1930–31 Volume 55 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLLPHI DELTA THETAJanuary, 1931measure of the man. To mention afew of them, he is a director in twobanks and a railroad company, he isvice-president of the Roosevelt MemorialAssociation, a member of the nationalcouncil of the Boy Scouts, of thecitizens' committee of the SalvationArmy, of various bar and professionalassociations; he has been active in RedCross and Near East Relief work; heis a high lay official of the PresbyterianChurch. His fraternal and club connectionsare too numerous to mention.But we cannot pass without recordingthat in * A © he has servedloyally, from province president of oldEpsilon Province (Indiana) up toPresident of the General Council from1920 to 1922.Horace W. Davis, Washington andJefferson, '05, is another of the manybusiness and manufacturing executiveswho have approached such workHORACE W. DAVIS, W. Sr I. 'OSthrough the door of the law. Afterreceiving the degrees of B.S. and M.A.from Washington and Jefferson heworked his way through the GeorgeWashington University law school andthen began private practice. Afterseveral years in the law, with somepolitico-legal connections, he moved toNew York and became affiliated withthe Finance and Trading Corporation.[270]Since then his rise in the industrialworld has been rapid. He is now thepresident of the Agfa-Ansco Corporation,the world's second largest manufacturerof photographic products.To Brother Davis attaches theunique distinction of having been madea Phi sub rosa while still in prepschool. That was back in the dayswhen fraternity practices were stillmuch more informal than now, and itmay be that some of the undergraduateswill even have to resort to aLatin dictionary to find out just whatwas the manner of his being made aPhi. His list of college activities wasa formidable one, and he admits thathe had the inclination but not the materialto participate in athletics. Hemade this up, though, by his activityfrom the managerial end.Brother Davis became president ofthe Ansco Company in 1922. This wasthe oldest manufacturer of photographicproducts in the world, havingbeen founded in 1842 in the days ofthe daguerreotype. The company wasmerged with the Agfa interests in1927. Brother Davis' other businessinterests are many. He is a directorof the Peoples Trust Company ofBinghampton and the Oster ManufacturingCompany of Cleveland. He isrepresentative at large of the AtlanticStates Shippers' Advisory Board,councilor of the American ArbitrationAssociation, national councilor of theUnited States Chamber of Commerce,etc.This busy man says that one of themost enjoyable elements of a businesslife comes in the development of manpower,a thing which he finds to beconsiderably scarcer than money.Railroad men often find a unique opportunityfor altruistic service to othersin what to them is a matter ofbusiness, namely in the development ofnew areas which their railroads serve.Such has been the lot of Charles R.Capps, Roanoke, '90, the vice-president(in charge of the traffic department)of the Seaboard Air Line Railway. He