Heinl radio business letter (Jan-June 1944)

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4/7/44 preserving individual initiative in America. I do not hold tha.t free enterprise is a goal in itself, but that free enterprise or individual enterprise is merely a means of attaining and preserv¬ ing a manner of living which, with all of its faults, has given greater happiness, greater contentment, and higher standards than any other system that has so far been devised by man. ” Mr, Johnston attaining such an important place in the National Capital is a case of making good in his home town because Washington, D. C. was his birthplace. His father o^med a drug store here. At the age of one, the family moved to Montana and a year later to Spokane, While still attending grade school, he sold papers, later did some writing for the Spokane SpokesmanRe view and studied law at the University of Seattle. In 1917 he was one of the six seniors at the University recommended by the school’s president as officer candidate material for the Marine Corps, He was stationed for a while at Quantlco as 2nd Lieutenant, later he went to Peking, China, where he served as Legation Guard and from there moved up as assistant to the Naval Attache, He left the Marine Corps in 1922, Eric Johnston's entry and rise to prominence in the electrical field reads like a Horatio Alger story. His mother had purchased 1^2500 of commercial paper in a company which sold vacuum cleaners and washers, Ma.ny purchasers of these machines defaulted in their payments which resulted in the machines being taken back and it was then that Mr. Johnston envisioned his first business opportunity. He took a job as door-to-door salesman and although he didn’t make a single sale for the first two weeks, his persever¬ ance was unfaltering. The next week he sold four machines and suc¬ cess continued. By this time he had become enthusiastic over the possibilities which this new Job offered, so much so that he bought an interest in the company. Later on, he borrowed money and pur¬ chased the largest electrical concern in Seattle and paid off the entire loan in a period of six years, XXXXXXXXXX WOULD END DAYLIGHT TIME; WASTES INSTEAD OF SAVES POWER Station operators will no doubt be glad to learn that day¬ light wartime is to be brought to the attention of Congress after the Easter recess. Representative Clarence Cannon (D), of Missouri, said he would redouble his efforts to abandon war time and put the nation back on standard time. Charging that ’’only the golf players want daylight time*’, Representative Cannon said in an interview that he has had ’’letters from every State in the Union urging that daylight time be abolish¬ ed. " ”We went into the war time with the idea of saving electric power", he said, "Actually we are wasting it and at the same time undermining the health of the nation. 2