“Well, it is in line with my ideas in what it accomplishes. It is the outcome of Mr. Armour’s great philanthropy.”
“Do you find, now that you have experimented so much, that your ideals concerning what ought to be done for the world were too high?” I asked.
“On the contrary,” answered Dr. Gunsaulus, “I have sometimes felt that they were not high enough. If they had been less than they are, I should not have accomplished what I have.”
“What has been your experience as to working hours?”
“I have worked twelve and fourteen, at times even eighteen hours a day, particularly when I was working to establish this institution, but I paid for it dearly. I suffered a paralytic stroke which put me on my back for nine months, and in that time you see I not only suffered, but lost all I had gained by the extra hours.”
HOW TO MEET GREAT EMERGENCIES.
“You believe in meeting great emergencies with great individual energy?”
“There doesn’t seem to be any way out of it. A man must work hard, extra hard, at times, or lose many a battle.”
“You have mingled in public affairs here in Chicago, also, have you not?”
“Yes, I have always tried to do my share.”