Show A BETTER WAY OF LIFE There are publications being distributed throughout America tu to millions of people seeking people seeking to undermine respect re re- spat for or the business and industrial leadership of the nation The Ben Den Fairless story in Life Ma Magazine azine offers three great values to America 1 it once again exposes the dishonesty dishonesty dishonesty dis dis- honesty of the propaganda against American capitalism 2 it if inspires every boy and girl in America to unlimited achieve achieve- pc- pc nl merit meet t and 3 it creates r respect and admiration for the in industrial in leadership of America on which our continued economic progress so greatly depends Ben Fairless was born 66 years ago in Pigeon Run Run Ohio a town that had a dirt road ash sidewalks and white frame rame houses occupied by perhaps citizens Most of the men were coal miners as was Ben Fairless' Fairless dad My mother he writes was a truly great woman She had almost no education but her instincts were always right She believed that everybody should work that everybody should be honest that no one should expect something for nothing Young Ben didn't mind work Across the road lived the first capitalist I ever knew knew Clark Clark lark McClintock a lumberman with a big house B Ben n when he became school a age e ws worked in the summers summers summers sum sum- mers for or McClintock I mowed the lawn took care of his horses and plowed the ground on a farm farm I I was a n hired man manin manin in overalls at a cash salary of 9 a month In his first three years of high school he was the school janitor I got to the school building at 6 a a. a m m. fired up the coal furnace and dust dusted d the desks and chairs in the four classrooms After Alter school I swept the ITo floors rs I considered the job a great I privilege even though the salary was only 65 a year not per month per month per year At the ripe old a ag ake e of 17 with three years of high school chool behind me writes Ben Fairless I became a t teacher teach teach- ach acher er cr with 17 pupils on a salary of 48 8 He was supposed to pay the janitor out of his salary so he did the janitor work himself He taught three years and in the summers made up his fourth year of high school credits By working sum summers mess men and by borrowing from neighbor McClintock th the capitalist Ben en completed a college course in engineering engineer engineer- ing and went to work on the railroad with a construction constriction gang w. w His first job in the steel industry industry- was transit man manon manon manon on on construction a job building a steel plant plant plant-at at 75 a month When the plant was built the operations boss boos offered him hima a job He took it He worked hard putting in long clong hours every step of the way as he rose to the summit of American industrial leadership board chairman of United States Steel Corporation I 1 naturally think says Ben Fairless that our way of life Lie today is the greatest thing that ever happened To me it k means the ultimate in freed freedom m freedom not only to live Jive where a man chooses to live and to work in a field of his choice but also to have unlimited opportunity so that a h ky oy y from the wrong side of the tracks trades can cango go j just t as far asa asa as asa a rich mans man's son |