Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1924 — Page 18

COMIC PAGE APPEALS TO EVERYBODY Funmakers Unexcelled Appear Every Day on Times Page. mHE TIMES prints daily 1 complete comic page of higfi character. Some of the leadk ing comic artists of the country contribute daily to this page. Here the readers of The Time* fol< low daily the pompous doings ol Major Hoople and the boys of th* boarding house. Next to the majod appears daily a mighty human cartoon, “Out Our Way,” which good right home to the reader, for it always contains something of familiaif experience. Readers lake Boots "Boots and Her Buddies” is | human cartoon of the typical rrnxJr era college girl and her friendau Everybody who likes the modern! flapper —and that includes everybody —likes Boots and is interested iQi her affairs. Everybody either has lived ot spent some time in a small town, and everybody recognizes as typical the affairs of “The Old Home Townf* which take place daily on The Ttmeg comic page. Freckles Real Kid "Freckles and His Friends” sA ford amusement for evryone. Thf are kids and they do and say tb§ things real kids do and say every day. "Mom and Pop” and their ch£l dren carry on in the typical American home. Everybody will recognize their affairs as familiar. An effort is made to make TM Times comic people human. They appeal to everybody because they do things real people do. You havqj met every one of the characters tfli real life. Indianapolis has several Jarge iz§ dustrial buildings for small man* factoring concerns, which supply space, power and other facilities reasonable cost. Indianapolis has 221 churches at all deiiomlnatiuns and a membership) and affiliated attendance of 125;0QCk

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RIVALRY FOR PICTURES IS MOST KEEN Great Organization Maintained to Get Photographs for Paper. Dr~~ ~~~ ID YOU over stop to think bow it Is possible for The Times to print pictures of wo .a news events so soon after they happen? Obtaining news pictures is as highly organized a business and that of obtaining news. The Times obtains most of its pictures of world events through the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Covers W orld This organization through its va rious offices and representatives covers the world. As soon as a picture of general interest is taken it is rushed to The Times and other newspapers served by this organization. Usually the picture is sent to the N. E. A. office in Cleveland or New York, where it is made into a cut and a matrix, or paper mold, made of the cut. This matrix is then mailed special delivery to The Times and perfect reproduction of the cut made by pouring molten metal over the mold. Getting Fight Pictures Sometimes there is great rivalry between newspapers to be the first to print pictures. The Times was the first to print the pictures of the Dempsey (Mbbo ns fight in Shelby, Mont. Theso pictures were brought from the fight by airplane. The first plane became lost in a storm and was forced to make a landing. The pictures were relayed to another plane, and finally after a battle with the elements they reached Chicago. In Chicago a representative of The Times was waiting to rush the pictures to Indianapolis. This is just one example of the efforts made to obtain pictures quickly. Not infrequently men risk their lives to obtain or deliver pictures for the readers of The Times and other papers. A larger stock of iron and steel is carried In Indianapolis than in any city in the central west outside of Chicago.

NEWSPAPER MEN RISE IN BUSINESS Indianapolis Reporters and Editors Become Prominent in Various Lines. EWSPAPBK MKN frequently IM become loaders in business l X ) and in great affairs. President Harding was a newspaper man ami James M. Cox, who opposed him for tho election is a newspaper man. Two newspaper men are now candidates for Governor of Indiana. Many Indianapolis and Indiana newspaper men have progressed far In the Journalistic profession or in other lines of endeavor. From Intnanapofls Roy W. Howard, one of the heads of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, of which The Times Is one, and which is the largest organization of its kind in the world, received his first newspaper experience in Indianapolis. Karle Martin, editor-in-chief of The Tlmen and a leader in his profession, is a former Indianapolis newspaper man. Fred Ferguson, vice president of the United Press In charge of news, is an Indianapolis man. So Is I Atwell Mellett. writer and editor. David Gibson, publisher of a leading paper at lyoralne, Ohio, formerly worked on Indianapolis newspapers. Ray Dong, editor of Cosmopolitan, went Into the magazine field after he had worked on Indianapolis papers. In literature, Meredith Nicholson is perhaps the most conspicuous Indianapolis newspaper man who had made good. In Other lines But Indianapolis reporters and editors do not all confine their efTorts to Journalism and literature. Ernest I. Lewis, member of the Interstate commerce commission, was an Indianapolis reporter until a few ye; its ago. Here in Indianapolis, William I ortune, formerly president of the Indianapolis Telephone Company ami now an officer of the Eli Lilly Company, is an ex-newspaper man. Gavin L. Payne, broker, is a former editor of The Sun, predecessor of Tho Times, Horner McKee, Merle Sldener and Russell Seeds are among the local newspaper men who have made good in the advertising game. Those are just some of the men who received their training on The Times and other Indianapolis papers who have progressed in their chosen professions. Ft. Benjamin Harrison, near Indianapolis, is one of the Jargest Army posts in the United States.

