New-York Tribune from New York, New York • 61

From a Switc Frederick Douglas Underwood Says Old-Fashioned Industry Is Still the Surest Road to Success By Arnold Princo TARS fir? absorbing whi'e last. But when the tumult and the shout? ing die there is always? re rent to -jy the income tax to consider, and butc er and the grocer to think of The saga of toil, like the song of needle, goes on forever. Re? cently some that the had be? still that all the I gods troyed. Thrift, uf ad in the world, were si tempt been. 'east.

S'1 mist said i pending The an? cient la rated under revel rs, and the clamor I the sgitators md. But now Under? wood, tss vely built id, peo? ple are jinning to pet a clearer ancien! ai int ir own again. Working for a care? loes seem so Ish as it i peopl ire settl ng down to business nee more. The Story of the Frogs There i a breathing spell the siness of king after 'hmen's freighl rid the fncul ties get a the in his his ar it? Here was the way Mr. Underwood told it recently: Once upon a time there was a man I who was exceedingly fond of frog legs.

Going one day into his favorite restaurant he was exceedingly dis appointed to discover that his pet food was not on the menu. "What, no frog legs?" he de manded. "No sir." replied the proprietor of the restaurant, who had been summoned. "I am sorry, but there are no frogs to be had on the mar? ket." "Pshaw," retorted the diner im? patiently. "I can get you a whole carload of them, if you want them," whereupon the nettled keeper of the eating house replied, "You get a ad, and I'll buy them from you." Apparently this was not one of those verbal exchanges which are forg tten with the evaporation of for the first man actually set about getting the frogs.

A week later I again put in an ap? pearance at the restaurant and was accosted by tho restaurateur. "Well, get that carload of frogs?" the latter inquired. "Not exactly. I hired a freight car and several men to help me, but although we worked a week all we could get was six dozen." "Six dozen? What was the mat? ter?" Judged by the Sound "Well, 1 live in the country, you know. In th rung 1 the frogs, ai me i 'itere -were ons of th "And wer there?" inquired the staurant ma i "No," was the lisgusted reply "There were only the six dozen.

They only sounded like millions." The president of the Erie paused to let the moral sink in, and then said: "You'd think from the noiae the agitators havo been making in this land of ours that the United States had become a nation of agitators. But the agitators are like the frogs in the story. They make a terrible clamor. But just so long as 85 per cent of the people continue to follow their lawful vocations, as they are doing, and only 15 per cent make the noise, the country is in no danger. The United States has no cause to worry over its future." Frederick D.

Underwood Is one of the nation's conspicuous examples of self-made man. Born at Wauwatosa. the son of a Baptist clergy? man, he began his railroad career forty-eight years ago as a yard switchman, holding all the inter? mediary positions of brakeman, con? ductor, yardmaster, before at? taining the heights of superintend? ent, general manager and president. Although seventy years of age, he is as firm a champion to-day of work and specialization as absolute re? quirements fro a successful career as when he started out to make a in the world. Old Maxims Hold Good World War or no World War, the good old copybook maxims, he be lieve, still hold good.

By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou earn thy I read, but thou shalt also pay hee 1 to the wisdom of men who have been I rough the mill. Honesty still counts, and so does sobriety isn't as difficult as it was in 1 lays fore the Great Aridity, and i really wai to get ahead something you've still got to do i've got to save a little money, nest to bury in the back yard as a safeguard against the Shant FREDERICK I UNDERWOOD as a brakcman rainy day, but as "working capital" with which to do business. If you're not in business, but one of the pro? fessions, you still must have working capital. President Underwood of the Erie laid the foundation of his "working capital" by the slow, laborious meth I ods of a day when wealth was not so easily acquired a3 it is to-day. His first acquaintance'with toil was 400.000 Boy Scoots to Hike This Week DI valley high dust such ir only from'the tread of any feet.

ken column each with a haversack strapped to its back. The Vternoon sunlight shows the glow of health on merry faces and the light anticipation in eager eyes. Slow in the rear, lumbers a two wheeled trek cart they call by eight boys. Originally canvas was strapped over the top, hut the canva3 has come loose. You cooking pots and kettles and a and tents.

And then you re? member. This is Friday, June 4, tile- sixth day of Boy Scout Week. "This is the day on which, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the to the Gulf, every member the Boy Scouts of America is ex? pected to take an overnight hike. There are 396,008 of them, and it fefcris upon you that at tjlis hour they are kicking up the OY SCOUTS gather around camp fire at the end of a day's hike dust on ten thousand roads and and hills, mountains and deserts. The figures are a bit staggering.

