El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-09

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w Potash said. 81 doubt very much
If would be able to say offhand who
Arnold Benedict was II I would be
asked such a question by a smart
lawyer in a courtroom full OF report
ers which II they hadn't happened to
De there at that particular moment
would Of probably gone to their
graves without even the raintest sus-
plcion that you didn't spell ignorant
ldealist with two rs, understand"
Stlll- Abe. you've got to admit that
plaintifr In a libel suit don't deserve
much sympathy Il he don't post him
selI before going on the stand as 20
the meaning Of the libel, SO as to
anyhow be able to say that II WAS
llDel and not compliment, under
stand me-" Morris said.
he took his lawyers word for II
that it was a libel. Mawruss." Abe
said, and, anyhow, Mawruss, nobody
has got a right to call anybody an
ignorant philanthropist even. no mat
ter how ignorant such a philanthropy
lst might be about what the word
phlantrupist would mean"
Sucker or Philunthropfsts
And do you know what it means?'
Norris asked.
"a phnanthropist is a Teller who
gives big sums Of money to orphan
ne could at1erd It. he's a philan-
throplst. MaWruss, and IL he couldn't,
then he's a sucker. and that is what
Is called & philanthropist," Abe said.
which II I didn't know what Il
meant, Mawruss, I amt such an ig-
norant idealist that I would use such
word in front OF you and expect
you not 10 try 70 trip me up on It"
7 see you've also been looking up
what ignorant tdealist means" Nor
ris observed
And I amt very peculiar that way.
neither, AawrusE," Abe admitted, BIC
cause I bet yer that in the last two
days at lease 100000 people has
been looking Up IN the dictionary
what that word ideaiist means ard
not knowing even then what II
means, y'understand. and stin that
amt prevented them from knocking
Ar. Ford, MaWruss"
But the fact remains, Abe, that
them 100000 people amt suing no
body for calling them ignorant IDEAL l
lists" Norris interrupted.
Not IEuorantf Nor IdeaIssts-
ALSO. MaWruss, they amt running
one OF the largest industrial plants I
IN the country on a profit sharing /
ployes," Abe declared, which there /
is a whole lot Of big manufacturers :
in this country who could 20 on the i
stand at moments notice and pass a /
cross examination with a 100 percent 4
mark on all them words which you 4
read in them medical journals you /
pick up from the doctors desk in 4
his private office Wnen he excuses i
himself for a minuts TO answer the /
phone and which you put down 90
quick and pretend you amt been
reading when he comes back again.
If you know what mean And fur
thermcrs. II these same big manufac-
turers was elected to the United i
States senate tomorrow they could
make z speech against doing away i
with child labor in words Of six sylla-
bIes, understand, and would prob
ably make such q speech because the
trouble with most big manufacturers
Is not that they are ignorant UNDER
stand me. but that they amt ideal
lists. Mawruss."
Just the same, Abe. q man should
ought TO know what he don't know
and sidestep it." Norris said
But the way II is in tbs country,
Alawruss, a multimilionaire cant
sidestep it. The newspapers won't
lot him. because II he gets a reputa-
tion for having made S50io000 600 in
the safetypin business, We would say
for example, and news gets so scarce
in the newspapers that somebody
starts q discussion about which IS the
biggest musician. Ereisler oder Zim-
balist, understand right away the
editor sends out reporters TO inter
view the most prominent men in the
country Is 10 what their opinion is in
the matter.
How It's Done. Ii
Naturally one Of the first men
such a reporter would call on IS Har-
ris J. Rosenbaum, the safetypin
king Now what is Rosenbaum going
10 do under the circumstances Is he
going to admit to the reporter that
Up 70 date he has been so busy in his
safetypin plant that he amt had time ,
to post himself as to whether Kreis-
Ter and Zimbalist is performers on
the trombone oder the mouth organ2 I
Oserg He finds out from the re-
porter that these two fellers has goti
a pieceWCrk wage stale for playing
on the fiddle OF IS rOte net cash. ]
and he says that both OF them is won I
ierful fiddlers. y'understand, but that
10 his mind, Ereisler plays with more .
Of the artistic temperature than I'm
ballst, or II he doesn't actually say Z
50, understand, the reporter goes
back to his newspaper and says he Z
said so. and the consequences is that
when in the paper, Rosenbaum reads; ]
" 'Kreisler Greater Artist
Says 'Safetyp!n King
he only begins TO believe that he {
did say Il, but also hat it's funny |
how a man can 20 on for years being !
an expert on fiddle Plying and only {
lind Il out by accident as II were" :
Pms on Reputation. II
"And ] suppose that a few months C