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Show I FRANK KNOX IT is with heartfelt sorrow that wo say, "All hail and farewell" to Frank Knox. He was a personal friend for many years. There was no halting or change in that friendship in all those years. There was no question of money about it it was a question that never intruded upon banking rules or banking methods. How he met the responsibilities that rested upon him as the custodian of vast sums entrusted to him by depositors; how he handled those sums to make for himself a fortune without jeopardy to those who trusted him; it is for those who were interested to tell; we speak, of him only as his life was apparent to all who knew him a kindly, strong, public-spirited man, who knew by experience how thorny and rocky is the way up which the poor boy has to walk, who from nothing noth-ing forges out for himself a fortune and an lion--' ored name. Ho strove to have conditions such ' that it would be easier for all boys o advance and all poor men to find honest employment. Although in his daily walk he sometimes put on a harsh, cynical mood, down deep he was most considerate and gentle. We never saw him so stirred as when a malicious or heedless chauffeur ran his automobile over and killed the pet dog of his baby girl. When he was defeated in his race for mayor his chief disappointment was that it prevented his pushing through some improvements which would have greatly benefited and beautified one section of this city, and in carrying out those improvements improve-ments thought to give a great many worthy men needed employment. That to make places and op portunities for men to earn a living was vastly better than to neglect to provide such places and force earnest men to accept charity. His idea was that a hamlet should be the epitome of a city, a city an epitome of the state, the state an epitome of the general government, where every citizen should be directly interested in maintaining order and law, and in handling the public business as a careful and just man handles a great estate with that generous justice jus-tice which enriches and beautifies it at the same time, and in doing that, providing honest men with the work that while maintaining them does not wound their self-respect. It was with that thought that he himself worked and built up for himself an enviable reputation repu-tation as an eminent financier and public spirited, sterling citizen. Very sorrowful is the home that he has left. Indeed, it is most pitiable that just in the meridian merid-ian of life, when all his faculties were at their best, ho should be called. |
