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Sun Circulation Sun Bondholders Get Paid New York Sun circulation as shown in ABC reports for Sept. 30: In Sale to World-Telegram Year 1939 ...... 298,673 1940 ...... 307,064 COMPLETE NEWS COMPLETE NEWS c ***** kept pace had forced the de- y , ,. N, . ~un Monday to cision to sell. Friday Saturday Mr. Howard said "no feeling VOL 104i. ||-|4| NOWYORK. WEDNESDAY, J ARY V 4,1950, nn 0t' of exultation marks our fare- 1942 ----. ' 286,103 233'164 well to a respected competitor. 1945 ..... 283,753 195,904 The Sun has always been a 1947. 305,442 172,617 newspaper of great integrity." 1948 . 300,074 156,812 THT SU SS He announced there would be no change in the editorial 1949* .... . 277,530 123,871 1nal.tiw-h enba win--a u NesllxxPbnl. -Fnrrj ;wnoron..rar.awnr rar..eBUYS NEVIW DEWEY PLEDGES NO TAX RISE;ITmre -. Oan.OO. ANDT GOO WUI policy of the World-Telegram .^aieedXhi 11 ril Id bN., h.n 1. and Sun, but that the most HITS TRUMAN HEALTH PLAN Wmll.Seriw T~~rruy NMlhdv ~kekw..'^ * Publisher's unaudited ABC 4 popular news and editorial fea- statement. ' Truman Message Today 7T... TI,. '4. .K, n.,.H H tn. Kwe"' N 1/sut.. [N tures of the Sun will be added Presses'FairDeal'Plan o to those of the World-Telegram. months ago that the Sun was He said local, national and in- -,. -... - R . -K,w. EK,'K.= C - . - paI.-- T, al- .- "for sale on any newsstand, at ternational news will be greatly 5c a copy." OtT- . - .. 2'E. augmented and that the Sun's Post, founded business and financial pages, The New York most by Alexander Hamilton 32 years "long recognized as the York Sun was 350, Mostly Employes, to Receive complete of any afternoon paper before the New in the country," will be inte- born, blamed the latter's death Payment Feb. 3 with Interest on the fact that it was "waging grated with the World-Tele- and gram. Also, the most popular the battle of the top-dog he had too many other journal- columns, features and comics Our Town." By Robert U. Brown of the Sun will be worked into istic defenders in the World-Telegram. "It might be said," com- THE NAME, goodwill and cir- 8:15 a.m. Wednesday when the mented the Post, owned by 116-year- statements of both publishers "This will involve employ- culation lists of, the of Mrs. Dorothy Schiff, "that the old New York Sun were sold were posted on the bulletin ment by the World-Telegram hardening many former Sun employes," World - Telegram's Tuesday night, Jan. 3, to the boards and sent to the compos- conservatism d est r o y e d the New York World-Telegram, a ing rooms in each plant by pre- Mr. Howard said. A few had existence already made the switch on Sun's last reasons for Scripps - Howard Newspaper, arrangement.' .. The conservative publishing which on Thursday became The Purchase Price Kept Secrete Thursday but Mr. Howard said overpopu- it was too early tostate how field was hopelessly New York World-Telegram and Neither Mr. Dewart nor Mr. many would be taken on. lated." The S u n. Simultaneous an- editorial Howard would reveal the pur- Mr. Howard told E & P he ex- A New York News nouncement was made Wednes- chase price. said "we hate to see the eve- day by Thomas W. Dewart, pected there will be more sales and wished The transaction did not in- and suspensions of newspapers ning Sun go down" president and publisher of the clude the Sun Building at 280 high op- "a great deal of luck" to the Sun, and Roy W. Howard, pres- in the country due to Broadway on the corner of Asked to elabor- World-Telegram and Sun. ident and editor of the World- erating costs. Times added Chambers Street, opposite City ate, he stated: "Just look at The New York Telegram. Hall, nor the mechanical plant. its wish of "the best of fortune" The 350 bondholders, mostly the score sheet." The building is owned by the He spent Wednesday at the to the new paper, saying "the Sun employes, former employ- newspapers Merlis Real Estate Co., Inc., a World-Telegram plant at Bar- roll of New York es, or heirs of deceased em- subsidiary of C.W.H. Inc. which that have come and gone since ployes, who owned the bonds clay and West Streets following Day founded the Sun controls the Dewart family in- the announcement rather than Benjamin through the mutualization plan terests in The Mohican Stores, is a long and sorrowful one." installed 23 years ago by the at his Scripps-Howard head- for a fail- Inc., and the Munsey Trust Co., quarters at 230 Park Ave. No simple reason late William T. Dewart, will Washington. Mr. Dewart indi- A new set of ure is easy to find, commented be paid Feb. 3 with interest. advertising lin- cated the building space occu- story on the New York Herald Tribune, age statistics, (see a modern Bonds Called at $102 pied by the Sun would be rent- page 12) or a new report on because publishing ed. Part of the building is now newspaper makes such heavy The bonds were called on circulation usually brought ru- of. Tuesday at $102, the night be- rented to other companies. mors that the Sun was for sale. demands on a wide variety He also told E & P that the any other rare talents. The Herald Trib- fore the sale announcement, for Perhaps more than "stood by payment on Feb. 3. They had Sun Corporation would con- newspaper in the country, the une declared the Sun tinue in existence for many rumors, its convictions to the end . . been bought by employes at Sun had to deny such good $100. Originally the bonds had months, perhaps years, until which persisted even after Mr. We extend our warmest been issued as 8% preferred final liquidation is completed. Dewart's c o m m e n t several (Continued on page 6) stock in 1926. On July 1, 1945, High Costs Cited the stock was converted into Bothenewspapers on Wednes- 5% debenture bonds in $100 day, the last day of publication NIGH-T units. for the Sun as an individual * NewYorkWorld-Telegram The Dewart family controlled paper, carried the statements of the paper by ownership of a Mr. Howard and Mr. Dewart. majority of the common stock. The Sun publisher announced VOL ^41 L7-.0 NF ______+.a_.elaDAV.JAVUAKY610..,_ Negotiations for the sale had the sale of the Sun "with pro- been going on for several found regret." Why We Forsake Formosa weeks. Agreement was reached "Mounting costs of produc- near midnight Tuesday at the tion, unaccompanied by com- St. Regis Hotel. Imminence of mensurate increases in adver- the deal had been in the hot tising revenues, have made U.S. SHUNS WAR-RISK INCHINA rumor stage for more than a some such course inevitable," To E & P, Mr. Dewart ButtonUp!It's Milady's War Paint Panned TrumanLikely week among New York news- he stated. Inside the FBI: . . . . , - papermen but the first definite emphasized that union demands .. "'"i -- nn word for 1,200 Sun employes and high newsprint costs coup- and some executives came at led with revenues that had not The Sun shines from Scripps-Howard beacon. EDITOR & PUBLISHER for January 7, 1950 the first day's run exceeded N. Y. Sun Is Sold 700,000, and added; "We expect Padlocked Hearst Takes to retain most of the Sun's cir- continued from page 5 culation." The copies were Pay day at the Sun is Thurs- printed in four plants: The day, and the day after the Geo. Sokolsky, wishes to the fnew WorldoTele- New York Times, and the three paper was sold all the em- gram and Sun in its powerful World-Telegram plants. ployes returned to pick up Rube Goldberg consolidation." N. Y. Times Presses Used And the lead editorial of the their checks, clean out their The New York World-Tele- The Times operation got un- Sun and the New first New York World-Telegram desks and say their final fare- gram and and Sun declared: "We are der way less than 24 hours after York Journal-American split up neither boastful nor elated as negotiations opened between wells. most of the Sun's byline fea- this first issue goes to press ... Maj. Gen. Julius Ochs Adler, First one to arrive was John tures. Times general manager, and N. George Sokolsky disclosed in For 23 years we have worked Spicciati, assistant librarian, in the shadow and the tradition S. Macneish, W-T business man- his first column in the Journal- of Pulitzer and Scripps. Today ager. About 100 new men were who came at 7:30 a.m. The American that he had an agree- we fall heir to the traditions of hired for the Times press room, city room was padlocked. At ment with the Sun that the in addition to new stereotype, Hearst daily would have first another titanof Americanjour- 9 a.m. it was opened, and for nalism, Charles A. Dana." nailing and distribution crews. call on his column if ever it The operation was reminis- the rest of the day Sunmen left the Sun. For some years, This wasialso the second time Sokolsky's column has been Scripps 'sward- had bought cent of one 19 years ago, when lingered around. Mr. a distributed by King Features newspaper property from the the Times did a similar job'for Frank Cimato, who had Dewarts. the newly-merged World and Syndicate. William T. Dewart, to the Journal- who had started with Frank A. Telegram. worked on the paper for 20 Others going Munsey as a clerk in 1898 and 'On the first day, the Times years, said: "I'd rather have American are Rube Goldberg, copies of the Pulitzer-prize cartoonist, and risenato be president of the ran off 335,000 been hit by an automobile." Sun, acquired the Sun and the paper, but expected a decrease John MClain, who writes "Man New York Telegram by next week. The Times will About Manhattan." in 1926. World-Telegram and Mr. Munsey had willed them to print the paper only five days The Newspaper Guild of New In the the Metropolitan Museum of a week, since the W-T presses York, as of late Thursday, was S u n are: GrantlandhRice's Art from which Mr. Dewart can handle the Saturday oper- trying to arrange a session with sports column; H. I. Phillips' bought them ation, General Adler told E & P. World - Telegram management column, "The Sun Dial," "Dave nine months later, Creelman, along with the Mohican Stores General Adler said a Times Friday to "ask some pointed Boone Says;" Eileen and some real estate. Mr. De- employe was supervising each questions on whether their in- movies; Ward Morehouse, wart then of the new crews, because the tentions are honorable regard- "Broadway After Dark;" Carl- sold the Telegram to stock market; Scripps-Howard which later ac- Wood presses are strange to ing our members," the Guild ton