Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-14
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Two Good Newspapermsn, Each
Power In His Way and Genera.
tlon Apart, One Having q
Business and the Other q
Laboratory
BY SARAH ID. LOWRIE

the Los Angeles Times. ana MT. Jumes
Thompson, Of the New orleans 1tem The
man l was talking them over with is him
self a well-known journalist here IN the
East. And after I had summed them up
IN my way he turned on me as qusck Us u
bash with this question: ,..,;,
How would you know without LOOKING
at their faces that they were a generation
At the time said that ! would not have
known But after I pondered them Doth
from that viewpoint later on ! could see
what he meant. One is essentially OF the
present. the other of the coming generation;
me word organization f. the big WORD
for one. and ''co operation Is the essen
tial word for the other. Both are execu-
tivcs. and In sense administrators of their
papers. but their technique is worlds apart.
One treats his paper like Il business enter
prise. the other studies his as though 1t was
n laboratory experiment. l leave 1t to the
readers of this column which is the younger
and more modern man of the two. Each is
q very hne specimen of an essentially Amer
ican-and therefore good--type.
M1HEN was given letters of introduc.
w tion to these men there were Few
added words Of explanation of both for my
benefit, which l give as follows:
Harry Chandler. of the Los Angeles
Times. gets his paper through his wires
family. General Otis was his father. in law
and great figure in Southern California
long before the days when the radical Sc.
cialists blew up the Times Building and
were caught red handed and jailed for IL.
Chandler! You will see for yourself what
Chandler is. You'll find him very courteous
and genial, n fine man.
AS for James Thompson. of the New Or
leans Item. I'd like you to meet MIN on
every count. He's Champ Clark's SON i'm
law for one thing: he comes from Virginia
and has tackled somewhat Of problem
down there in New Orleans for another.
tlA 4 .k Sr,npn
full of accounts of his wife: she was. very
pretty and charming and. understand. has
been help to him from the start, as the
daughter of her father would be to any up
and doing fellow who could get her to marry
him. Well, see for Yourself
A s IT turned out I saw Mr.. Chandler
"A out at his own house one lcisurely
morning when drove out through miles of
garden terrace set on hill. Ills view Is
big and sweeping and cOmprehends noun
tans and sea and town and desert and he
himself is big and genial and full OF wide
interests which he apparently manipulates
with an air of command that suggests no
uncertainty, yet no coercion 1t struck me
that he must have his way and be consid-
crably master Of his situations be. in fact,
on the ground floor of most Of the enter
prises that come to success in his neighbOr.
hood but not so much because he was an
amiab!c tyrant as because he was hearty
and shrewd cO-opcratOr.
The Times which he manages in partner
ship with the family of his father in law,
General Otis. Is great money maker but
he owns other things-a ranch eighty miles
long to the south of Los Angeles. a ma
hogany forest in Mexico. an interest in
more than one great enterprise of Los
and is genial!y sympathetic on all these
points. and we fell into comfortable con-
verse from the word so. One could get a
score of articles from him on everything
from religion to the movies just sitting there
chatting while he smoked and reminisced.
! should like to have spent the week lend
that he invited us to share with him on his
great cattle ranch.
should have enjoyed going into all the
details of the movie enterprises in which he
very cnlightening TO have studied the real
estate boom that is making Los Angeles
bigger than San Francisco. Newspapermen
in the East do not as Il rule go In for large
business in other directions; II they have
stock farms 1t is for pastme, not for busi-
ness. Even our business men are apt to be
zone dead If they run city they are out
ana out politicians if they own forests they
are lumbermnn. But Chandler is q general
practitioner, with the easy. simple manner
Of n ralchman.
A FTER this interesting "close- up of this
n ,vro of owner manager and general citv
- sp wos kcon IN stndv The other tync
l.o"e, w re.nbed Nav 0rleons +horn.
rs tas SoTin aot Is IN touch with Mr. lanes Thomn.
ior'' @ ~ ~ want w the Item Fulfilling T. IL
sol, , w." vida liyht we'll .occunied hut not
-, - hw;id;ng with uhtn roIla anS
i rroM',eu ,u,aa dn,rs md wnnJwort rboro
,ana prixn' op,nnrentlv no secretares evcrv one
were aunina nlu%i, h;S avn tvnnwr;tor ,,,as Uas
was '"ppin,s, pppn,ss,, NJ Tho,nnuSor -, c,o ho;ns
asheu ,h Wv ond no othar I think III. haoS
t.e ~" nrn;nn "n" ronm Thronch nn onon d"or
OF tnJ e,sao ssa y verx norsonohIn ~nrnp nthIota
..That is James Thompson" a man told me-
and when looked about for some one to
announce me, he himself glanced up and
said:
''Do you want me:'
He was really very good. looking. entirely
casual and yet as cordia as his phone
conversation: lie began right of to tell me
that one of his staff had Just fallen over in
an apoplectic fit and that he was much con-
ccrned about him. lie was 10 evidently