Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-10 | Page 5 | Enthusiasm Makes Life worth Living, Thinks Furniture Maker

ENTHUSIASM MAKES LIFE WOR WORTH TI-I TI LIVING THINKS FURNITURE MAKER Even Emperor Cant Can't Stifle Frank J. J Kunick's Exu Exuberance life that matters the enthusiasm you can bring to it it Unwillingness to let even as great greata a personage as the Emperor Franz Joseph ruler ot of stifle stine a native enthusiasm has resulted in a Salt Lake business business-a growing establishment filling mUng orders ot of finicky people from California to Chicago The business of furniture reproduce lion tion repairing refinishing and up up- would be nothing more than fairly important for its employment ot of 11 workers and payroll of 1200 i if It were not for Frank J. J Kunick To this human bundle ot of exuberance ance a discarded time beaten chair Is not mere broken wood for from it Mr Kunick knows he can and does docs fashion a thin thing ot of beauty It It is good it Is beautiful ul it is perI per I feet did it the American Kunick now v declares with unbridled assurance assure assur- ance as he displays his handiwork And it is so 50 nice to be be- appreciated to enthuse with my patron and not be forced into silence But it wasn't always so perhaps that is the reason I have my own business Take this work I know it Is good so does my customer and we enthuse together Mr Kunick believes that he owes his present ability to together together to- to gether to his inability years ago to enthuse with his excellency the emperor It happened In the work shop of the summer palace of Franz Joseph in Vienna A young man proud of his rating as mechanic but prouder of the product of his handicraft a or double decker buffet with 96 drawS draw ers and doors snapped to attention as the emperor and his party approached approached ap ap- the bench where Mr Kunick was eating elting his lunch ot of salami and bun during a lull moment You like salami asked Franz Jo- Jo seph Yes excellency answered Kunick Ku Ku- nick and then unable to curb his joy over the nearly finished piece of furniture specially made for the emperor em em- For you ou excellency I have the honor ot of fashioning this magnificent An annoyed frown stopped the eager words and the emperor and his party passed on Mr Kunick to this da day believes Franz Joseph was more Interested in the than in the From this belief was born borna a desire to go somewhere where praise could be given for work he knew was well done Satisfaction ot of the desire to enthuse en enthuse with has come only alter after years of struggle years of work worth more morein morein in experience than money in the making making mak- mak ing of fine wrought hand furniture ire in Monte Carlo Budapest Berlin Hamburg Paris London Russia and Poland Finally Mr Kunick reached America Amer Amer- ica arriving in in Chicago with 1070 but Imposed hunger labor ot of repairing box cars found him still far from his Y- Y k ar I ir l t t Y sd war r 1 I 4 1 r v. v r 1 reef Frank J. J Kunick goal to be worthily appreciated for his work Better times came in employment in a cedar chest factory in Cleveland followed by still better years in the piecework department of a furniture factor factory but it was not until two years ago that Mr Kunick was able to establish es- es hImself in business to do things as they should be done It is not so much that I lawn own my myown myown own business that I can provide employment employment em- em for others that I am the boss that I own and drive an automobile auto auto- mobile says Mr Kunick No IINo that thatis is not so much What Is best to me meis meis is to be able to receive praise when praise is due