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Today the Heil Co. employs 1,800 people, makes oil burners, oil and milk tanks for trucks, hydraulic hoists, dump-truck bodies, water systems, road scrapers, snow plows "and everything." Ruddy, energetic, thick-accented Julius Heil is a millionaire, a life-member Elk, also a Moose, Shriner and patriarch of the Milwaukee Athletic Club, where he meets his wife and friends every Saturday evening for a Familienfest. He can boast that in all his business years his workers have never struck, and that during Depression he spent $600,000 of his company's reserves to keep them...
...company has a CIO contract, and when a union official died, President Heil closed down the plant, half-masted the flag, went to the funeral. Julius Heil thinks he has as much social conscience as any man. When he set out to become Governor of Wisconsin, he said he wanted to become the State's general manager, to run it better. When Phil La Follette cried out against his "money bags," Candidate Heil replied typically: "Sure I'm a rich man. And I bet you wish you had more vultures like me who employ men and provide jobs...
...Republican candidates in many States, as it is in Washington for anti-New Dealers, Economy was Julius Heil's campaign watchword. After getting elected, with a working majority in both houses of the Legislature, he sat down to draft his budget. State government cost Wisconsin $71,600,000 during the last two years. Governor-elect Heil said he was going to cut that 15 or 20% for the next biennium...
When Governor Heil sat down to make good, he was confronted by estimates put in by department heads calling for appropriations totalling $96,600,000. It was then that Businessman Heil came face to face with the political fact that some of the biggest items of government cost nowadays are the hardest to reduce. For example: pensions, relief and welfare, highways, public education...
Businessman Heil began budget hearings in a mood of high scorn for the incompetence and extravagance of public officials. He asked President Clarence A. Dykstra (pronounced dike´-struh) of the University of Wisconsin-formerly Cincinnati's efficient city manager, with whom Governor La Follette replaced Republican Dr. Glenn Frank-for a breakdown showing the cost-per-student of each department in the university. He said that in his business, when a department was found inefficient, it was discontinued. Said he, "I want to know if there is a cancerous growth, and if there is, I want to cure...