Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-28
NUBBINS
BURRIS JENKINS

VI DtitNcE anu CsiitlC up tO Vt Cncu-
lation manager of the Denver Post
When the present writer took charge
of the Kansas City Post, Max was
sent over as business manager and
served in this position three years.
The managing editor. Dick Smith,
and myself got the impression that
Max had gone very swell-headed
and thought he was the directing
force in the paper: so We made it up
that l should give him carefully
prepared lecture.
Next morning called him in and
called him down, saying substan-
TALLY:
Max, you're getting an idea that
you're the publisher of this paper,
aren't you? Well, you're not, I'm
publisher and editor and you're just
a business manager working under
me. See if you can't realize this and
in future act accordingly"
Yes, sir" said Max.
got steamed up and added,
What's more, you never will be
publisher of paper. You don't
know enough, you haven't any edu-
cation. You can't write a simple Eng
liSh letter. The sten0gra pliers have
to do il for you"
Max answered meekly, Yes, sir,
yes. sir
Three years later when i left the
"a A. 4 IaFf - 10
scIaped together everything he had
i'll the world, perhaps Si00000, and
borrowed everything his brothers
had, another thousand or two per-
haps, went ont 10 Casper, Wyoming,
all by himself, and bought the little
local paper, though in his early
twenties. he had 4 vile and couple
of children whom lie left with his
family in Denver. The first day he
got a note signed by the ku Aiux
kian and saying. You get out OF
town before Tomorrow noon or wen
pitch you cut. We dent want no jew
hoy runnin cur paper He after
wards told me how he walked the
floor in his little hotel room all
night. Everything he had was in
that paper and everything his fam
lily had, and he'd better die than TO
go away. Therefore, next morning
he put that note in 4 box on the
front page of his little paper and
then added line, I'm going to
stay, Max Leyand." All the Jews in
Wyoming wired him encouragement
that day, eighteen of them. And
what is more important, the mer-
chants of Casper saw the injustice
of the thing and offered to get be-
hind him. He ran that paper long
enough to sell at q good profit and
purchase the st. Joseph, Missouri,
Gazette, an old and very respectable
journal; then in few years he sold
that for enough TO buy out EX-
Senator and Ex-Governor Henry j..
Allen of Wichita. Now, he has made
the Beacon the most valuable news
paper property in Kansas.
His psychology is difficult to
fathom, because somehow he seems
to attribute all his success to the
DoOting downstairs given him so
many years ago. And through all
these years there is no meeting OF
any importance in Wichita that Max
has not seen to it that I'm invited.
Then ne comes to the train or the
airport in his big limousine to meet
me, and generally brings a photog-
rapher and reporter or two, TO
make a big splash. One wouldn't
think that he would have any use
ON earth for me since that dressing-
down of twenty-five years ago. May
be he took it as a sort of challenge
and said to himself, "Tll just show
him what a rotten poor prophet ne
is"
At any rate, 1 publicly express to
Mr.. Leyand undying respect and
gratitude for his unwavering friend
ship through the years to me ana
mine.