You can, no doubt, find men with business talent equal to ours and give them control; but you cannot give them the knowledge, gained by long experience, one needs to grapple with the particular difficulties the Cartwright line must meet.

The personal touch is needed; your manager must be known by the company's friends, and its antagonists, who would not hesitate to snatch our trade from a stranger.
They know me and the others, and are cautious about attacking us.

In all that's important, until times get better, _I am the company_--" Cartwright stopped and drank some water.

He saw he had struck the right note and began again: "I will not labor the argument; the thing is obvious! If I go, the line will stop running before the new men learn their job.

Well, I'm old and tired, but it would hurt to see the house-flag hauled down; it was carried by famous oak clippers in my grandfather's time.