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Ochs’ imprint was on the paper.
Bis salutatory announcement prom
ised to conduct “a high-standard
newspaper, clean, dignified and
trustworthy, for thoughtful, pure-
minded people.” Into one terse
phrase, “all the news that’s fit
to print,” he distilled the essence
of his journalistic creed. This
policy brought immediate success
and prosperity. On his twenty-
fifth anniversary of ownership he
announced that gross receipts since
he had been publisher were $45,-
000,000. All hut $3,750,000 of
this sum went hack into the paper.
Under his guidance the Times be
came a world-wide institution be
cause be emphasized the fact that a
newspaper’s chief and only func
tion was to give the news. Hut to
Ochs news did not mean sensation.
“All the news that’s tit to print”
became more than a slogan. The
Times’ reader never missed any
thing for which he looked. Because
Ochs insisted on the Times cover
ing all the news completely, thor
oughly and at great length, re
gardless of the expense, no one
has ever read the whole paper daily
and no one ever will. In building
the Times Ochs became more than a
publisher, lie was a creator of
educational values. The tremen
dous power and prestige the owner
ship of the Times gave him he used
not for his personal aggrandize
ment but to foster cognate under
takings for the spread of knowledge.
This unique and constructive
achievement in giving Americans a
newspaper free of sensationalism
and immature features, but replete
with the complete daily history of
the world, won for Ochs unusual dis
tinction. Six universities gave him
honorary degrees. France made
him a commander of the Legion of
Honor. The National Institute of
Social Sciences gave him its gold
medal for outstanding public ser
vice. A devoted friend of parks
and public recreation, the New
York Times became known as the
“watchdog of ( entral Park be
cause of the tenacity with which
Ochs fought every attempt to in
vade that famous park. He was
the founder of the Times’ Christmas
appeal for the needy which in
twenty years raised three million
dollars. Ochs also underwrote for
five years the American A ear Hook,
and advanced five hundred thous
and dollars for preparation of the
monumental Dictionary of Ameri
can Biogrphy. He originated the
project for the Lookout Mountain
and Chattanooga Park, for which
he gave a piece of property valued
at one million dollars. In recogni
tion of his services to the national
parks the Civilian Conservation
Corps camp near Chattanooga is
named Camp Adolph S. Ochs. He
was also the dominant figure in the
Associated Press which he helped
found and mold.
Although his fifty-seven years of
newspaper work were exacting Ochs
never forgot his Jewish heritage.
Judaism he acknowledged as the
touchstone of his life. As the son-
in-law of the great Rahhi J sane M.
Wise, Ochs was one of the most
notable patrons of the Hebrew
I nion ( ollege. He not only served
as chairman of the drive which
raised a $5,(MM),000 endowment fund
for the College, hut contributed
$500,000 and toured the country
in its behalf. He was also a generous
supporter of the Jewish Education
Association, the l nion of American
Hebrew Congregations and the Na
tional Jewish Hospital for Consump
tives. A member of New York’s
famous Temple Emanu-El, he
served as president and honorary
president of the Association of Re
form Congregations of New York.
Some years ago he presented a beau
tiful Menorah to the Cathedral of
St. John the Divine. In memory of
his parents he built a $500,000
synagogue in < hattanooga, of which
he was the first citizen.
In the interpretation of his Jew
ish heritage, however, he always
maintained t hat he was a Jew by a
religion only. For that reason he
was an uncompromising opponento
Zionism and Jewish nationalism,
notwithstanding the fact that the
Times prints more news of Zionist
and Jewish activity than any other
paper in tlie world. While admir
ing the courage of the Zionists and
manifesting a sympathetic interest
toward the Jewish Homeland, he
always believed that the Zionist
cause was hopeless. Ochs belonged
to that school of Jewish thought in
America which holds that the
greatest heritage of the Jew is his
religion, which should he preserved.
Ochs believed that as a distinctive
race the Jews have no place in
modern civilization; that left to
the processes of environment and
time, they will soon lose their racial
characteristics and become an in
tegral part of their country and
share the weal and woe of the land.
Notwithstanding this philosophy
Ochs was chosen by a vote of the
editors of the Jewish press of
America in 1933, in a referendum by
The Seven Arts Feature Syndicate, as
one of the ten greatest living Ameri
can Jews. There is little doubt that he
would be included in a similar
roster of great Americans. Per
haps the greatest tribute to the
man is that he lived to experience
the unique distinction of l>eing
able to view his own imperishable
monument, the New York Times.
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