Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-02-18 | Page 15 | Big Men in Big Jobs

9 Big Men in Big Jobs V MUCH S 'S heard hear of the demand for executives 1 and the immense salaries they are paid t That the type of man to fill these topnotch ll ions S in m the ti country's great eat industrial life is s s an J 0 J saI Jal species is an admitted fact The most V striking examples of high salaried executives is r found o nd among the railroad heads Of the twenty- twenty i five ive Presidents pre of our greatest rail systems five of them began as tel telegraph graph operators four as I l clerks four in n the engineering corps corp two as s brakeen brakemen brake brake- men en two as is locomotive engineers one each ooch as call all boy an ax man a freight checker an acCountant accountant ac ac- 1 countant a messenger boy a rod man a train v masters masters master's clerk a freight agent igent 1 Although the railroad business today is a highly specialized affair the record of Cf f these men 1 does doe not seem to indicate that a college education j is- is essential for commanding one of these ft J tive jive offices These men climbed from the bottom bot- bot torn tom round at t a time and consequently students of human nature are curious as to just what latent I ability these men po possessed s et tb that tiit t caused th them m to outstrip the hundreds of thousands of other em em- that started in with equal opportunities American industry is full of instances where men climbed from the bottom to the top The secret seems to be that as soon as a man grows grow too big for his job he advances One of the high salaried of f the twenty five railroad presidents presidents presidents dents noted above saved his company by buying engines and car cars at the right time in 1914 and again in 1922 and by buying rails in 1920 for future delivery He knew what to buy when to buy and where to buy it This alone justifies his salary for his his entire working or i g life Business coups of this sort are what please stockholders and arid board pf of directors