Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 157, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1926 — Page 13

OCT. 7, 1926

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INDEPENDENCE of spirit never fails to be recognized, whether in a newspaper or in an individual. By the way a man talks, acts and speaks the whole world knows whether he is captain of his own soul. And similarly, by the very content of a newspaper, in its editorial opinion and its treatment of news, all who read may easily know whether that newspaperis the product of independent editing or whether it is guided by an unseen hand. Recognizing that in- - dependence is the very foundation stone of successful journalism, the ScrippsHoward organization leaves to the individual editors of its twenty-four newspapers complete control of what appears in their columns. They are responsible only to the traditions of honest, fearless journalism on which these newspapers were founded. ON THIS independence has been builded the confidence of more than a million and a half families in twentyfour cities throughout the United States. In ScrippsHoward newspapers they find that spirit which reflects

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Thos. Adams, the fighting editor of Vincennes, who is very much in the spotlight at present, paid a very high tribute to the spirit of Independence represented in Scripps-Howard newspapers when he said: “Seventeen of the great Indiana newspapers had sessions all day on this investigation and exposure at the Claypool Hotel April 28, and fourteen held session on the 11th of May, vainly fighting for you

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and for the right to get the truth. Only one withdrew. “A State-authorized probe was denied and we had to go on, and I was authorized to act as chairman. The Indianapolis newspapers, with the exception of The Times, never recognized any of your meetings. Is that not sufficient for you to rebuke and flay alive an invincible force that is eating into your very vitals?”•

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