were doubled and doubled again. When America became a belligerent it was to Mr. Schwab and the Beth lehem corporation that the navy de partment turned for the execution of its vast destroyer and submarine pro gram; the war department for the shells and guns that by British and Russian work the company had learned it how to make well and spee dily; the shipping board for the big gest and fastest merchant craft, and, finally, the President for the man himself. For its navy department contract for 150 and more destroyers, the Bethlehem corporation has con structed at Squantum, in Boston harbor, probably the largest exclu sively noval shipyard in the world; on the ways at Sparrow's Point, it had 16 Cunard liners and 10 of the largest freighters ever built under construction when we entered the war; what it has been able to do for our army in guns and shells can only be told after the Boche has been beaten. And if there still remains in any German mind that Charles M, Schwab was anything but a 100 per cent. American or that he or his company could be bought for Ger man account, his appointment to his present job must have thoroughly dispelled that illusion. Germans Failed to Buy Him. There is no doubt that German in terests at the beginning of the war did try to buy the Bethlehem,, works. How much was offered by Germany for control of Bethlehem has neverj been authoritatively stated. The re port that the sum was $100,000,000 for Mr. Schwab's holdings alone has never been denied. He recently ad pitted that he had been offered $60, 000,000 for a half interest. LAUNCHING OF VESSELS IN JULY BREAKS RECORD With the launching of 123 vessels, totaling 631,944 deadweight tons, and the delivery of 41 others of 235,025 deadweight tons, new world ship building records were established in July by American shipyards, the ship ping board announces. The July launchings alone were greater than those of any single year in the past. In addition to the 41 completed ships, the American merchant marine was further increased by the delivery of two steel vessels of 15,855 tons by Japanese yards in accordance with the recent agreement. Thirty-six of the completed vessels were of steel with a deadweight ton nage of 217,025 and the other five were of wood, their deadweight ton nage being 18,000. The launching included 67 steel ves sels of 433,244 deadweight tons; 53 wood ships of 187,700 deadweight tons, and three composite ships of 11,000 tons. The total tonnage launched this year is 1,719,536, being divided by months as follows: January, 88,507; Februrary, 123,625; March, 172,611; April, 160,286; May, 259,241; June 283,322; July 631,944. Since August 1917, when the pres ent shinnine board began operations, vessels of 245,700 deadweight tons and 210 requisitioned vessels of 1, 326,156 deadweight tons have been completed and placed in service. Al most half of this total tonnage was delivered during the last three months. drove's Tasteless chill Toole reitoree vitality and by parifrios aad en noon feel iu Strength Price )c richavg the blood. Yon InvitoraUa VESSEL TORPEDOED OFF NORTH CAROLINA COAST American Unarmed Steamer Merak Jr the Victim of a Submarine The Crew Lands Safely. Washington, Aug. 8. Within less than 24 hours after the Diamond Shoal lightship off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, had been destroyed by shellfire, the small American un armed steamer Merak was shelled, torpedoed and sank by a German sub marine near the North Carolina coast Tuesday afternoon. Announce ment of the destruction of the ship the third sent down in that vicinity since last Sunday was made today by the navy department. The Merak's crew of 43 men got away in small boats and were landed safely, 23 at Norfolk and the remain der at Elizabeth City, N. C. Complete details' of the sinking of the ship were lacking tonight. Naval officials feel certain that the submarine which accounted for the Merak was the same that sank the tank steamer 0. B. Jennings Sunday off the Virginia capes and the Dia mond Shoal lightship Monday after noon. In some quarters surprise was expressed that the submarine would have lingered near the spot where the lightship was sent down. Secretary Daniels said today that he had nothing to add to his formal opinion as to the operations of the raiders on this side of the. Atlantic that thav are instructed to hinder commerce as much as possible without- exposing themselves to danger. Mr. Dannielst said other sinkings probably would follow. Cure for Dysentery. "While I was in Ashland. Kansas, a gentleman overheard me speaking of i Chamberlain's WAc ana uiarrnoea Remedy," writes William Whitelaw, of Des Moines, Iowa. "He told me in de tail of what it had done for his family, but more especially his daughter who was lying at the point of death with a violent attack of dysentery, and had been given up by the family physician. Some of his neighbors advised him to give Chamberlain's Colic and Diar rhoea Remedy, whieh he did, and fully believes that by doing so saved the life of his child. He stated