The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-07-27
A MODEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY A
 MODEST BUT GREAT MAN.

Perhaps there people of education and discernment that would say the New York Times is the greatest and best American daily newspaper than would say that of any other publication The modern Times, the people talk about when they call it greatest news paper has been developed under the ownership and direction of Adolph s. Ochs who acquired it nearly 32 years ago. Before acquiring the New York Times, Mr ochs was owner and editor of the Chattanooga Times, which he still owns. Early this month, at Chattanooga celebrated the iftieth anniversary of Mir Ochss careeer as a newspaper publisher. He became owner of the Chattanooga Times July ?, 1878. when he was 20 years of age. Mr Ochs urged to write an autobiography to be issued a part of the cele- bration. After much persuasion he hesitatingly produced the following simple compliance with the request. exhibiting, it must be admitted, in a marked degree the modesty that has character zed him throughout his wonderful career:
 I am not superhuman a genius, the living embodiment of the Ten Commandments, nor the perfect practitioner of journalistic and business ethics-nor am 1 growth of the hot house of the cultivated garden.
 I am simply of the millions rais- ed in the open fields, in the wide panse of this glorious country of illimit- able resources and abundant opportuni- ties for the healthy-minded and indus
 
 dentially blessed in birth, environment and friends and cared for in time of trial and temptation.
 Often it has been suggested that I write autobiography, to which I usually reply that the fables and fiction concerning much interest ing for to wish to blast them by recital of the facts Hence, 1 shall not attempt to do so now.
 I hope I may be indulged, however, | at riafl of tha fortuitious circumstances that made pos sibe the achievements you gen. erously recognizing.
 These fortuitous circumstances are:
 l. That Julius and Bertha Ochs my parents.
 2 That 1 born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
 g. That I raised in Knoxville, Tenn.
 A. That my boyhood friends and sociates were of decent families.
 5 That my heroes were like Abraham Lincoln, Horace Greeley, Ulys- ses Grant and Robert F. Lee; and that I came in contact with men of their sta ture in Knoxville, such Andrew John son. Horace Maynard, William G. Brown low, John II. Crozier, Thomas A. R. Nelson, John Baxter, Joseph Jasques and Charles NJ McGhee.
 6. That began my newspaper career as printers devil' in close asso- citation with of the high charac- ter and ability of William Rule and A. J. Kicks.
 '. That came to Chattanooga while l was still in my teens and had such friends ED. James. J. H. Rathburn T. G. Montague, H. S. Chamberlain, z. c. Patten and others too numerous to mention, and here in Chattanooga I became inoeulated with the spirit of the little community whose inhabitants took me to their hearts where they nurtured me with ever-increasing fervor and kind 
 s. That cast my lot in this choicest of the worlds green spots, where nature had been prodigal in bestowing her richest treasures.
 9. That here, among yirile indus trions enterprsing, God-fearing people