Show NEVER SHUNS HIS WORK Founder of German Steel Industry More Frugal Than Own Germany I March 24 U Unemployment employment may rule in the Ruhr Kuhr miners may be e Idle and railroad men menon on Ott strike bricklayers working halt half halftime time and Jewelers not at all but there Is one man who works on forever Ills His name is August Thyssen aged I 81 founder ot of the steel dynasty bearIng bear bear- Ing lag his name Promptly at the stroke of ot eight the venerable old man Is at his desk Eleven at night very often otten finds him still sUJI at work This steel steelman steelman steelman man is Indeed a a. man of ot steel Personally twice a a. day he visits one or the other of ot his large plants either at Hamborn tuis- tuis burg ken or Dusseldorf Tall Talland Talland Talland and gaunt walking with a brisk s springy step for tOr one so advanced In years stopping here and there t to exchange ex ex- change chane a word with some of Or t the veteran veteran vet- vet eran stan i In his service his progress through tho the works work seen's to assume the sacredness of ot a rite ALSO ECONOMICAL Frugal and modest this millionaire spends d less for his personal e upkeep gi i sh than many of his yard ar bosses s of f sec eec lion tion foremen Th The Tho correspondent met him th the other oth oth- er day at the conclusion of ot his tour around th the works I dont don't know what I can an tell you about the situation he said In re reg re- re g t to a. a query eg ask this man e there he I Is much more competent than I am he said eaid pointing to one of ot his managers I Have e you yop over ever met Cle Clemenceau I tho the correspondent aake apropos of ot nothing except the extraordinary i larity of or expression of ot the upper part of ot the face faca of ot both men Thyssen Is much taller than the Tiger to No No b but bt t I should very much like SOUVENIR Going to a desk the old oM man took from a a. drawer what appeared to be a a. document document and and handed It to the cor cor- respondent Let me give g you a little souvenir he said It H was a signed photograph of ot him him- self Workers who havo have been blen In n the tho service service ser ser- vice for tor 25 years receive this photo graph said eald the employs who es- es sorted the correspondent n t to the doo door You Vou have haNe been here only 2 23 5 minutes It Is now going on 22 2 years since e I i 1 began to work here r I w win will receive er one n of ot these photographs In 1926 Why did Herr Thyssen frown when I mentioned the kaiser the correspondent correspondent corre corre- asked of tb the employs Herr nerr Thyssen has much touch cause causeS to frown replied the clerk the tte kaiser treated him shabbily He lie would ac IlC accept ac ept drawings plans plan II new Inventions for tor guns uns light and heavy artillery drawn up and perfected by the chief and then the war office would have havethe havethe the guns made In the Krupp WOK s. k-s. It was Will quite wrong |