Dedication to public service

✍ Scribed by Henry B. Bryans

• Book ID: 103075799
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1951
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 619 KB
• Volume: 252
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(51)91085-x

✦ Synopsis

Each year since 1944 a day has been set aside by The Franklin Institute to honor the memory of Charles Day who, in his time, was a devoted public servant, an engineer, a tactful, modest, and inspired leader in the world of large affairs.

Charles Day

His talents were many. Foremost among his achievements was pioneer work in the field of scientific management. He developed a system of cost accounting which was adopted, in its essentials, by the electric utility industry. During the first World War, he served on a number of missions for the United States government. He was a member of the Board of Managers and for several years a vicepresident of The Franklin Institute.

Shortly before his death in 1931, Charles Day made a statement which typified his attitude throughout a brilliant and all-too-short career: "It is not the number of hours I have spent on this earth that matters," he said, "but only whether I have done my job."

Charles Day devoted many years of his life to the betterment of public service. He was eager to direct his talents and his professional skills to the solution of business problems of