A. Shively, quired the World. most of the city's pressmen. said. J. B. Wallach, business affairs; The Sun was the only New H. Winter Jr., real es- The net residue He commended union heads for Garret the museum their cooperation in supplying York metropolitan newspaper tate; Charles H. Goren, contract received from sale of the Mun- whose editorial C. Whitman, sey all the extra help needed. and business of- bridge; Roger properties was appraised at fices were not organized by the "First Aid for the Ailing $13,618,648. The two For the first few days, the newspapers Times is using its own news- Am e r i c a n Newspaper Guild. House." were reported to have sold at However, the Sun paid salaries All were added to depart- that time for print, and will be repaid in around $3,000,000. kind by the World-Telegram in those departments comparable ments; there were no changes Press Run Is 700,000 and The Sun. to and in many cases in excess in department heads. of the guild scales on other W-T also took all of the For the anticipated increase Equipment to Be Sold The in circulation the World-Tele- papers, according to Sun execu- Sun's comic strips and panels gram and Sun began Printing equipment of the tives. Guild minimums for re- and the entire staff of the Sun's printing Sun which will be liquidated Thursday on the presses of the porters' salaries increased on "School Page." James Daley, New York Times includes: most New York newspapers Sun classified advertising man- in addition of to its own. Thursday's press At the Sun office: 32 Hoe from $67.50 in 1941 to $110 in ager became assistant CAM run exceeded 700,000. press units-in two lines of 12 1949, an increase of 64%. the new paper. Lawrence W. each making Four three octuples in With nine mechanical depart- Merahn, Sun circulation man- circulation experts aid- each line, and two separate ments, the W-T. ed A. D. circulation and operating ager, was also hired by Wallace, W-T circu- octuple presses making a total unions the Sun was bound with staffers, Re- lation manager, in Two Sun city working out of 8 octuples; 43 Linotypes and city-wide contracts negotiated writeman Charles Wyer and distribution problems on the Intertypes; to first 8 Monotype casters through the Publishers Associa- Reporter David Snell, went day of the new operation. and three Ludlows; a complete tion of New York City. A few paper immed- They were Clem work on the new D. O'Rourke, engraving plant. of those contracts, such as with iately. Cleveland P r e s circulation manager; At the uptown plant at 219 the New York Typographical :Shiel Dunsker, Cin- East 44th St.: a straight line Union, have expired and are cinnati Po s t circulation man- Sun ager; of 12 Hoe units making three now being re-negotiated. All E. C. Hill Calls Alec McLean, a New York octuples, and one separate oc- have had wage increases within City transportation expert, and 'A Revered Teacher' MVaurice tuple. the last 18 months as follows: Levy, of Scripps-How- Complete stereotyping equip- typographers 10%; stereotypers Edwin C. Hill, one of the ard. They were advising on Sun's most noted mnetods ment in each plant. 7.7%; pressmen 10.6%; photo- New York of keeping transpor- Mr. Dewart said that most of engravers 13%; paper handlers alumni, now a radio commenta- tation lanes open. Mr. the employes will get severance 10.4%; mailers 10.2%; machin- tor, paid tribute to the paper Wallace told E & P that pay under union contracts. Em- ists 8.2%; electricians 9.7%; and in an ABC broadcast. ployes not covered by contracts deliverers 10.3%. "To this speaker," he said, were mostly department heads, Five-day weekly wages of "the old Sun was a revered E & P INDEX he said. "We'll handle these in- these unions have increased teacher, for it was at the knees knelt Advertising Survey 16 dividually in the office and since 1939 as follows: of this preceptor that he Among Ad Folk . treat them as they ought to be New York Typographical Un- for many years gleaning the 18 of his Book Review.... ''...''.' 50 treated," Mr. Dewart said. "Of ion: $59 to $99, an increase of elements and principles Bright Ideas'..'..''. course, many of them will get 70%. trade in close comradeship with 46 jobs." New York Stereotypers Un- A. E. Thomas, Will Irwin, Campaigns & Accounts.. 16 other Cartoons... count...... The employes in each depart- ion: $49.58 to $91, an increase George S. Van Slyke, brilliant 15 of 85%. political writer; Lindsay Deni- Circulation '' '' '' '''' . 42 ment were: delivery 280, mail Editorial '' .... room 40, advertising 85, busi- New York Printing Pressmen's son, G. Selmer Fougner, the 32 Union: $53.75 to $93.50, 73%. noted epicurian; Frank Ward journalism Education. ness office 130, editorial 190, finest 49 plant maintenance 30, engrav- New York Photo-Engravers O'Malley, and perhaps the Obituaries----...... of them all, Frank M. Personal 56 ing 40, stereotyping 30, compos- Union: $67 to $106, 58%. craftsman 33 ing room 200, press room 75, Paper Handlers' and Straight- O'Brien. Photography...... 28 eners' Union: $37.50 to $71.25, "The old Sun was the news- Promotion.---...-.-.-.- and part-time delivery clerks 46 100. 89%. paperman s newspaper-an in- Radio-Television ... Mailers' U n i o n: $41.67 to comparable model of first-rate 44 Employment Service an Short Takes. 26 $80.90, 95%. writing, skilled editing and Syndicates...... The Editorial Union is head- International Association of inextinguishable zest for those 37 ed by Harvey Call, city hall re- Machinists: $52 to $86.50, 66%. little, oft-unremarked incidents Any article appearing in this porter. The union is busy ob- International Brotherhood of of living which, in displaying publication may be reproduced taining completed question- Electrical Workers: $67 to $97, the gay, brave humanity of the provided acknowledgment is naires from all members so that 44%. obscure and the unknown, in- made of the EDITOR & PUBLISHER it can act as an employment Newspaper and Mail Deliver- spire us all as we made our copyright and the date of issue. bureau. It also plans to use ad- ers' Union: $38.33 to $77.67, way along the rugged road of vertising in EDITOR & PUBLISHER. 102%. life." 6 EDITOR & PUBLISHER for January 7, 1950 'No Feeling ofExultation'-Howard Dewart-'Wages Beyond Reason' Statement by Thomas W. Dewart

WIH PROFOUND REGRET we an- nounce to our readers and staff that with today's editions the New York Sun will cease to exist as a separate journalistic force. Its name and goodwill have been sold to the New York World - Telegram, a Scripps-Howard newspaper. We of the Sun urge our readers to give to the new "World-Tele- gram and the Sun" the same loyal support which they and their predecessors for genera- tions have given to us. It is the hope and desire of everybody concerned that this association will give to America's largest city the best and strongest af- ternoon newspaper in the United States. W-T and Sun Mounting costs of production, unaccompanied by commensur- To Continue ate increases in advertising rev- enues, have made some such course inevitable. Chief among the rising costs have been those of labor and newsprint. Our Thomas W. Dewart Traditions working force is almost wholly and goodwill of the Sun, which gram of many former Sun em- organized and our relations with by Roy W. Howard Readers of the Sun the workers have always been has been accepted with great re- Statement ployes. friendlyand cordial. Butbthe gret. The sale was completed the enlarged "World- last night. TOMORROW (Jan. 5) the New Telegramwill find inand The Sun" the fa- simple truth is that union de- York Sun will cease publication, miliar names, faces and features mands have become too great Thus it becomes our sad duty and its journalistic functions long associated with their read- for us to meet in the face of to announce the end of the great in the New York newspaper ing habits and interests. Every serious losses in income. journalistic venture which be- field will be assumed by the effort will be made to cause In this time of rising costs we gan with the first issue of the World-Telegram. them to feel journalistically at are compelled to protect the in- Sun on Sept. 3, 1833. Contracts were signed last home. terest of our bondholders, most Without undue modesty it night between the World-Tele- No feeling of exultation of whom are our employes. may be said that in its more gram and the Sun by which the marks our farewell to a respect- The fact is, and we say it with- than 116 years the Sun achieved former acquired the name, ed competitor. The Sun has al- out bitterness or recrimination, worldwide fame. Its roster of goodwill and circulation lists of ways been a newspaper of great that the demands of the unions brilliant writers has never been the Sun. Beginning with tomor- integrity. It has been clean and have wrought here in New York excelled. Throughout its ca- row's issue of this paper the fair. It has never compromised -what they are working else- reer it has supported Constitu- title line of ,the Sun will be with principle for the sake of where throughout the nation- tional government, sound added to that of the World-Tele- expediency. It has never waiv- an unprecedented and increas- money, reasonable protection gram. The Sun's plant, equip- ered in its faith in what it be- ing number of casualties among for American industry, economy estate will be re- lieved to be in the public in- which once were ment and real newspapers in public expenditures, preser- tained by the Sun corporation. terest. It is entitled to be proud great and strong. vation of the rights and respon- The most popular news and of a long and honorable service Despite continued warnings of sibilities of the several States, of the Sun which has been a credit to the economic consequences, va- editorial features free enterprise, good citizenship, will be added to those of the American journalism. rious unions have forced and equality before the law, and has to produce one There will be no change in to force, higher World-Telegram are continuing upheld all the finer American of the country's most compre- the editorial policy of "The wages, until, in the newspaper traditions. It has opposed in- World-Telegram and The Sun," as a whole, these have hensive and colorful afternoon business decency and rascality, public newspapers. The local, state, na- which will continue indepen- risen