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S GATES GA TES a Monarch o of Big Big Bigi 1 i 1 r p Business Relinquishes His Financial J MI ONS r J rJ Opportunities to Head University o of I i f i i r FOR 1 Pennsylvania The There e to Help Develop 7 1 J Men Mento Lead Am America Young to a INE S S 1 wl t tr r J Jy 01 n y t 1 r 7 5 7 J Jf w y Y 1 G f. f h J 7 i. i s' s i f b 1 t r x c iJ 1 I S i l i a c. r rr r. r I Y r l i ti A y i o A r H t r r 1 A II 4 S r t k f Y 11 7 f f r t s ti y h hf 1 K r k f Y J dY l rJ Y I i. i Jl daY F fY j A hY r i r. r Y tV i Y 4 J j r 1 yx et ji I ti tifF Sf r fF q rit r t Vi Viti ti y f a v r e ry L Q I a Va 4 4 w wI I t L ns I 1 f rY a 1 r y r d J 4 1 I c 1 yi i y e eL L 1 v. v CS l lv M r By Vivian Shirley HIDDEN deep in the heart of each of ofus ofus ofus us and debutante actress and errand boy and millionaire million aire alre polo player lies Ues the secret ecret dream of ot our hearts heart's desire The longs to be the beautifully dressed debutante who p ks and chooses her clothes with no thought of price and the debu debutante herself between parties sighs and thinks that life Is futile that if it only she shoe were some one else the feted Princess perhaps or the engaged girl who Vho ho has made the ca catch of the season the she might be happy The actress sighs for tor the simple life for tor her childhood when life was less complicated complicated or perhaps she longs for the calm serene lives of ot others who play their little roles outside the fierce glare of the foot- foot lights The longs to be rich The polo player wishes he were ere king of the tennis courts I want ant to be successful chant you ou and I. I We spend our lives In furious pursuit of what we consider the ultimate peak of desirability And when we are rich when we are famous when we are successful will we be happy Or will we e find perhaps that we have chained ourselves to our d desires and that those desires are the masters of ot our fate Will wm we find we are captives instead of Kings What Is success The philosophers of all aU ages ha have va pondered over it it They have not decided that success is riches fame or power Out of the pages of ot history Kings artists and Emperors rise to deny that happiness consists of any of these things THE Emperor retired at the 1 height of his power Why He gnawers answers answers an an- awers us himself He wished to spend the rest of his life in cultivating his laurel bushes his fig trees in the midst of his beautiful garden He would rather pick off the Roman equivalent of a Japanese bee bee- tle suppose than feast with the visiting Emperor of Cathay Marion Talley the operatic star tar also preferred her gardens but sh was quite content to call them a a. farm She preferred preferred pre pre- farming to the glittering life of ot a a. Metropolitan singer Queen Christina of Sweden daughter of ot the warrior King Gustavus Adolphus resigned her crown at the age of 28 She was teas a aft att the zenith of her career care She was powerful successful we wealthy but she gave up her throne to retire to Rome where she coUo co collated t ted d a a. library and entertained famous sc scientists and men of ot letters George Washington did not care to be President a a. third time He preferred to leave the noise and the shouting and andr r retire Ure to his country estate to live th the e quiet life of a country gentleman The Emperor Charles V laid down h his is i vast power doffed his ermine robes pu put t away his diamond scepter for the garb gar b tb of the monastery To our own times beon belongs s the tale o oIra of ot 1 I. I Ira Dutton Button who left a a. successful business a B. busy social life to go as Father Joseph Josep h i to the leper village of Kalawao on th the e s Pacific Island of ot Molokai No one will willever l ever ever know why he chose that cloistered cloister I life amid such surroundings yet to him doubtless it seemed the only thing to do doat doat doat z at the time The call comes in many ways but those i who heed the call do not pause It seems almost destiny itself that points the way So it was with Thomas Sovereign Gates newly chosen president of the 1 C of Pennsylvania There are are areT hundreds of ot presidents of i j bUt tIt very few men in the world orld of ot finance who hold the position i which Mr G Gates tes has voluntarily given i up A partner of J. J P P. Morgan Co a partner of Drexel s Co director and officer of numerous financial institutions Thomas S. S Gates has resigned at the peak of his career to work In a a. position which offers only the honor of being its president president president i dent in lieu of the millions he will forego i as the result of ot giving up his financial connections I 1 talked to Mr Gates a day before he 1 had severed his final connections with 1 the gigantic financial concern In which he has so long been a partner But arent aren't you sorry I asked Dont you ou feel that giving up all this Is a a. tremendous tremendous tremendous tre tre- sacrifice tc I REALIZE Mr Gates said gravely that to many men what I 1 am doing would seem a a. very foolish thing But it does not seem so to me Of course Iam I Iam Iam am sorry to leave my associates the men with whom I have