New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1923, Page 28

TG TNPROVES RUBR RAILROADS Statistios Show Freach Are Hand- ling Lioes o EMicient Manoer i Oct. §,~Constant improve- efclency and econgmic re- n the operation of the German yallway system in the occupled arcas pointed out in statistios tabulated by :Nld ol.d.dl- Every month, accord- ing to these statistics, shows an un-' anticipated increase in the number o passengers carried and merohandise transported, as woll a8 additiénal trackage brought under the control of the eccupation authorities. In order, however, to obtain an ac Burate perspective of what this rail- m, one of the most compli- feated in the world, gas like before tho weccupation as compared with Its pres- ent status—undoubtedly greatly im-| proved within the past few months 4t in necessary to compare it as it s todsy not only with what It was o few months ago but also with what 't was before it was taken over by French and Belglan adminstrators. From trustworthy figures the fol+ lowing comparisons are made: Trackage: In March of this year ¢he occupation authorities were nsing 266 miles of track, and in July—the latest month on which figures are available—they were uslng 2,180 miles. The whole system in the MRhineland and Ruhr ocoupled areas, as operated by the Germans before the occupation, consisted of 7,150 es of track. Since very few miles are still baing operated under German management, therefore, some 5,000 l}lhu of track are still rusting. Parsonnel: In March 11,080 French '!nd Belgian train operators; six Ger- \man trainmen and 3,360 German aux- fllary workers were employed on the pocupled system; or a total of 13,446 persons. In July, 19,383 French and Pigian trainmen, 367 German train- men and 9,224 German auxillary workers—a total of 24,964 persons— sere employed. Before the occupation the total personnel, ineluding officials and workmen, amounted to 267,000. Of this number, about 200,000 have left the occupied area or have been expelled, leaving about 65,000 former employes still in the occupled zone to do whatever emergency work they can. Passenger traffic: In March 600, 000 passengers, Including German clvilians and military travellers, were garried on thetrains, whereas in July the passenger traffic had increased to . 32,410,000 persons, of whom about two- thirds were German clvilians. This, of; course, was despite the German ,edict, tacit or formal,‘against the use | of. French trains by German clvilians. During the months of October, No- vember and December, 1022, the pas- ‘ senger traffic over the German-man- ..Ea lines, Judging from the number | of tickets sold, amounted to 97,254,000 persons, making the monthly list of passengers about 32,418,000, as com- ! pared with 3,410,000 carried on the Frtne§ trains during July, 1923. NEW YORK BEGOMES A CENTER OF ART hmerica Was Oncs @ Distained Provincial Domain to Europeans New York, Oct. 5.—The curtain of the winter season of 1923 draws apart _and reveals New York as the stage of the world’s most interested dramatic achlevements. The program shows that America, once a distained provincial domain from which “high brows” of Ne York's Madison Avenue, Bosto '\ Rack Bay and Philadelphia's Ritteng house Square fled for the cultura cacles of London and Paris, has be- come a cosmopolitan American city into which the artists of the old world hasten to pour their wares. France, Italy, Russia, England Swe- den, Holland, Spain, Germar Aus- trja and the Orient will s their best entertainers to gr boards of American stages . children of the elite who yawned politely at Tony Pastor’s, Niblo's, aml Daly's of Henry Jumes’ New York, will mingle in the theater lobbies with | the grandchildren of Parisians and Londoners who thought painfully of America as a land of commercial travelers, cowboys and uncouth man- : Main stre as well as Piccadilly Circus and the ¢ ‘ Boulevard de Bonne Neuvelle, The hundreds of thousands of visitors from the middle-west and the sunny shores of the Pacific, will enjoy of “great American” plays and and books and ahove all, will to the strains of the music which has made the entirc world 'shake its shoulders—jazz. Theater goérs will sce the Teatro del Piccoli, Rome's marionette thew ter; the Grand Guignol, which lhas sent chills down the back of generations of Paris playgocrs; the Chauve Souris, the bat cabaret which dellghted Moscow intelligentsia in the days when Russia ate caviar; the Moscow Art Theater; the Swedish e <" Ballet with futuristic music and cub- istic settings; and the works of the late William Shakespearc, already well konwn in varions Buropean capi tals, Musical eomedies and e the most daring features of the de Paris and the Pollies Bergeres furnish & trans-Atlantic variety o pep, while those who regret the pass ing of the Merry Widow and the moonlight type of music will bask in the duleet scores of ovpercttus from Vienna and Munich Germany and Italy will pro ortory opera companics with the Metropolitan; several nes with Casino will ide rep to compet music lovers will hear huge symphony orchestras | conducted by men who until recently held batons in Amsterdam, Pari Petrograd and Berlin and by others who watched the clouds on the bank of the Mississippi Latin Amerigass who, by the thou- | 1 deli~ | .