beyond reason. In the 10- and private. It has fought Pop- in all political matters 1939 to and tional and international news dent year period from ulism, Socialism, Communism, coverage of the World-Telegram whether city, state or national. including 1949, the average ad- governmental extravagance, the The It will continue to speak in the in individual pay of the will be greatly augmented. vance encroachments of bureaucracy Sun's business and financial liberal traditions of Scripps- Sun's employes was 80.4%. In fofm of governmental of and that pages, long recognized as the Howard. the same period, the price paternalism which eats into the any afternoon It will furnish a thorough rose from $48 a ton most complete of newsprint marrow of private initiative and newspaper in the country, will daily coverage of the world's to $100 a ton. Prices of all other industry. With respect to all with the routine mini- in corres- be integrated with the World- news supplies increased these things, we may proudly Telegram's already extensive mized and the new and unusual ponding ratios. and truthfully say that we have and amplified. It will advertising revenues coverage. stressed Recently fought a good fight and held un- The most popular columns, seek a balance between impor- of the Sun and the World-Tele- swervingly to the true faith. Sun and the merely en- kept pace with features and comics of the tant news gram have not into correspond- It will continue to mounting production costs. Both Our deepest appreciation goes will be blended tertaining. to the men and women whose ing departments of the World- give light, firm in the convic- papers have long appealed to a people will find their public. ability and loyalty have made Telegram. This will involve em- tion that literate and intelligent by the World-Tele- own way. Between them they have di- the paper a great power, not ployment 650,000 cir- only in this city, but throughout vided approximately to our culation-enough to assure the the nation. We extend economic stability of one news- readers and loyal advertisers paper, but not enough for two our heartfelt thanks and assur- Vi4nette at Sundown in this metropolitan area. ance that in "The World-Tele- is a gram and The Sun" they will The World-Telegram find the characteristics which Mailman: "What happens to the help?" member of a nationwide news- off, 'cept some going to the Telly." paper organization. Its manage- they have liked best in the Sun. Sun Employe: "All laid ment naturally desired to To the "World-Telegram and M.: "'Whole place shutting down?" strengthen its position in the na- The Sun" we extend our best S. E.: "Yeah. Just what happened to the World 19 years Accordingly, wishes and our heartiest good- tion's greatest city. Remember the World?" it made an offer for the name will. ago. EDITOR & PUBLISHER for January 7, 1950 i9 t4eSf Ci4 Ioom It Was the Toughest Story He Ever Wrote By James L. Collings

ON THE EVENING of Jan. 3, across the room. He was tell- Malcolm (Mike) Johnson, Pul- ing how he first had heard the itzer prize-winning reporter of news of the sale. He said he the Sun (1948), sat down at a was in the bathroom shaving typewriter and wrote the tough- when his daughter came in and est story he's ever had to do. said, "Dad, you're out of a job. He was sworn to secrecy and I just heard on the radio that only the highest executives the Sun has been sold." knew what he was writing. He "Have you got anything lined was sickened by the assign- up yet?" a top reporter asked ment, he admitted later, and one of the columnists. "Yeah," he didn't sleep well that night. the guy replied, "I've got two Next morning, early, other o :ers-one from the Journal- Sun editorial hands read a bul- American and one from the letin in the city room saying Telly. I don't know which I'll the Sun had been sold to the take. Depends on the deal." World-Telegram. The piece Mr. That's the way it was, and Johnson had been laboring on near the window were two Keats Speed Thomas W. Dewart gave the details of the sale and members of the fashion depart- the long history of his news- ment, and they too were talk- ing quietly. "No," one of them Dewart Worked Way to Top; "Withhis words he made a .ru-replied in answer to a question, mor come true. "no one is doing any drinking. A Bruised Hand We're afraid we might let our- 'Looking for Hobby, Says Speed selves go if we did." THOMAS W. DEPART, publisher become publisher on his father's His nouns and verbs and facts Vincent G. Byers was on the of the New York Sun since death, died in an airplane acci- transformed a bustling city copyrim, more occupied with 1946, got into the newspaper dent, and Tom assumed the room into a limp and bruised memories than copy. "We've hand. The staid and solid Sun had a lot of them fold," he said business on the ground floor, added duties of publisher. years! while his father, William T. Mr. Dewart is vicepresident gone! No, not after 116 with a faint smile, "but this is Dewart, Sr., owned the paper. and assistant treasurer of What are you going to do, the quickest." With his brother, Bill, Tom C.W.I. Co., a holding firm for Bill? Hell, I don't know. I'm Cloyd G. Aarseth, reporter- went to the old Empire State the Mohican Stores, of which 53. What can I do? And you, rewriteman, sat at a typewriter School of Printing at Rochester he is ~chairman of the board; Tom? Oh, I'll get something. long after his last assignment. to learn how to set type, then the Merlis Real Estate Co., of The Sun may have set, but While others shook hands and worked in pressrooms and en- which he is assistant treasurer I'll make out. It's so damned said, good-bye, it's been nice, graving departments on vari- and director; and the Munsey sudden! but I wish it hadn't come like ous newspapers. Trust Co., of which he is a di- That's the way it was. There this, and while others slowly For a while they worked as rector. He has been a director were bad puns. There was packed away lipsticks and pen- reporters on the staff of the of the Sun since 1932. stunned disbelief and shock. cils and slide rules and scissors Albany (N. Y.) Evening News, In 1942, Mr. Dewart entered There were clusters of people and all the things that pile up Bill showing a special interest the Navy as a lieutenant, j.g., standing around disjointedly in desk drawers over the years, in the Legislature, and Tom in and rose to the rank of lieu- everywhere, even out in the Cloyd pecked on. the. police beat. tenant commander. He was in halls. There was some bitter- His note was addressed to Ton iuiined the Sun organiza- service three years. ness because of the method of "Dear Ruth," and when he was tion in 1931 as assistant treas- Keats Speed, the Sun's execu- announcement and because the asked how come, he said he 4rer and in 1940 he became tive editor, has been a news- Sun had not been sold to an was just trying to cheer up one treasurer and vicepresident of paperman for 50 years, a man- interest that would maintain the of the gals. New York Sun, Inc. He moved aging editor for 43 years, 34 of paper as a separate entity. The message might more ap- up to president in 1944 when them at the Sun. Over in the corner sat Keats propriately have been sent to his. father died, after having "I haven't any plans," he said Speed, 70-year-old executive Virginia Leigh, pretty society been president since 1925. this week, "I'm looking for a editor. "No," he said, "I'm not columnist. She broke down and Early in 1945, Bill, who had hobby," making any statements, It's all cried when she read the sale in the paper." He looked down notice. at the Sun headline on his desk. "There were tears in men's Friendy Stays as ANPA Chief It said: "The Sun Is Sold." eyes, too," reported Mrs. Pa- Then he looked away in a ges- tricia Brown, associate fashion The status of Edwin S. which expires at the April con- ture of dismissal, editor. "Especially the older Friendly as president of the vention. His re-election for an- There was Edmond Bartnett, men." When asked her own re- American Newspaper Publish- other year, which has been the who came to the Sun in the action, she said, "Well, we cer- ers Association remains un- custom, would depend on early 20's as city editor and tainly made news today-that's changed "at the moment," ac- whether he is then an executive has served in that capacity for all I can say." cording to General Manager of a newspaper. 29 years. "It's been a wonder- As Mr. Johnson wrote in his Cranston Williams. ful organization to work for," story about the Sun, "It has re- "There is no pressing neces- he reminisced. "All the tre- ported joys and sorrows, trag- sity for any action, from a legal mendous events in history have edies and comedies... . standpoint," said Mr. Williams, gone over this desk. We've had This was a day of sorrow "and there's nothing automatic a magnificent staff, a staff that that equaled any the Sun had about a president's resignation." even on this, the last day has ever reported. Mr. Friendly, who has been tried to get out the best possible Upstairs, on the seventh floor, vicepresident and general man- edition." sat Thomas W. Dewart in his ager of the New York Sun, said big office, solemn faced. he was "staying with the job" 116 Years Up in Smoke because there are "many things Norris Harkness, scholarly- to be done here." The New looking photo page columnist, Station Ads Dropped York World-Telegram did not leaned against the corridor wall, New York Central Railroad buy the physical property of the talking to Paul Phelan, feature ended voluntarily on Jan. 2 its Sun, and there are'many details writer. "It's hard to see 116 broadcasts of music and "com- involved in liquidation. years go up in smoke," he re- mercials" in Grand Central Sta- It was considered likely that marked. "I can't do better than tion, New York City. Com- Mr. Friendly would fill out his Norris," Mr. Phelan added. plaints had been brought by term as president of ANPA, Edwin S. Friendly Pete Dolan, news editor, was commuters. EDITOR & PUBLISHER for January 7, 1950 JAhe sun S3l

NOTICE of the sale of the New York Sun to the New York World- Telegram was posted on the bulletin board in the Sun City Room. (All photos by James L. Collings, E & P staff) PARTING - Herman Breitbart, sports department copyreader, has a few final words with Ed- mond Bartnett, right, Sun city editor for 29 years.