worked but as regards the position itself there Is no sacrifice of any kind Involved because I am doing what I want to do It is not a question of sacrifice to follow your own desires and wishes is it I hesitate to talk of what my plans and hopes are arc in regard to the University I feel that it is too soon But I have definite plans and definite hopes I am eager I am enthusiastic at the chance I have to work vork them out Mr Gates was interested His blue eyes fairly shone For a long time I have ha felt very ery close to the University I have been a trustee for a number of years and I have also served on the Board of Directors of the University Hospital A UA sacrifice Oh on no It uIt Is an opportunity Every man hasin hasin has hasIn In hs heart the desire to do wh what t he wants to do Circumstances are en en- en tangling They are like a n. vast ast mesh in which human beings are often caught The man so ISO entrapped cannot carry out his own plans his own wishes he cannot follow the interests of his 11 lift life My decision to retire from business and accept the responsibilities of ot adminIstering administering admin admin- administering the affairs of a great university is in keeping with a Po long-felt long desire to devote some years of my life Ufe to public service The offer of the presidency was an opportunity 1 could not refuse I 1 feel that I 1 am very fortunate I am going to be beable able to do the kind of work in which I am most Int interested rested I suppose you feel that money is a a. dead sort of thing and that at the Uni- Uni of ot Pennsylvania you will be working workIng work- work ing in human material I suggested Mr Gates nodded That Is true he said It hIt is the tho human side which ap ap- ap- ap lZ peals to me Every man has in his heart the wish to do something constructive something ng for the country for the future There Is no more Important business in America today than its universities America needs leaders It needs men of ot vision of understanding of wisdom men who can evaluate life who can get geta a a. correct perspective out of this welt welter r of modern Ideas and ideals To have a hand even a a. small hand handin in bringing about the development of such men strikes me meas meas meas as being more than fa fascinating work It is the task of the American university university university uni uni- to develop men who will not only be successful In business and the professions professions professions pro pro- but men who will Influence for good the lives of ot their communities Although it would be inadvisable to attempt to anticipate the future plans of the University of ot Pennsylvania I do want to make it clear th that t my first concern concern concern con con- cern will be the maintenance and development development de- de development of or the educational processes of the University upon which alone Its reputation is based Financial and administrative administrative ad ad- developments are but means to this end and my principal purpose will be to conduct the affairs of the I t EAr r. r t 1 e er r a 4 Fc w r. r K S1 f i s v 1 t 7 tI r ilk 3 ti t A Sacrifice No No Indeed T I REALIZE that to many men what I am doing would seem a very foolish thin thing But it does not seem so 50 to me Of course I am sorry to leave my associates but as regards the position itself there is no sacrifice sacrifice sac sac- rice of any kind involved because I am doing doin g what I want to do It i is not nofa a question question ques ques- tion of sacrifice to follow your own desires and wishes is it Circumstances are entangling The They Y Yare are arc like a vast mesh in which human beings are often caught The man so 50 entrapped cannot carry out his own plans his own wishes he cannot follow the inter interests ests of i r inc me I feel very fortunate fortunat I am going ei n g gable to b bable be beable able to do the kind of work in which Iam I am most interested Thomas Thomas S. S Gates University in such a way that the educational educational edu edu- educational opportunities which it offers will willbe willbe be excelled by none Mr Gates paused But do not think that we Wc here he referred to the financial establishment nt with which he lie had long been connected are only concerned with the dollar Far from it You would be surprised ed at the amount of work we e do for which we get absolutely no return expect ex- ex no return for that matter Especially is this true of the trust department The same could be said sald with equal truth of trust departments of banks and companies the country over They do a large percentage of what might be called social welfare work The av average rage man on Q w. w Provost Pro and Mrs Josiah H. H Penniman Mrs Gates and Thomas S. S Gates newly elected president of the University University University Uni Uni- of Penns Pennsylvania I ania who renounced highly remunerative remunerative remu remu- e positions to engage in the work that most interests him the street does not realize the presence of heart in these so- so called heartless corporations corporations corporations cor cor- but themen the themen themen men who have worked a long time with ith the company they know I I looked 0 0 ked about There was an air of ot quiet