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WHEN SARNOFF SANG
It is not generally known, but it
is a fact nevertheless, that David
SarnofT, radio corporation head,
owes his rise to the fact that he once
was a singer in a synagogue choir.
In an indirect way, of course.
The facts are these. It was back in
1906. SarnofT at that time was earn
ing the princely sum of $5.00 a week
working for the Commercial Com
mercial Company, a telegraph organi
zation. On the side, he was being
paid $100 for singing in the syna
gogue choir on the Jewish holidays.
Trying to do both things, he slipped
up on one occasion with his work for
the Commercial Company. SarnofT
explained that it would never happen
again—as the Jewish high holy days
were past.
But his explanation failed to satis
fy. He was told to see the cashier
for his pay and forget to come the
next day.
HE HIRES HIS “FIBER”
SarnofT then got a job with the
Marconi Company. And it was there,
as wireless operator, when the Titanic
sunk, that his great opportunity,
which was to make a national figure
of him, came. Incidentally, the man
who had dismissed him from his first
job, one day came to him and asked
for a job: SarnofT gave it to him.
Why?
“Because,” he told the man, “if
you hadn’t dismissed me, I probably
never would have gotten my oppor
tunity with the Radio Corporation.”
That’s one way of treating a man
who has fired you. Jed Harris, the
famed theatrical producer, has a
similar way. On the opening of all
of his new shows, he makes it a prac
tice to send free tickets to the man
who once dismissed him. “He is my
greatest benefactor, says Harris. “If
he hadn’t let me go, I never would
have set up on my own hook.”
CAPITALIZING ADVERSITY
And that reminds me, too, of a
young Jewish newspaperman with
whom I was talking recently. He is
a very sober faced young man—al
most too solemn. He was telling me
of a little unhappy incident, which
accurred to him in some restaurant.
And I should say also here, that he
does a great deal of writing for trade
papers.
Well, he was telling me of this
trouble in the restaurant. “Of course,”
he added, very seriously, “I always
capitalize on these experiences. I
expect I’ll make $10.00 out of this
trouble. You see, I’ll just take this
experience and use it as a basis for
an article—“hints to Restaurant
Owners,” and send it to some Cafe
teria Journal.”
Now, that’s what I call a wise boy.
If you’re thrown out on the sidewalk,
just write an article on how* it feels
to strike the sidewalk and sell it as
a Sunday feature. Then change it
a bit, emphasizing how it affects the
ego and sell it to a Psychological Re
view. The Jewish aspects — Famous
Jews who have hit the Sidewalk—
could doubtless be sold to a Jewish
newspaper. It’s great, if you have
a little ingenuity.
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
THE CASE OF PULITZER
SarnofT gave the man who dismiss
ed him a job—Jed Harris sends the
man who turned him out free tick
ets—Joseph Pulitzer, who founded the
New York World, did something else.
Joseph Pulitzer, you remember, as
a young immigrant, was once thrown
out of a building on Park Row.
Pulitzer bided his time and when
wealth came to him, he bought the
building and tore it down. Today, the
Pulitzer Building stands on the same
site.
DIFFERENT WITH OCHS
I sometimes am sorry for these
people of eminence, who have never
been thrown out of buildings and
never have been given the blue slip.
What are they going to do, when they
commence writing their auto-biogra
phies?
There is Adolph Ochs, publisher of
the New York Times, for instance.
As far as I know he has no one to
get back at. I do not mean that he
has always had smooth sailing. That
is not so. He has had plenty of dif
ficulties.
He was, for example, very much
afraid of entering the New York
field. At the time, he was publisher
of a little paper in Chattanooga.
When the New York Times, then in a
run down state, was on the market,
Ochs was notified.
“I am afraid I am not big enough
to enter the New York field,” he
told Kohlsaat, then publisher of a
Chicago daily.
“If you don’t tell anybody, people
won’t know it,” was the very sagaci
ous reply of the Chicagoan.
He came to New York and taught
the Gothamites a few lessons.
WARFIELD’S FAVORITE STORY
David Warfield tells the one about
the colored man who was up before
court.
“Now, you know,” said the judge,
“what is meant to swear to tell the
truth.”
“Yes, Judge, I shore does,” said
Rastus.
“What does it mean, Rastus?”
“Ah expect. Judge, it means that
we’ll lose the case.”
HE KNEW WHAT IT WASN’T
Jacob Kirschenbaum, of the Jewish
Morning Journal, tells the story of
Chayim Itzik, a simple minded Jew
back in Russia, who was warned,
prior to get his passport, to give
some name that was not Jewish.
“Remember, Chayim Itzik, to say
that you are Ivan IvanofT.”
When he came to the passport of
fice, Chayim was, of course, asked his
name.
He stumbled, mumbled, but wasn’t
able to recall his fictitious name.
“Anyway, he bellowed, with a
sharp gesture of his hand, “it’s not
Chayim Itzik, I assure you.”
IN A LINE OR TWO
Herbert Bayard Sw r ope, former
Executive Editor of the World, ha?
been lately conferring a great deal
with Hearst, according to report, and
speculation is whether that means
Swope will join the Hearst forces.
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