THE COPYRIM was almost deserted by 3 p.m. Only these two copy- readers were there, sitting quietly, not saying much. On the left, GooD LUCK-Homer Strickler, Vincent G. Byers, who's been on duty 15 years. His fellow worker assistant CE, right, gives Mal- is Will F. Clarke. colm Johnson a consoling pat. Mr. Johnson, a 1948 Pulitzer prize winner, was on his way to look for a new job.

CHEER-Cloyd G. Aarseth. re- porter-rewriteman, jots a note to one of the gals "to cheer her up."

PACKING-Mrs. Patricia Brown, associate fashion editor, picks up items that have been collecting for six years.

INVENTORY-Pat Mulligan, left, staff photographer for 16 years, helps Joe Lyons, photo chief, make a list of laboratory equipment. Mr. Lyons was a 30-year member of the Sun.

WISE CRACK-Norris Harkness, left, photographic columnist, tells Paul Phelan, feature writer: "I'm wearing funny clothes to be at the funeral of a dear friend," EDITOR & PUBLISHER for January 7, 1950 N. Y. Sun Achieved Success -,f 2Ie Mer Early As Penny Newspaper Started by Benjamin Day in 1833; Dana Stressed: 'Be Interesting' By Doris Willens

ALL THROUGH the night and steamship, Great Western, set a morning of Sept. 4, 1833, a 23- speed record on its crossing from year-old printer named Benja- Europe. He paid a captain to min H. Day labored to get out take his sailing vessel to Sandy the first issue of his new penny Hook and streak into New York paper, the Sun. When he sold as soon as he sighted the steam- the paper five years later for ship. $40,000, the Sun had a circula- tion of 30,000, the largest in the world. Penny papers had appeared before Day's experiment, and all had met a gloomy fate. Charles A. Dana When the Sun rose on the New York scene, readers were pay- cepting a $1,500 bribe in the ing six cents for their journals. appointment of a post-trader. An early demise was predicted The Senate proceeded to im- for the new venture. peach the Secretary, but he re- First to Hawk Papers Joseph Pulitzer signed his post, and 25 sena- voted "not guilty" on the But the prognosticators tors did from an unknown if he thought ground that his resignation re- not take into account Day's fer- it contained a good idea. moved him from senate juris- tile imagination. He conceived His principle, articulated at a diction. the then revolutionary idea of meeting of the Wisconsin Edi- The Salary Grab-en act of sending newsboys into the torial Association in 1888, be- Congress that raised the presi- streets and into coffee, houses came a journalistic classic: dent's salary from $25,000 to to hawk the Sun. Ffrt dun "Never attack the weak or the $50,000 and raised the salaries newsboy was Bernard Flaherty, defenseless, either by argument, of senators and representatives later known on two continents by investive or by ridicule, un- from $5,000 to $7,500. The Sun as Barney Williams, the Irish less there is some absolute pub- and other papers protested a comedian. lic necessity for so doing. Fight retroactive clause After which gave their initial shock at for your opinions, but do not Congressmen $5,000 as extra pay the shouting, New Yorkers believe that they contain the for the term then ending. Be- bought the paper and liked it. whole truth, or the only truth. cause of public indignation But the Edward W. Scripps phenomenal circulation Above all, know and believe that aroused by the papers, Congress boom was delayed until 1934. humanity is advancing, that When Beach retired 15 years repealed the act. It was in that year that the there is progress in human life Dana also brought human in- Sun increased its readership later, he left control of the pa- and human affairs, and that as per to his sons. In 1860, a rich terest stories to the Sun. Frank fivefold through a series of sure as God lives, the future M. O'Brien, biographer of the spectacular articles young man with religious fervor, on the dis- will be greater and better than Sun, records that to Dana, covery of a "vast population of Archibald M. Morrison, paid the present or the past." $100,000 for the paper's good "Life was not a mere proces- human beings on the moon." He substituted political cru- elections, legislatures, The articles will, rented the equipment, and sion of reputedly were con- sades for personal animosities theatrical performances, mur- densed from an Edinburg} scien- used the Sun for evangelical on the. Sun editorial page. The tific purposes. ders, and lectures. Life was journal and told of the Sun supported Grant in the everything -a new kind of finding of the astronomer Sir. Moses S. Beach, the elder presidential election in 1868, but on the John Herschel, apple, a crying child who had estab- Beach's son, took control back in turned against his administra- curb, a policeman's epigram, the lished an observatory at the 1862, and in 1868 sold the Sun tion in its first few months, and exact weight of a candidate for Cape of Good Hope. to Charles A. Dana for $175,000. printed many revelations of cor- president, the latest style in In fact, the articles were the By that time the circulation was ruption. Under Dana, the Sun imaginings whiskers, the origin of a new of Richard Adams 50,000, and the price of the paper exposed: idiosyncra- Locke, the Sun's slang expression, the star reporter, was two cents. The Credit Mobilier Scandal sies of the City Hall clock, a and the hoax was discovered Dana, the new editor and -involving many senators and strange four-master in the har- soon after. But the new Sun manager, was 48 years old representatives who were ac- readers when bor, the headdresses of Syrian lingered on, and later he took over. He had been city cused of accepting stock in the girls, a new president or a new Edgar Allan Poe wrote that the editor of the New York Tribune Credit Mobilier of America, the "Moon football coach at Yale, a vendet- Hoax" had "successfully under Horace Greeley and later fiscal company organized to ta in Mulberry Bend-eveything established the 'penny system' was managing editor in Gree- build the Union Pacific Railroad, was fish to the geat net of throughout the country." ley's absence. He had been sec- as a reward for influence and Dana's mind." Though Poe scoffed at the ond assistant secretary of war votes. Locke series, he himself ped- during the Civil War. The Navy Department Scan- Wanted Adless Paper dled a hoax to the Sun after dal-in which the Sun accused Dana's dream, according to Day sold the paper to his His Rule: 'Be Interesting' the Secretary of Navy of per- O'Brien, was a newspaper with- brother-in-law, Moses Y. Beach, Dana, one of journalism's mitting double payment to con- out advertising, but his own in 1838. Poe's was a one-day greatest editors, had but one tractors and making large pur- genius defeated his own dream. hoax, and told of a party of voy- rule, "Be interesting," and even chases without competitive bid- The increasing popularity of the agers who crossed the Atlantic that was an unwritten rule. ding. The secretary was not Sun brought more and more ads in three days in a balloon. (One of Dana's city editors, convicted of personal corrup- to it, and when he finally was Beach, the Sun's new owner, John Bogart, is credited with tion, but was censured for forced to switch from a four- to quickly established what came the maxim: "When a dog bites laxity. an eight-page paper, Dana apol- to be known as "hustling" jour- a man, that's not news because The Whiskey Ring-a combi- ogized to his readers in an nalism. The motto was speed it happens so often. But if a nation of distillers, wholesale editorial. and more speed. With Beach at man bites a dog, that is news.") liquor dealers and employes of Dana once told his chief edi- the helm, the Sun got its news Dana was unimpressed by the internal revenue official who torial writer, when the latter by pony express, sailing vessels, "names." He blithely returned conspired to avoid payment of asked how much space his own special t r ai n s and carrier dull stories to celebrated au- the liquor tax. obituary would be, "For you, pigeons. thors with the note, "Respect- The Post-Trader Scandal-the John, two sticks. For me, two Beach was particularly proud fully declined." And he took a Sun first printed the story of lines." On the 'morning after of his extra on the day the new half hour to work over a piece Grant's Secretary of War ac- (Continued on page 52) 10 EDITOR & PUBLISHER for January 7, 1950 No Pay Increase Top Man of W-T and Sun A no-increase agreement was reached this week be- tween the New York City Is Dynamic Roy Howard publishers and the Paper Handlers and Straighteners Attained Success at Earl Age ward, when asked why he Union (AFL). The union had Y looked so glum, Mr. Howard asked a raise of $8.75 a week eyd, "It wasn't nmuchthe but As AssociateAs issoiateof of E . WW.