It was my good fortune to help to bring together the efficient men who are the controlling forces of the organization and to work hand in hand with them for many years, but it is they who have done the hard tasks.
The great majority of my associations were made so many years ago, that I have reached the age when hardly a month goes by (sometimes I think hardly a week) that I am not called upon to send some message of consolation to a family with whom we have been connected, and who have met with some fresh bereavement.

Only recently I counted up the names of the early associates who have passed away.

Before I had finished, I found the list numbered some sixty or more.

They were faithful and earnest friends; we had worked together through many difficulties, and had gone through many severe trials together.

We had discussed and argued and hammered away at questions until we came to agree, and it has always been a happiness to me to feel that we had been frank and aboveboard with each other.