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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-03

moving picture theaters, a chain of
about 800 houses reaching across the
continent, may explain the casual
manner in which he accepts success
He is only 33, but he has been in
the business continuously for &c
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 kilograms 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
glimpse of the comfortable way some
people lived when he went out to a
Hyde Park home to debate with a
small boys team from rival school.
"The place just hit me right in the
face" says Katz, "and said, Gee
l must get out of where | 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
scent moving picture show on the
west side of Chicago, the only movie
show in town. Katz got job play
ing the piano.
81 liked it because l could work
and still go to school in the daytime,
remembers the youth.
'TLaemmle had as 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
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-03

several hundred dollars a week just
entertaining the people at a nickel
apiece. I saw the thing awfully big
and went home aud said, Dad, close
up the barbershop. This is a bust
ness. This is a real business They
thought l was crazy then.
$50 I went along and when was
l6 | had my own theater with 144
folding chairs for the customers. |
branch out, too and put in a piano
violin and cello"
The slick-haired youngster, enthu-
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 ION shoestring'
the finest movie house in Chicago
charging 20 cents where the best of
the others charged Is, and how
crowds and success came to them.
From then on it is yarn of lightn-
in expansion.
The need for education which e
realized as a 1O-year-old boy, the
need to make himself 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
school. 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 il ad-
dition, the breaks must break with
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-03
SALARY INCREASE
COMES WITH
PROMOTION

CHICAGO, Sept. 2a.-After
ca, efuI survey OF the entire labor
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 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
bilious 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. His next ad-
vance was that of typist, which
taught him the numerous forms of
letter-writing and enabled him to
hold a stenographic position, CIV
ing him complete knowledge of let
ter-writing. He was then made Sec
rotary, bringing him into contact
with all business details and quail
fled him for the general managers
office at ten thousand per year.
The same opportunity awaits ev-
cry young man and woman. Educa-
ton 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 large
Chicago mail order house in fur
nishing typewriters to people wor-
thy OF credit, by selling on small
monthly installments, 50 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 BY
writing the International Type
writer Exchange, 1874 W. Lake St.,
Chicago, Enthusiastically
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you. | can recall time after time
when slightly different turn of
events which | couldn't control would
have wrecked me,
Il did see possibilities in the NOV
ing picture business from the begin
ming. But almost always the breaks
favored me.
about tbs business of early ris-
ing and intensive toll, | think they
are often not so much a cause of
success as a result of it. One is
showed into a job bigger than he is
used to. Then he has pride in doing
it, so he drives himself long and
hard. The effort makes him more
capable and bigger things come his
way.
''If wide-awake 13-year-old boy
were starting out today, he wouldn't
pick the moving picture business. Al
least | wouldn't. But opportunity
still is lying around waiting for him
Look at radio, for instance. An!
new line, which is not ossified i
good. With the United States no
developed to a third its possibilitie
or population, there is chance 70
everybody Anybody who goes int,
business to be a bull in the Unite,
States should find the market run
ming his way"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-03
Poor Boy Who Rose to Film
Dntet Says Watch NeV Fields
CHICAGO YOUTH
FINDS FAME
IN The MOVIES
Does Not Forget t. Return to the
Ghetto and See His
Old Home

con November "a investigation
of a purported "Film Trust will
open before the Fedora! Trade
Commission in Washington. The re-
report was made a few days ago
that 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 Sc
cured from him the first interview
he has granted. Editor.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-03
By GEORGE BRITT

NEW YORK, Nov. 2. - every
month or two l down go to the ghet-
to in Chicago and look at the old
home and my fathers old barber
shop at Twelfth and Jefferson streets
And it says to me:
"Here's where you came from,
Sam Katz. Now be yourself and
cut out all the apple sauce"
This confession from the 35-year-
old dynamo who is about to become
president of a combination of Fa-
NOUS Players and Balaban & Katz
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-03
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 large
number 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.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-03
MUSICAL TREES