| who in their fields have done work - | similar to Schwab, Johnson, Armour sand, have made Times Square thelr Mecca will watoh Hpain's best daneer ts, Several planned. Thereyal dancers of far-away Cam. bodia in French Indo-China probably will be here, and, perhaps across the sireét from them, wild west riders | trom the shadow of the Rookies GREATEST BUSINESS NEN OF THE PERIOD Heary Ford Ts Leader of Al Charles R. Flint Says Ry FDWARD TRIERRY, (NEA Serviee Staff Writer,) | TEN GREATEST BUSINESS | MEN, ‘ HENRY FORD, automobiles, Dearborn, Mich, | JOHN D, ROCKEFELLER, [| on, New York | CHARLES M || steel, Bethiehem, Pa. | GEORGE F. JOHNSON, shoes, Binghamton, N, Y, J. OGDEN ARMOUR, Chicago, EARL D, BABST, sugar, New York, | TIHOMAS J. WATEON, busi- ness systoms, New York, WILLIAM H, WELLINGTON, cotton textil Boston. CHARLES A. COFFIN, elec- trieal development, New York. GEORGE EABTMAN, photo- graphy, Rochester, N, Y, SCHWAB, meat, New York, Oct, 6.~Who are the 10 greatest business men of America con- tributing most to the public service? The question was put to Charles R. Flint, widely known as the “Father of Trusts,” friend and confidant of all the big business leaders of the past century, who at 73 has just written a book on his unique career, “Memoirs of an Active ‘Life.” “Henry Ford is the greatest busi- ness wizard of history,” says Flint. “What heights he will reach cannot be foretold. “People used to be | trusts and hated them. I acted as organized in forming 21 industrial consolidations, which have often been confused with ‘trusts’ I think the | public has now come to belleve that | industrial consolidations have really brought low prices to the consumer. “IFord has done the same thing in- dividually as a large industrial con- solidation has domne, reducing manu- facturing and distribution costs by similar methods."” Ilint, who drives his own flivver to his Wall street office, says Ford is great because his product ‘“has gone | far to prevent class distinction in | America." “Industrial managers of today," he says, “have arrived at the age of wis- | dom, Their public service is in stand- | ardizing quality and in creating vol- fume and quantity produection. | “That’s the test of a busness wizard. | Rockefeller was the first; then came Carnegie. But of the living Amer- iin-unu I would put Word first, and | Rockefeller Znd. They are both in the | one- man trust class, though Rocke- feller later added to or absorbed other companies after setting up in- dividually the same kind of produc- tion organization that Ford has more | recently created. “Schwab is third in the list be- cause he has been the greatest steel master in standardizing metal pro- duction. I would put fotth a man | not so well known—~George I. John- | son, president of the Endicott-John- son Company, whose contribution to the shoe industry is comparable to that of Schwab in steel, J. Ogden Ar- | mour in meat, and Larl D. Babst in sugar. Armour, hehd of the packing firm of Armour & Company, and | Babst, president of the American | Sugar Refining Company, are fifth and | sixth on my list. | "1 would put seventh another man with whom the public is not generally acquainted—Thomas J. Watson, pres- ‘.“'"” of the Computing-Tabulating- | Recording Company, because his bus- | iness machines which seem actually to | think, are saving millions in systema- | tizing office work. | | “Righth, ninth and tenth are men suspicious of ind Babst; these arc Willlam H.| | Wellington, head of the cotton tex-| | tile firm of Welington, Sears & Com- | | puny, Charles A. Coftin, chairman of | | the board of the General Rlectric | | Company, and George Eastman, presi- | dent of the Eastman Kodak Com. | pany.” | Flint g his list of business wiz- | ards to N ervice fn an interview amplifying views, in his forthcoming | book, on changing conditions in busi- ness. He pays a tribute to the intel- | ligent cooperation of labor adding | “The evolution of industrial pro- gress has now reached an advanced stage where its contifiued development must be through industrial consoli- | dation; these facts arc being gener- ally ized Dy arners. | “This is the g sson of ceon- | omics: The.mor ly each of us| can pr the there will be| ym each of us—of goods and lei- sure.” "lint, though himself the organizer | of the chewing gum “trust,” admits in a chapter of his book that William Wrigley is the greatest single busi-| leaders, | uee Stromberg Carturetor ~ A. G. 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