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‘ Entangling Alliances ' i Thr following i* a delivered toda> b> George B Parker. rrl,tor-in-chief of the Seripp*--Howard newspapers, at the school of Journalism of the University of Missouri. I a a a In view of the title that has been assigned—- “ Entangling Alliances'—l would like to read as an introduction an editorial appearing at the time of the death in 1326 of E. W. Seripps, founder of the organization which I represent here today. The editorial said: That there was room in America for newspapers which represented only their readers; which represented no party, or rliib. or bloc—no special interest whatsoever. Such was the philosophy on which E. W Seripps. less than half a century ago. founded the largest, group of newspaper flic world ever has seen. The philosophy was novel at the time. Betore that. day. back in the seventies, there were newspapers aplenty. But the newspaper which franklv didn i serve some interest or other, political or commercial, was so rare a. to be negligible. The journalism of that day was tlv journalism ot the party organ. To wear a label, to belong to a clique, was ‘'the thing" in new-paper making then. The greatest of the dailies were either Republican or Democratic. And those that didn't specialize in politics spoke for the organized commercial interests of their day. The “5 per cent" of the newspaper reading public was represented amply; the "9a per cent" had no medium ol expression. To bo the friend in court of those who had no other spokesman - To know news and to print it. uninfluenced by those who wanted something put in or something kept out— To comfort the afflicted, on the theory that the comfortable would take care of themselves, but t-o deny hearing to none— These were the tools that E. W. Seripps took to his job forty-seven years ago. along with a little money and an unlimited capacity to inspire men. The beginning was humble, as have been the beginnings of most things in America that have grown great. E. W. Seripp.' is dead. But the thought of an independent journalism, the thought with which he pioneered, will live on m the organization he founded, and in the journalism of America. And now a quotation trom the first issue of the Cleveland Press, published in 1878. ‘‘What are your politics?" asked a certain Cleveland gentleman today of the editor of the Penny Press. The gentleman was told to look for his answer In the paper. This was it; We have no politics, that is, in the sense of the word as commonly used. We are not Republican. not Democratic, not Greenback and not Prohibitionist. We simply intend to support good men and condemn bad ones, support- good measures and condemn bad ones, no matter what party they belong to. We shall tell no lies about persons or policies for love, malice or money. It is no part of a newspaper's business to array itself on the side of this or that party, or fight, lie or wrangle for it. The newspaper simply should present, all the facts the editor is capable of obtaining concerning men and measures before the bar of the public, and then, after having discharged its duty as a witness, be satisfied to leave the jury in the case—the public—to find the verdict! Half a century after that first Scripps-Howard newspaper was founded, the organization had grown to twenty-five daily publications scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. But. the basic principle has remained unchanged. It is the same todav as it was in the beginning. Robert P. Seripps. son of E. W. Seripps. and successor to him as controlling stockholder, recently was asked by a reader to express his views on this growth of chain newspaper ownership and on the journalistic ideal in general. His reply sounded the same keynote that had characterized the original conception. His letter said. “It strike* me that the chief concern of the public with the newspaper press is hat its motives shall be unmixed, that it shall have no special interests to serve. If a newspaper be dull and uninteresting, slow or inadequate in news coverage, poorly printed or otherwise physically deficient, people easily can and quickly mark such shortcomings—and read some other paper The serious situation, and one that take.; long to recognize, is that of the newspaper whose owner or owners, have personal axes to grind. • Given a reasonable degree of intelligence and just the elements of technical training, it strikes me that the best qualification for a newspaper publisher—not necessarily from his own point of view, but certain!> from the public point ot view—is that he shall be exclusively a newspaper man. with all his eggs in at least one kind of basket, and nothing to do but watch the eggs. “With all this in mind, and considering the careers of a number of successful newspaper men that I ha\e known or known of. I often have wondered what other course than the course toward group operation successful Journalism in this country logically could take. “Consider the case of the man. usually young, who actually has succeeded in establishing a great and financially independent journal in any American city. He necessarily has created an organization in both editorial and business affices competent to carry on with little supervision—and if he is the sort of publisher who seeks to make his paper an institution, no; simply a means ot personal expression, he lets his associates function as freely as possible. “If such a man sticks to his home town, he will go mto outside business, or into politics as an office Lseeker or ’boss.' in either case establishing outside Vrui quite ‘special' interests, so far as the trade of journalism is concerned—interests bound to react unfavorably upon his journalistic reputation, if not actually warp his journalistic judgment and integrity, in either case injuring his newspaper. ; “What else then should such a man do except to go to another community and start or buy another newspaper? If he does so. then we have two links at least in a chain.' “I can recall discussing exactly this turning point in his own career with m lather. Apparently one ol

