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TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 3, 1925 Poor Boy Who Rose to Film x,uief Says Watch Netv Fields CHICAGO YOUTH FINDS FAME IN THE MOVIES Does Not Forget ts Return to the Ghetto and See His Old Home “On November 24 investigation of a purported “Film Trust’’ will open before the Federal Trade Commission in Washington. The re report was made a few days ago that a 33-year-old product of the Chicago ghetto had catapulted to a leading place in filmdom. This young man, Sam Katz by name, is scheduled to rise as one of the giant figures in the screen world in a very short space of time. In ad vance of the formal announcement of Katz’s ascendance to head of the vast theater holdings, the Times-Recorder through NEA se cured from him.-it he first interview he has granted.’’—Editor. By GEORGE BRITT NEW YORK, Nov. 2. “Every month or two I down go to the ghet to in Chicago and look at the old home and my father’s old barber shop at Twelfth and Jefferson streets And it says to me: ‘“Here’s where you came frofn, Sam Katz. Now be yourself and cut out all th e apple sauce.” This confession from the 33-year old dynamo who is about to become president of a combination of Fa mous Players and Balaban & Katz SALARY INCREASE COMES WITH PROMOTION CHICAGO, Sept. 28.—After a ca’eful survev or the entire !abor situation extending from office boy to president, indications are that positions showing increases in sal aries require experienced help. Consulting the president of one of our largest industries, the writ er inquired regarding the rapid success of a certain young man who had become general manager, and who a few years ago was but office boy; his answer was, Brown start ed as office boy, the lowest salaried position in our office, he was am bitious and managed to purchase a typewriter on small monthly pay ments and after three weeks of practice at home he was promoted to bill clerk, which position gave him knowledge of the selling price of all merchandise. Eis next ad vance was that of typist, which taught him the numerous forms of letter-writing and enabled him to hold a stenographic position, giv ing him complete knowledge of let ter-writing. He was then made sec retary, bringing him into contact with all business details and quali fied him for the general manager’s office at ten thousand per year. The same opportunity awaits ev ery young man and woman. Educa tion or age have nothing to do with operating so simple a machine as the type writer. We are informed that a great piece of benevolent work is being carried on by a large Chicago mail order house in fur nishing typewriters to people wor thy o’ credit, by selling on small monthly installments, so low as to average about eight cents per da? and actually teaching thei.' custom ers how to use and operate any tpe writer in about three weeks’ time You can get other information bj writing the International Type writer Exchange, 184 W. Lake St., Chicago, Illinois.—(adv.) • /I 0 GET A CHATHAM LOrtM f 12.50 • HOOO.' COVER* principal <M»JW T^ e>T J. J. LEWIS ELLIS Empire Building Phone 830 Mnerx-m. L**. ■ K? -?-■ 11mm j AW' a SAM KATZ moving picture theaters, a chain of about 800 houses reaching across the continent, may explain the casual manner in which h e accepts success. He is only 33, but he has been in the business continuously for 20 years. In length and breadth and variety of experience he is one of the senior veterans of the lusty young industry. Sam Katz was just another ener getic kid stumbling into everybody’s way in the crowded pushcart market place around his home. He sold pa pers, carried telegrams and finally got to repairing switchboards from midnight until breakfast while he went to school in the daytime. A little earlier he had received a gljmpse of the comfortable way some people lived when he went out to a Hyde Park home to debate with a small boy’s team from a rival school. “The place just hit me right in the face,” says Katz, “and I said, ‘Gee I must get out of where I live and into something like this. And I’ve got to go to school to do it’.” Well, young Sam Katz had picked up a knack of piano playing. This was in 1905 when he was 13 years old. Carl Laemmle had started a 5-cent moving picture show on the west side of Chicago, the only movie show in town. Katz got a job play ing the piano. “I liked it because I could work and still go to school in the daytime,’ remembers the youth. “Laemmle had as a manager for his theater a former medicine show ballyhoo man who still wore long red whiskers, forked and pulled out on each side of his collar. This man ager told me the boss was making TABLEWARE We have just added two new patterns in Sterling Silver— The Louis XIV and the Carpathia- Both of these patterns are very attractive. Come in and ask to see them- THOS. L. BELL, Inc. ‘ See Our Window Display Attention Farmers Sowing Grain / (J The season is now favorable for the thor ough preparation of land for grains. Plow and harrow carefully, and then drill in the seed. The recent drouth has caused a shortage of feed in this section, and the farmers should -realize the importance of planting more gram than usual. There is no better time to insure a crop than to plant now. <J May we offer this suggestion?—Fertilize your oats when you plant them, use two bush els of seed to the acre and drill in with them one sack of well prepared 9-3-3 Guano. , <J We have installed new mixing machinery, and are prepared to supply first class goods in every respect. Let us serve you. Your pat ronage will be appreciated. L. G. Council Fertilizer Works Americus, Ga. several hundred dollars* a week just entertaining the people at a nickel apiece. I saw the thing awfully big and went home and said, ‘Dad, close up the barbershop. This is a busi ness. This is a real business.’ They thought I was crazy then. “S'o I went along and when I was 16 I had my own theater with 144 folding chairs for the customers. I branch out, too and put in a piano I violin and ‘cello.” The slick-haired youngster, enthu-J siastic and informal as one might expect in a junior clerk condenses his Cinderella story. He tells how he met the Balabban brothers and together enlarged their business; how they built their big Central Park theater first “on a shoestring” j —the finest movie house in Chicago charging 20 cents where the best of the others charged 15, and how crowds and success came to them. From then on it is a yarn of lightn-1 in expansion. | The need for education which e realized as a 10-year-old boy, the need to make himself a personality and a mentality equal to the business position he might attain—this haunt-! ed him during the years of struggle. | He went to school continuously until: 1917. He finished high school and’ Northwestern University and spent nearly three years going to night law ( schoool. Then he opened his first big theater and got married and de cided he was too busy to keep at school forever. “This is no story of platitudes about hard work and ambition,” Katz begs his interviewer. “Those things are true, but u. ad dition, the breaks must break with AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER you. 1 can recall time after time I when a slightly different turn of events which I couldn’t control would have wrecked me. “1 did see possibilities in the mov ing picture business from the begin ning. But almost always the breaks favored me. “About ths business of early ris ing and intensive toil, 1 think they are often not so much a cause of success as a result of it. One is ! shoved into a job bigger than lie is' used to. Then he has pride in doing > it, so he drives himself long and hard. The effort makes him morel capable and bigger things come his! way. . “If a wide-awake 13-year-old boy I were starting out today, he wouldn’t] pick the moving picture business. At least I wouldn’t. But opportunity still is lying around waiting for him. Look at radio, for instance. Any new line, which is not ossified is good. With the United States not developed to a third its possibilities or population, there is a chance for everybody. Anybody who goes into business to be a bull in the United States should find the market run ning his way.” MUSICAL TREES BABADOS.—Trees whistling in the wind causes a weird sound in the region here. The whistling tree has a peculiar-sttaped leaf, and all its pods have a split edge. The wind passing through the pods causes them to emit the sounds that have given thfe tree its name. The center of population of the United States in 1900 was six miles southeast of Columbus; in 1910, it was 8.8 miles southeast of Spencer. Christmas is coming. It will be here just a few weeks before you finish paying for your last summer’s cacation. STOP fl J/I best and Read 3/w News of Good News The Season We Wish to Announce That our store will be closed on Wed nesday and Thursday. Getting our Big Stock of Merchandise in shape for our BIG SALE which opens FRIDAY, November 6th. r / We will offer you Values of the Season. COME! COHEN & SON Lamar St. Americus, Ga. SCIENTISTS TO STUDY SLEEP Work in Charge of Dr. R. M. Johnson, Formerly of Ohio State University PITTSBURG, Pa., Nov. 2.—-Scien tists at the Mellon Institute of Indus trial Research are engaged in an ex haustive study of sleep, onq of na ture’s deepest mysteries The wjrk is in charge of Dr. R. M. Johnson, physiologist of nation' repute, formerly .of Ohio State Uni-! versify, and 12 students from the University of Pittsburg and Carnegie Institute of Technology have offered themselves as “subjects.” Absence of definite knowledge of what sleep is, what conditions im . prove it, how it can be measured, [ how much of it is required for the most beneficial results and what bed ding paraphernalia is best fitted to produce sleep, are conditions under observation. Special apparatus, laboratories and testing rooms have been established and the students who are quartered ; in-a fraternity house, are observed i during both sleeping and waking i hours. I A fellowship has been arranged, the donor believing that study and research can improve health, effic iency and comfort of the genera (pub lic through better provisions for rest than now provided. Experiment and study will extend over a period of years. Wooden posts are used as markers by U. S. Engineers surveying the Great Salt Lake desert because the salt deposits soon corrode the regu lation iron markers. MACON BANK CLEARINGS INCREASE MACON, Ga., Nov. 2. —October were more than a million and three quarters over the report for the cor responding months of the previous year, it was shown yesterday. Clearings for October of this year totaled $9,887,165.50, while for De tobqr of last year the total was $8 193,631.56. There was a good gain in the clearings for the week, the total being $1,922,089.64, while the cor responding week of last year the to tal was $1,794,931.52, MOUSE SURVIVES FALL PARIS.—To prove that a mouse Children Cryfor I J| |||a 1 '\ B I \, / /'-■ > ’ i; ' r MOTHER:- Fletcher’s / Castoria is especially prepared Xr - "*'/ to relieve Infants in arms and \. S Children all ages of Constipa tion, Flatulency, Wind Colic "■ and Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and, by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of Absolutely Harmless -No Opiates rtiysicians everywhere recommend it. PAGE THREE I is the most perfectly built animal, one was dropped 1500 feet down a mine shaft. There were no serious ; effects. Any animals larger, includ ] ing a rat, would break the bones in j its body. DOGS CROWD CEMETERY LONDON.—The two cemeteries for pets here are overcrowded and additional room will soon be need ed. The dogs’ cemetery in Hyde Park has long been filled. A similar place at Cowley Peachey has a large nun.her of graves. The graces of the pets are regularly visited by people who mourn their loss. Small grave stones mark many of the pests' last resting places. A provision for the , planting of flowers has been made by many owners.