that he had also used this remedy himself with equally gratifying results." Piles Cured la 6 to 14 Days Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Pile. Instantly relieves Itching Piles, and you can Set restful sleep after the first explication. Price 90c. THE BEST TEST Is the Test of Time Years ago J. L. Matheson, farmer of Wadesboro told of good results from using Doan's Kidney Pills. Now Matheson confirms the for- mer statement says there has been no return of the trouble. Can Wades boro people ask for more convincing testimony? "I used to suffer at times from pains across the small of my back and my kidneys were inactive," says Mr. Matheson. "I went to the drug store and they gave me Doan's Kidney Pills to try. I used one or two boxes and I have been in fine shape ever since. I have never had occasion to use a kidney remedy since Doan's Kidney Pills cured me." (Statement given January 27, 1918). THE BENEFIT LASTED. On May 16, 1918 Mr Matheson said: "I have never had a return of kidney trouble since Doan's Kidney Pills cured me. I still have great faith in Doan's and recommend them at every opportunity." Price 60c, at all dealers, Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Mr. Matheson had. Foster-Mil-bum Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, Nf. LINIMENTS AND PIASTERS DISCARDED Cream of Mustard Used in Place of Plasters or Liniments and . Does Not Blister. Thousands are taking; advantage of the generous offer made by The Cream of Mustard Company of South Norwalk, Conn., by sending for a Jar of Cream of Mustard, which is the most powerful ex ternal preparation compounded. It is far superior to mustard plasters, turpentine, lard or any liniment on the market. It relieves congestion, inflammation and pain almost instantly. It takes the place of plasters or liniments for colds, pains and aches. ' r It has produced wonderful results with thousands afflicted with sore throat, ton Bllttls, stilt neck, neuralgia, congestion, rheumatism, sprains, sore muscles, bruises colds In the chest, bronchitis, croup, head ache, lumbago, pains and aches of the back or joints and chilblains. ( Every household should have a Jar of Cream of Mustard in the medicine chest for emergency. Ask your druggist; 26o and 50c Jars; hospital size $2.50. The Cream of Mustard Co.. 4outh Nor wajkj Conn. Adv. ASTHMA AND CATARRH Try Before You Pay PEP-SENNA, the great discovery for ASTHMA, HAT FEVER, BRONCHI TIS and CATARRH, haa produced wonderful results with thousand of the moat stubborn cues. ' If you have experimented with other treatments and have failed do' not be discouraged, but try at our expense this truly merltorjoua remedy. Send right now (or a free trial be fore you forget It. Address m THU pgsasaMOOMIANV, For Indigestioe, Conat Just try one 60-cent bottle of WITH PEPSIN. A Liquid Laxative pleasant to take. recommended to the public by doe Co.. manufacturers of Laxative Quinino and Grove's Tasteless chill Fire Insurance When you with Fire Insur ance or Wind-storm Insurance, , see phone or write d. a. McGregor, I WADES BORO, N. C, He represents eighteen of the beat Companies. He will give you the best poa 1 alble rates, and will guard your Interests. STACK, PARKER & TARLTOM1 Attorneys-at-Law Office in Covington Building Wadesboro, N. C, Phone No. IfH A. M. STACK, J. J. PARKER, A. A. TARLTON. Dr. Julian D. Maynard Wadesboro N. C PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Hardiaon Building Phone. Office 45-A Residence 45-B DR. J. I. LAWSOfit DENTAL SURGEON Wadesboro, N. C. formerly occupied by Dr. W It . rrora lwiic uay or rvigm i none b-a SURVEYING J. L. EDWARDS WADESBORO, N. C3 R. F. D. NO. 1. PHONE NO. 930. Coffins and Gaskets llTllAM WAS Want m r'nffia. ansa Tiwm jvta vt seas m nivc wuih i Veaaja ket, at Reasonable Price, Exai .1 T I V J M From the Cheapest to the Best. A Nice Hearse 1 Is Always la Readiness, and Feature of the Undertaking Whether Day or Night. nt a llfrfl lllt-I The Undertaker. F. a THOMAS Attorney-At-Law WADESBORO, N. C. Office Upstairs in Covington H. H. Me Leaden B. M. (Jonagtaa. McLcndon & ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW 411 Will DJ. Prnmnt tention. Phone No. CI Wadesboro, North 'm D. Robinson R. S. Pruette ROBINSON CAUDLE PRUETTE ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW i W. F. GRAY, D. Dl files in Smith A Dunlap WADESBORO, N. C All Operations Warranted. Walter E. Brock B. Vance He BROCK & HENRY Attorneys-at-Law Hardison Building FRED J. COXE Attorneys-at-Law Offices New Hardison Building vinrannpn KftPTH r AROI.TTfi R. E. LITTLE, JR. Attorney-at-Law Office: Parsons Building I WADESBORO, N. C. GUNSMITH AND I am prepared to make stocks and make all repairs guns. Will work over old niture, bottom chairs, repair kinds of string musical meats. Satisfaction For further information N. C Box Subscribe for The M. ft. : T T. HmM q J J -
The Messenger and Intelligencer and Ansonian (Wadesboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 16, 1918, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75