Newark post., 1911-11-01
Tribute To Newspapes Man
By LEIGH MITCHELL HODGES


This is not tribute to Joseph Pulitzer
builder, owner and director of the New
York World who died Sunday. What he
accomplished, against odds and under
handicaps, such as few men have to
NEE. ana bear, is liner, truer praise than
v orls caa frame
Ne live the eptCaphs thai We deserve.
This IS Only one ecAo of life story that
ought to put higher purpose, stronger
determina! on. larger courage and fuller
nope into The aearl Of every person who
reads OF tie Hungarian boy Of II who
landed penu.less II NV Ior& 4 years
ago. ignorant D. -yerv-ht@g American
eXccp, this--lnat nara was-az here still
is roday--a combination OF human prin-
ciples and natural produec.reaess which
spell OPPORTUNITY 60 -ovons willing
to FORK,
liz had seen from. aear the true gleam
OF the Torch; IRON. a land s"e9t for cen
turie3 by tho reaties= tides Of tyranny he
heard the cali to which We are so near
that were il %. = Whisper, We could
hear Il.
Do you hear it, young man, young wo-
man? Do you Aeao /! saying, Yes you
CAN if you WILL"
This Hungarian youth said I WILL"
Before sailing iron. Hamburg, he was
robbed Of what little money he had, Bu!
that did not halt him.
If only rre knew that the things which
eo,a: mos, CHAElA r En-, PURPOSE ana
WILL cannot be taken from us!
Arriving here, he enlisted in q cause
that was nothing 30 him as Hungarian,
but EVERYTHING to him as human
be!ag-LIDERTT!
And when that cause vas settled, he
went west. Re could not speak the lan-
.guage OF the land he mad adopted as mis-
home, hut he could and DID learn to
speak it.
FIe could not slip into some soft seat,
some easy berth, as few young Ameri-
cans can, but ne cor'd make seat for
himself, as ALL young Americans can.
s. Ae s.okeQ q serr.' boat for while
a.a ste"edored a while on Mississippi
river steamboats, and started in as a boss
stevedore and FAILED.
I.ut mark you, it was only in business
taat ne failed. His stock of courage, de-
.erm.nat:on and Willingness was not
touched,
He got a place as coachman to pri-
vs.e family, hut his eyesight was so un-
certain that the family feared he might
run them into something, so he was dis
missed
At this turn down a cholera epidemic
came to his assistance. He helped to
bury the dead-he who had been private
IL lusored back in Hungary.
Mavbe YOU think your job is ''below"
you. All Jos ,ph FdlitZer thought was
that he had lob
And then he got another job that no
man who knew conditions could be hlred
to take-the job of filling railroads
papers in every county of state infest-
ed with bushwhackers and glerillas. He
didn't know there was anything to fear,
so he didn't fear anything
And as is the case with most men VINO
have no fear, he succeeded.
I forgot to mention that at one stage
of the game, he was mule tender at an
army barracks.
BUT, four years afte: he had landed
here he was a lawyer
The law was too SLOW for him. he
stepped UP by stepping down to news
paper reporting
From reporter, to city editor, from clty
editor tomanaging editor and from tha'
IN owner of a down and out newspaper
nropertv was no task at all for TINS
voung man whose eyes:ght was already
beginning to fail ..
Twentv-two years ago he went pllnd'
And the story of those twenty-five
.ars o,,an more than OF the early strug;
a;as &c stuff for each of us to build with
ne naa earned place, power and plenty,
He could have sat back. But ne loit
ahead more resoluteiy tnah ever a",
long before he died, he was couh'e'
anon gthe grand marshals III the up
ward plod OF progress
His story, rightly read ought 70 Se a
inspiration TO every yonng American
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