THE SUNDANCE TIMES
An Independent Newspaper
Published Every Thursday by The Times Publishing Co.
The Times is a legal newspaper for all publications.
John E. Lindsey .................................. Owner-Publisher
Howard Allen, News Editor, Advertising Manager
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
$3.00 per year in Crook and adjoining counties; $3.50 per year
elsewhere.
Entered at the postoffice at Sundanee, Wyoming, as second class
matter under the act of March 3, 1879.
A MESSAGE FOR ALL
One fall day 50 years ago, two
raen sat on a bench watching a
open hearth steel furnace
the American Rolling Mill Corn-
plant at Middletown, Ohio.
was middle-aged, the other
young. The older man was
M. Verity, founder and
of the company. His
)anion on the bench was 22-
Charles R. Hook.
Young Charlie Hook had begun
a few years earlier in a
steel mill as a $2-a-
office boy. He had an eager-
lless to learn the steel business and
great capacity for work. In a~
Ly short time he had
himself up to become fore-
of a steel mill in Indiana.
Verity had got into the steel
on a shoestring. He had
for Charlie Hook as a promis-+
young man to help build a
industry. He offered young
a job and a wonderful op-!
1. He wanted men, he
Hook, to help him build
organization based upon faith l
men, on cooperation through l
g, on the application
the Golden Rule as a guide
business as well as for daily
Applied Golden Rule
Charlie Hook took several days
consider the offer, then he
~ted. He started to work in
winter of 1902 as night sup-
of the plant whose
employment was 325 and
production was 5,900 tons
steel. As he rose gradually up
the company, and began
take a hand in its direction,
close personal relationship with
employees and his application
the Golden Rule in those re-
became traditions that
gone unbroken thdough the
constant growth.
the man who had be-
his business career as a $2-
Week office boy became presi-
of the American Rolling Mill
which by then employed
people and produced 665,000
of steel annually. Today, at
age of 72, he is chairman of
,board. The company, now
Armco Steel Corporation,
30,000 people and annual-
Produces 3,215,000 tons of high-
grade steels. In the parent
and its direct offspring
has never been a labor
Charles R. Hook has re-
-~dly been honored by his own
and by national organi-
for the inspiring record
harmonious management-labor
at Armco.
A Benefactor
tingly enough, I met Mr. Hook
first time one Sight many
ago in Cleveland at a meet-
ing of Ohio citizens who~ were
interested in the welfare of their
state. After addressing the meet-
ing I had a long visit with Mr.
Hook in his hotel room. What t
he said to me then, and his friend-
ship through the intervening years,
has been a constane source of
inspiration to me. I have never
met a finer gentleman nor a man
more deeply roo~ed to his religious
and social convictions. He truly
has been a benefactor to his coun-
try and his countrymen.
The latest issue of the "Armco-
operator," a magazine for Armco
men and women, devoted its front
cover and three inside pages to
~"ha important Armco event"-
the completion of Mr. Hook's 50th
year with the company. Ironically,
the issue reached the chairman's
desk in his absence. President
Truman and Secretary of Com-
merce Sawyer had asked him to
go to Europe with a group of
six Americans to study ways of
stimulating back-and-forth trade
with European countries as a
means of keeping our wheels of
oommerce rolling full speed when
the defense spending slacks off.
Looking Ahead
Before he left for Europe, the
72-year-old industrialist dictated a
message to Armco employees, not-
ing his 50-year milestone and look-
ahead with enthusiasm. "I be-
lieve our standard of living, as
we now measure it, will increase
in the years ahead," he said. "This
will come about by finding better
ways to increase the production
of each person in an hour, a month,
a year .... we shall learn new
skills . . . new and better ways
of training . . . there will be
more competition, not less, but
the rewards will "be greater for
those companies who are able to
stay at the head of the parade ofi
progress.
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