~crppsmoney, . Scripps m 'but that blankety blank under a wage re-opening, Walker took my half dollar." consented to the present scale By Jane McMaster The Times-Press was sold to of $71.25 (days) until Dec. 31. the Akron Beacon Journal in Denver (Colo.) Express since AT THE HELM of the 19 Scripps- ity over both editorial and busi- 1938. The Baltimre (Md.) Post, 1906, acquired the News and Howard newspapers is short, ness departments. (He later be- which began as a penny paper the Denver Times in 1926. The dapper, 67-year-old Roy W. came president and W. W. Haw- the Nov. 20 1922 also fell by Express was discontinued and Howard, who was head of a kins succeeded him as board the wayside. When it was sold the News and Times consoli- press association at 29. chairman.) to the rMal Hearst evening dated into two papers - the Roy Howard was born in The original Scripps-Howard paperon Maarch 2wkins issued Rocky Mountain News, morn- Gano, Ohio, in 1883, five years group included 25 newspapers, a statement saying: "The Post ing and Sunday, and the Den- after E. W. Scripps had found- of which these still survive: demonstrated to the satisfac- ver Evening News. In 1928 the ed the Cleveland Penny Press' The Birmingham (Ala.) Post, tion of its owners thatthere Evening News was suspended his first paper, with $10,000 of establish in 1921; Cincin-Poe was no hope of success as long but the Rocky Mountain News borrowed capital. The Cincin- nati ( Post;i) the Cleveland as there were three afternoon continues. nati Post, the second paper Mr. (.) P st; the Clbus aspap were three Rounding out the list of 19 Scripps acquired ave hima(0) Press; the Columbus (0.) papers in Baltimore." arp aquie, gav nm a S-H papers today are: the Al- berth early in his career. buquerque (N. M.) Tribune, His first newspaper job, how- purchased from Carl Magee in ever, was with the Indianapolis 1923; the Memphis Commercial News (his family moved when Appeal, purchased in 1936; he was seven) as newspaper- and the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Press, boy, then high school corres- bought in 1923 for approximate- pondent on space rates. It was ly $6,000,000 (E & P then called a f t e r his correspondence it "the biggest deal from a brought him $35 one week-as financial standpoint in the his- much as the city editor was tory of the American Press.") making-that he was hired on And, the New York Telegram, as an $8 a week reporter. purchased in 1927 and consoli- Wanting metropolitan news- dated with the World in 1931. paper experience, and turned Mr. Howard is president and down by the New York World, editor of the New York paper, he took a job with the St. Louis which has stressed human in- (Mo.) Post Dispatch, hoping terest features, has fought Tam- for a "back door" entry to the many and Communism. World. But his first New York Mr. Howard denies that S-H journalism was courtesy of Mr. papers have broken somewhat Scripps, instead of Joseph Pu-j earlier liberalism litzer. with the shown by E. W. Scripps. The During a short period as as- supported Woodrow Wil- sistant managing papers editor of the son and his program of social Cincinnati Post, he talked him- in 1920 self into and economic reform; the job of special NewI supported James M. Cox and York correspondent of Ohio against Scripps-McRae the League of Nations papers. That was Harding; in 1924, bypassed both 1906, end the group's Ohio pa- Democrats and Republicans and pers were in Cincinnati, Cleve- Robert M. LaFollette, land, Columbus supported and Toledo. elder; in 1928 backed Her- In early summer that year, the E. bert Hoover. W. Scripps purchased the Mr. Howard and S-H, how- Publishers Press, a news-gath- opposed Mr. Hoover ering agency, ever, later which in 1907 on the latter's sales tax proposal. merged with the Scripps-McRae was one of two Press Mr. Howard Association to form the in 1932 who wouldn't United Press. reporters Roy Howard was Roy Howard, after his purchase of The Sun. raise their hands when Mr. the first general news manager which of 38 news- of Hoover asked the press association. He in 1904; the Other Scripps-Howard papers present supported his sales became its president Citizen, purchased men in 1913. Covington (Ky.) Post, estab- which have been sold or sus- tax. Afterward, a Scripps-How- Mr. Scripps later said of the called 29-year-old lished in 1890; the El Paso pended are: the Buffalo (N. Y.) ard front-page editorial U.P. head: "His Times, bought defeat of both Hoover manner was (Tex.) Post (now Herald-Post), in 1929, sus- for the forceful and the founded in 1922; the Evansville pended in 1939; the Des Moines and Roosevelt, and the election reverse of modest. Gall was in Smith. written (Ind.) Press, established (Ia.) News, bought in 1901 and of Alfred E. all over his face." 1906; the Fort Worth (Tex.) sold to Register & Tribune After supporting Roosevelt 6 Papers in Two Years Press, founded in 1921; the about 1925; the Norfolk (Va.) earlier, the S-H papers broke But in 1920, when Mr. Scripps Houston (Tex.) Press, started Post, established in 1921 and with him over the attempt to emerged from a period of re- in 1911; the Indianapolis (Ind.) suspended in 1924; the Okla- "pack" the Supreme Court. tirement to reorganize his news- Times, purchased in 1922; the homa City News, established in While Scripps papers had loud- paper interests, he chose Mr. Knoxville (Tenn.) News (now 1906, suspended in 1939; the ly advocated the cause of labor, Howard for the post of busi- News-Sentinel), begun in 1922; Sacramento (Calif.) Star, estab- the more recent policy has been ness director in association the Memphis (Tenn.) Press lished 1904, suspended about for restrictions of power of la- with Mr. Scripps' youngest son, (later Press-Scimitar), estab- 1925; the San Diego (Calif.) bor leaders. the late Robert P. Scripps, who lished 1906; the San Francisco Sun, established in 1881 and Despite his role in the busi- became editorial director., (Calif.) News, founded 1903; purchased by the. San Diego ness affairs of the group, Mr. In two years time, the group and the Washington (D. C.) Union in 1939; the Terre Haute Howard as reporter has im- started six new evening papers Daily News, founded in 1921. (Ind.) Post, established 1906, pressed some most. and took over two that were Legend has it that once Roy suspended in 1931; the Toledo In 1936, he secured an exclu- already established. By No- Howard flipped a coin with (0.) News-Bee, bought in 1903, sive interview with Stalin on vember of 1922, the Scripps- Ross Walker of the Akron (0.) suspended 1938; and the the Manchurian situation. The McRae League had become the Times over its purchase for Youngstown (0.) Telegram, story was served simultaneously "Scripps Howard Newspapers," merger with the S-H Akron bought in 1922, and sold to to 6,000 daily newspapers. It with Mr. Howard as chairman Press. Mr. Howard lost, and Youngstown Vindicator in 1936. was a public document-too big of the board, and with author- had to pay a higher price. After- S-H, which had owned the to be exclusive," S-H said. EDITOR & PUBLISHER for January 7, 1950 11 Sun's Retail Linage Trend of Advertising in Sun Sun %of %of Total.NYC. % of Year Linage 1939 City Total Linage 1939 Fell Sharply in 1949 1939 10,997,771 100 10.3 107,107,946 100 1948 11,116,559 101 6.9 161,247,526 151 PART of the story of the Sun's leaders, made substantial gains 1949 9,594,925 87 5.8 165,080,580 154 sale is written in figures- percentagewise. advertising figures. More par- The greatest shift, however, ticularly it can be narrowed to was to the Sunday newspapers, retail linage-and from there which included all New York to department store linage. dailies but the Sun and World- Unions Dispute Claim A highly-placed Sun man Telegram. said: "This would not have hap- While the Sun sustained pened if the department stores They Made Sun Fail losses last year throughout the hadn't kicked us in the pants. department store field, almost Why they did it I'm not quite OFFICERs of four unions repre- we have maintained friendly re- without exception, a handful of senting more lations with the management of sure. There's been a lot of big retailers accounted for the than 800 of the double talk." New York Sun's 1,200 employes the Sun. bulk of the drop, issued denials of a statement by No one, as a matter of fact, "It has always been our pur- Gimbel Brothers, which had Publisher Thomas W. Dewart pose to cooperate with manage- was prepared to give a 1-2-3 placed 318,606 lines in the Sun attributing recital of what motivated the the Sun's failure to ment. We cannot recall a single in 1948, cut the figure to 100,- excessive wage demands. instance where we department store boot, but one 552 in 1949. It took no space had any dis- of the d efecti onist stores Joseph F. Dwyer, president of pute with the officials of the in the newspaper at all during Local 2, New York Printing Sun involving summed it up thus: "We simply the holiday-buying month of labor costs. Our advertis- Pressmen's Union (AFL), said ren worked for reasonable felt we could put our December in 1949; the previous it was "hardly fair" to blame ing money to more profitable year it had used 33,430 lines. wages and the last contract in- use elsewhere. The Sun wasn't unions when the Sun was "the volving wages was negotiated Bloomingdale's, a Gimbel only newspaper discontinuing with the Sun in October, 1948. growing"-a reference to the subsidiary w h o s e defection operations." fact that during recent years started in 1948, from a "The Sun, together with pub- the newspaper, circulationwise, went Willia iE. Smollen, president lishers of other city dailies, rec- linage that year of 53,736 (all of the 'Mailer's Union (ITU), had been either backsliding or in December) to zero in ognized the increase in the cost just holding its own. 1949. told reporters: "If anything of living according to a chart Saks 34th, another Gimbel caused the Sun to get into prepared by the Bureau of La- How the Sun has fared in unit, used 242,34&lines in 1948, trouble it was their conservative linage is quickly apparent from bor Statistics. The revenue from 62,122 in 1949. policy, their failure to recognize circulation should have more a comparison with the trend modern trends in journalism." in the city as a whole. Taking Even Saks Fifth Avenue, Gim- than offset the increase in wages the year 1939 as an index, this bels carriage-trade outlet, went 'A Business Casualty' to our men. It must be recalled is the picture: from 102,331 lines in 1948 to Harvey Call, president of the that the paper retailed for a 51,798 last year. penny in 1923 and gradually Thus, while the Sun in 1948 Sun Editorial Employes Associa- Abraham & Straus, Brooklyn, tion, said its contract and those went to a nickel. This is a 500% was just about keeping step increase, and nowhere near the with 1939, city linage chalked used 40,000 lines in the Sun in of other unions were not "out up a gain of 51%. 