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hi: earliest determinations was that when he adopted the profession of journalism he adopted it for life and exclusively, to prosper or to fail by. “When he found that he had acquired control of his Cleveland Press, that it could make reasonable profits and function editorially without his personal presence in the office except for short periods, and when he found that his chief diversions, of reading and stucy failed altogether to satisfy, he was at a loss for something constructive to do. ' Ar.d so he launched what has become the ScrippsHoward group of newspapers, by going to Cincinnati to save a badly r—••own and then bankrupt daily. "A common phrase, and in derogation of the group newspaper, is ‘foreign ownership.’ Geographically it describes the situation fairly accurately. Local editors and business managers of Scripps-Howard newspapers. as well as many other partners, are considerable and influential stockholders. Nevertheless, I live m Ohio and Connecticut and have, as trustee of the estate of E. W. Seripps. controlling voice in affairs and policies of newspapers in California, Tennessee, and other states. - "However, it is my feeling that fundamental journalistic obligations are the same all over this country. and that I actually am less of a foreigner in any newspaper field in America than is for instance a contemporary who holds and chiefly prizes public office as a member of a political party, or who is in the real estate or banking or some other outside business which has its special point of view, and of whose total assets his newspaper interests comprise only a minor part." It rhanres that within the last week, revelations before the federal trade commission in Washington brought forth the fact that, a great pow-er and paper company has been entering the field of newspaper ownership. I will ask your indulgence for the reading of just, one thing more—our editorial expression on that event. The daily newspaper is an institution of general as distinct from class circulation. By its very nature, therefore, it must be single in purpose to be effective. Its mission is to serve all the public and not just part. Its range of influence is in direct ratio to its freedom from entangling alliances. The history of newspaper failures is dotted thickly with those which have violated that principle. Why? Simply because it is not within the range of human nature for a newspaper publisher successfully to serve two masters. Take a concrete case: Suppose you owned a newspaper and a gas company. Could you be impartial in your editorial attitude toward the gas rate that your community pays? For the same reason that a brother of a man on trial is excluded from jury service, so outside interests. whether they be social, financial or political, must be excluded when one goes into newspaper publishing. The effort, therefore, of the International Paper and Power Company to inject itself into American journalism contains the germs of its own destruction. The International Paper and Power Company's major interest, by its own testimony, is power. To it. accordingly, that great truth will apply: “Where its treasure is. there will its heart be also." The public instinctively will recognize that. And the public will write its own answer. I am emphasizing singleness of purpose as so vitally important for the very simple season that the newspaper, like the human race, is not perfect. It is subject to and susceptible to the same temptations as is the human race. If it puts itself deliberately into the path of temptation, it, like any human being, is likely to yield. If it so organizes its operation as automatically to avoid temptation, it very much helps itself toward success. Outside interests of whatever sort are temptations that may and probably will lead to failure. As I view it. the E. W. Seripps ideal was one of enlightened selfishness. He wanted to succeed. He wanted his associates to succeed. He did not flatter himself that he and his associates were inherently any more ethical than any one else. He did not have the holier-than-thou attitude. He merely decided that chances for success were better if the course were routed'through that part of the journalistic sea wherein the sirens of outside influence would not be encountered. Having at the outset become thoroughly convinced of the wisdom of that idea, he so directed his whole operation in all detail to accord with it. As his fortune grew, instead of investing it in other forms of property, the ownership of which would warp hi* journalistic judgment, he simply started or purchased more newspapers. Realizing the value in terms of hard work, enthusiasm. and loyalty, of ownership interest, he arranged for his operat.ng officials to become stockholders in his newspapers, thereby making it possible for them, as the properties increased in value, to gain in the appreciation as well as in the salary column. But he insisted that they confine their interests to the single purpose, as he had. And to perpetuate the stockholding in the active management of the newspapers, he created an option plan by which those who retire resell their stocks, take the appreciation that has occurred during their regime of activity, the stock then being resold in turn to the new local management. As he neared the close of his remarkable career, in order that the purpose which had been the unifying influence of his professional life might not end with him. E. W. Seripps established the trusteeship which is unique in the history of American journalism. The essence of that trusteeship is to continue that which he had built up as a dedication for the future to the same single purpose—to journalism and tonothing else. With the exception of certain scientific bequests and certain personal provisions, the fortune that E. W. Seripps established and the income therefrom are committed to an unentangled and independent journalism. I have centered this discussion around one personality for a definite reason, a reason inspired by the fact that I am addressing many who propose to make newspaper work their life calling, and out of the inspiration of the personality of E. W. Seripps I would say. if I were asked to phrase in one sentence the best formula I can think of for success in that undertaking: Avoid journalistic bigamy. Be monogamous.

