Show WHEN u I 1 WAS TWENTY ONE BY JOSEPH KAYE at 21 arthur D little got the hard est job 0 his life 21 I 1 got the hardest job I 1 ever xi had A company in rhode Is land had set up a mill to make paper by the sulphur process a process which had been taken over and developed commercially by the swedes and the germans this mill as the first to use this process commercially in the united states and was in charge of a swede inventor and a german engineer the officers and board of directors knew nothing about paper making or chemistry they ought to employ some one who knew a little about chemistry and when I 1 applied for the job the president offered me two dollars a day he would not so far commit himself as to hire me by the week almost with my ar rival the german engineer got into a row with the president and left the place flat the board of directors bield a solemn meeting and as I 1 seemed to be their only resource they called me in I 1 was only twenty one and the youngest man in the plant arthur D little TODAY arthur D little Is one of the most celebrated chemical en ginders in the country and Is the head of the largest private laboratory in the world located at cambridge mass lie left the milt referred to above soon after he became alie su and after a long gle established himself with a large clientele he Is an expert in indus trial chemistry and a pioneer in pa per making by the wood pulp process by Nw paper syndicate |