1948, nothing in 1949. of line" with city-wide wage proportion of increased wages And in 1949, paid our men. while the Sun was falling 13% In addition to these, the Sun's scales, and added: "The man- below its 1939 figure, the city's best customers-the Fifth Ave- agement never made any plea 'Would Have Cooperated' daily press as a whole stepped nue shops-cut their linage fig- for cooperation along the lines "Had the paper's management up its gains on that year. ures heavily, although percent- of economy. I would say it was informed the union of its finan- agewise the losses were not as a business casualty rather than Million and Half Lines cial predicament we would have great. Their business went as any fault of the unions." voluntarily cooperated in any A million and a half lines at follows, with, 1948 figures first: Charles Weinberg, secretary- a minimum way possible so that the paper contract rate of B. Altman-447,888 to 395,927; treasurer of the Newspaper and might be saved. This was done about 85 cents tells the story. Arnold Constable - 429,958 to Mail Deliverers tnion (Inde- Department store in the case of the New York losses are 355,550; McCreery-321,477 to dent), replied: Post. Management of that pa- especially significant. Of the 246,730. "Mr. Dewart laid at labor's 1,521,634 total lines per took the union's officials into lost by the Only one important retailer door the blame for the folding its confidence with the result Sun between 1948 and 1949, -Macy's-wound un in the plus of the paper. This is denied ve- fully 1,466,296 was in the retail that our men took a voluntary column-by a relatively small hemently. Our union had about 10% cut in wages and thereby classification, and more than margin. Its 1948 Sun linage 300 members employed in the two-thirds of that figure-1,000,- contributed towards saving the was 531,827, compared with circulation department of the paper. Had the Sun been as 000 lines-was in the depart- 556,209 ment store "field. in 1949. Sun. For more than 50 years frank, the same or better could have been done. We are indeed Figures for the World-Tele- sorry that this was not done." gram show a similar trend, though Guild Urges Congress Probe The.Newspaper Guild of New not nearly as sharp a state- one, thus bearing out the state- York issued the following ment by the Sun publisher that Of Newsprint Price 'Control' ment: "advertising revenues of The "Thomas W. Dewart, pub- Sun and The World-Telegram An investigation into the newsprint producers totally un- lisher of the Sun, in a typical have not kept pace with mount- newsprint situation was asked related to any reasonable meas- anti-labor gesture, attempts to ing production costs." this week by Sam B. Eubanks, ure of fair return in mill in- blame his abandonment of the The World-Telegram's loss in executive vicepresident of the vestment. New York Sun on unions. His total linage between 1948 and American Newspaper Guild, "Excessive newsprint costs in own statement indicates that 1949 was about 6%, virtually who based his request on the last three years has contributed increases in pay to his employ- all of it (some 700,000 lines) demise of the New York Sun. to death of newspapers, unem- es have been an expense item in the department store field. In a telegram to Rep. Emman- ployment of newspaper crafts- to his paper far smaller than (Both the W-T and the Sun, uel Celler, who heads the Con- men and impaired the ability of the increase in price he has like the newspaper field gressional committee investigat- been forced to pay for paper by gen- many publishers to provide ad- the newsprint trust. erally, sustained losses also in ing monopolies, Mr. Eubanks equate economic security for Classified, but this was made stated: their employes. "In his commercial and edi- up by gains in Automotive and "Suspension of the New York "Despite production capacity torial departments, he has dealt General in the W-T's case, and Sun emphasizes necessity for of Canadian mills now sufficient only with 'inside' organizations Automotive at the Sun.) Congressional investigation of to exceed demand, there is of his own employes, unaffiliat- In recent years the New York newsprint producing companies every evidence that prices will ed with the Guild or any other evening field as a whole has whose monopolistic control over be maintained artificially in union, The Sun was the only displayed a growing weakness supply and prices of this criti- 1950 and normal competition in metropolitan paper not under in retail linage by comparison cal commodity is a major factor a buyer's market will be re- contract with the Guild. In no with morning papers. This has in destruction of newspaper strained to the further injury department has he granted an 'been especially true of the Sun properties. of the newspaper industry. increase in 1949, nor was he and, to a lesser degree, the "Increase of 104% in news- "On behalf of 25,000 members faced with a probable increase World - Telegram. Meanwhile print price within past 10 years of the ANG, I appeal to you to in 1950. the evening Post and Journal- cited by Sun management as a place this matter before your "The facts brand Mr. Dewart's American, although they still reason for its failure is reflec- committee for early considera- statement as misleading and fell short of the morning paper tion of enormous profits of tion." biased." 12 EDITOR & PUBLISHER for January 7, 1950 I relatives were willed some $2,- "Yes, Virginia," he wrote, Wiggins Heads N. Y. Sun History 000,000, and the residue went "there is a Santa Claus. He to the Metropolitan Museum of exists as certainly as love and continued from age 10Art. One of the executors of generosity and devotion exist, APME Group the will was William T. Dewart, and you know that they abound his death in 1897, the Sun his closest friend and for many and give to your life its high- On Censorship printed only ten words at the years his general manager. est beauty and joy . ." head of its editorial column: The second Sun classic was HILLs, of Asso- Dewart Mutualizes Sun LEE president "CHARLES ANDERSON DANA, penned by Harold MacDonald ciated Press Managing Editors editor of the Sun, died yester- Under the broad powers Anderson, and appeared on May Association, Inc., this week an- day afternoon." given him as executor, Mr. De- 21:, 1927, while Lindbergh was nounced appointment of J. Rus- His son, Paul Dana, was wart said he would follow Mr. in flight to Paris. Titled "Lind- sell Wiggins, managing editor named editor upon his death, Munsey's intentions, as divulged bergh Flies Alone," it read: of Washington (D. C.) Post, as and retained the title until 1903. to him when the latter became "Alone? chairman of a special censor- William Mackay Laffan ob- ill, to mutualize his properties "Is he alone at whose right ship committee in conjunction tained business control in 1902, wherever possible, although side rides Courage, with Skill with APME's continuing study and it continued until his death under the terms of the will the within the cockpit and Faith program. in 1909. Then Edward P. Mit- papers could have been sold upon the left? Does soltitude This action is in keeping with chell, who had been editor, was outright. surround the brave when Ad- a resolution passed by the as- asked to take administrative Despite Mr. Dewart's inten- venture leads the way and Am- sociation at its convention stat- control. tions, bids for the paper were bition reads the dials? Is there ing that "a standing commit- made, reportedly ranging up- no company with him for whom tee of editors who are in or Mitchell handled both the ad- ministrative and editorial ends wards from $10,000,000. But the air is cleft by Daring and near the National Capital be nine months after the will was the darkness is made light by named to examine and report of the business for two years, until control of the Sun was filed, Mr. Dewart, who had been Emprise? on censorship practices on a elected president of all the "True, the fragile bodies of national level." gained by William C. Reick, who had previously been presi- Munsey companies, bought the his fellows do not weigh down The first of five phases of the Sun, the Telegram and other his plane; true, the fretful Continuing Study, dealing with dent of the New York Herald Co., and was an associate of Munsey interests from the minds of weaker men are lack- all phases of the News and Metropolitan Museum of Art ing from his crowded cabin; Newsphoto Reports, swung into Adolph S. Ochs in the publi- cation of the New York Times, for $13,000,000, and proceeded but as his airship keeps her action this week with announce- with the mutualization of the course he holds communion ment of1subcommittee lineups and of George W. Ochs on the Philadelphia Public Ledger. paper. with those rarer spirits that by David Patten of the Provi- In 1927, he sold the Tele- inspire to intrepidity and by dence (R. Journal-Bulletin. During Mr. Reick's control, I.) Frank A. Munsey, in 1912, gram to the Scripps-Howard or- their sustaining potency give The entire project this year ganization, which later merged strength to arm, resource to is headed by Norman E. Isaacs bought the penny Republican morning daily, the New York it with the New York World mind, content to soul. of the St. Louis (Mo.) Star- and named it the New York "Alone? With what other Times as general chairman, and Press, which had an Associated Press 'membership. Dana had World-Telegram. companions would that man fly Herbert F. Corn of the Wash- Employes of the Sun, under to whom the choice were given?" ington Star as vicechairman. bolted the' AP when he started the Laffan News Bureau. the mutualization, were per- The subcommittees are: mitted to buy 20,000 shares of DOMESTIC-V. M. Newton, Jr., Munsey Buys Sun the preferred stock, of which SDX Announces Tampa Tribune, chairman; Mur- On June 30, 1916, Mr. Mun- there were 30,000 shares. Por- ray Powers, Akron Beacon- 4 New Awards sey bought the Sun and the tions of the 20,000 shares of CHICAGO - Nominations for Journal; Arvid Westling, Chi- Evening Sun from Reick for second preferred stock and the cago Tribune; Ray A. McCon- 1950 awards for distinguished $2,468,000, and merged the Sun 100,000 shares of common stock achievements in journalism, nell, Lincoln Nebraska State with the Press and its AP fran- were later distributed amongst Journal; A. M. Glassberg, covering the period of Jan. 1 chise. Keats Speed, who had them. The mutualization never to Dec. 31, 1949, were called Everett (Wash.) Herald; Paul been managing editor of the meant, as some newspapers Smith, Woonsocket (R. I.) Call; for