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WI WI* had privately esti-
mated, But the.chairman, coldly
stated that he did not know Mr.
Eaton qr his gredit rating,
'The relatively young man (he
was 41) replied pleasantly, "If
you doubt my ability to under-
write this sum, please telephone
the Cleveland Trust Company
and ask them whether this
cheque for $20,000,000 will be
honored."
The cheque Was good and he
gained control of Trumbull,
In the stogie market crash.
Eaton's empire fell and he lost
$100,000,400. Other men were
jumping out of windows but, es
an associate recalls, "He came in
to settle up and signed one of the
biggest cheques ever written. He
made only one comment; 'To-
morrow is another day',"
Cyrus Eaton is the only one of
the big tycoons of the '20s who
lost everything ,and came back
He launched an attack on Wall
Street's control of industry- fin-
ancing which revolutionized Am-
erican business. Previously, when
a railroad needed funds to build
a new line, it called up its favor-
ite Wall Street banking house
(two were known as the railroad,
financiers) which set its own
price for the bonds offered.
Eaton coolly took $30,000,000
of Chesapeake & OhiO financing
away from Wall. Street by paying
$1,500,000 more for the bonds.
This hold and daring raid stun-
ned Wall Street and won Eaton
the friendship of many other In-
dependents, including Robert R.
Young who was then trying to
take over the Van Swerigen rail-
road empire.
An observer remarked, "It was
a beautiful maneouvre. Wall St
was caught napping, Eaton fig-
ured his margin down to the last
penny, If he had bid less than
his opponents, he would have
looked like a fool. If he had bid
too much, he would have lost
his shirt."
This 'operation re-established
Cyrus Eaton as one of the top
financial genuises of the post-
Depression era.
ISSUE 52 — 1956
were scarcely more gullible than
New Yorkers who let themselves
take more than 70 years to pay
for it. — From The Christian
Science Monitor.
SQUELCH!
An American visiting in Eng-
land was beginning to get under
the skin of his British host with
his constant criticism of British
terms of speech. He had ridiculed
the British for calling a police-
man a bobby a drugstore a chem-
ist's, and a streetcar a tram.
,Finally, as the two men were
driving •through the city, the
Englishman mentioned that his
windscreen needed cleaning.
"Windshield." the American ce-r-
rected him.
"Well, over here we call it a
windscreen."
"Then you're wrong," argued
the American. "After all, we
Americans invented the automo-
bile, and we call it a windshield."
"That's all very well, old boy,"
snapped tne Englishman, "but
who invented the language?"
Many people are deeply op-
posed in principle to the idea
of going into debt. This aver:-
sion is not nearly so widespread
today in America after decades
of inflation and plentiful capital
as it was among an earlier gen-
eration that had lost farms,
homes, or businesses through
foreclosures in financial panics
or periods of tight money.
But those who still feel that
"hiring" money can be expen-
sive if not hazardous have an
illustration of their point from
the city controller of New York.
His office has just made the
final payment far debt service
on the bonds issued to finance
construction of the famed Brook-
lyn Bridge, built in 1883. During
that period it is computed that
the city paid nearly twice as
much in interest on the debt as
was incurred in the original
cost of the bridge.
This bit of information may be
used by those who favor trying
to reduce the national debt, on
which the United States pays
seven billion dollars a year in
debt service alone (before debt
reduction can begin), or by a
consumer resisting the urge to
"balloon" the unpaid balance
on that three-year car note for
another six months. Anyway, it
rather hints that the tourists who
"bought" the Brooklyn Bridge
from fast-talking confidence men
A cheer went up from the
devise crowd of mill hands stand-
ing there in the raw January
cold. A school band played
"Happy Days Are Here Again!"
Some women and older men
wept.
Two little girls moved shyly
from the crowd and presented
flowers to an erect, impeccably
' dressed, white-haired gentleman
standing under a sign reading
"Welcome". His usually frosty
blue eyes tender, he bent, deeply
moved, and kissed their hands.
"Thank you, thank you," he
murmured.
The man was Cyrus Eaton, one
of the most colorful yet mysteri-
ous figures in the world of high
finance.
Eaton had just saved the small
West Virginia community of Foie
lansbee (pop. about 4,435) from
being turned into a ghost town.
At the pleas of local workmen
and \officials he had stepped in
and prevented the Follansbee
Steel Company .from being torn
down and its machinery removed
by a huge steel corporation.
