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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and Tho Legal Chronicle

David Sarnoff, Head of RCA, is Living
Example of Real Opportunity in America

April night in 1921, but his
In conferring the honorary de-
trained ear in a radio shack in
gree of Doctor of Science on Da-
vid Sarnoff some years ago, the lower Manhattan caught the
Morse taps: "Steamship Titanic
Dean of St. Lawrence University
Ran Into Iceberg. Sinking Fast!"
read the following citation:
From that hour on, Sarnoff
"David Sarnoff, born across the stayed at his key for three days
sea, coming to America in child- and three nights directing rescue
hood, a worthy and notable prod- ships and recording the anxiously
uct of American opportunity, a awaited names of 706 survivors.
student and promoter of the sci- An alarmed nation suddenly be-
ence of wireless communication, came aware of his work when
tireless in research, skillful in lit- President Taft shut down every
erary expression, recognized as a other wireless station in the coun-
guiding force in business affairs, try during the 72-hour emer-
vice president and general man- gency.
ager of the Radio Corporation of
The nation has listened to Sar-
America, a man of high ideals, noff since that time. In distin-
practical methods, and untiring
guished articles for the leading
energy."
newspapers and magazines, Sar-
That, in a single paragraph, noff has been the first to advance
sums up a remarkable personal- breathtaking vistas of the future.
ity, a Jewish executive who has In the press of August 10, 1945,
become an outstanding figure in an article entitled "Science for
radio, art and industry, but whose Life or Death," was published
great talents have been also put with the permission of the War
to good use by such different Department. It was a portentous
forces as the U. S. Army and the report, compiled at the request of
City of New York. Not only has the military authorities and it
he been a pioneer in a new and summarized the world of the fu-
mostly uncharted field — that of ture.
television; not only has he exert-
Surveying the atomic age and
ed influence in the one subject
that is now gripping the world— the possibilities of energy to be
the atomic bomb; but he has like- found In a cup of disintegrating
wise come to the forefront at a atoms, Sarnoff wrote these sol-
emn words:
time when an industrial crisis was
"Our great hope for world
gripping the biggest city in the
peace can best be advanced by
world.
achieving freedom from want,
A few months ago, New York
through man's ingenuity in atomic
was on the verge of being paral-
yzed by a threatened subway e n e r g y, electronics, chemistry,
strike. In desperation, Mayor physics and the other sciences . .
O'Dwyer called upon the one man No reputable prophet would say
who enjoyed the confidence of la today that there is nothing more
bor—David Sarnoff. Sarnoff sat r.
down with Philip Murray, head of
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the strike was off.
It is an amazing rags-to-riches
story—the rise of Sarnoff. Born
on Feb. 27, 1891, he was brought
to America, as a child, from Rus-
sia. The oldest of a family of five
children, he had to shift for him-
self and for them early in life
because of the death of his fa-
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boy, news boy and messenger boy,
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reer.
It was in 1906 that he secured
a job with the Marconi Wireless
Telegraph Company of America
as an office boy. He learned to
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be a telegraph operator--and then
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In 1919, when the Radio Cor-
Established by the Late
poration of America was formed,
MRS. N. B. CHRISTIAN
Sarnoff was taken over by the
in 1904
new organization. He was subse-
Successor
quently promoted to general man-
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ager, vice president and, in 1930,
Registrar
was elected president of RCA.
Even when he became a colonel
and then brigadier general in the
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Army, surrendering his $100,000-
a-year post to serve his country,
he never forgot the most gripping
moment of his life.
The signals were faint that

to invent or to discover in sci-
ence. War has destroyed all such
theories and fantasy."
"Peace now depends upon the
recognition by all nations of
their individual responsibility to
prevent war. They must foster the
will to peace. The vital role sci-
ence can play in peace or war for
the future calls for careful con-
sideration of its potential influ-
ences upon the territorial, econo-
mic, social and political problems
that nations seek to solve. If
there is to be world security, the
voice of science should be heard
in the halls where the architects
of peace design our future."
General Sarnoff"s report was
compiled after he had been as-
signed as special consultant on
communications to General Ei-
senhower. He was largely respon-
sible for D-Day communications
arrangements which made instan-
taneous news coverage possible
with the reopening of communi-
cations in Paris with Britain and
America. As a result he was
awarded the Legion of Merit,
fourth highest award in the na-
tion.
Out of the intensified research
made necessary by war will come
many new inventions and discov-
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and industry. Great horizons ex-
pand before us, and it is indeed
fortunate for the world that much
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dies capable of receiving and
originating telephone calls are al-
ready being planned by Sarnoff's
great empire of industry. One of
the inventions already in use was
the electronic microscope, with
which the influenza virus was for
the first time photographed.
From a poor immigrant boy,
Sarnoff has risen to a position of
pre-eminence in American life.
Where he was first a radio mag-
nate, he has now branched out
into television, into science, into
the philosophy of atomic-age liv-
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Friday, April 12, 1946

May his memory be a blessing for gen-
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Mrs. Henry Holinstat and Family