in an announcement this Press since 1913, was appointed darkly hinted, the "abandon- week by Victor E. Bluedorn, C. A. Hazen, Shreveport (La.) managing editor of the Sun. ment of central control." Times. executive director, Sigma Delta Mr. Munsey reduced the price Mr. Dewart retired in 1941, Chi, professional journalistic WASHINGTON - E. C. Hoyt, of the Sun to one cent again. and was succeeded by his son, Cedar Rapids Gazette, chair- fraternity. The deadline for Mr. Munsey, who had bought William T. Dewart, Jr., who nominations is Feb. 27. man; T. R. Waring, Charleston and sold a number of papers was killed in an airplane acci- (S. C.) Courier; W. C. Janson, The awards have been ex- before he got the Sun, surprised dent in 1946. The elder Dewart, panded this year to include four Marinette (Wis.) Eagle Star; the newspaper world by pur- who had started with the Mun- Portsmouth new categories: Public Service Richard Blalock, chasing the New York Herald, sey organization at the age of in Newspaper Journalism, Pub- (N. H.) Herald; W. W. Ray- New York Telegram and Paris 22, died on Jan. 27, 1944. Young Cleveland Plain Dealer. lic Service in Radio Journalism, nolds, Herald in 1920 from the trus- Dewart was succeeded by his Public Service in Magazine BUSINESS - Lloyd Felmly, tees of the James Gordon Ben- brother, 'Thomas W. Dewart, Newark (N. J.) News, chair- Journalism and Magazine Re- nett estate. who remained as publisher un- porting. man; John C. Hadley, Utica Ten days later, he merged the til the sale of the paper this In addition, bronze medallions (N. Y.) Press; J. R. Benham, Sun and Herald under the title week. and accompanying certificates Terre Haute (Ind.) Star; Leif The Sun and New York Herald. D.) Famous Sun Alumni will be offered for excellence Johnson, Aberdeen (S. Within a year he had separated in the following fields: Gen- American-News. the two, left the Herald a morn- A roster of Sun alumni in- cludes some of the most illus- eral Reporting, Editorial Writ- FOREIGN -- Fred W. Stein, ing paper and made the Sun ing, Editorial Cartooning, Radio Binghamton (N. Y.) Press, an evening paper to replace the trious names in the fields of letters and journalism. They Newswriting, Radio Reporting, chairman; R. M. Hitt, Jr., Evening Sun. He later sold the Washington Correspondence, Charleston (S. C.) Evening Herald and Paris Herald to Og- include David Graham Phillips, Arthur Brisbane, Joseph Pulit- Foreign Correspondence, News Post; A. Y. Aronson, Louisville den M. Reid for $5,000,000. Picture, Newspaper Cartooning, (Ky.) Times; Leo V. Gannon, He got an afternoon AP fran- zer, James Huneker, Jesse Research About Journalism. Green Bay (Wis.) Press-Ga- chise for the Sun by merging Lynch Williams, Elihu Root, zette; Clarence Burgeson, Aus- it with the Globe, which he Frank. Ward O'Malley, Don tin (Minn.) Herald. bought in 1923 for $2,000,000. Marquis, Edwin C. Hill, Will SPORTS - James E. Jarvis, Mr. Munsey alone, according to Irwin, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Chattanooga Times, chairman; O'Brien, cut the number of New Julian Ralph, Chester S. Lord. Robert C. Schaub, Decatur (Ill.) York morning papers from Probably the two most fam- Review; Tom R. Hennion, Tu- seven to four, and the number ous pieces ever to appear in lare (Calif.) Advance-Register; of evening papers from seven the Sun were editorials, both Andrew H. Lyon, Bridgeport to five. of which have been widely re- Austaraliad printed. (Conn.) Post-Telegram; Gareth Mr. Munsey was generally " The only journal giving the Muchmore, Ponca City (Okla.) regarded as a Republican, but It was on Sept. 21, 1897, that news of advertisers, advertis- News. preferred to call himself an Francis P. Church answered the ing, publishing, printing and NEwsPHOTOS - Carl Stuart, independent. His particular de- query of 8-year-old Virginia Oklahoma City Daily Okla- commercial broadcasting in light was news stories and edi- O'Hanlon, who asked the Sun Australia and New Zealand. homan, chairman; Frank C. Al- torials on scientific subjects. plaintively, "Please tell me the len, New Orleans (La.) States; His greatest fight, O'Brien re- truth, is there a Santa Claus?" If you are planning sales Joe Hatcher, Nashville Tennes- cords, was against American Church, a member of the campaigns or are interested sean; Charles Hushaw, Glen- membership in the League of Sun's editorial staff, undertook in these territories read dale (Calif.) News-Press; E. N. Nations. the 'chore reluctantly, but his Jacquin Champaign (Ill.) News- Mr. Munsey died on Dec. 22, answer has since been termed NEWSPAPER NEWS Gazette; John M. O'Connell, Jr., 1925, leaving an estate in ex- the 'classic expression of Christ- Sydney, Australia Bangor (Me.) Daily News. cess of $20,000,000. Friends and mas spirit. Published Monthly, Subscription Rat. tools 52 EDITOR & PUBLISHER for January 7, 1950 Financial Writers 1949 Was Another Good Cited for 'Progress' COVERAGE of annual stock- quate, we feel, and sharehold- Year for Telephone Users holder meetings by financial ers who do not find in their news editors showed "quite def- local newspapers adequate de- inite improvement" in 1949, in tails about important Annual the opinion of Lewis D. and Meetings they are interested in MORE SERVICE FOR MORE PEOPLE-Nearly 2,000,000 John J. Gilbert, leaders of the reading about, should register telephones were added to the Bell System in 1949. This "small stockholder movement" their protest with their local not have The Gilbert brothers, wh publishers and editors," the re- meant service not only for many people who did own stock in more than 100 cor- port urged. a telephone before but it also increased the value and porations, spend most of their Much greater progress, the time attending annual meetings report stated, has been made in usefulness of your own particular telephone. You can and questioning corporate offi- the ranks of featured financial call many more people-and many more can call you. cials. In the last few years, writers. more and more independent Singled out for special Gilbert There are now more than 50% more Bell telephones shareholders have sent the Gil- honors was Robert P. Vander- than at the end of the war, berts their proxies. poel, Chicago (Ill.) Herald- In their "10th Annual Report American financial editor, who of Stockholder Activities at for years has "towered over his Corporation Meetings," the Gil- colleagues," the report said. "It berts assert that although press was therefore a pleasure to coverage was "inconsistent and learn," the report continues, spotty" the trend toward im- "that the Los Angeles (Calif.) provement was ''clearly Examiner has now also started marked." to carry the financial column of What Stockholders Expect the man who from the first clearly understood that the in- "What does the independent terests of management and the public stockholder want and ex- shareholders are not always one pect of newspaper coverage at and the same. an Annual Meeting?" the report asks, and answers: Laurels for Sholly "First of all, when the proxy "Equally outstanding report- statements come out, he expects ing has marked the weekly col- BETTER LOCAL SERVICE-The over-all quality of tele- to see a resume of important umn entitled 'On Rodney information contained in these Square' written by Henry L. phone service continued to improve in 1949 and it keeps statements. Next, he has the Sholly, financial columnist of right on getting better. There's faster, clearer, more right to know what manage- the Wilmington (Del.) Sunday ment said and did at the An- Star. Time after time his fear- accurate service on millions of local calls. nual Meeting, other than 'off less writing has set new stan- the record' comment. dards which are rightly helping "He is also entitled to know to establish his national reputa- something of the opinions and tion. IMPROVEMENTS IN LONG DISTANCE - Long Distance comments of his fellow stock- "We have always found the holdersnas expressed from the financial reporting of the Buf- grew steadily better in 1949. The average time to com- floor, and he also should have falo (N. Y.) Evening News of plete out-of-town calls is now down to little more than the gist of the answers to stock- meetings in its city above re- holders' questions, when of gen- proach, and this year we were a minute and a half. Nine out of ten calls go through eral interest. In reporting on glad to see the Buffalo Courier- while you hold the line. Over many routes, the Long proposals-either those spon- Express give greater attention sored by management or inde- to annual meetings held in the Distance operator dials the distant telephone direct. pendents-he has the right to Lake City. It's faster, friendly, courteous service all the way. expect the exact voting tabula- Also cited for special com- tion for and against the. pro- mendation by the Gilberts were posal." Robert H. Fetridge and George The Gilberts praised the Wall A. Mooney, New York Times; Street Journal's coverage of the H. Eugene Dickhuth and George 275,000 NEW RURAL TELEPHONES were added by the annual meetings of American Wanders, New York Herald Bell System in 1949. 1,300,000 have been added since the Telephone,eGeneral Electric, Tribune, and John White, Wash- National Dairy, American To- ington (D. C.) Times-Herald. war-a truly remarkable record of rural development by bacco and ChaseNational Bank, The Gilberts expect to at- but termed coverage of Irving tend 107 stockholder meetings the Bell System. Great gains were made also in the qual- Trust, American Can, American in 1950 individually or in pairs. ity of service. Fewer parties on the line. Many thousands Airlines, Bethlehem Steel, Con- of new type telephones put in. A higher proportion of our solidated Edison,eStandard Oil China Reds Post of New Jersey and Western farmers have telephones than in any other country in Union as "inadequate." Rules for Press MARYKNOLL, N. Y.-A set of the world. 