A Man In Charge There is one man.with these boys. He is dressed a3 they are, and he wall where ha can keep a sharp eye on the party. They haul the tn cart across a loose bridge spanning a hear the thump, thump of the boards as they are jarred by the wheels. The voice i the man readies you. Somehow he carries a note of vitality and good cheer.

"All right. Eagles. Wolves to the trek cart. Lively, Wolf Patrol." The eight Eagles drop the hauling ropes, and stretch their arms, and give thanks that that particular trick is over. The Wolves, alert, The cart and op go on again.

ighti a two in whom your heart is buried. You pal with them, that mom? I at ich ti win fr them the sai ager. re? that this unknown scout ter ha Aft you loll? them, what thi it is it that Be Seoul 1 -day? How do they do it? What do they get out of it? i ki me? thing about the work they did iru the war- -the ty bond hey sold, the litei ire I the enlistm sters they talked up for the army, the navy and tl rines, the war gardens they planted, the help they gave to the Red Cross, the Y. M. C.

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But has that got to eio with this thing of 400,000 Boy Scouts hiking Joyously through the dust? This hiking stuff is only a "playing Indian" sort of game, isn'fc it? Making Camp You have a dread of being caught by boys. So you watch from a distance. You hear the Scouts in the van yell and see them point. The whole party clusters in a knot After a moment hey leave the road, pass through a fringe of trees and disappear. Some? how, a little shiver of adventure asses through your body.

What have they seen? Where are they roing? You wait a while. Then yi go to the trees and look through. There befoTe you is the pebbly of a small, sun-flashed lake. You wonder what is the matter with these boys. Instead of hauling off their clothing arc! going overboard hey are applying themselves to defi ite 'asks.

Axes are ringing I I I four or five of the party come ut of imbi to the right car ying armfuls of dead firewood. Other boys have routed the equip? ment n-r, of the trek cart, and still hoys are putting up tents. -y are going up in the shape of a long there is a small nted city. Another small group is engaged preparing the eve ing meal. Your nostrils quiver to oder of pungent wood smoke, ind frying bacon, and beans and iffee.

Two other hoys, ground, have been screwing to ier of thin, iron pipe. Now i AAA it into the ground in front i the tents, and something proudly I fl itters up to the top and aps and whips iri the breeze. You bold agaii st the sky. The ripes! Your eyes grow mi ty. Salute lo the Colors with a swellii of eart, that all work has stopped thai everj boj ha- come tiffly to attention ugle notes, softly me to our ear 3.

And a such as you have not known. ears runs along your spine. Is this, you wonder, whore these I Boy Scout gel 'he brand of pati that wrote itself so glor? during the war? You stay there, and watch the eat ii of tho meal and the washing of the dishes, and the thorough cleaning that leaves not a trace of the cook ing. Why, the kitchen of your own me isn't scoured any more pains? takingly than this outdoor spot that boys have selected as a playground. The sun sets behind the hills, and the flag comes down, the bugle play? ing, and again that odd thrill plays over you.

In the dusk, a campfire springs to life. Sheltered by the darkness you go closer. They are around the fire now, singing, joking, recounting the incidents of the day. The scoutmaster fall into absorbed silence. He is telling them the story of Commodore Perry's fight on Lake Erie.

Y'ou have heard it before. It is an old 1 tale. But somehow, there beside the made on a farm In Wisconsin, where he worked long hours and enjoyed few recreations. Ills next employ ment was in a flour mill, where he 1 also had many opportunities for exercising his muscles. His entrance into railroading grew out of the refusal of an ac? quaintance, a cart driver, to accept the foremanship of a grain elevator owned by the Chicago Northwest? ern Railroad.

The cart driver de? clined it because he could not write, and Underwood asked for the posi? tion in his place and got it. That was more than forty-eight years ago, but the future president be Pre; I of the Erie was too aggressive a I personality, too filled with the desire to forge ahead in the world, to be content with the place he had won as the man in charge of the eleva tor. He saw that bis way toward the top was in the operating end of railroading, and he became a yard switchman in the employ of the Chi? cago, Milwaukee St. Paul Rail road. Switchman to Superintendent He worked eighteen years for this road, rising from yard switch man to division superintendent.

