Omaha daily bee., 1921-06-19
.N.U.Develops
Organization of
National Scope
a Aas Expanded From Small
Beginning-Now Supplies
Small Newspapers From
Coast to Coast.

~ inner guests of Fl. H. Fish, presi-
ent of the company, at the Athletic
Yclub one evening during the three
day session.
who is the fine looking bunch oi
fellows?" queried a newcomer oi
Frank Judson, who happened in the
lounge at the club while the West
ern Newspaper Union crowd was
there.
why, that's Fish and his Western
Newspaper Union bunch" Judson
replied.
What is this. Western Newspaper
union?" was the next question and
Frank Judson, whose nationally
known paint and glass concern is
next door neighbor to the general
headquarters of the Western News
paper Union on Jones street between
Fourteenth and Fifteenth, was prob
ably one of the very few men in
= Omaha who could supply the de-
sired information.
What is this Western Newspaper
Union" is an interrogatory frequent
\ly heard. In a general way, folks
know it is one of the big institutions
Cof Omaha, so big indeed, that last
year-when paper was scarce and its
supply was threatened-its officials
: quietly proceeded to purchase at a
hsure in excess of $3,000,000, a big
paper, mill up in Wisconsin, so that
its chief and most essential raw ma
terial should be assured for all fu-
ture time.
In general way, Omaha people
know that the Western Newspaper
Union has grown gradually until it
has become big national PROPOSE
tion; they know it was developed
from very small beginnings, until it
reached giant proportions by the
wonderful business genius and far
reaching vision of the late George A.
Joslyn, who became connected with
the organization in its infancy and
guided its destinies to undreamed-of
successes, until his death four and
one-half years ago.
The knowledge of Omaha people
OF the Western Newspaper Union is.
generally speaking, very limited
That is due largely to the fact that
the business of the company has
been developed abroad to a much
greater extent than here at home.
Omaha is the headquarters of this
great enterprise, not because this is
the seat of the largest plant, but
because Mr.. Joslyn established his
home here when the business was
small, and later, reaching out to the
turthermost boundaries of the United
States, expanded the business until
- became a colossal national insti-
tution, but continued Omaha as his
place of residence.
Omaha Really Headquarters.
Omaha is in truth and in fact, the
headquarters of this business giant,
whose employees are numbered by
the. thousands, whose yearly pay
rolls reach into the millions, whose
annual turn-overs mount up to al
most fabulous figures.
All purchases for this vast organi-
zation are handled through the home
office in this city. All policies are
dictated and directed from the presi-
dents room in the Omaha headquar-
ters building. All bills are paid
through Omaha; all funds are han
died through Omaha banks.
In fact, Omaha is the clearing
house for this big organization
which operates 81 printing plants
and publication Offices in as many
prominent cities of the country, six
exclusive plate foundries where
reading matter and advertising
plates are produced in the form of
stereotypes, electrotypes and mats,
the largest publication plant in the
city of Chicago, seventeen wholesale
paper houses, and, last but not least,
pulp and paper mills in northern
Wisconsin having a monthly ca
pacity of approximately 1000 tons
of paper, pulp and sulphite.
During the War.
The foregoing tells something of
what the Western Newspaper Union
is. And now something of what it
does:
1t would be difficult to express
more concisely and comprehensively
what the Western Newspaper Union
does, than to quote from a letter
which George Creel, chairman of
Me committee on public information
during the war period, wrote to Fuel
Administrator Garfield introducing
E. w. Julian, vice president of the
company, who was at the time in
Washington to obtain exemption
from the orders of the fuel admins
tration which had closed down SO
many manufacturing plants because
of the fuel shortage. Mr.. Creel
wrote Doctor Garfield:
This will introduce E. w.
Julian of the Western Newspaper
Union. As you know, this great
company sends out all plate mat
ter and readyprint service to the
country press. and is, in fact, the
very backbone of that portion of
the American press that is outside
of the great cities. From the very
commencement of war, the West
ern Newspaper Union has given
unstintedly of its effort and space
to every need of government with
out one cent of compensation.
Because of these two things
the dependence of the country
newspaper upon this organization,
and the important nature Of its pa
triotic service-I am asking you to
give every possible aid to Mr..
Julian in the matter that he wishes
to present"
Volume of Business.
"The very backbone of that por-
4ion Of the American nress that is