Evening star., 1936-06-15
Sarnoff
Sprang From
Lowly Origin
Took Job as Messenger
at s. a Week With
Telegraph Firm.
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON.


TN CzARIST RUSSIA no Jewish
boy was allowed to learn telee-
raphy. In New York, a Russian
Jewish immigrant lad of Is went
to the office of the old New York
Herald TO try TO get job as messenger.
He stopped TO listen to the instruments
in the Western Union office at the
entrance.
III give you a job as a messenger
at IS week" said the manager. The
boy took the job. asked if a Jewish
boy would be allowed to learn teleg-
raphy. studied Morse. and, in short
run OF years, took dominion in the
field of American communications.
That was young David Ssrnoff, Just
little while over from Uzlian, village
Of 200 persons on the remote steppes
of Russia. He Is president Of the r.
C. A, impressario of change and ad-
vance in radio, just now bringing
downstage some startling new magic
in bending ultra-short waves to give
clarity and effectiveness.
He Travelled only few blocks. but So
stories straight up. to his desk as com
mander of Radio City, where he rules
vast air empire. He had scarcely
mastered his Morse when radio was on
the way, He qualified as a Marconi
operator and spread out through the
years with the air waves He Is to
radio what Kettering is to heavy-duty
industry, a fervent evangel Of the
benef1cence Of science if We just keep
up with it..
His father, here ahead ~ the family
of five, died soon after their arrival.
broken by his struggles in the neT
world. Young David, at II, ran a news
stand, earned money by singing In q
synagogue choir. worked in a butcher
shop and seized an opening when he
learned that, in this country, a Jewish
boy could learn telegrsphy. Russias
loss. Americas gain. In Russia he
studied with a grand-uncle to become
rabbi, as his male ancestors all had
been. Work barred him from all but
elementary schooling here, but the
diplomas came along in due time IN
the form of honorary degrees.
He Is solidly built. 5 feet in height.
round-faced. frequently smiling. always
busy, always hopeful and always
branching out.
In Paris the Nazis Jerk DR. Georg
Bernhard's anti-Nazi newspaper out
from under him. Lecturing at the
National Jewish Conference in Wash
ington today, he learns that he is no
longer editor of the Pariser Tageblatt
and that, by devious and complicated
processes, the paper has gone over tn
the propaganda and press section cf
the German embassy in Paris.
DR.. Bernhard, journalist, statesman
and economist. was for 30 years prior
to the Hitler regime editor in-chief Of
the great Ullstein press Of Germany.
He was q member of the ReichStag and
represented Germany as an expert in
economics at many postwar confer
ences. He was president of the Ger
man Chamber of Commerce and of the
German Press Association, but was one
of the first SO men expatriated by
Hitter.
In exile. he carries on a world fight
for the Democratic principles of gov
ernment and against the Hitler regime.
He is the author of 80 books on poll
tics. His colleagues on the Tageblatt
have resigned and will establish an
other anti-NaE paper.
New notes in commencement week
addresses are as rare as four-leaf
clovers. Brisk. alert little Dean Chris
tian Gauss of Princeton springs one
He warns University of Newark grad
yates against money madness"
Let us forget the red menace for
a while" he says. land try to cure our
selves of what ails us all
A conservative educator Dean Gauss
puts education on its merit and stacks
it up as fully as important as sound
banks and solvent and sound corpora
tioEs."
An alumnus Of the University of
Michigan, he studied in Europe and IN
later years became known as schol-
arly interpreter Of world viewpoints
one of the least insular of American
educators. He speaks with authority
on money madness" as he is the au-
thor of a book. Through College on
Nothing a Year" He has been dean
Of Princeton since 1928. Students like
him He's pretty stern. but ne has an
Achilles heel of humor