Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 153, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1924 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 5, 1924

C. S. Copright. 1924, All Rights Readied, The liuliaaapoli# Time#.

HHE progenitor of the Scripps-Howard newspapers was first published in Cleveland. On November 3, 1878, E. W. Scripps, 24 years old, started The Cleveland Press with three partners, SIO,OOO capital and a Big Idea. For Scripps really had a Big Idea in newspapermaking. He didn’t give it a name, but “Keeping Close to the People” and “Pay-as-You-Go” were its fundamentals. Scripps was obsessed with it. He meant to live by it, fight for it, suffer for it, stay with it, prosper through it and MAKE IT SELF-PERPETUAT-ING, and this Cleveland pioneer has lived to see all these “musts” accomplished. Scripps had a vision, but he was no visionary. To make his work expand and ENDURE, he knew that other men's work was needed. He had no money for fancy salaries nor taste for fancy men. He wanted far-seeing, fighting men, working-stockholding-partners who were willing to practice self-denial during construction that they might later share in ownership and profits. This briefly describes the genesis of the Scripps-Howard Operating Organization and Plan of today. Generous allotments of stock in all Scripps-Howard Newspapers are set aside for sale to editorial, news business and executives and employes, who are encouraged and assisted to share in the ownership and profits of the business in which they are engaged. Under this plan trained executives always are available for pro“n tneie is no vacancy in any Scripps-Howard newspaper for which another man is not being trained, no . new Scripps-Howard newspapers which cannot be adequately manned and managed from the start. Every “cub” reporter is a potential Editor, every young want-ad solicitor a potential Business Manager, provided—and only provided he thinks more seriously of his permanent future than of his present wages. p This Scripps idea has been responsible for the largest number of uahy newspapers under one ownership in the world—you see it really was aBI Idea. It must have been, for it is the guiding principle of

ROBERT. P. SCRIPPS

OTHER SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPERS Akron Press Youngstown Telegram Houston Press Washington News Kentucky Post Cleveland Press Pittsburgh Press Fort Worth Press Evansville Press Knoxville News * Cincinnati Post Birmingham Post San Francisco News Terre Haute Post Tribune. Albuquerque Columbus Citizen Sacramento Star Denver Express Memphis Press El Paso Post Toledo News-Bee San Diego Sun Baltimore Post Des Moines News Oklahoma News (The following now beiriQ under the direction of the Estate of the late James G. Scripps) Los Angeles Record Portland News Dallas Dispatch Seattle Star Spokane Press Tacoma Times

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

The Indianapolis Times acquired in June, 1022. is one of the newest Scripps-lloward newspapers, preceding by a few months the great and powerful “Pittsburgh Press’’ into tho federation named. Indianapolis is appreciating and supporting the TIMES because it. should. For a CLEAN, HONEST, INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER makes EVERY MAN’S life worth-while, and Indianapolis and The TIMES are natural yoke-fellows on the same forward-marching program that the eities and newspapers named below are fulfilling so well together.

the 32 Scripps-founded newspapers of today, just as it was of the pioneering “Press” of 1878. Mr. Scripps retired from active management in 1920, but this Big Idea remained at work and is stronger today than ever. For Robert P. Scripps and Roy W. Howard were ready to take the helm and carry on, the first as editorial director, the second in charge of business policies, both partners jointly operating the Scripps-Howard newspapers as they are now known. The present Mr. Scripps has served a long apprenticeship in every department of daily journalism. It was no case of “Crown Prince” with “Bob" Scripps, who inherited from his father nothing but common sense and the chance to work hard at a hard job, who now leads because he BELONGS at the top. Roy W. Howard, at 40, is the star demonstration of the soundness of the Scripps Operating Policy, before mentioned. Reporter and copyreader on Scripps’ Cincinnati Post, successively News Manager, Business Manager and President of the United Press, and finally “the” Howard of Scripps-Howard, Mr. Howard’s self-achieved progress should be an inspiration to other young men who are now deciding between the “get-what-I-can-NOW” plan of remuneration and the Scripps-Howard plan. Mr. Howard is an Indianapolis boy; The TIMES is “Howards' paper” in a very real and personal sense and will be as much of a monument to progressive journalism and Indianapolis as the Monument itself! For “The Times” is first of all an INDIANAPOLIS institution, owning its own building, which houses one of the best newspaper plants in the State. The Scripps-Howard newspapers are a power in the land today, more and more powerful as more and more people seek an unbossed, dependable daily newspaper which tells “The Truth—QUlCK!” which keeps CLOSE to the people, which makes life more worth while and whose opinions command respect even from those in honest disagreement. And THAT’S what The TIMES means to Indianapolis!

ROY W. HOWARD