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gets drinking he gets more so and quite argumentative. He is quite philosophical and discourses deeply - I can't usually follow his logic but it is interesting to hear him. He is a half pint size anyhow - short and wrinkled and thin with a long neck and a gaunt face creased and lined. His boy came for him about midnight and he brought the boy in proudly to present us to him or rather him to us. George had had plenty and he even undertook to get into a hot argument with Jim about steam loco maintenance, about which Jim knows little, but he kept egging George on just ^[[insertion]] to [[/insertion]] keep him on the defensive and as Jim put it, "keep him onto his job and never satisfied with how he's working." He said George would do anything if you kept after him but didn't work well if he thought you were satisfied. Later on George told us that old man Donovan, Master Mechanic, now in Florida, was the man we ought to play here - not Jim. If he hadn't been drunk he wouldn't have said so, because I think he really likes Jim and I think also that Jim can be a good and helpful friend of ours.

The evening was an eye opener to me on what a swell time a bunch like that can have together and what good will it engenders between the bosses and the men. Jim Shane told me that Ben Fairless, (Pres. of U.S. Steel) who started in Marrillon, could walk into the party tonight and would mix with that bunch and have a swell time, calling all he remembered by their first names - is loved by his men because he has always made it a point to be one of them no matter how high he was on the ladder. Jim follows the same system and these men would