CIRCULATION SHOWS STEADY INCREASE

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Home Deliveries Are More 1 Than Doubled in Last Five Years. IRCULATION of Tho Times is growing ste.adily —and i., ■ ..J nearly all of this growth is in home-dellverod circulation in Indianapolis and suburban territory. -v ; ■ -j Flvo years ago more than 66,000 * been still higher. JULIAM When Julian took over the department the home delivered circulation of the paper was less than 12,000. Last year it was more than 28,000. More than 92 per cent of tho entire circulation of the paper Is In Indianapolis and suburban territory Known as the baying radius. The Times was sold to the present owners In June, 1922. For a year before that time insurance was offered as a premium with circulation. Since that time the insurance has not been pushed, yet the paper has retained the circulation reached during the last year of the Old ownership —which was the largest in the history of the paper —and has added to ft strictly on the balls of the merit of the paper. Stations Are Added The paper now has twenty-eight stations In Indianapolis. Five years go it had fifteen. The additions have been made because of growth of the paper and the growth of population. Four of the stations have been added on the north side and three on the east side. The Times makes it a point to take care of Its* carriers. In the new building is a fully equipped boys’ room. A playground for carriers is being arranged on the back of the tot on which the building stands. Events for Carriers Shows in downtown theaters arc frequently given for carriers and an annual picnic is given for carriers, the helpers and their parents. Besides these things, week-end camping trips are taken by carri*— s during the summer. About Bjo boys and girls are carrying routes. For the street boys The Times provides memberships in the Y. M. C. A. Outside of Indianapolis The Times goes to 360 Indiana cities and towns where carriers deliver the papers on the day of publication.

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CITY HAS MANY SCHOOLS Educational Facilities of Indianapolis Are Unsurpassed. Educational facilities in Indianapolis are unsurpassed. In addition to State and city schools, Indianapolis has Butler College, Indiana Central University, the College of Missions, Indiana Dental College, Indiana Law School, Indiana Veterinary College, Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, Indianapolis College of Pharmacy, Art Associaition of Indianapolis, Brooks School for Boys, St. Agnes Academy, Tudor Hall (girls), St. John’s Academy, Teachers’ College, Metropolitan School of Music, Normal College of the North American Gymnastic Union and seven business schools. Indianapolis has one of the largest city market houses in the Middle West.

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unwound by the press just as thread is unwound from a spoqj by a sewing meehine. The presses are driven by electric power. It was necessary to tear them down and re-assemble them when The Times moved into the new building. Has Many Parks Indianapolis has twenty-five parks, well distributed about the city, with an area of 1,901 acres, valued at $5,000,000. A boulevard system connecting these parks encircles the city. Indianapolis is the geographical center of manufacturing in the United States.

NEWSPAPERS ARE PRINTED ON SPEEDY MACHINERY

Presses Turn Out 36,000 Papers Each Hour, Modem high speed presses make possible the publication of daily newspapers in the shortest possible time. Without these great machines the task of getting the news to the reader In at most a few hours and often a very few minutes after it happens would bo impossible. It is possible to print 36,000 twenty-four- page papers every hour on one of The Times presses. Those papers come out folded and ready for the reader. Each press Is fed from great roils of paper, weighing hundreds of pounds. This paper is

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TIMES ARTICLES BRIEF Effort Made to Cover Field for Busy Headers. Shakespeare once remarked that brevity is the soul of wit. Times articles are brief. The Times endeavors to tell ail the news without bias or embelishment in the fewest n umber of words. The paper endeavors to give all the salient facts without being tiresome. At the same time it endeavors to give its readers the complete news of the day.

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account of the contest and the box score. All the latest sports news is contained in The Times Pink. The Times also is putting on a baseball contest, involving problems propounded by Billy Evans, famous umpire. Two season passes and ten individual passes will be given as prizes. Labor Headquarters , Indianapolis is the headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America, International Brotherhood of Bookbinders, the International Typographical Union, International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Chauffeurs, the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasters' International Union, and the Barbers’ International Union, International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. Indianapolis has nearly forty modern office buildings six to sixteen stories high.

Sport Section Covers Field Times Pink to Give Public Baseball Scores, Public interest in sports of all kinds is growing. The basketball season is over and attention is turning to baseball. Eddie Ash, Times sports editor, is in Florida with the Indians. He is the only Indianapolis sports editor to make the trip South with the team. His dispatches tell daily of training progress. When the season starts, The Times will be on the streets immediately after each game with a full

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WILLIAM A. MAYBORN The business manager of The Times, William A. Mayborn, came to the paper from the Cincinnati Post, where he was advertimsing manager. Before going to the Post he was with the Cleveland Plain Dealer seven years and with Hie Cleveland Press seven years. He teas manager of the classified advertising department of the latter paper. Indianapolis la the home of Butter University, ft rapidly growing institution.