"Jamie" Heron

              JAMIE
 HERON 
A
UTHOR HUMORIST

THE BUSINESS MAN'S POET STUDENT OF COMMUNITY UNITY




If 
A
merica is to become the great workshop of the world, we must have harmony of thought and unity of action in industry.






Author of
 
THE MEASURE OF A MAN
 And other Songs of Work and Cheer 
Published by
 BARSE & HOPKINS 21 Division St., Newark, N. J.





Lecture Subjects



Building Better Business by Building Better Men

(It will put unity to work in your community.)
Better Men For Safety

(It will help men to think safe.)




Building Men is America's Greatest Industry




Jamie Heron




J
AMIE HERON has become famed from one end of the country to the other as a public speaker and entertainer.  He specializes in Scotch dialect, which rolls off his tongue in delicious burrs.




So many requests have come for copies of his original verses, that he has now collected them in book form, under the title of 
THE MEASURE OF A MAN
.
  The first poem follows:




THE MEASURE OF A MAN




When in the silence of the night,


When darkness hugs the world so tight,


When all is hushed and quiet with sleep


And haunting memories 'round me creep;


When I can spend that hour alone


And find the man I've never known;


When I can meet him face to face


And there commune with me apace;


When I can take myself in hand


And measure up just where I stand;


When I can gaze into my heart


And see my worth upon life's chart;


When I can look back o'er the road


And count the times I've shirked my load,


And estimate the hours I've spent


On things that were not permanent;


When I can realize the crime


Of spending worthlessly my time;


When I can call things by the name


I ought to, and accept the blame;


When I can place where it belongs


The reason for my countless wrongs;


When I can pile in one great heap


My faults, the harvest I shall reap;


Then knowing what I am, can say,


From this time onward, from today,


I'll work, and serve and will to win


To mould a better man within.


So, when I turn the searchlight on


My faults—behold, all will be gone,


And there shall stand revealed to me


The Man God meant that I should be.




J
AMIE HERON is a champion of economic and local justice, an ambassador for the practical application of the Golden Rule in business.  He is a humorist, but he embodies so much more than merely humor in his lectures that the story would be but half told if nothing were added.




He is called the 
Business Man's Poet
 and many bits of his own viril verse are woven into his address.




Before the war he played leading roles in many New York theatrical productions.  At the outbreak of the war he offered his services and was appointed to serve with the Shipping Board to do inspirational speaking to speed up production.




For the past five years he has been studying the problems of the business man and how communities grow and has found that Better Business is built by Building Better Men, and Communities grow by united effort under the leadership of the Chamber of Commerce.




THE MEASURE OF A MAN
 is chuckfull of messages of work and cheer.  After hearing Jamie Heron recite a few of them you will want them all.  If you have not yet heard him—don't miss the pleasure and the uplift which you will get from the book anyway.  Read 
Let's Go!
 
Leaders of Men,
 
Cheer Up,
 
Thankfulness,
 
Will to Win,
 and a score or more of others which sound the note of action and optimism.  Jamie Heron is distinctly a man of the times, with a vibrant, forceful personality, which rings out from his book.




A good book for the library table, or to pass along to a business friend.  It is a man's book for every progressive man.






WHAT THE PRESS SAYS



Joplin, Mo., Globe.


Inspired and held spell-bound his audience while he pointed out the needs in Community life.




Yakima, Wash., Herald.


Makes great hit with mixture of humor in talk on business.




Modesto, Calif., News.


Charmed his audience with sparkling wit and solid advice.




Duncan, Okla., Banner.


A model business sermon, ably delivered, hit the spot and covered a subject foremost in the public mind.




Cicero, Texas, Record.


Won the hearts of everyone present and made them think more of their Chamber of Commerce.




Lewistown, Mont., Democrat-News.


Back of 'Jamie's' frivolity there lurks a deadly earnestness of purpose.  After he had his audience in a good humor with his Scotch stories he delivered his message of good will, urging his hearers to put more unity to work in the Community.




Mansfield, Ohio, News.


At the first of a series of Chamber of Commerce dinners, Jamie Heron was the speaker and delivered a message of real inspiration.  He will be a hard speaker to follow, for we know of no other public speaker who has a greater ability to sway and hold an audience.




Farrell, Pa., News.


Held large audience in rapt attention while he delivered his message on the Chamber of Commerce and its work.




Tulsa, Okla., World.


Sold Tulsa Chamber of Commerce members on the big purpose of the Chamber.




New York Telegram.


It was the address of 'Jamie' Heron that startled the vast assemblage at the Rotary Convention in Atlantic City.




Youngstown, Ohio, Telegram.


Vividly realistic was Heron's address at the Chamber of Commerce banquet to the steel men.  None listened more closely than Charles M. Schwab, honor guest.  At the close Mr. Schwab enthusiastically reached across the table and slapped Heron on the back and warmly shook his hand in congratulation.




Oklahoma City, Mid-Continent News.


Never shall we forget the wholesome presence among us of 'Jamie' Heron.  He won his audience immediately and held his grip clear through his wonderful address which taught us that we can only build better business by building better men.





TRIBUTES FROM MEN WHO KNOW



Go-Get-'Em
 Lindhard, C. of C., Muskogee, Okla.




Best I ever heard—bar none!




A. B. Davis, Secy. State Secys.  Assoc., Okla.




Best reviver of dead organizations in the world.  I believe every Chamber of Commerce should give the citizens of their community a chance to hear him.




Ed. Overholser, Pres.-Manager C. of C., Oklahoma City.