At the thanksgiving supper in
the big silent mill that night, he
told the grateful citizens; "It's
small cities like 'Follansbee that
are the heart and strength of
America. When you build plants
in small communities and give
jobs to people in their home
towns, you strengthen the Capi-
talist system.,',.
This isn't just talk with Eaton.
Twice before, he had steeped in
to save local industries in small
towns:- e He calls this "creative
capitalism." •
Cyrus Stephen Eaton is an ex-
traordinary person. Almost 73,
he looks, acts and thinks like a
man 20 years younger writes Trie
Coffin in Coronet.
In many ways, he is a study
in contrasts. Though he is re-
putedly brie of the 20 richest men
in the U.S., John' L. Lewis is a
close friend.
In Cleveland, from his Ter-
Fashion Note
minal Tower office overlooking
Lake Erie, he directs an industrial
empire that streches from the
Arctic to the tropics, and includes
railroads, utilities, coal, iron,
gold, steel and paints. Yet, he is
an honored member of the Am-
erican Philosophical Association
and American Council of Learned
Societies.
He is a witty essayist and a
prize-winning farmer (his spe-
cialty is Scotch Shorthorn cattle).
He skis every Christmas with his
grandchildeen.
"Do what you want to do," he
says, "and work will be fun."
(He works from 12 to 14 hours „
a day.) "Learn to understand the
wonders of nature and the glories
of literature. Get 'eight hours'
sleep a night." (He neither
drinks, smokes, nor uses coffee,
but drinks hot water with every
Meal.)
During the Washington probes
of subversives, he announced
scornfully, "The way to combat
communism isn't by witch-hunt-
ing and wire-tapping. Common
stocks owned by all the people,
and common sense by business
and political leaders is the best
guarantee of a dynamic 'capital
ism."
When the going is tough and
"lesser men would back out, he
smiles gently, discusses early
Greek culture like a scholar, and
hangs on.
Cyrus Eaton is a product of
Pugwash, a small lumbering and
fishing village in Nova Scotia,
where his father was a farmer
and small shopkeeper. His deeply
religious mother, Mary McPher-
son Eaton, wanted him to devote
his life 'to helping others, and at
one time he considered the min-
istry as a career.
His practical side developed
while working in his father'S
store. The elder Eaton once said
to him; "When he was six years
old, I could leave him alone in
the store for hours." '
After callege, young Eaton was
a cowpuncher in northwest Ca-
nada, a store clerk and a lay
minister, But once he went into
business he wasted no time. His
big opportunity, and one that
would have frightened off a lesser
mart, came in 1907 when he was
sent by a utility syndicate ,to get
franchises for local gas and elec-
tric plants.
A panic developed iri the U.S
that year and left the syndicate
without money to continue the
project. Eaton was only 23, but
he walked confidently into a
brink, argued that electricity was
coming; arid secured funds to
lduild a plant himself. Two years
later, he sold the utility for
good profit.
With this •as a stake, he went
into the utility business through
he Midwest arid Canada. Always
willing to take a risk, hernaVed
on into steel (he created Republic
Steel), into paint and rubber and
paper. ,He was a multi-million-
aire by the time he was 30.
A typical Eaton •Operation Was
the Way he broke into- steel in
1925, First lie studied the in-,
dtistry with all the thoroughness
Of a laboratory scientist; search-
ing fore weakness he Could ex-
ploit. He found it in the founder-
ing Trumbull Steel Company and
with the' rriaStettuI tinting that
marked Many of liis operations,.
went into action:,
Cyrus Eaton, ah Unknown in
steel, appeared boldly before the
three man committee running
Tritinbull arid told theist, "I know
YOu're in trouble, end it. Will take
$18,000,000 to get you on yOur
feet. lien's a cheque t',
The sum was exactly what the
Then there is Dick Collier,
known in the U.S.A as Mr. Jolly.
He is large, fat, happy and can
laugh in more than 100 different
ways. Night club comedians pay
him as much as $100 a night just
to sit among the diners and laugh
and laugh and laugh.
And you know how infectious
that can be.
Customers laugh so uproar-
iously with. Mr. Jolly that an
excellent impression is made on
the management and this has
helped many a comedian to a
five-figure contract.
You can turn a gift or even a
disability to good use sometimes.
