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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1931.

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THE MAN BEHIND STUDEBAKER.

Demands Facts-Not Theories.

Albert Russel Brakine of Studebaker-golf his hobby, facts hla obsession.

aro

keeper in n wholesale paper house other branches

of traffic at a salary of $66, a month. Hestulled at the bureau, and results. surveyed the facts of his position of the studios are given to he could handle two men's cities "desiring Information. LOB work, and demanded that his Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, employer give him two jobs. This Boston, Washington, D.C., Provi- the

but employer did, gavo dence, RI. New Orolansand. young Erskine only one-third more Kansas City are some of the cities which research of the bureau has, aided.

pay.

„Erskine Steps Up.

A few years later he stopped out

Donates Football Award.

of that job and bocino chief.clerk Facts again caused Erskine to of the St. Louis division of a large donate the Albert Russel Erskine cotton concern at 27. At 31 he football award, Almost every was appointed general nuditor of sport but football produced cham- the concern and given supervision pionship he found,

Why

of 300 cotton gine the company not a championship footbal team? operate he took his first impor-divon to the team picked by aporta The award, a beautiful cup, is

In

years Inter he was made vice aldent and director of the the

and

tant executive atop when he writers all over the country and became treasurer and director of by Judging committee of 200 the Yale Lock Company. Six But the odd part about the award! is that it is given to the conch of

winning

team. Eraktine wood Typewriter Company, and in figures the coach la really 1911.

went to

to Studebaker as trea- responsible for the

the welding to surer, director and member of the gether of a championship outfit. executive committee.

search for facts Hero his facts stood him in figures, Erskine suys, have kept good stend. He investigated the him feeling you

young Only a slight- financial condition of the comly plump figure and groying hair pany, the manufacturing methods Letray his 60 years. and overhead. He surveyed the He still carries himself erect bookkeeping situation and cut by and stopa around with the agility more than 1,400 the 4,000

O forms of one much

This is ch younger. on which the arm kept its

probably due to traits which he He made money for Studenherited from his familly. mado money for its employees by Je descended from a line increasing the wage scale and he pioneer American-Anglo-Saxon 'mproved their working standards ancestors. Elia grandfather was The company, in recognition, was Dr. Alexander Erskine and made him first vice-president in his maternal great-grandfather 1913 and president in 1915. was a colonel Washington's

Army. Erskino wn..

A Fact for Everything... umong the aristocracy of

raised

In all his activilies this mansouth and grew up in the midst of the reconstruction period fol who, although starting on his

"sixties," in fast in the prime of lawing the Civil War. his life, states facts.

Builds His Own Town.

In his golfing he knows all the facts, and his is a methodical Erskine is married and has à game, based on facts, which can ron, Albert Russol, Jr., 22. beat much younger opponents who His pel project in development rely on skill.

of a residential acction, Twycken- Many of his facts he gets from ham Park, a 600-aero tract near This division has In part, from Erskine

[By James F. Donahue.) He demands facts from his huge dictionary which, it is said. South

he employees, and not theories. And keeps on his desk.

When the been co South Bend, Ind., May 30,-11 } }; 1×

rush of work slacks down for a Twyckenham, England. Fact Anding penchant it were possible to view a cross-directly responsible for his spell, he reaches for the book, laid it out himself, specified all section of the mind of Abert Rus- present position na one of the pens to any page and reads, improvements and paid for the sel Erskine, one would probably leading automobile men

Every In the

digests, reflects entire word he

development. upon find an orderly array of pigeon-country,

and stores in one of those In addition to this development. holes, each holding innumerable As a Ind. Erskine wasn't very brain is so well supplies.

little cubby-holes with which his he is building the Robin Hooi! [facts and figures.

rolf course near South Bend. fond of the facts they taught in

Facts have caused him to estab-Some years ago he donated

·Erskine, president of Stude-school. In Huntsville, Ala., his fish a bureau which benefits course to the city, but he found baker Corporation, president of home town, he attended public and the Pierce-Arrow, president of the private schools until he was 16.motorists and pedestrians in the that social activities connected country. It is the Albert Russel with the club interfered with his S.P.A. Truck Corporation, vice. Then he decided to find out a few Erskine Bureau for Street Traffic rolf. So he started construction president and director of the facts himself, and took a job as Research at Harvard. National Automobile Chamber of office boy in a railroad office at Commerce and director of a large 315 a month. bank, is a fact fanatic.

on the present course, "for those causes who primarily enjoy and appre- control, clate the game of golf”—and for

all men only!

Accidents, congestion and remedies, trafic Twenty-one found him a book police administration and

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