. Little journeys to the homes of the great . ness policy, and beneath his bruskoutside, there beat a very warm and generous heart 33When the financial panic of Eighteen Hundred Ninety-three struck the country, and dealers were cancelingtheir orders and everybody was shortening sail, theOlivers kept right along manufacturing, and storedtheir product. Never have they laid off labor on account of hard JAMES OLIVER Never have they even shortened hours or pay. This isa record, I believe, equaled by no big manufacturingconcern in America. In October, Nineteen Hundred Seven, when workmenwer
. Little journeys to the homes of the great . ness policy, and beneath his bruskoutside, there beat a very warm and generous heart 33When the financial panic of Eighteen Hundred Ninety-three struck the country, and dealers were cancelingtheir orders and everybody was shortening sail, theOlivers kept right along manufacturing, and storedtheir product. Never have they laid off labor on account of hard JAMES OLIVER Never have they even shortened hours or pay. This isa record, I believe, equaled by no big manufacturingconcern in America. In October, Nineteen Hundred Seven, when workmenwere being laid off on every hand, the Olivers simplystarted in and increased their area for the storage ofsurplus product. They had faith that the tide wouldturn, and this faith was founded on the experience offorty years and more in business. Said James Oliver, Mans first business was to till the soil; his last busi-ness will be to till the soil; I help the farmer to do hiswork, and for my product there will always be ademand/ 87 JAMES OLIVER. 1AMES OLIVER had no fear of death. He hadan abiding faith that the Power that caredfor him here would never desert him looked upon death as being as naturalas life and probably just as good. For the quibbles oftheology he had small patience. Live right here—wait, and we shall know, he used to his wife died, in Nineteen Hundred Two, he borethe blow like a Spartan. Fifty-eight years had theyjourneyed together. She was a woman of great goodsense, and a very handsome woman, even in her oldage. Her husband had always depended on her, tellingher his plans and thus clarifying them in his own were companions, friends, chums, lovers—manand wife. After her death he redoubled his activities,and fought valiantly to keep from depressing the house-hold with the grief that was gnawing at his heart 53A year passed, and one day he said to his son, Joe,I do miss your mother awfully—but then, Ill not haveto endure this lonel
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