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Men Like Doheny May Reyn ref It as All Right to Trim the Public, but They Seldom Trim on Old Ruddy. T TARRY F. SINCLAIR is in jail, -*• which shows what comes of sassing the senate. Edward L. Doheny is free, which shows what comes of “conspiracy to defraud,” if one does not sass the senate. While Mr. Sinclair pretends to dispense drugs. Dr. Doheny buys in the Fall ranch. It Is rumored that he intends to improve the ranch, but the chances are that he is buying it in to save it for Mr. Fall. Men like Doheny may regard it as all right to trim the public, but they seldom trim an old buddy. bub Ford 'Hides Out’ 4 LEAN, happy, old man walks into the lobby of a hotel at Williamsburg, Va. He is Henry Ford, but revels in the illusion that no one knows him. What is more, he hopes no one will. He has been having a fine time traveling through the country incognito. No one has asked him to buy stock, rejuvenate an old inn, or promote an antiquated fiddler. On reaching the desk, he takes pen in hand and signs ‘‘.J. A. Jones,” with as much satisfaction as a small boy swiping an apple.’ Then a bright clerk spoils it all by whispering in his ear, "it isn't done in Vrginia, Mr. Ford.” BUB Beating Every Obstacle A MECHANICAL man opens the exposition ci chemical industries now in progress at New York, a.t. which there are some 500 marvels on display. Among other things are a toy train, which starts, stops or backs up in obedience t.o the spoken word; an apparatus which will make dry ice in thirty seconds: a gas mask that might be used to relieve passengers from the disagreeable effluvia of garlic and cheap perfume on the subway; anew metal, called columbium; and a pocket device by which the scofflaw can test his own hooch. To judge by* the headlines, New York is interested vastly more in the last mentioned marvel than in any of the other 489. It consists of a flask containing certain chemical reagents, into which the Doubting Thomas pours his bootleg spoil. If it turns pink, it contains wood alcohol, and if yellow, denatured alcohol. Just one more example of how human ingenuity can be depended on to surmount every obstacle. St tt tt Tough Medicine CONGRESSMAN LA GUARDIA of New York, wants the Lamport & l Holt Line not only barred from American ports, but its mail contracts cancelled. Pretty tough medicine, yet the wreck of the Vestris, which resulted in the loss of 112 lives seems to call for something that shipowners and officers will remember. No marine disaster of modern ! times appears to have been sur- | rounded with as great a degree of ! carelessness and negligence. Not only was the Vestris overloaded and her crew inefficient, but the idea of preventing salvage fees ap- : pears to have deterred the captain i from sending out signals of distress I until it was too late. An officer of the Vestris. testify- | ing at a hearing now in progress at ; London, says that New York lawyers } instructed him as to what and what ; not to say at the investigations held in this country. If that is true, those lawyers deserve to be brought to book. There is plenty of lying not only in connection with this case, but ! xii connection with others, without | the expert assistance of lawyers j who are supposed to help discover j the truth. B B B Perils of Modern Life THE statistical department of the Metropolitan Life Insurance ! Company reports that diabetes, can- | cer, cerebral hemorrhage and chronic | nephritis continue to show an inl crease during the first three months j of this year. i Many medical men believe that the flu epidemic is responsible to some extent, but very few are will- . ing to deny the presence of more i insidious and far-reaching causes. There obviously is something . about modern life which promotes { certain maladies, especially those of I the heart, brain and kidneys. At all events, we are not making ! the progress in their treatment or i repression that we have made with regard to such diseases as typhoid fever, smallpox, diphtheria and yellow fever. Most of the diseases reported as increasing are treated with drugs. Though physicians administer drugs, they do not make them, neither does the pharmacist who sells them. Drugs are made by large manufacturing establishments. These establishments are allied closely to the chemical industry. All of which brings us back to the re-entry of the German chemical trust into America, the state- ; ment of Francis P. Garvan that this threatens to destroy our chemical ! independence, the question of i whether the drug industry has be- | come a monopoly through interlocki ing directorates and holding comi panies and the further question of whether the food and drug act is being as rigidly enforced as the I situation calls for.

Daily Thought

Thou art beautiful. O my love, as Tirrah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an array with banners. —Solomon's Song 6:4. it tt e LOVE that has nothing # but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived, and apt to have ague fits.—Erasmus. •

Careful You Don’t Upset Things!

