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...RAYMOND COEN Athens, Ohio...
...stands the old East India warehouse, once filled with the sharp scents of the spice trade. Hoorn had been made useless when the North Sea Canal was cut to Amsterdam in 1876. From the town square, an imposing statue looks down at the idle harbor. It is Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Holland's great governor of the East Indies, who had pushed into Java to found an empire. Graven on the base of the monument, for Dutchmen to read, is his terse motto: "Desespereert niet" (Do not despair...
Nobody was more aware of this than Harry Coen, G.M.'s vice president for employee relations. He knew the feeling; he had been a mass-production worker himself. He also knew it because the thousands of workers' suggestions dropped into boxes in G.M.'s plants are mostly gripes...
...Coen decided to do something about it. He got G.M. to offer $500,000 in prizes (autos, stoves, refrigerators, etc.) for the best letters on "My Job and Why I Like It." In came 174,854 letters from G.M. employees...
...country house of Britain's Prime Minister the generation of empire menders was at work. The worried ghosts of the empire builders-among them. Raffles of Singapore and Coen of Batavia-looked on. The great Far Eastern domain they had helped create was badly cracked, in danger of breakdown...