"Work is the prime essential of pREDERICK DOUGLAS UNDERWOOD, president of the Eri Railroad campfire, the scoutmaster invests it i witn a grip that has you standing tense. "Say," breathes one the Sc? uts, "isn't it fine just to be an Ameri? can?" You find your head ur usly nodding. The fire dv indie-. are sleepy yawns, and a movement toward the tents. Presently out of the darkness come the sof "taps." And there, ui 1er th? a camp of Ameri You can remember, ba own young days, when you would have feared to spend a night in the open.

You won? of the boy afraid of the dark. Has he lost that fear irr place along the trails of it You go off to your own home, pondering resolved to come back before has broken, so that you this camp bestirs itse in the morn? ing. I at light le to ur resoi .7 while the sky is yet dark. Just as a bugle sei77 these boys I sleep, now, as the day! ea Is, it an uses them from slumber. Ro li king and merry is the music.

It brings them tumbling from the tents. Five min? utes of a setting-up sup? ple those young bodies envy them. Then a ma i dash for I the lake, and a din of shouting as they go plunging into Id I You cai almost see tl glow as 7 Anoth? line-up, a I how tly the head and then the flag goes aga stand star against th i sky. Th? ring of the axes, I i ing, the tang the the day is on. After breakfast tl that cause you to ur 's.

A group of boys go a trot ami presently are side the lake. They have fia with a white square. They wave these, and bo; the i wave back. Wh; th ing. Two or thn more boys, ing, are practicing with banda a willing, prostrat vi m.

boy is learning to lift lad and carry him. You give a little whistle. Why. that is tiie that you saw a fireman use in carrying a smoke victim fr a burning house. Boy Scouts' Work And then you rack your brain for something you once read.

What was i jit? Oh, yes. The motto of every one of these 400,000 Boy Scouts is "Be prepared-." Tins year's celebration of the Boy Scouts' Week begins to-day, Me? morial Day. There will be services in the churches, and at each church a Scout will appear and recite the Scout law and oath; and wherever in the United States there are patriotic services, there also will Scouts be found. Every Scout, fol? lowing his pledge to do a good turn daily, will try on this particular day to do service for a veteran or for some member of his family. rever Scouts gather in meeting a veteran of the great war will ad? dress them, one of their number will road Lincoln's Gettysburg address, the Mag will be saluted and the Scout oath will be repeated.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will witness a variety of ities. Scouts will wear their uniforms at all work, at I ay, at school or when engaged in some special ceremony. Waikrite, clean-up and swat-the-fly campaigns will be inaugurated. Signal stations will be arranged at prominent points and demonstrations will be given. Outdoor Day Friday will be the outdoor day? the day of the overnight hike.

As soon as school is over that afternoon Scouts will take to the woods. Some of these hikes will become "treasure hunts." with a big campfire supper at the end of the trail. Father is to vited to come along. In fact, uts want father, because they think a little wood chopping, and -moke in the eyes, the air of the night in his nostrils, and the stars over his head, will do him a world of good. Saturday, June 5, 3 outdoor day.

Wherever it is possible Scouts will set up their tents in parks and will full view of tne public, and 1 their brand of woo -hip. They will build their lires; they will cook their food; they will have their evening story and their ceren tunts. They hi re instances pe rmit, oak-1 trappers a ike id trib free, A trained Scout es not nave to be ashamed of his skill and pan. The week of celebration will end Sunday, June There will be an? other program of church services men who have become, im? pressed with Scouting will be asked to volunteer their services. Scout ing, ever since its birth in America 1 has been held back, not by lack ci I eager boys, but by lack of men tc lead the boya, sident's Office Luck May Play a Part in One's Career, but the Lucky One Must Be Ready When the Time Comes success," said Mr.

Underwood, "but it must be admitted that luck plays its part, too. For example, there was the case of one railroad con? ductor I knew who found an oppor? tunity for getting ahead in the fact that the general superintendent of his road happened to be on his train when he, the conductor, was called on to do an unexpected piece of work. "Another train nad been wrecked and the conductor in question took charge of the work of rescue. There was no telegraph station at hand and he went ahead on his own in? itiative, getting the passengers of the wrecked train on board his own and making all possible arrange? ments for their comfort. Then when he get to a telegraph station he sent directions on how best to clear the road and get traffic going again, all without knowing that his general superintendent was on the train and observing closely what he was doing.