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..HEALTH SUPERSTITIONS—No. So —- Science Skeptical on Fright Effect

BY T)R. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hy*eia, the Health Magazine. TT'VIDENCE is available, and the -*~ v opinions of many authorities support the evidence, that the hair can turn gray suddenly. There are many instances of sudden graying of small patches of hair. It was reported that Marie Antoinette and Mary, Queen of Scots, developed sudden grayness of the hair while on their way to the scaffold. A legend in a popular medical work tells of a man 30 years of age who was sick in a mining camp and fell asleep. The year was 1851. When he awoke, a grizzly bear w’as standing over him. The man’s hair turned white in twenty-four hours.

Summer Fog Formation Described

THE distinction between fog and cloud is merely one of height. If water vapor condenses on dust particles at a considerable height above the ground, leaving clear air below, the result is a cloud. If the condensation occurs at the ground, or if it occurs at a considerable height, but extends down to

difference of opinion. In mountainous territory, for example, the mist shrouding a mountain top would constitute a cloud for those in the valley, but a >og for those on the mountain top. Fogs are likely to form along rivers and large creeks and in mountain valleys of all but arid regions

Quotations of Notables

IF you want to justify the shooting of a human being on the charge that the car he is driving contains alcoholic beverages, then, to be logical, you should call out the navy and send it out twelve miles from New York and sink the Leviathan." Representative La Guardia, New York. t: tt e “T am convinced that people who claim the movies are demoralizing this generation can not back up their ~ vague generalizations with facts.”—Professor J. L. Holmes. University of Columbia, N. Y., psychologist, B tt B “The best organized political party in French parliament is the radical Socialist group which has as its essential roles the practical organization of disarmament.” —Dr. Marcel Knecht. general secretary of Le Matin of Paris.

Enroll Me as a Member of The Indianapolis Times Golden Rule Safety Club Name Address . * I agree to “drive as I would want others to drive" when using a motor car and when walking to “cross streets as I would like others to cross” if I were driving. Sign and Mail to The Indianapolis Times or Hand to Any Policeman, Boy Scout or Girl Scout

Another story is that of a man who placed his entire savings of $l,lOO on one turn of the cards. The story does not tell whether he was trying to make two pair stand up or to fill a bob-tail flush, but it does say that twenty-four hours later his hair was white. Apparently the cards failed him. Most specialists In diseases of the skin express doubt about these instances, but at least one authority admits that the thing has occurred in rare cases. The great trouble is that our present knowledge of the way in which the hair grows and of its anatomic structure is difficult to correlate with any possible sudden grayness. The color of the hair is due to pigment in the shafe. The blood supply of the. hair is at the root

in the latter part of any still, cloudless night of summer or autumn. The reason for this is that during the day the sunlight warms up the stream, or the humid soil of the valley, and a great deal of evaporation takes place. If there is no wind, the air immediately above the, stream or in the valley remains heavily charged with moisture. At night, if there are no clouds, the ground loses heat very rapidly by radiation. (Such loss of heat, as readers of this series now know, causes the formation of dew.) The cooling, however, extends to a considerable height, above the ground and as a result fog is formed. Such fog will not form if there is a wind or if the sky is cloudy. A wind blows the moist air away and replaces it with drier air. The clouds, by reflecting back the heat which is radiated from the ground, keeps the temperature from dropping to the dewpoint,. the point at which condensation of the moisture in the air takes place. Fogs such as those just described are known by a number of names, including radiation fogs, valley fogs, land fogs and summer fogs. Another cause of fogs is the drifting of warm, humid air over cold regions. This accounts for the formation of “winter fog" when warm air drifts over snowbanks. “Sea fogs” are also formed at times in this way. For example, when the air drifts from the warm gulf stream to over the cold Labrador current, the result is a cooling which produces a heavy fog.

the ground, the result, is a fog. A fog, therefore, may be quite shallow or quite deep. As Dr. W. J. Humphreys o f the United States weather bureau sums it up: ‘Fog is a cloud on the earth: cloud, a fog in the sky." The viewpoint of the observer in some cases might create a

“When I 2m married, we shall have children, and I will rear them in the English way—brave boys and gracious girls. And my marriage will DC a sacred thing, which will never, be broken." —Lya De Putti, Hungarian film .actress. It tt B “When the men of the coast guard sent their shells into the hull of the I'm Alone a thrill of appreciation ran through my veins. It was American.” —Deets Pickett, research secretary of the Methodist board of temperance, prohibition and public morals. (Outlook.) B B B ‘Radio, thus far, appeals only to one of man’s senses—that of hear-ing-arid this fact puts the use of the spoken language in the control of a few, to be heard by the many. And these few are the radio announcers of the country."—Milton J. Cross, staff announcer for the National Broadcasting Company.