elegance The panels in the wall wan were ere all of dark walnut walnut walnut wal wal- nut Inlaid with different different dif dlf- ferent woo wood d The ceiling was high and frescoed in gold old patterned patterned pat pat- after some famous Florentine palace The man who stood in the doorway y the man at atthe atthe atthe the information desk the man behind the T window yes window yes these men were white haired old in years It t seems an awfully nice place to leave I said so 50 seriously that Mr Gates laughed Im sure it will be a wonderful thing for the University but for you ou who have everything Where did you ou get that Idea 1 he expostulated ex ex- expostulated ex- ex postulated I only have what other men have an opportunity to work It is the kind kh of work I 1 love 6 and I am going to take It It He w was s silent a minute I dont don't deny it takes courage of a a. kind but it is 15 only surface a a. courage What do you mean by that I 1 asked Weli Well he hesitated You can be ab absolutely absolutely ab- ab ly convinced in your own mind that a L certain step is the right and proper one oneto on onto oneto e to take but when your friends persist in i n i regarding you as being mad he grinned then to go ahead and folloW your own oN n i convictions requires this surface courage I wouldn't call that surface courage I said I 1 would say it would be very real rea 1 I courage Down Don Do n underneath you ou know you ar are e doing doin right he said what I mean by surface courage because at heart hear t k you ou yourself are unshaken The ideas an and d I attitudes of your friends do not change chance cannot change your own ideas of right That is true I 1 said I HESITATED looking around again How did you get where you are I r asked I suppose you inherited it all Were you born with a silver sll spoon in your mouth Mr Gates That I wasn't he laughed He ac actually actually actually ac- ac looked a a. little shy I dont don't know where on earth you got these ideas about me i Im I'm m m a simple sort of person like any anyone anyone anyone one else I started off orr after I was graduated graduated graduated grad grad- from the law school at the University University Uni Uni- of Pennsylvania as a a. young lawyer Yer and worked for a year in Peppers Pepper's office I wont won't mention the salary Then as I hadn't been fired I was offered a better position with a a. rise in inthe inthe inthe the offices of the late John G G. G Johnson I was then making a n. year Goodness I int interjected theres hope for all aU of us He nodded For nine years I 1 worked there still on a salary Then I 1 became came trust officer and vice president of the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities After that they made me president and director of the f Time went on later I became a partner in to Drexel s is Co and in 1921 I went with Morgan That's really all my history he said Nothing extraordinary Perhaps not to you but to forecast such a a. future for a a. young lawyer would have him pretty excited I said And AndI AndI I cant can't get over it Youre You're giving it all up Im Just changing my field of ot activity Im I'm not giving up working he explained DID ID it take you long to make up your YO yourL L' L mind 1 I asked next He shook his head First I ask asked myself myel myself my my- self el what I wanted anted to do then I figured out the ways and the means to accomplish pUsh it That's all aU You are shy I accused him point- point blank 1 Oh no He looked worn worried ed Now dont don't make me out some one Im I'm not will you As I said before Im I'm a a. simple sort of person peron If I dont don't tell you enough ask some one else Ask the people who know me Ask the policemen on the street street street-I I know them all and they know me not me-not not that Ive I've ever got into any trouble with them he added laughingly Ask the messenger boys and the guards guard they can give you you ou He paused The lowdown on a a. man I questioned I will Mr Gates He nodded and I rose to go but I Id d decided to take him up on this questioning question question- ing business Do I know Thomas Gates queried one of or the bank messengers whom I happened happened happened hap hap- to stop on my way out Ill say sayI saye I do Hes He's the man with a s. million friends friends' That's what the boys around here call can him Ive seen a a. lot of men come and go For twenty five years pears Ire Ive been knocking around the world but I never knew s man like him before Why Because there never was one like 1 him m. m I read i somewhere that to be truly great was tobe to be humble That's Tom Gates Why one night he was working here late and a poor old scrubwoman was Just finishing scrubbing the floor She got up and md started through the door then saw sa 1 him and stepped back But he st stood Od still took of off his hat and waited till tUi she went through the door first Just as if It she were j th the me LUC Vio e v Qu tu Queen tn n o ui Ul nf of 1 Sh S h e b ba a. a me LUC e v tu Queen tn n o ui Ul of 1 Sh S h e b a. a A small messenger bo boy darted through the door Freddy said the man A limb of Satan if it there ever was one but Mr Gates is s as polite to Freddy as he would be to the Prince of |