BABADOS.-Trees whistling in
the wind causes weird sound in the
region here. The whistling tree has
a peculiar shaped leaf, and all its
pods have a split edge. The wind
passing through the pods causes them
to emit the sounds that have given
the tree its name.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-03
MACON BANK
CLEARINGS INCREASE

MACON, Ga, Nov. October
were more than 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,S87, 1850, while for De-
tober of last year the total was So.
1913, 631. Sc.
There was good gain in the
clearings for the week, the total
being 1892, O89.64, while the cor
responding week of last year the to-
tai was $1,794,931.52.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-03
SCIENTISTS TO
STUDY SLEEP
Work in Charge of DIR. r. M.
Johnson, Formerly of Ohio
State University

PITTSBURG, Pa, Nov. 2,-Scien-
lists at the Mellon Institute of Indus
trial Research are engaged in an ex-
haustive study of sleep, one of ma
lures deepest mysteries.
The work is in charge of DR.. R.
M. Johnson, psychologist of nation
repute. formerly of Ohio State Uni
versity, and II 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 i'm
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 tt
produce sleep, are conditions under
observation.
Special apparatus, laboratories anC
testing rooms have been established
and the students who are quartereC
in>a fraternity house, are observed
during both sleeping and waking
hours.
A fellowship has been arranged
the donor believing that study anC
research can improve health, effic
iency and comfort of the genera lpub
lie through better provisions fol-
rest than now provided.
Experiment and study will extend
over a period of years.
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is the most perfectly built animal,
one was dropped 1900 feet down
mine shaft There were no serious
effects. Any animals larger, includ-
ing a rat, would break the bones in
it's body
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-03

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.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-03

Christmas is coming. 1t will be
here just few weeks before you
finish paying for your last summers
cacation.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-10-02
WheatIey Dye and Cleaning Works

used in connection with this special
equipment enables them to turn out
work much faster than other clean
ing establishments, and the chemicals
used in this underground process
means that your suit is returned to
you in all its original richness, sweet
smelling, and with the lining as clean
as a new garment.
1t is an established fact that a
properly cleaned garment will wear
longer, for the process used in this
cleaning establishment enlivens the
woolens and makes them more wear
resisting, thus a garment they clean
will not only look better but will
wear longer.
They give prompt service and turn
all your work out in the latest styles.
We wish to compliment Mr.. Wheatley
upon the valuable service he will
render the community as a whole with
this new equipment, and gladly refer
our readers to this plant.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-10-02

bakery here the latest style of machin-
cry and ovens are used for the pro-
duction of baking goods for the public.
The bakery is equipped to take care
of the wants of this section for some
time to come as the limit of produc-
ton has not been reached.
The very best of materials enter in
to the high class products and so great
has been the care to render the best
service that the place has equipped
from a mechanical standpoint so that
the bread is touched very little by
hands.
The proprietor of this institution
has provided the very latest of sci
entific equipment and only uses the
purest of ingredients, this coupled
with the fact that he has the most
acute taste and employs master bak-
ers who follow his directions explic-
lily accounts for the excellent bread
that is meeting with such great sue
cess in this section of Grays Harbor.
We wish to compliment this firm
upon the valuable service it is rem
dering the local public.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-10-02

tina is full and complete.
Bath tubs and bath room necessi-
ties are there in great profusion, and
you will find in this department that
the wide experience of the firm will
accrue to your advantage.
Anyone interested in the most mod
ern and efficient and reasonable
priced plumbing and heating systems
will do well to have consultation
with them.
All of the other features of the
plumbing and heating trade are well
handled by them and every detail is
given the most painstaking care. Hon
est and straightforward in their bus
mess policies, they are among the
prominent men in the commercial
world in this section and we wish
them to command all our readers who
may be in need of anything in this
line.
Yoy will find they are competent
to qualify as experts, while the wide
knowledge gained through years of ex-
perience and efficient service will en-
able them to save you no small sum
in estimating work of every charac-
ter.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-10-02
INEEDA HAND LAUNDRY

