The New York herald., 1921-08-18

TIMES we are grateiul Tor generous
patronage and the many evidences of
sympathy and encouragement they have
manifested, and especially do We appre-
ciate this proof OF their understanding
of the potency and value OF newspaper
circulation among those who find such
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their taste. THE New York TIMES has
been forced to steadily increase its adver-
tising rates, and the difficulty has been
minmized because its discriminating
advertisers have realized that the
increases were not out of proportion to
the increased service rendered. We
have great pride in the high business
standing Of our advertisers. 1t is of the
rarest occurrence that high-class ad-
vertiser does not place THE New York
TIMES first on his list. In this connec-
ton it can be stated positively that no
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enced, the conduct Of THE New York
TIMES or has been encouraged to seek
any favors that are not accorded any
good citizen If in the past twenty-five
years there has ever appeared an i'm
proper line written for the purpose Of
holding or securing advertising patron
age, it was without the knowledge or
consent of the management.
Words fail me when / try to express
the obligation and gratitude | feel to the
capable, earnest, loyal men who have
been associated with me in making THE
New YORK TIMES. l am proud Of the
fact that we have been able to obtain and
retain such men in the service of
the paper. No newspaper organization
in the world has or has ever had,
as a group, so many experienced
newspaper men with love and pride Of
profession giving enthusiastically and in
defatigably their best thoughts and SER
vice to honestly informing the public of
the happenings and occurrences OF the
day; who in their relations with each
other are gentlemanly and courteous and
all united in working harmoniously and
with a common purpose for giving unself-
ishly their very best ability to making
a newspaper that is enterprising, reliable
and trustworthy, and at the same time
decent and dignified; men who find
joy in their work and have profound
sympathy with the general policies Of
THE New YORK TIMES, giving such zeal
and devotion to their respective duties as
to create a character and form a power
that make THE NEW York TIMES the
great newspaper it is; men of almost
every shade Of political and religious
opinion and belief, of every variety of
sympathy and conviction, all working
together in the belief that they are
serving a newspaper that tolerates no
tampering with the news. no coloring, no
deception, and in the making OF which
no writer is required, requested or even
invited to express any views that he does
not honestly entertain. With such men
and under such conditions the building
up of THE New YORK TIMES was a
pleasant task No publisher ever had
more faithful and efficient assistants. /
hesitate to make invidious distinctions
among the army of men who have aided
me in creating newspaper, not so COM
plete as l hope it may yet become as we
are better enabled to take advantage of
it's opportunities, but which | believe,
nevertheless, now to be the most COM
plete in the world.
l wish, however, to select the notably
conspicuous figures whose great contri
buttons to the success Of THE New
YORK TIMES / desire publicly to ac-
knowledge, and to express my sense OF
obligation for their able support of my
efforts to make THE New YORK TIMES
the best newspaper in the world
To CHARLES r. MILLER, who from the
beginning has been my editor-in-chief,
whose whole-hearted sympathy with my
opinions on public questions and my aims
and purposes with THE TIMES has been
an inspiration. His scholarly attain.