Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-08
WALTER PULITZER BOUGHT
JUNGLE REMUS" MAGAZINE
Famous Magazine Passes to
New York Publisher

publisher, the son of Albert Pulitzer,
who wounded the New York Journa,
the first one cent pictorial newspaper
in America, announces the purchase OF
Uncle Remus's Magazine" from the
Sunny South Publishing Co., of Allan
ia, Ga. Mr.. Walter Pulitzer intends 10
transplant the property to New YORK
where the magazine will be published
under the name of Pulitzer's Maya
zine, by the Pulitzer Magazine Com
pany, Inc, New York.
The Uncle Remus Magazine" was
founded by Joel Chandler Harris, fam
Gus for his delightful stories of the
South and Southern traditions. 1t was
the first publication of National scope
in the South to establish itself upon a
successful footing. Many of the lead
ing capitalists of the South were in
cluded among it's original projectors,
and it's circulation soon spread to all
states throughout the country. The
unexpired subscriptions, amounting
into hundreds of thousands, will be
filled by the Pulitzer's Magazine.
When asked what his plans for the
magazine would be, Walter Pulitze:
said:
First and foremost authoritative
articles on all public questions the
people want to know about. My eff
forts to secure articles from members
of the Presidents Cabinet is a fore
cast of our editorial policy. We will
entertain only the best kind of mater
ial by men whose official positions
give authority to their views; Sena-
tors, Diplomats, Judges, Representa-
tives, Captains of industry and Others
Already we have the promise of strong
articles from Government officials who
never before consented to appear N
print. These articles will be written
| in a lively, entertaining style, as free
from technicalities as possible and
leayened with the saving grace of
humor; above all they will be first
hand records of personal experience
and opinion.
while we shall aim to furnish our
readers with the best and most strik-
/ ing fiction, short and serial by well
known authors, it will be our constant
endeavor to discover and present the
work of the new comer-the unknown
writer who has a message to deliver
that cannot fail to reach the hearts Of
our American public.
During the past years 1 have been
watching the development of period
ical literature in America, l have
been struck with the fact that white
the muckracking magazines have en-
joyed a certain notoriety, they have al
so been subject to such sharp ups and
downs as to render their usefulness
practically negligible. Look back ov-
err the past ten years; every muckrak-
ing periodical has had its turn; they
have acquired large circulation, it is
true, under the spur of teverish, SEN
sational, editorial policy, but such cir
culation has proven of little lasting
value to the publications themselves.
In fact it has more often proved a
source of ultimate failure than sue
cess. On the other hand, everyone
knows that periodicals which have fol-
lowed an editorial policy along sane.
educational and constructive lines
have prospered and grown.
at has been said there are too many
magazines; the fact is, there are too
many magazines Of the useless kind;
magazines that perform no real ser
vice for the public. l am convinced
that the American people will well
come bright, interesting magazine
that will truly reflect the National
spirit in it's great onward march to-
ward world-supremacy
There is a very genuine conserva-
tive element in the United States that
is more deply concerned about the