The board is composed of twenty-five representatives chosen by popular vote of the 6500 employees. Each member of the board represents 250 people. The election was held without interference from anyone. No person holding an executive position can be a member of the board.

The representatives of the employees meet with the management weekly. They present the troubles and problems of the men and women at the benches. We reach the rank and file through them. Each member of the board holds meetings in the factory with the people he represents. Questions are asked and company problems discussed.

As a result of the things we do for our people, chiefly welfare work, profit sharing and the advisory board, we have been able to double our efficiency in the past year. Twelve months ago it was but thirty-five per cent of what we hope it will be some day. Now it is about seventy per cent. We want to continue to improve. We realize it is impossible to be one hundred per cent efficient. But we are going to try hard to do better.

We have found that it pays to do good to all people. Welfare work at the N. C. R. has increased profits for capital, management and men. And since it has benefitted this factory so much, we are sure that it will benefit every factory in the world.

In Memoriam

PIERCE J. CADWALADER

JAMES H. DEMPSEY

EDMOND B. DILLON

DAVID FORDING

HARRY E. HAMMAR

THOMPSON D. HEALEA

GAIL L. HESSE

FRANK HIGLEY

HOWARD C. HOLLISTER

JOHN R. HOLMES

CALEB B. MATTHEWS

CLIFFORD A. NEFF

EMILIUS O. RANDALL

WALTER G. RICHARDS

CHARLES D. ROBERTSON

STEPHEN D. SANOR

THOMAS M. SLOANE

ELIZABETH A. W. SMITH

MEMOIRS

EMILIUS OVIATT RANDALL

BY THE HON. DANIEL J. RYAN, OF COLUMBUS

Emilius Oviatt Randall, an honored member of this Association and the Reporter of the Supreme Court of Ohio, died at Columbus, Ohio, December 18, 1919, in his sixty-ninth year. The duties of his position brought him in constant contact with the brethren of his profession, and there are few lawyers in this state that at some time have not come within reach of his pen or voice. He enjoyed their affection and confidence; they regarded him as a man finely equipped for his place. His natural ability, extensive and accurate learning, his evenly balanced mind and judicial temperament eminently fitted him for his honorable office. That the Supreme Court recognized all this is testified to by his long years of service - a service in which he was always patient, always impartial and always courteous, and to which he brought a native vigor of intellect, large stores of learning, and a conscientious regard for his duties. The Court changed and changed again, but the Reporter remained. Commencing in 1895 to report Justices Dickman, Minshall, Williams, Burket, Spear, Bradbury and Shauck, he saw them all pass on their long journey, and for twenty-five years he witnessed the procession of their successors that led to death or retirement. He ceased to be an official and became an institution. And it is a fact that while his labors covered but one-fourth of the Court's life, they embraced however, five-twelfths of its deliberations, so that of the 101 Ohio State Reports, forty-nine will bear the familiar name of "Randall" as the Reporter.

It is a credit to the generous affection of the Court that, when he died, it reserved for itself the writing of his memorial by its own hand, and from its own mind—an unprecedented action in its whole history.

In this connection the words of Chief Justice Nichols, speaking for the Court, indicate the high estimation and deep respect which that dignified body paid to its Reporter. In the memorial exercises of the Kit Kat Club, a literary society of which Mr. Randall was president at the time of his death, Chief Justice Nichols, in an address at once chaste and eloquent, said:

"The Supreme Court of Ohio feels that some signal honor should be paid to this great man, and to that end the Court itself has prepared a Memorial to be published with and made a part of Volume 101 of the Reports of that Court. It is thought that Mr. Randall, had he the privilege of selecting the forum where his memory might be most enduringly and lovingly preserved, would have chosen this instrumentality.

"No other Reporter has been so signally honored; indeed, none of the distinguished members of the Supreme Court have been remembered in this wise by the Court itself, it being the established custom of the Court to memorialize its deceased members through the means of a committee of the Ohio Bar, appointed by the Court for that purpose.

"And so it is, that for many generations yet to come, indeed so long as our very Government shall endure, the memory of Mr. Randall will be perpetuated, for every published volume of the 101st Ohio State Reports must contain the Supreme Court's estimate of its beloved Reporter."

And the Chief Justice, speaking for himself, said:

"If our State had an institute, patterned after the fashion of the Academy of France, where by selection the intellectuals of the state were gathered into one body, as a mark of the very highest distinction, I would, had I the right to select, have cast my vote for Mr. Randall; and I am of the firm conviction that by common consent his name would head the list."

None but the members of the Court can ever know the exceptional and confidential relationship which he sustained to them, but it is a just and natural inference to say that he generously contributed to them the depth of his knowledge, his gift of literary expression, and the results of his wide reading. His whole intellect, his knowledge of the law, and his accom