'Room for Improvement' regulations governing the press According to the Gilbert re- has been issued in Shanghai by port: "There was improvement the Mlilitary Control Commis- in reporting of some meetings sion of the People's Liberation CONTRIBUTION TO PROSPERITY-All of this expansion by the New York Times, but we Army (Communist), the Catho- continue to feel there is still lic Foreign Mission Society of and improvement in telephone service provided work and room for more improvement America has been notified. The wages for many people outside the telephone business. here, while on the whole the Society, which publishes various poorest New York morning pa- periodicals, has headquarters per coverage of a major news- here. More than $1,000,000,000 was put into new facilities. paper was that of the New Upon promulgation of the Western Electric-the manufacturing unit of the Bell York Herald Tribune with the new rules "to uphold freedom exception of its superb report- of the press", the China Press System-bought from 23,000 different concerns in 2500 ing of the U. S. Steel and Stan- and the China Daily Tribune, cities and towns throughout the country. dard Oil of New Jersey meet- English - language newspapers, ings, both of which took top suspended publication. Under honors in the field of factual re- the regulations no C h i n e s e- porting." owned newspaper, magazine or BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM -The best and the "The average AP and U.P. ac- news agency is allowed to print counts of Annual Meetings con- anything opposed to Commu- most telephone service at the lowest possible price. tinue to be completely inade- nist policy. EDITOR & PUBLISHER for January 7, 1950 51 SALE OF THE SUN THE SALE of the New York Sun this EDIT IAL "WITHOUTFREEDOM freedom IN ofARGENTINA the press, there is week was due to a combination of in- no democracy," declared La Prensa in creasing costs and declining revenues. Buenos Aires last week. It should have With high contractual obligations to em- added: "There is no free press under ployes, management was virtually hog- government control of newsprint." tied in its efforts to cope with wholesale That simple truth has been demon- cuts in linage imposed by several depart- strated in Argentina by the Peron gov- ment stores which formerly had been ernment in the last few days as it cut large users of space. off supplies of newsprint forcing suspen- Two months ago, EDITOR & PUBLISHER sion of a few small papers critical of the said: "Publishers may not have the large -regime. revenue increases in the future out of La Pensa and La Nacion, both now 80 which to defray higher costs. There must Which of you by taking thotought can add years old, vigorous opponents of Peron be a return to employer-employe coop- one cubit unto his stature?- St. Matthew, and stalwart defenders of freedom, de- eration to meet the problem. VI; 27. serve the plaudits of free newspapers Two weeks ago, E&P said: "Employes everywhere. They have refused to be and their unions will be wise to take a AD ADVISORY GIROUP intimidated by the dictatorship. serious look at the long-range economic SECRETARY of Commerce Charles Saw- The continued publication of these two stability of their jobs before attempting to restrict- yer is to be commended f or his vision great papers, although somewhat create these additional costs which may in establishing the Advertisi ng Advisory ed under the government's newsprint ra- prove destructive to some newspapers." as- Committee for that govern ent depart- tioning system, has probably been There was no one wage increase or in- ment. sured by the attention and interest given crease in expenses that broke the back of He has had the wisdom to describe ad- to their case by the free press in this the Sun suddenly. But the paper was vertising as "one of the keys tones of na- country. We may be sure that had our faced with the possibility of further in- tional prosperity." own newspapers not publicized the plight creases in 1950, as are other New York "I am looking to this conmmittee not of the Argentine press, these two leaders papers, even though its decline in adver- only to do a good technical job for the of the opposition would have been closed tising was obvious. The figures, available advertising industry but also to help the down long ago. Until now, Peron has to almost anyone, would have told the Department of Commerce serveve better the feared the international protest that would revenue story to anyone interested. interests of all business," he said. be sure to arise if he should take such The demise of the Sun is not an au- It may be that Secretary Sawyer's wis- a step. spicious beginning for the newspaper in- dom stems from the fact he is a sort of But the dictator grows bolder. He is dustry in 1950. We hope that it is not the product of the advertising bubusiness. Be- punishing one by one those smaller pub- forerunner of similar suspensions and ing a newspaper publisher] he has full lications who dared stand up to him. Per- sales around the country because of the knowledge of the power of advertising haps he is practicing the suspension tech- inability of revenues to keep up to costs. in supporting our economy.1 Unlike some nique to perfect it for when the time is We think it should serve as a La warning to other government officials, whose only right to take similar action against managements and employes that news- contact with advertising has been in read- Nacion and La Prensa. paper revenues do not come from a ing the papers or listening 1to the radio, Peron will set that time. But he may bottomless pit and that the wholehearted he knows what would happenito our mass be held back, and those two admirable cooperation of everyone in the plant is distribution system if the funaction of ad- examples of the free press in the South- needed if costs are to be may be preserved, if our kept from sky- vertising were impaired. ern Hemisphere rocketing over their present to danger point. The appointment of this conmmittee with great American newspapers continue its outstanding members frontm all media, let the world know what the dictator is FREEDOM OF INFORMATION agencies and advertisers is a n important doing to freedom in his own country. MORE than 30 exceptions have been pro- and valuable development foor both gov- posed by various countries to the free- ernment and business. The advertising FOOD PAGES dom of information article in the United industry served its country well during ADVERTISERS who are continually look- Nations Covenant on Human Rights. Mrs. the war. It demonstrated ho w it can co- ing to newspapers for editorial and Franklin D. Roosevelt, a member of the operate in obtaining volunntary action merchandising support should take a good U. S. delegation, said this week that to from the people rather th an imposing look at the study of food pages just enumerate such exceptions, to spell out all force. It can serve the couentry just as completed by the American Association the different restrictions that would be valuably in peacetime throughgh a fruitful of Advertising Representatives. acknowledge as permissible limitations exchange of ideas, helping g government to Surveying 71% of the weekday circu- on full liberty to receive and impart in- serve the people better, an d promoting lation and 65% of the Sunday circulation, formation, would be to end up by curbing worthy causes to the public. 534 papers, the AANR found that some and not protecting freedom of information. On the other hand, it is jus t as valuable 1,629 full standard-sized pages a month That is right, and it echoes the fears for advertising and business to have this are devoted to news and features on food. we and many others have had in the past welcome hand outstretched from a gov- Computing the figure for the year would about the draft treaties on freedom of in- emnment department, not to mention the indicate those newspapers covered will formation and international exchange of importance of having the syt pathetic ear publish in 1949 more than 46,900,000 lines news now held in abeyance. of a member of the President's cabinet. of food editorial matter. The U. S. delegation has proposed the .For too long, advertising and business Here is the first comprehensive meas- Human Rights Covenant should contain were made the popular sy mbol of evil urement of the tremendous service ren- the "simple and straightforward" state- and blamed by government o officials for all dered by newspapers to the reading ment that "everyone shall have the right sorts of wrong-doing. Only recently has public and to advertisers in this one de- to be free from governmental interfer- business succeeded in start ing to over- partment. As J. H. Sawyer, Jr., of Saw- ence, to hold opinions, to seek, receive and come the public reaction fos tered by this yer-Ferguson-Walker Co., chairman of the impart information, opinions and ideas, attitude in government dur ing the last AANR's annual Food Editors' Conference, regardless of frontiers, through speech, two decades. says: press, art or any other media...." The Advertising Advisor:y Committee "It represents visible evidence of news- The draft treaties on information would should serve as a two-way s treet for the papers' growing recognition of the value be more palatable to American editors if better appreciation of governnment by the of this kind of service to the families of they contained similar straightforward people and the better undererstanding of every city-a service rendered with in- statements eliminating the double-talk business and advertising by 1both the gov- creasing skill and success by newspapers' contained in certain "exceptions." ernment and the people. food and woman's page editors." 32 EDITOR & PUBLISHER for January 7, 1950 TOKYO-To make clear to Susie Miyashita, U. P. reporter and a U.S. citizen, the swimming technique that has en- abled him to shatter many world's records, Hironoshin Furuhashi has her practice arm strokes with him.

PARIS-Before starting to walk the 270 miles to Germany, there to further the cause that led him to resign his U.S. citizenship to become a "world citizen," Garry Davis relates his plans to U.P.'s Sally Swing. PORTERS OF

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