Show II 11 Robert Walkers R Rapid Rise II i I From Ironi college in 1536 lS 6 to tho the presidency I dency deney of or a transcontinental railroad In 1910 from a young lawyers In Income conic come to the salary of or H a year rear ar that id is ft n remarkable advancement extraordinary even een In tease days lIns of sudden swift promotion or young mon men from comparative c Con obscurity into tho the limelight tops of big bl corporations On January 12 at a directors dIrector moot mooting lag ing Iri In Chicago go Robert Walker law lawyer I lawyer a yer only 36 35 years old and recently connected with the tho office of or Paul D Cravath was elected e president gen gene crAl e rol counsel land chairman or of toe executive and finance committees of or ortho tho Rock Island company tho holding concern of the extensive Chicago o I Rock Island Pacific system with Its It miles of track and anil an annual earning capacity exceeding sty mil millions I lions of oC dollars The Tho legal profession today todar as never noer before In Its history is proving a stop ping Slone Into big bib Industrial positions lions Thero There arc are mau examples example noteworthy among them Judge Jud e Gary of oi the tho United Stales Steel corpora corporation corporation tion and Judge R S Lovett Loett tho the sue rv cr r nf t a I f Tf rr IJ Ile i lief I I I A o Is very 01 long lon ranging from a number I of or trust and railroad presidents down downto downin to in minor and subsidiary companies companied I whoso whose chief executives arc are lawyers and anti receive handsome salaries The Tho Th explanation Is simple There Thero are arc so many man restrictions today Im Imposed posed for the most part by b recent government legislation that tho pres president prest ident of a corporation trust or nat natural natural ural monopoly or indeed of or any big hl industrial concern must eIther cither bo he a alwer lawyer himself or have hoo a legal coun conn counselor counselor constantly at tt his elbow elt ow This Thin Is particularly true truc of railroad corpo corporations corporations rations So tho the law undoubtedly un helped Mr Walker up time the ladder The fact that his father Aldace F Walker of or Vermont was a 0 prominent lawyer and railroad man member of or ortho tho first interstate commerce commis commission sion slon and previously chairman of ot the board of directors of the tho Atchison To Topeka Topeka peka pelm Santa Fe railroad may or ormay orI ormay may ma not have hae accounted for hits his sons ronS I success A F Walker Walkr died in 1001 1301 two years ears after Robert Walker was graduated from law school As for Cor I pull of o any nn kind It is freely admitted ad admitted today in view of or the terrific I exactions Imposed u upon I on tae Lle executive by b the tho modern mod rn day da corporation that pull counts for absolutely nothing at all allA allA allA A working mind trained like a finely fine finely ly Iy organized machine to do and save savea a vast 1st amount of mental labor 1 a It I physique calculated d to stand easily the excessive mental strain and these the great I r at desiderata Herein H lies the answer to tho the quos ques question ion tion I of Why Wh did dill they thc select him for president t 1 Now ew York Vork Herald H |