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Show EDWARD VER LINDEN l - : v ' A " ' c J .; - c, 1 f' 'tV -'": 1 w . I V ' New General Motors director, formerly for-merly Oldsmobile head, lias attained the top rung of the ladder of success through the old-fashioned "work hard" creed. According to word received hy Manager Man-ager A. V. Olson of the Randall-Dodil Auto company, local distributors of Oldsmobilcs, Kdward Ver Linden, president, presi-dent, and general manager of the Olds motor works of Lansing, Mich., and re-centlv re-centlv elected to the directorate of General Gen-eral "Motors, of which the Oldsmobile company is a unit, is one of tho few niou wlio has climbed to an important position in the. automobile industry by way of the shop. Ver Linden's rise is an inspiration to the voting men who are working in overalls and carrying dinner buckets. Ilard work unceasing hard work is his nrescrtptton lor success. "The busiest man is the happiest," says Ver Linden. "An idle man is invariably in-variably discontented with his lot in life." And so successfully has Ver Linden infected the Oldsmobile organization organi-zation with this philosophy that under his management the production of Oldsmobiles has leaped from a few hundreds hun-dreds to 33,000 cars a year; without apparently any strain on the personnel of tho Oldsmobile establishment. For nearly twenty years the Olds motor works has taken especial pride in the quality of its workmanship. The last five years, since Ver Linden has been at the helm, this pride has come to amount to t. passion. Ver Linden believes in high-class workmanship, and ho knows good workmanship when he sees it. He can be found in the factory, fac-tory, with his expert and critical eye on everything, as often as he can be located in his executive office. Successively his "work hard and be happv" creed has advanced him from a foremanship to factory manager, from factory manager to general manager, man-ager, from general manager to president presi-dent of the Olds motor works. And now comes further recognition of the "work hard" motto in his election to the General Motors .board of directors. "Any young fellow with an ordinary amount of brains can amount to something some-thing if he wants to," said he to a newspaper interviewer with a shadow of a smile, "he'll find not only, success, suc-cess, but happiness and contentment in continuous hard work and determined application to whatever job ho has in hand." |