and does not extend into the shaft. Before the pigment could be destroyed, it would have to be reached by sels coming to the root in the blood. From our knowledge of the hair and of the rate at which changes usually take place in body tissues, it seems absolutely unreasonable to believe that the long hair of a woman could completely lose its pigment within twen-ty-four hours, or, in fact, even in a week. It does seem possible that, the hair in a very small spot might fall out and be replaced rapidly by gray hair. None of the cases reported in scientific literature is scientifically authenticated. Some day some one may take the trouble to provied the necessary evidence to establish the fact as a fact

■SEX AUTHOR' TO WRITE Mrs. Dennett Signs Contract for Book on U. S. Rulings. Bu l ml id Press NEW YORK. May B.—Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett has signed a contract to write a book on what she regards as the arbitrary rulings of the postoffice department, beginning at the time of her work for the birth control movement and continuing to her conviction for sending her pamphlet "The Sex Side of Life” through the mail. Church to Cost 515.000 Du Times -pirial ANDERSON, Ind.. May B.—A new 515.000 building is being planned by the West Anderson Church of God, work on its erection to start within a week, the pastor, the Rev. S. F. WilUams. announces.

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MAY 8. 1929

REASON By Frederick Landis

It 11 culd Re a Great Thing if H’r Could Export 10,000 Drunken Drivers, Along With the Million Autos IVc Are Shipping Overseas. \\TE wish these people success as ▼ ▼ they try to discover a youth somewhere in America, competent to carry on the work of Thomas A. Edison, but we have our doubts. You can not select a Vice-Presi-dent for a genius! tt St tt Think of the vastly increased respect the people of Italy will have for law and order since these 148 members of the Mafia were given an aggregate sentence of more than 700 years. Had they been tried in America, at least 650 of them would have died of old age before the case were disposed of. B B B It is perfectly wonderful how George Washington and Abraham Lincoln managed to get along, when you reflect that their parents never taught, them anything about, sex. ft tt tt What a wonderful thing it would be. if while we are exporting these one million automobiles during 1929, we could throw in 10,000 drunken drivers, just for good measure! B tt tt The sickness of At tee Pomerene, which has delayed the trial of exSecretary Fall until next, October, came just in time to save Fall the trouble of having another relapse. tt B tt Twenty goats were frozen to death in northern Indiana during the last blizzard, which makes one wonder what’s happened to the goats of the American golf players, taken from them by their British opponents in the recent match.

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BATTLE OF PALO ALTO May 8 /”\N May 8, 1846, ‘pe battle of Palo Alto. Tex., was fought between 2.00 ft American troops and 6.000 Mexicans. The battle, resulting in an American victory, was looked upon in Washington as a Mexicon invasion of United Stataes territory, since the Polk administration had set up a claim to all southwest lands north of the Rto Grande river, after settling the northwest boundary dispute with England by treaty. The battle was the immediate cause of the Mexican war, declared less than a week later. It, was a. feeble effort on the part of Mexico to prevent General Tajlor. United States commander in the southwest, from pushing on to the Rio Grande. General Taylor’s political star began to rise at Palo Alto. He became the first military hero the country had had in a long time and this finally brought him to the presidency. Taylor led American troops to victory in four of the ten chiet battles of the Mexican war. including Monterey and Buena Vista. General Winfield Scott won the other six. The Mexicans won no major victory during the entire conflict.

Times Readers Voice Views

The name and address of the author mus; accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor Times—Calling- attention to your recent editorial on the unemployment situation, the question is not to see that everyone has a job. The real problem is to establish a condition whereby labor shall receive more and more of what it produces and be able to share in an ever-advancing civilization. To have a well-rounded system of production and exchange, and to do away with over-production and ever-recurring depression, labor must be put in a position to buy bank two-thirds of what it produces, the balance going to capital for overhead and profits. Co-operation of labor and capital is the coming issue. Capital as well as labor is feeling the economic pressure and a solution soon must be found to end the fierce competition between capitalists, which at present is just showing in the absorption of the small dealer and manufacturer by larger corporatioas. This is going on steadily and the end is not yet. The problem can not be solved without bringing in the land question. The only real solution outside of socialism is the single tax on land values only, CHARLES H. KRAUSE.