Show 1 n I SECRET OF AMERICAN SUCCESS h I A remarkable essays u a was written by Speyer who comb com com com- b ing Ing over from tram Germany five years ago won first prize ot of o In Ini 1 competition with hundreds writ writ 1 I Ing on the subject What I have hale 4 G learned from my work In 1921 t f Speyer was one of o a crew oft ot of t tour four our Installing electric equipment r In la an old castle castia belonging to the I grand rand duke ot of Daden Baden Writing N 14 ot of o his experience he said The Tho Th main cable had to be laid C 8 tl II through a cellar wall four our feet u a 14 thick Lying flat Hat on th the ground tl Li and working with a plain chisel and hammer It took us three and andrt andrt andr rt one halt days to break this hole through Disgusted with that job t d I said Bald to the the leader Why doesn't s Ii somebody design some tome tools to facilitate this work A rather 1 typical reply followed We have always made those holes In this them manner we wa e always got through ugh The old method Is all allright allright right why hy try to change It t Such would soon loon tools as 1 a you suggest put all 0 of us out ot of work One evening I mentioned that I would soon Boon leave for tor AmerIca j I guess you'll soon Boon bo be making lots lols ot of o money and ride In an auto auto- automobile automobile automobile mobile like a millionaire while we are wondering how to to get enough to eat said uld one ot of my fellows They have havo everything over there because they won the war Some months later I stood at t a factory window A JL conveyor parts motors wheels wheel fellows fello busy busy busy-a afew few hundred yards Iuds farther an farther automobile I looted looked and watched for hours An air hammer a tractor and an air tir how easily we could have hare ale In a few minutes that hole through that wall with such Buch tools I thought again ot of o that foremans foreman's remark The old method Is la all allright allright I right why try to change It I applied app for work In that plant I rot got It It I saw caw new ma ma- machinery chinery ne new processes new meth methods constantly being beins Introduced I heard beard of o price reductions and wage Increases but I have never beard anybody say We always alway made the holes In to this manner we alwa always got rot them through the old method Is II 1 all til right why tr try to It change It I never heard this thiB len Ben In America Even I 1 Ii thou I am not a millionaire millionaire can today ilay afford my myown myown myown own car because there were some lome people who said Let us UI make those holes a little faster taster That stor story from from actual experience experience ence explains explain the secret of o Amer Amer- AmerIca's America's ica's seas Industry development and why this this- country though on a higher level ot of wages is able to compete with the world It also al discloses that whatever makes for Inefficiency retards people and andI stands as a barrier to higher I standards ot of o living 1 |