cloth, shirt, collar, everything, for
get them and get them back sweet,
clean and beautifully finished. as good
as you could do them for yourself
and at nominal cost. With them,
shirt and collar service is a speciality.
Men who appreciate collar comfort
and who like their collars to retain
their original form and finish, send
their collars to them, as a correctly
Numbered starch collar adds a neat
and dressy appearance to any man.
They also do and have special equip
ment for laundering of underwear,
socks, handkerchiefs, etc. When next
you have some collars or shirts or
anything that needs laundering we
wish to refer our readers to this mod
ern and progressive laundry, as they
employ only union help and you can
do no better than trust your work
in their care. If impossible to take
your work in personally we suggest
that you call them on the telephone
and you will be surprised how quickly
and satisfactorily it will be taken care
of.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-10-02
j. C. PENNEY CO.

most impossible to offer even show
ing, yet because oftheir immense buy
ing power, and by being in position
to command the market they are Of
fering the people Of this locality an
immense stock of staple goods at reas-
enable prices.
1t is possible to supply the wants
of the entire family in this store, for
the stock not only includes dry goods
but a complete stock of furnishings
and shoes. This store is considered
headquarters for the family needs,
and the reputation it has is very well
merited.
The management is in the hands of
men who are well known and who
have built up their business on the
firm foundation of honest dealing with
their large list of patrons, and in this
issue we are more than pleased to
compliment them upon the modern
and up-to-date establishment over
which they preside.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-10-02

ISOLATION they head has become one of
the most popular of the reliable and
conservative financial institutions of
Grays Harbor.
The great success of this institution
is due to the untiring energy of its
officials, who have guided its affairs
wisely. It's position today is an ex-
ample of more than ordinary finan-
cial ability on the part of the officers
and directors who have directed it's
activities and guided it to success.
We do not hesitate to compliment
them upon their successful effort in
giving the county an institution of
the character and stability of this Saw
ings & Loan Association, which rep
resents safety, service and progress.
The Southwest Washington Saw
ings & Loan Association has an at
traetive proposition for. anyone who
has money to invest. They have
large clientele throughout the whole
section of Grays Harbor. Money in
vested with them is as safe as is pos
sible to make it.
The officers will be pleased to go
into the matter of financing a home
for you, or placing your money in
safe, sound investment that will pay
you good dividends.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-10-02
CARTOONS DAIRY

cream is manufactured that is equal
to anybody's anywhere. They get
their supply of cream from healthy
cows in the nearby country, paying
farmers prices for the cream that en-
ables them to feed and care for their
stock.
This ice cream is not only health
protecting but health giving as well.
Only the purest of cream and flavors
taken to make the product delicious
and healthful are used. The machin-
cry is of the latest model and strictly
modern and up-to-date.
They make a speciality of furnish
ing cream for the trade and do an
extensive business in wholesale lines,
are prepared for special orders for
parties, weddings and banquets.
This popular plant employs num-
Der of people who are boosters. They
also employ only union drivers on
their milk routes. They have always
taken an active interest in all matters
that pertain to the good of Hoquiam,
and have aided the progress of local
conditions.
We wish to compliment Mr.. Carlton
upon his progressive and successful
policies and to refer their establish
ment and it's products to all our read
ers
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-10-02

complete and they give special atten-
ton to all shades by rendering per-
sonal service.
Library tables, rugs, davenports,
mattresses, beds, stoves, furniture of
all kinds, all of the articles for the
home are represented by we'll known
brands. The proprietor has made
special study of the furniture bus
mess and consequently is striving to
give the local people something lit
tie better at all times. He has ar
ranged his place so that the service
is prompt and courteous.
We take great pleasure in compli-
menting this firm on the policies
adopted and refer it to our readers
without hesitation.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-10-02

take advantage Of the general tend
ency to raise prices needlessly, as
have so many dealers, but on the
other hand has been most moderate
in her selling.
By reason of fair dealing with the
public, the Pure Food Shoppe has in
creased their patronage until today
the store is visited daily by more sat
isfied patronage than many other
food stores in the city.
Whenever in need of anything in
their line, our readers could do no
better than to visit this popular store
and be convinced, and see. the pr
ducts which they offer in abundance
and at prices that are extremely
reasonable.
We wish to compliment the manager
of this well-known Food Shoppe for
their policies adopted, and to predict
for the store a continued era of pros
perity.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-10-02
THORO BAKERY