"Now, this was a bit of luck for the conductor, because it brought him directly under the eye of his superior and impressed him with his ability. The result was that he won TX his leisure moments Mr. iv sometimes commands a. promotion. Of course, he would not have wen promotion if he had not known his job, but the presence of ti superintendent aboard the train was sheer luck.

"Luck does count, but no mar. can get ahead who does not know I is business. That is as true to-day as it ever was. It will be as true to-morrow as it is tc-day. But to hear some agitators you'd think everything had changed and noth? ing is as it was.

All sorts of trou bles are predicted. For example, they are saying that because of the freight congestion the position of the Port of New Y'ork is endan? gered. There has been a great deal about that in the newspapers. New York's Firm Place "But I do not believe it. I do not believe for a moment the port is in any danger.

Freight comes here because this is the place the ships come to. You read the news? papers, and from what is said you'd get the impression the whole coun? try had gone to the dogs. But, as a matter of fact, the people are doing just what they always did. As for myself, I do not believe that th.ore is any very great unrest. Peo? ple say things are awful, but they aren't awful at all.

"Coming back to the subject of fregs. did you know that the croak? ing of a frog can be heard above the roar of a train going at high speed? is true. Ask any locomotive en? gineer. He will tell you that above the grinding of wheels on rails, the exhaust of steam, the smash and rattle and bang of the coaches as they travel along through the coun? try, he has frequently heard the song of the frogs along the right cf way. Their croakings seem to have some curious, carrying and penetrating quality which cuts through the other noises and makes them distinctly audible.

"Well, it's that way with our ha man harbingers of unrest. You hear them above every or? The bulk of the population goes ahead quietly with its work, doing: pretty much what its always done; but your attention is distracted by the croaking of the two-iegged frogs. Too Much Talking "They say the world is made up of two classes of who have something to say and those who have to say I should like to urge upon the second class that brevity is the soul of wit. There has been altogether too much foolish talking. Of course, things have happened and there have been changes.

But it must be remembered that, so far as the hap? penings within our body politic are concerned, our very government is in the nature of an experiment. Ours was the first government in the world voluntarily established by the will of the people. Before that there were kings who imposed their will on the people and ruled, as they claimed, by divine right, a right thev maintained bv force of arms. The countries had a succession of monarchs who governed by violence. Dynasties were maintained, times, by poison and murder and other acts of terror.

Uneasy was the head that wore the crown, but uneasy, too, were the people who owed allegiance to that crown. "A great many of these monarchs have recently fallen, but our gov? ernment, which was the world's first peaceful government, is still doing business at the old stand. True, there are some people who are try? ing to put us back where we were before our government was estab? lished, but maybe they won't suc? ceed. Anyway, they haven't suc? ceeded yet. Old Standards Persist "The majority of our people are not only holding on to cur form of government, but they are ahead in their own affairs pretty much as they were before the World War.

The standards by wh ch men labored have not been swept away Work and success, the old rid success, that is, appeal to them, just a they did before. "Sometimes people ask what is there in material success that so appeals to peopie'" Well, are three things which animate men. First, they want to make-good. Next, they want to provide for those de? pending upon them, and, third, they want to make names for themselves. They to protect those for whom they ere responsible and at the same time rank among their fel? lows as men who are able to carry on their sharv of the work of th? world.

"What nonsense peopie talk when they think tha? the Wurid War has changed any of this. "Men accumulate money as squir? rels accumulate nuts, against i time of need. Money is the nuts humanity. Not that mere accumu of money means that a mai has attained success, because tha is not so. Many men have beei successful who have not beei wealthy.

Money, in a certain sens? is a mere incident in a man's lif( nothing else. The greatest preempt and principles for the guidance an enlightenment of the world hav come from men who had no "mone; Money, that is, money that does nc represent work, often begets inde lence and industrial impotence, bi that is an entirely different subjec Money Didn't Appeal "Money, as mere money, never pealed to me. If anybody wou agree to underwrite me- and tro depending upon me. guarantees them and myself enough to live I would agree to go on working the rest of my elays without pa And yet there must be some stan ard by which success is measure In many cases this can only be do by money. And it is true that certain amount of money is ah' iutely essential if one is to atti independence.

"But to say that the old rules business conduct have been Btroyed, or that there has been serious impairment of the old-fa mned precepts of honorable deal by which men regulate their affa is to say what is not "We have still got to work, as fore. We've still got to sav? before. And we've got to do b' ness pretty much on the same as before, which, as a matter I fact, is what 85 per cent of i population of the nation ia doing.