The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-08

half century. with no one TO chal-
lenge us or make us afraid; so
thought II was legitimate TO set up
for myself.
As the hart panteth after the
water brooks, so longed my soul for
a daily paper OF my own; but the To-
cal Associated Press contingent, not
content with fixing definition OF
news, decreed that its distribution
should be confined to the mediums
already adjoining the field.
Enter at this juncture +. w.
Scripps and NJ. A. McRae, violators-
in-chief OF the temple of exclusive
ness erected by the Associated
Press. Working under a long-for-
gotten clause OF the Declaration of
Independence, they had invaded
divers officially closed fields with
their sprightly evening prints.
Touching the gathering OF news. do
nestle and foreign, they had pro-
ceeded under the shibboleth, IF
there's a press service to be had
well find It; II there isn't. Wen
make one" They made the Scripps-
McRae service for the west and
middle-west, linked II with the Pub
fishers Press In the Atlantic States,
and developed the dominant eve
ming newspaper In many cities and
served all the others that applied
for their facilities.
Messrs. Scripps and McRae not
only placed their service at the
disposal OF the publisher who rush.
ed in where angels we're warned not
to tread In the first year Of the
twentieth century, but they per
sonally conceded his right to emu
late their temerity and enlist youth
and audacity In an independent
newspaper enterprise.
Was II not as shadow OF rock
In weary land that the United
Press, through one of its virile pre-
cursors, came to your speaker? And
IL he ever forgets its guarantee OF
the open door. may his tongue
cleave TO the roof of his mouth
and his right hand forget her cum
ming.
In little while II developed that
the United Press was not only the
only way but pre-eminently the bet
ter way for an evening paper dedi-
Gated ito the average man, who Is
too often the forgotten man in our
social and industrial arrangements"
The Associated Press was In the
sad predicament of the servant with
two masters on his hand II had
to hate the evening paper and love
the morning paper after p. m. or
hold TO the former and despise the
latter.
II little rocked that there was a
sound Of the going in the mulberry
trees. socially and economically
The dawn OF progressiveness
made no impression upon its devo-
ton TO the old order. II still con-
tinued to be the lineal descendent
OF the conservative who might have
shouted at creation: stop. You're
moilkeying with chaos"
The United Press. in chronicling
the days unfoldings, discovered
that the thoughts OF men politically
were widening with the process of
the suns: and II set It's own house
in order that il nigh, be the con-
sistept and untainted historian of
the revolt against ancient wrongs.
You get freedom of trade and pro
lection against price discrimination
with this public scrvitor withou, in
vokinC the Clayton antitrust act.
You get as a free will Offering what
celebrates have dashed themselves
into terrible passion to secure, to-
wit. the initiative, referendum ard
recall. otherwise the inalienable pre-
rogative to hire and fire even a
press association.
The whole process being strictly
commercial, the United Press client