Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 202, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1926 — Page 3

NOV. 29, 1926

SCRIPPS EXPANSION COMMENTED UPON Retention of Associated Press Franchises by Four Papers Depends Upon A. P. Attitude.

[Editor’s Note—The following article concerning the recent expansion of Seripps-Howard newspaper interests is printed in last week's issue of Editor and Publisher, a leading American newspaper trade journal.] * When the Seripps-Howard organization completed negotiations for the John C. Shaffer newspaper properties in Denver, the Rocky Mountain News and Denver Times, on Monday this week, it put the climax on the most remarkable series of newspaper sales and mergers of recent years and made new journalistic history. Announcement of this purchase and of the consolidation of the Times with the Seripps-Howard Express, under the name of the Evening N ’ws, came on the heels of the puro:\ase of the Knoxville Sentinel last -iday and its immediate merger v. th the News as the News-Sentinel, n n evening and Sunday paper. Earlier last week the wires bore the tale of the purchase of the Memphis News-Scimitar and its merger with the Press as the Memphis PressScimitar. This chain of operations gives the Seripps-Howard group its first morning paper, as the Rocky Mountain News will be continued in the morning and Sunday field. Anew SunBEWARE THE ' COUGH OR COLD THAT HANGS ON Persistent coughs and colds lead to serious trouble. You can stop them now with Creomulsion. an emulsified creosote that is pleasant to take. Creomulsion is anew medical discovery with two-fold action: it soothes nnd heals the inflamed membranes and Inhibits germ growth. Os all known drugs, creosote Is recognised by high medical authorities as one of the greatest healing agencies for persistent coughs and colds and other forms of throat troubles. Creomulsion contains, in addition to creosote, other healing elements which soothe and heal the infected membranes and stop the irritation and inflammation, while the creosote goes on to the stomach, Is absorbed into the blood, attacks the seat of the trouble and checks the growth of the germs. Creomulsion is guaranteed satisfactory in the treatment of persistent coughs and colds, bronchial asthma, bronchitis and other forms of respiratory diseases, and is excellent for building up the system after colds or flu. Money refunded if any cough or cold is not relieved after taking according to directions. Ask your druggist.—Advertisement. AVW UGLY PIMPLES A pimply face will not embarrass von longer If you get a package of Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets. The skin should begin to clear after you have taken the tablets a few nights. Cleanse the blood, Miwels and liver with Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets, the successful substitute for calomel; there's no sickness or pain after taking them. Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets do that which calomel does, and just as effectively, but their action if gentle and safe Instead of severe and irritating. No one who takes Olive Tablets Is ever cursed with a “dark brown taste,” a bad breath, a dull, listless, “no good” feeling, constipation, torpid liver, bad disposition or pimply face. Olive Tablets are a purely vegetable compound mixed with olive oil; know them by their olive color. Dr. Edwards spent years among patients afflicted with liver and bowel complaints and Olive Tablets are the Immensely effective result. Take nightly for a week. See how much better you feel and look, lfic, 30c. 00c. —Advertisement

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day paper is added to the list in Knoxville. Millions Involved No offclal announcements have been made as to consideration involved in any of the purchases, but a statement in the new Denver Evening News that tho price of the Denver properties was approximately $1,000,000, is believed not far wrong. The reported price of the Memphis News Scimitar was $600,000. No figure has been reported for the Knoxville paper. ' The new combined Denver papers were issued Tuesday from the Rocky Mountain News plant, which is be ing augumented by machinery from the Express. No announcement has yet been made regarding the new executive personnel, but the entire staff of the Express and the Shaffer papers is being employed for the present until it is possible to perfect the organization. George B. Parker, executive editor of the Seripps-Howard newspapers, assisted by L. E. Judd, editor of the Akron Times-Press; W. G. Chandler, president of the Ohio group, and T. J. Dowling, circulation director, are in charge of the organization of personnel and plant. Advertising iij being sold for the present on the all-day basis, following the method pursued by the Shaffer newspapers, but decision as to the permanency of practice has not yet been made. The local advertising staff is continuing to sell snace on the old rate card of the News and Times, without any increase mi account of circulation taken over from the Express, pending the establishment of new circulation levels. Publishes Statement A statement by the new publishers in the first consolidated edition of the Evening News issued Tuesday said in part; “In a newspaper sense. Denver is unique. For years this city has been marked journalistically by one large and three comparatively small publications- The trend has been more and more toward a monopoly by the largest, the Denver Post, published by F. G. Bonfils. That trend has threatened Denver for some time with a newspaper dictatorship. Such a situation is attributed to a combination of causes: “First the very agile and adroit publishing, ability of F. G. Bonfils, who by one means or another has been able to force his newspaper ahead of the field. “Second, an overcrowded competitive condition that has made possible the growth of one at the expense of the others. That condition could be corrected only by one process—a merger such as that which has now been brought about. A ne-wspaper monopoly at best is bad. At worst it becomes a dire menace to the progress and prosperity of the community in which it exists. We believe that dictatorship of Denver’s newspaper field by the Denver Post would be nothing less than a blight and we believe furthermore because of certain developments of recent occurrence that the time is ripe for challenging that dictatorship. Hence the merger and the accompanying pledge that the resources of the SerippsHoward organization are behind this move to correct what we consider to be a sinister journalistic situation.” For the time being the Evening i News is using the full service of both the United Press and the Associated Press, and the Rocky Mountain News the full services of the United News and the Associated Press. It is learned, however, that the Soripps-Howard organization has made no formal application for trans- ; fer of the Associated Press memberships which would normally pass to them as new owners of the properties. Attitude on A. P. When asked for a statement on his attitude and intentions regarding the Associated Press memberships, Roy W. Howard, chairman of the board, said: “Our newly combined Denver properties and the Knoxville NewsSentinel are continuing as clients of both the United Press and Associated Press on a temporary basis, pending decision by the Associated Press board of directors on points we have raised in connection with the recent consolidations. “I expect that the Associated Press executive committee will reach a decision on the matter next week. In the meantime, we have not asked | to have the A. P. memberships owned by the purchased papers transferred and have declined to sign the Associated Press by-laws. Meanwhile, the A. P. service is being continued bn a temporary basis ' through the courtesy of General Manager Kent Cooper. "The point at issue is the clause in the Associated Press by-laws whereby that organisation assumes ownership and property right in all local news collected by a member and assumes to tell the paper what It shall not do with its own local news. “Seripps-Howard has been unwilling to accept the Associated Press membership owned by four newspapers acquired during the past ten days unless it can retain for itself complete freedom of action in use and disposition of all news collected by its newspapers. We have expressed willingness to cover fully any local field in which we might accept the service of the Associated Press with the same promptness, care and thoroughness that we cover it for the United Press organization, but we are unwilling to permit any news service to dictate the disposal we may make of our news. Value Only Normal "We do not regard the Associated Press membership or franchise as having any monetary value beyond the value which inheres to any contract for a service or commodity. “Hundreds of the beat and strong-

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est newspapers in the country re proving daily that the Associated Press is no longer any more essential to journalistic success than is one particular make of press, one particular make of type-setting machine, one particular feature, or one particular feature service. With the development of the United Press report. which is nonexclusive and available to any bonafide newspaper to a point where in efficiency it is admittedly at least the equal of the Associated Press, the old time values of Associated Press franchises — values fixed a generation ago when Associated Press service was almost essential to newspaper success—became fictitious. It is for this reason. that while we are willing to buy Associated Press service on the same basis as we buy servicafrom its competitor, we are unwilling to accept a so-called membership In an organization collecting and selling a basic journalistic commodity—news —in a highly competitive field, if

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