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...true, that the church does not have as much faith as business." Business courts Change. The church fears it. Business employs pure scientists for research that may mean scrapping not only millions in factories and material but entire attitudes of mind as well. Pure scientists, above pelf and profit, are "the mystics of the modern world." Business sets them free to provoke Change because it knows tomorrow will be different from today. "The church is AFRAID" that tomorrow may be different...
...message came to Mr. Farrell. He was appointed, it read, U. S. Steel's third president. Said he: "I'm a good soldier." He and the Judge have always worked well together. In 16 years' administration he has doubled and redoubled many an item of U. S. Steel profit*. The Judge makes speeches and directs policies; President Farrell consolidates reports of subsidiaries and coordinates work of under-presidents...
Irked, irate, President George P. Johnson last week gave the disaffected employes a thoroughgoing reprimand: "The profit sharing is not necessarily a permanent plan. . . . To those that are dissatisfied with the results of last year's business I recommend a prompt resignation. . . . I wish such would quit. I am sincere in this wish. . . ." The vigor as much as the common sense of the words gave the grumblers a change of heart. Practically all went back to their work cheerfully...
...some cases in an intensified form, into preparatory schools. Now, in the colleges at least, the tide has definitely turned. Extra-curricular activities are now seen in their natural light--not as so many high-roads to undergraduate glory, but as occupations for the sole benefit and profit of those who are genuinely interested in them...
...simple and as sound as "daylight saving." But some skulls will not comprehend that a day is the same, no matter what the hours are called. Similarly some Italians could not understand last week that it makes no difference what a man's wage or profit is, so long as he can buy the same amount of goods or labor for it. Quite naturally there was discontent because this thing was hard to understand, and there was trouble because it was hard to apply...