Why the Boy Earl Lost His Pretty Bride ERROLL HIS CREST Coat of Arm* of tha Earl’* Family. The Countess and the ! lajor Got Rid of Their Mates After the Latter 's Little Jaunt to vA merica dences the Earl’s suite at the Ambassador Hotel snuggled right up against the suite of Mrs. Ramsay-Hill. BOYISH NOBLEMAN lie Jolly Young Earl of Erroll, Narked at Co-respondent in Major Cyril Ramsay-Hill's Divorce Suit, and Eventually Divorced by the Countess Erroll. LONDON DIVORCES ^ of royal personage: are no novelty in this city of the jaded mismated. But the recent double-barreled action which blew to bits the separate romances of the jolly young Karl of Enroll and chic Mrs. Edith Mildred Ramsay-Ilili is still re crberating through Mayfair. The an •cstors of the Kail were kings of Scot and. •Society was frankly .stunned when it learned that Major Cyril Ramsay-lli!!, bluff army man, in suing his wife had lamed the Karl as co respondent. The Major, much aggrieved, asked and was warded 5to,000. But this surprise was nothing to that elt when two months later the ex uisito Countess Erroll, formerly Lady dina Cordon, sued her boyish* mat •harging misconduct and naming Mrs Ramsay-Hill. P- S, She got the decree. This jjraee of matrimonial disaster' teems, superficially at least, traceable o an unfortunate propensity on tin >art of fate to make neighbors of Mrs famsay-llill and the Earl. In Scotland of which, despite his youth, he is thc premier peer, her estate adjoined hi •astie. Last Summer, when Mrs. Iiam ay-1 fill took the Aquitania for Amec ■ a, on the very same day she reached • ew York who should hound from thc angplank of the Leviathan hut the •arl? And on top of it all, by the most delightful (blit portentous) of coinci w It was the latter fact, per haps. that inspired * number of sizzling cablegrams from Great Britain to Erroll in which, it is said, he was urged to return home at once- “His Lord ship's departure’’—so commented the New York press of the period—1 “was hastened by a peremptory note from the British Embassy.” Whether or not this was true, the blonde, beam ing Scotsman didn't tarry long on American shores. Nor did Mrs. Ham say-Hill. Even then dat old debbil coinci dence was busy. For, purely by chance, each booked passage home on the Aqui tania. Then when they reached London the divorce mill began grinding with unusual vigor. The Kamsay-Hillas divorce, while startling, could be dismissed by society with a tolerant shrug. But when the very noble Errolls split up. no shoul der-gesture in the world could express the amazement that was experienced. For the House of Erroll is rooted in the proudest and most profoundly patrician soil of Scotland and its mem bers are expected not merely to com port themselves like moral citizens, but to uphold the lofty traditions to which they have been bred. Yet, curiously enough, this is not the first time that the leading elans have figured spectacularly in the news papers. There was, for example, gav old Lord Granville Gordon, a forebear of that Captain Charles Gordon to whom at one time the Earl of Erroll's wife was married. “Granny” Gordon, brother of “Teapot” Gordon, was » notable spender. Having run the bank ruptcy gamut, he opened a gaming re T •*"-< sort which the %• _ police raided. X'* # * - Mis brother, ‘/s’"' “Brings” Gordon, **" was famous for his power of invective, while an other. “Charlie,” the Mar qucss or uunucy. lied Horn xngianu 10 Albania when ho was charged with fraud. With this depressing background of nobility on the loose in mind, it is no wonder that the Countess Enroll pre* ferred to go her own way via the di vorce court. Being the sister of Lord de la Warr, she doubtless felt that she had her own family traditions to keep up, for this is an extremely important and aristocratic line. This did not pre vent her from having the costs of the suit assessed against both her husband and Mrs. Rarnsay-Ilill. Especially note-i for her fashionable frocks and the dis tinguished way she wears them, thr Countess Errol) has been one of Kng lish society’s most impressive t’erninins figures. She became engaged to the Earl when he was the flonoiable Josslyn Open-Mindedness Plus Hnrd Work Pares Way to Success-Robertson ANDREW W. ROBERTSON Minimum <*/ the IT eslinghouse Elec tric nncl Manufac turing Eu. Andrew wells roeertson, recently appointed chairman pi the Wcstinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, has gained the forceful sobriquet 6t "The execu tive with no pet plans.” He has, how ever, very crisply concrete ideas about public relations and the interrelation ship of employer and employe, as set forth in the following paragiaphs: "Every business as an economic structure must be before all else suc cessful. But every business 5s the product of the human beings who compose it and it cannot be greater than they. Few business institutions succeed in making a complete use of the brains that lie latent—and some times fallow—within the organization. It seems to me that thia is the true, the acid test of realistic executive leader »hip. “Unfortunately there is an uncon scious but none the less regrettable tendency in business not onlv to fad to give credit to junior members of the organization for their personal contri butions rf constructive thought and effort, but actually to take it away from them.' “I have found invariably that there is ari unbelievable magic in frankly tendered credit and praise, freed from that insufferable air of patronage which tends to lessen the acknowl edgement. “My professional credo? I believe -in putting responsibility upon em ployes; then giving them sufficient authority to carry out that responsi bility. I want to sit across • desk with the men and women who make West inghouse what it is today”—last year’s gross earnings were $190,000,000— “until I know them as individuals and understand their persons elements of strength, and find out bow I can help them to develop along the line of their own talents, interests and capaci ties. Then, and then only, can I get the real picture, and attempt some of the things a chairman of the board ought to do. “Other business essentials seem to me to be the calmness and the moling out of an impartial judgment. 1 try to do both the right and the generous thing; and if there is one thing more than another that strikes me as im perative, it is swift, decisive action. There is always a time to do a thing, and if you don’t do it then, you might as well not do it at all. “I have stressed the value of per sonal encouragement. Of course all men don’t respond to it. In a pro gressive organization, one constantly s .arching for new and better methods, it is inevitable that occasionally there is a man who can’t breast the tide. When such a situation arises, action must be taken. Sentimentalism must not be allowed to run wild. Rather than keep on applying the whip to a man, I let him go. “There is one guide, one unfailing test. It is PROFITS. “You think that sounds materialis tic? It really isn’t. The only really cheap things the world gets ape those produced at a profit. Therefore, to do what seems to be a hard thing is sometimes inescapable. But one must have the courage to do it in the interest of the whole community, in the gen eral social interest, in the interest of the great public that uses your prod ucts. “Open-mindedness—that’s the secret —combined with hard work. That is what leads to the discovery of new and better ways, and consequently to supplying the community, the world with more things at leas cost, thus enriching standards of living." Mr. Robertson’s first act upon as suming the chairmanship was to estab lish a generous pension fund for employes. This was supplemented by an attractive and eminently practicable savings fund plan which has already met with pronounced success, “lie has not forgotten his own early struggles,” remarked one of his colleagues, *'an1929 International Sfnifr, |nr. Sourer: Engineering News-Rreord Chari bv FUELING FOSTER New York Mas Awarded Eight, Chicago One and Oetroil One Government llaiirnad. IYr,ia . ... Harbor,. Turkey, Turkish Government . ..... Apparel Marl Building. Chicago. New York City Water Tunnel . ..„ Government Road,. Spain Hoad,. Spain, owned l«y Conipania Automovi Madrid Irmn ... , . .. l.inroln 42nd Street Building. New York City. . . Government Irrigation Project. Greece. 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