The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-11-30
GETTING INTO BUSINESS
AND SUCCEEDING

A few days ago we published an
article about young folks getting in
to business, and promised to tell
something about young fellow who
started without capital and made
himself the king of the world in his
line. The man we refer to is Lord
Northcliffe of London, the man who
owns more newspapers than any
other man in the world but w. r.
Hearst, and the man whose editorial
influence and service to humanity is
not equalled by any other newspaper
man in the world.
Hearst inherited a fortune from
his father, and all he had to do was
to receive his education, and then
go on developing what his father
gave him. - Northcliffe inherited
nothing, and when he became Of age,
rhe directed his energies to news
paper work. He is very live ener-
getic Englishman, always ready to
speak his convictions, and always
ready to back up what he says with
facts and reasons This spirit has
always characterized his newspapers,
and when, after long struggle, he
got one paper to operating to suit
him, he had the courage to take on
another. He had the courage to go
in debt, and he had the courage to
buy the best and hire the best, and
build up each Organization so it
would 60 on operating according to
his wishes whether he was there all
the time or not. He is now past
nifty, and owns something like thirty
OF the best newspapers in England.
He does everything little different
from the way his contemporaries
would do, and when England was
short Of ammunition for use in
France, and the government was
concealing the fact, Northcliffe in
vestigated everything from front to
rear and told the world that Eng
land was short of ammunition and |
that 1t needed to speed up munitions |
to save turning the whole front into
a hospital The whole nation con-
demned him for his bold utterances,
and the government ordered him
hguratively to shut up" but he
bawled them out day and night
about munitions. They turned
against him; they cursed him for
traitor; they burned his newspapers
as fast Jas they appeared on the
streets, but he kept on printing more
and kept telling them new facts
about the shortage of munitions and
the defects of shells that would not
explode in the guns they were made
for, and of the ceaseless slaughter of /,
men at the front who were fighting
with empty guns or insufficient sup
uly Of powder and lead. North
cliffe reversed the government and
the war department and they have
since praised him for saving the ma
ton from defeat and invasion. Two
weeks ago he was asked to take a
cabinet position, but he declined,
saying he could do more good as a
free newspaper man than as a cabi-
net member hampered by men of
small ideas. He is very live man.
He works from $50 a. m. till 9
p. M, stopping three times to eat.
The rest of the time he sleeps.
There are several basic reasons
for his success in business. 1t will
help the reader to understand his
methods to know just how he starts
q new newspaper. When he gets all [
his machinery installed and all his
help engaged, and issues his first &
edition from that plant, he does not J
let a copy of it get out of the house,
but merely prints enough to test out s
everything and shuts down. The Ii
writer's are all busy working on the e
next edition, and after a while they s
receive copies of their first issue in q
which are marked the criticisms of t