If your Chamber is in the dumps, I know of no man better qualified to get it out.  He is a combination of Harry Lauder and a cyclone.




S. H. Bullard, Pres. State Chamber of Commerce, Conn.




To put it mildly, he's a marvel and in a very delightful way he preached a sermon which pulled us up, standing, and filled us with a new spirit and will to work.




Wm. Morris, Mgr. Harry Lauder.




Your speech tendered Mr. Lauder was the best I ever heard.




J. Massey Rhind, Sculptor, N. Y. C.




You are the modern Robbie Burns.




E. S. McClelland, Mgr. Westinghouse, Pittsburgh, Pa.




Address was delivered in a masterly fashion, was instructive and greatly appreciated.  A better spirit of co-operation resulted.




Earl Tarbox, Moline, Ill.




The kind of program he puts on leaves a wonderful impression and is of great value to any community.




Chas. O'Neill, Pres.  Rotary, Washington, D. C.




I cannot recommend him too strongly.




J. P. Hyre Price, President.  Rotary Club, Chester, Pa.




I cannot speak too highly of Heron's presentation of this play, and I know that I speak the opinion of the Club, because never before have so many of the members come up after a meeting and have spoken as they did after the meeting on Tuesday.




Gyrator
 of the Rotary Club, Chicago, Ill.




Rotary Clubs of the 12th District are unanimous in their appreciation of 'Jim' Heron of the New York Rotary Club, who, through the Founder Club, is speaking to over 30 Rotary Clubs in the district.  The Chicago Club feels that in arranging Jim's trip through the State, it has rendered a service to Rotary and is conscious of its own profit therefrom.




Marshall F. Wilkinson, President, Rotary Club, Reading, Pa.




It was so good that it deserves to be heard by everyone.






WHAT OTHERS SAY



Superintendents' and Foremen's Meeting, St. Louis, Mo.




One of the best speakers we ever had!  'Jamie' Heron, the famous Scotchman, who made the best address at the Thirteenth Annual Safety Congress at Louisville this year.




Girard C. Varnum, Sec'y-Mgr., St. Louis Safety Council.




Since you left, the office has been Hooded with letters and post cards from our radio friends stating how much they enjoyed the meeting and asking for copies of your poems.




C. Bauer, Pres., National Safety Council.




Your contribution aided materially in making the Congress successful.




Dr. G. C. Farnum, Chairman of Program.




I want to tell you how keenly we appreciate you and your message as you gave it to us yesterday before the Open Forum of our Association of Commerce.




The problem of the luncheon clubs and their relation to the Association of Commerce is one that every city faces or will face in the very near future.  Each has its field; each its definite and splendid function to perform.  These fields and functions should not and must not overlap.  Unfortunately in many places they do, seriously handicapping the best service of each.




At this point you arrive with your line of demarcation sharply drawn, your solution accurately worked out and your forceful exhortation to drive it home.




It's great work you are doing, 'Jamie' Heron, and we're for you.




William Holden, General Sec'y, Chamber of Commerce, Tulsa, Oklahoma.




You gave our fellows something to think about in regard to their opportunity to serve the community through the Chamber of Commerce.  I feel sure that it will be of great benefit in the stimulation of interest and activity of our members in the future.




Orlando Swain, Mayor, City of Okmulgee, Oklahoma.




The things you said were exactly what our people needed most to hear at this critical time, and which will result in immediate good to our whole community.  The idea of 
service
 is now a compelling force all over the land.  It is not alone good gospel but it is good sense as well.  I can think of no title quite so appropriate for you as 'The Evangel of Service.'




A. Holmes, Prof. of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.




You have caught the note of the new idealism in business and you are putting inspiration and wisdom into a form readily assimable by the man who needs them most.  It is a great work splendidly done.




South Bend, Ind., Tribune.


Probably no writer has appeared before the 'Knife and Fork' Club who so thrilled his audience as did Mr. Heron.  He was given an ovation.  His work is very inspiring.




Boston Globe.


The warmest acclamation greeted the Scotch poet, Jamie Heron, when he recited his poem, 'The Will to Win.'  Mr. Heron entertained the company with his virile poems and a torrent of delightful humor in a rich Scotch dialect.  His fund of stories was inexhaustible.




Cleveland Rotarian.


Jamie Heron, of the Big Town, gave the assembled 
rotes
 a rhymed version of Rotary in action last Thursday at Hotel Statler.  The meeting closed with a recitation of Jamie's poem, 'The Song of Steel.'  This poem made such a hit with President Cliff that he printed it in his own house organ last week.




Madison, Wis., Press-Telegram.


Ovation after ovation was given Mr. Heron during the course of his talk.  The applause at last became of such common occurrence that the expression was manifest by rising demonstrations in homage to him.  Mr. Heron recited poetry as only men of his reading ability can, with telling effect—in short, in the manner the poets when composing it had dreamed it should be given.




John C. Diehl, Central High School, Erie, Pa.




Mr. Heron understands boys and girls and knows just how to reach them with his message.  His message, too, is uplifting and breathes the spirit of high ideals and virile Americanism.




Herbert B. Bruner, Pres. Okomulgee, Okla., Rotary Club and Supt. of City Schools.




I may frankly and candidly say, we have had no speaker in recent years who has put across good, vital stuff with the sparkling interest which characterized Jamie's talk.  His meeting with the men in the evening was just as successful.  He has done much to arouse the pre-war spirit of boost in our town, and we feel that he can do the same for you.



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