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Show '. r- - '" :tw Ifff!?WwS!!W!P THE CITIZEN bash pipe which was lying innocently beneath some letters. How many have you with you?" 1 asked. Generally a person doesnt take more than three or four, he said Theyre pretty things and I would like to take home a few for the kidS to play with. Thats all 1 was thinking of, I said suggestively. Well, he said, a little dubiously, Im afraid I cant let you have more than four. All right, I consented. You make the first donation toBut it 16 day, he said offhandedly. slight; a mere piffle as you said. A drop in the ocean. Merely a sneeze in a barrel of A mere Yes, I said disgustedly. snaffle. Its only $200, he suggested tactfully. I wrote out a check, glad to realize it was not to be extensive. Ca-cho- o! There is a paper or two to sign, he said, opening a suitcase full of them. I suppose its all right to sign these, isn't it? I asked. Perfectly all right, he said. Ive read them all. After I finished signing them I retted my pen on the desk. I had signed so many that I spelled out my name without knowing it on the mahogany. You wont have to make another donation for two weeks, he said, areeablgy, as he left That pleased me. He closed the door. I smiled slyly and reached doau into the bottom drawer on the side of my desk, .and pulled ouf a tin can of P, A. He had overlooked it entirely. I also noticed that ne had left thd typewriter Tulsa Saturday Night. left-han- d General Angeles is an appreciation of THE following Felipe Angeles by Hud- - elates were here. Angeles was quite a poet himself, and he greatly admir-- . son Maxim, the noted inventor: 1 happened to have an opportunity of intimate personal acquaintance with General Angeles, and I know him to have been a most conscientious patriot, the welfare of whose country was the supreme concern of his mind. He was absolutely fearless. No peril had the least deterring influence upon him in matters where the welfare of Mexico was concerned. He was not only the ablest artillery officer, but also the ablest military man in Mexico. Under the Diaz regime he was sent to France to study military science there. In the spring of 1904, when he was Colonel Angeles, he and two other officers were sent by President Diaz to study the manufacture of smokeless powder by certain inventions of mine, at my laboratory on Lake Hopatong. The other officers were Colonel Ralph Egula Lis and Colonel Rafael Davila; the latter being the commanding officer at the powder mill and arsenal at Santa Fe, Mexico. These gentlemen remained with me at Maxim park for four months. They brought with them a Mexican three-incfield piece for testing the ' powder, and we made the powder and did considerable shooting, the shooting being done at the Du Pont works at Pompton Lakes. We got most excellent results, and I was invited by the Mexican government to go to Mexico to make some of the powder at the Santa Fe arsenal and fire it there, which I did. The United States government, however, requested that my smokeless powder inventions under consideration be kept secret and that they be . not sold to a foreign country. This put an end to the business with Mexico. Edwin Markham, the poet, occupied one of my cottages during the summer that Angeles and his asso- - of Markhams h With the Hoe. Man He and Mrkham became very friendly. ' , Angeles was a scholar and possessed large ability as a literary, as well as a military man. He had very high ethical ideals and erred if anything on the side of idealism. Two years ago General Angeles with a and personal friend, called on me at my house in Brooklyn, when we discussed the Mexican was a sincere situation. Angeles friend of America and Americans. He married an American girl, whom we met while in Mexico. He was bitterly opposed to the Carranza regime, as he had been to the regime of Huerta. He had no ambition to become president or dictator of Mexico. He told me that he did not think he was the proper man for president of Mexico. . He merely wanted to fight for the right until Mexico could be given a stable government He said he was merely a military man and did not pretend to be a statesman. His companion, however, was very emphatic in his belief that Angeles was the man to head the government because of Angeless incorruptible honesty and integrity. General Angeles looked a good deal troubled and careworn at that time. He did not have the light, vivacious manner that he had had in 1904. On the occasion of his visit to my house in Brooklyn I learned from Gen. eral Angeles that Colonel Raph Egula Lis, while fighting Zapata, was captured and shot by the Zapatistas. Angeles believed that the best way to save Mexico and the only way to save Mexico and establish a stable government was for the Mexicans to do it themselves, and that the best help the Untied States government could give would be to let him, Angeles, and his supporters buy ammunf- co-patri- ot . What Largest Retail Implement House In World Does For Its Employes In Profit Sharing -- the big industrial and mercantile companies of are doing for their employes in the way of profit-sharin- g is illustrated by the Employes Savings and Profit Sharing Plan of The Largest Retail Implement House in the World, otherwise the Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company. It was on July 1, 1917, that the company inaugurated its first plan of profit sharing and savings. An employe to participate in the fund was to deposit 2 per cent of his salary and the company was to contribute annually 2 per cent of its net earnings as a basis for the fund. It is unnecessary to go into the details of the earlier arrangement as it was soon bettered. After nine months of experimentation the company established a new and more generous plan. An employe, to ' participate, deposited 4 per cent of his salary. The company contributed an amount equal to that contributed by its employes in the aggregate. The employes received for their deposits a graduated scale of interest ranging from 6 per cent to as high as 18 per cent per annum, interest to be compounded annually. For example, if an employe remains with the company for three years, he or she will receive interest on the contribution at the rate of 10 per cent per annum compounded annually for the period during which the money was in the fund. If an employe remains for five years the rate is 14 per cent, and for eight years of service the employe will receive as high as 18 per cent. In three years $144 becomes $310, in seven years $336 becomes $612, etc. Later the company added an insurance bonus a $500 free life insurance to each member of the profit sharing organization. An employe more than doubles his money each year if he stays with the company, or if he quits, he will get his money back with generous interest and at the same time have the free protection of $500 life insurance. in big concerns that is It is this spirit of tending to restore industrial peace. The Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company was early in the field with its plan and has been perfecting it each year. WHAT co-operat- ion The company has its headquarters at 140 State street, Salt Lake City, where President George T. Odell, General Manager Wright and Secretary and Treasurer Grant Hampton have charge. The company is conceded to be the largest retail concern of its kind in the world. The company owns and operates fifty-fiv- e stores and has an equal number of exclusive dealers in its lines in Utah, southeastern Idaho, western Wyoming and eastern Nevada. It employes nearly 400 people in the handling of these lines, more than 100 of whom are connected with the parent house in Salt Lake City. The monthly salaries go into the thousands of dollars and the annual sales into the millions. Owing to the wide distribution of selling depots in the foregoing states it is not necessary for the person desiring goods to waste any more time than it takes to call at one of the branch houses or upon one of the exclusive dealers located nearest his home. The company has been glad to have its customers call at the Salt Lake house and investigate the profit sharing plan, being anxious to do what it can to promote the spirit of industrial peace, for the company has been successful in avoiding labor troubles. |