A man named Frederick Hoelzel
was cursed with an incredibly
weak digestion,' and it was this
peculiarity which made physiolo-
gists at the University of Chicago
engage him to eat pellets of
metal, glass beads, strands of
knoted string and small hard
objects like pieces of rubber and
gold, so that they could see what
effect, they had on the human
digestion. Hoelzel was cured of
his complaint, but continued for
years as a paid guinea spig,
In the town of Freiburg, Ger-
many, stands a clock tower with
a spiral stairway on each side.
leading to the street. The builder
of the clock designed it to be
wound by balance weights, so
one of the corporation- employees
is paid a small annuity to go up
into the tower every week-end
by one stairway and sit on one
balance weight till it lowers him
to the ground, then climb up
again and sit on the other. After
which he goes home.
Before the war in Soochow
China, • there were a number of
men and women who sat about
and did nothingJand got paid for
it. Their contracts stipulated that
they would not be paid if they
did any work.
All that was required of them
was to let their nails grow, and
when they were about an inch
long they were pared and sold
to a local chemist who, using a
secret formula, compounded them
into a powder for sore throatse e
It is doubtful whether this pro-
fession exists under the present
regime, which demands produc-
tive labour.
Then there is the man who
earns his living by shouting, and
he's no town crier, either. ,Ger-
hard Wufgrarn is known to thous-
ands of seamen as Captain Bye-
Bye, for it is his job when a
foreign ship is about to leave
the ports of Hamburg to shout
greetings to the captain and crew
through a megaphone and then
play a record of the appropriate
national anthem, If possible, the
greetings are bawled in the lan-
guage of the country where the
ship is, registered, and Captain
Bye-Bye has a knowledge—for
greetings only—of more than 20
tongues.
The modern young man doesn't
leave footprints on the sands of
time — just tire tracks.
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'ALLEN ANGEL —* An aleht photographer caught This whitriti cd; pertrdit t4 the end of on erel
let Detroit, Sleeping ,,peacefully attild the rubble, the seagoing -pioster cherub symbolizes the
end' of the "Steamboat bathie, of interior decoration. in happier tinies, she,tidatned
One of the elegant public rooms of the D t passenger steamer City of 'Detroit II, which used,
*id 'ply' Lake Erie and is 'HOW under the Wrei kers! lianylile s. today's ship designers 'work with
stainless- steel, plastics hew 'fa h;'itti,
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Very Odd Jobs
Some jobs are so extraordinary
that one wonders how they start-
ed. In France the government
employs six official viper catchers
Who rid the country of Pattie 2,000
vipers a year., Carrying a large
bag, the catchers creep tip behind
the reptile and grips it by the
neck, then thrusts thinto the bag.
in addition to their official
salary the catchers make money
by selling vipers to country folk
Who believe that viper fat is a
cure for stomach disordere, and
to gourmets who turn the snake
into a tasty dish kown as "An-
guille Mentagne" (Mountain
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It doesn't matter how strange
your job, there's someone some-
where in the world who has one
queerer. Tax officials in Stock-
holm grew suspicious when they
discovered that the sale of dog
foods had risen and the number
of dog licenses fallen,
So they engaged an old actor
who would imitate dogs to go
from house to house barking. On
receiving an answering bark, he
lotted down the number of the
Souse and the name of the street.
It was surprising how profitable
the scheme turned out—for the
lax authorities.
One of the queerest jobs was
held by James S. Kelly, whose
duty it was to sympathize with
men and women condemned tie
death in the State of New York,
-and comfort and keep them
cheerful when on trial.
"I had to sit with the prison-
ers," he said, "when the jury was
debating whether to send them
to the chair. It was my business
to make them think that he case
was coming out all right. It was
up to me to keep their nerves
steady and not to let them get
frantic."
When Edward Johnson, the '
Canadian-born manager of the
Retropolitan Opera House in
flew York, took over, he vowed
he'd break the applauding racket;
then a feature of certain per-
tormces. The members of these
tlaques were paid $25 a week to
give a rousing welcome to new
end nervous performers and the
leader, who gave the cue, was
paid $100 a week.
Professional applauders still
exist and area well paid by the
/organizers of film premieres and
first nights. There are also men
Rho make a living by *coming
forward to. "be saved" when
evangelists call for penitent sin-
hers to repent.
LOST KISSABLE — Mrs. Jean
trick was named "Miss Kiss-
lele of 1956" in a contest of
veered thousand girls. Entrants.
Int imprints of their lips, made
y 'kissing" a piece of paper,
ito a Washington radio station.
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