The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-02-06
Tells HOW
TIMES HAS
WON FIGHT
Publisher Adds Chap
ter To Testing the
Beatitudes"
MAKES ADDRESS
TO NEW WORKERS
John ID. Rockefeller,
Jr., Presides AT Bible
Class Dinner

NEW YORK. Feb s.-The story
OF the upbviIding OF The Detroit
Times Was told By o. publisher al
thc annual dinner Of the Fifth-ave.
Baptist bible class in the Aldine
club last night Other speakers
were Mayor Mitchell, Gen William
q. Gorgas. and Herbert Bayard
rwopc OF the World
Al The Invitation OF John D.
Rockefeller. Jr.. who followed JUS
ice Charles r. Hughes as president
OF The class and who presided a.
toastriaster at the dinner. James
sehsrmerhorn tole nos IL Jared
s.lh his adventure In clean
yournallsm IN 1916 His subject was
Testing the Besti,udes" Sad after
covering much the same ground that
i've ola in his address at the adVer.
Using dinner Of American News
raper Publishers association AZ the
WaidorfAstoria in 1919, Mr. Scher
meThorp said
New after the lapse 81 four years-
ht.w fher Nv with the so fitness ~
urAyer's shuttle am bringing inls
chronicles back 70 New York and De-
are rempAry that IL probably pre-.
PARED to cynciude IN the testing on
shx bentftudsS results IN dtsappoirt-
lns NJ 90 much the worse for ta@ trst-
~
The point II well taken. l Am in-
alined to yield u without stfuse le
rev that the test seems Go De enter
sn9 triumphant stage
the beatitsaes came thru IN 1915
"A they bade fair tn o. when vent
an on the sunlit hilltop ~ Law
renee. Kan. a year aEo and toto TIE
i>cgn ard girls % the University 81
kaakak what battles. aieges fortunes
they mast pass u they e'ect.e ~ 10
,..,rrsx nm m ionship with the bNAtitsdes IN
fheir Journalistic adventures
The beatitadrs produced FOR The
Ttmns last year IN the face ~ -.
fact that the liluor gang. AIDED ana
stested BY our anIable contempors-
rtes took a steoee city grinuns S"1 !,
10 an cnsrure ciasa sheet that didr
circulate a. much as the runmies
hired lebbyists did about the council
ehamb@r The contract was not par-
ssruferly profitable az the city Vas
~rrr~dea y rate q per cen, below
~ r~rufMr schedule but The matter
aIlex the space IN orr advertising
pNses made vacAnt BY IN. r%Jee,-d
stfabIe Advertisers But when me
H1vaf Ark. the political orEanixation
~ she vets. demon strat@d that they
s,oaiH lrftmidste timid aldermen INTO
sprntug down m. Tines: rs aq r,.,,
snn us%d when a seccnd coming d@e-
*<<rslrf wnyiafd him with the pre-
ffkt5cn that the end Of TIE wcria MAs
~ hand. IAN right. sad Emerson
shrsrsiy. wen get along without "
- the way, the people decided 20
81 ntopR without several % those
SSderus<n Al the last election.
~Hsexsec are they which are psrse-
crfef for righteousness sake. runs
th~ niDth beatitucs Along cane S,lLy
<undsy. and by the Tremendous I'M
nrfus xiven 20 certain causes Tor
which The Times had LONG deciarsd.
q e4a ~.th>rrfAeFs were enrolled ~
The eeatitude. The .vsrreilsts v,w.o
added 10 the forces that had been en-
ffTfed for years in the work OF re-
areulng Michigan. and on election
dAy the voters banished the trASnc
...prtroft ifsslf. The ninth city % the
union Lacking only few thousand
vctes ~ going Dry
Rurefy We rejoiced and were ex-
ceedingiy glad for great was our re-
wHfI Tor =. lNuhTtf@1 polAfy IN tllts
nx1rwhsiminE approval OF the cleo
f@rsfc.
The papers gross earnings IN 1915
we've SOD. 600 IN round numbers and
ifs gross profits sis.oe1 or six Per
cent on the amount 81 stock issued
This was q gain over 1915 81 hz Gee
equally divided between advertising
and circulation. sixty Thousand %
fhr new Issue OF sise.e go common
stock was subscribed and PAD far
10y the builders Of better Detroit
Who believe business ard the besti-
iuess wIlI g. s ..s tn, gr .s. q ,ss
has been subscribed. viii taxi VI
cav last dollar OF ind.btednes;
Right now visit there v1f a
tfafifude that offered hahn for TIE
frightful bulge In th~ corf - whifs
paprf But there IL No "bisnsed- that
aDplies. 90 we have hsid on Or that
hasarSs from last years business fn-
rffnd ~ di9ributing u among our
stockholders as we had hoped - %
TIE trsnnutation Of The Tiul1s
policies into a ohibitory law and
Hfber progressive Legislation. tnciue-
srr Advertisfng and blue skp stns-
pten must be acclaimed a. rrs -
The great trtumphs ~ fhs beafitB6~s
another u the increasing number q