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Show , i - - - 4 Adventures In Business Hy Nichols Field Wilson , The "Square Deal" Works m v I leather goods manufacturing concern. Here he found his vocation in life, his one consuming con-suming interest the making of fine personal leather goods and he started at the bottom. bot-tom. His first job bore the humble title of "billing clerk" but his industry and initiative gained recognition and advancement ad-vancement within a relatively swift period of time bookkeeper book-keeper to traveling salesman, to secretary of the company to assistant general manager. N With this background of practical experience he started in business for himself manufacturing man-ufacturing the famous AMITY line of personal leather goods. By early 1917, the growing popularity of Amity forced Rolfs to quit the "small room over Peters' store" for larger quarters. The staff of employees em-ployees had increased from one to fifteen craftsmen. Step by step Rolfs has seen his business busi-ness grow to be the largest personal leather goods factory in the world. One of the key reasons for the phenomenal and continued growth of his company is the keen awareness which Rolfs has possessed from the outset regarding the importance of happy workers. Public spirited and civic-minded, civic-minded, Rolfs has ever shown the deepest appreciation of the duties and obligations of citizenship. He has sei-.ed the nation with great distinction in war and peace both personally person-ally and as a producer of essential es-sential commodities. Man has no greater asset than his good name. Socrates. j ROBERT H. ROLFS In the neighborly Wisconsin town of West Bend, . on September Sep-tember 20, 1915, a young man named Robert H. Rolfs set himself up in the business of manufacturing fine personal leather goods. He was equipped ' with a sound background of experience but the start was necessarily humble because capital was lacking. A small back room on the second floor of Peters' store on Main Street constituted the entire factory, office and headquarters. Rolfs made all of the necessary benches and other equipment himself with the aid of his one employee. A native of Milwaukee, where he was born February 27, 1888, he began .his formal education edu-cation , in graded school in West Bend. An industrious ond more than ordinarily ambitious am-bitious spirit characterized him at an age when most boys nre preoccupied with just having hav-ing fun. Following his graduation ; from high school, he started his business career with a |