Whose plant is at 624 Eye
Street, operates an up-tO-date,
sanitary bakery to which the
public is at all times invited to
come and make a tour of inspec-
tiOn. Their superior products
have met with general pOpulari-
ty throughout the community.
Because of the great volume of
bakery products handled through
dealers, and distributed through their
own establishment, because of their
up-to-date business methods and the
high quality of products which are
turned out by this well-known bak-
cry, they have attained well-merit-
ed reputation as being credit to the
city.
The bakery business is practically as
old as the discovery of fire, but the
methods used in ancient times have
greatly changed from the baking on
stone and in rudely constructed ovens.
Today it is quite different and at this
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-10-02

There is no one furniture establish
ment in Hoquiam more worthy of ex-
tended mention than this well-known
East Side Store, which is ably man
aged by Mr.. Mayo.
"Buy wisely and save" Due to
low overhead, this store will save you
from 10 to Is per cent on all classes
of merchandise.
Their window shade department is
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-10-02

Few, if any, Grocery Stores in Ho-
GUAM have attained prominence
among local citizens equal to that of
the Pure Food Shoppe. Maintaining
an up-to-date grocery store for the
accommodation of the public, this
progressive business has an enviable
record for fresh groceries and sani-
tation. The fact that Mrs. Wing is
the owner Of this store means that
everything about the place is in ac-
cordance with the modern scientific
ideas regarding sanitation. She has
thus assured the public that groceries
coming from her store are pure and
wholesome. Nor has she seen fit to
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-10-02
S. M. MAYO FURNITURE CO.

Located at Ala OntraiO Street,
in East HOquiam, is a modern
and up-tO-date furniture store,
which merits the patronage of
organized labor, not only in HO-
quiam, but in all surrounding
territory.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-10-02

In this day of new prosperity and
with market conditions settled, it is
indeed pleasing to note that there is
right here in our midst, store that
has done much to bring living ex-
penses down.
It is with the knowledge that only
by offering the people quality mer-
chandise at reasonable prices could
they hope to do a larger volume of
business, that the firm opened its
doors. Since that time there have
been many changes in the market con-
ditions and in many lines it was al
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-10-02

No matter what problem you may
have in the heating line, all you have
to do is consult with them and they
will be able to solve it to your salts
faction and advantage.
Efficient and alert by reason of
knowledge that comes from having
mastered all the intricate technical
problems of this profession, and su-
preme in the prestige that comes from
the use Of the finest materials they
have built up an extensive paronage in
Grays Harbor and have won for hem
selves an enviable reputation. You
will find equipment and fixtures sci
entifically correct and latest designs
in the greatest variety, and stock
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-10-02

A very popular nationwide
institution of CTS department
stores, and their store in HO-
GUAM, located at 401 Eighth
Street, is offering the right kind
of merchandise at prices that at
tract trade from all surrounding
territory.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-10-02
THE PURE FOOD SHOPPE

Located at GIG Eye Street, is
one of the best Grocery Stores in
HOquiam, offering at all times
fresh groceries. This store is
all that the name implies.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-10-02
HARBOR PLUMBING & HEATING SHOP

Whose shop and office is To-
Gated at All Eye Street, is head
ed by Sam Taylor, an expert
heating and sanitary engineer,
who has kept abreast of the
times. They are prepared to
equip any building with heating
and plumbing systems that are
of the highest quality and effic-
iency.