Evening star., 1922-05-10

The Star pays the entire yearly OK
penses of one Of these expert grad
uate nurses.
The importance IN community life
of big daily newspaper is evidenced
by the character of the organizations.
agencies and individuals which are
housed in The stars building. These
include representatives not only OF
the science of publicity, both news
| and advertising. and Of allied pur-
suits, but represent also the realms Ole
civic betterment, of welfare work and
of high-class merchandising.
Associated Press
Has Office in Building.
The Washington office of the Asso-
ciated Press. leading newseathering
agency of the world, of which The
Star is a constituent member, Is in
The Star building. This Office is also
headquarters of the southern division.
Frank Il. Noyes, president of The Even
ing Star Newspaper Company, is also
the president OF the Associated Press,
, having held the latter office for TWEEN
| ty-three years. In this building are
also the offices of the Consolidated
Press, an important and ever-growing
news feature syndicate: the kokusai
News Agency. most important news
agency of Japan; the Jewish Times
and the United States Air Service
Magazine: the Maurice Joyce En-
craving Company, producers of news
and advertising half-tones and cuts.
and the Eastman Kodak Company.
whose lenses and other equipment
are used by news photographers.
The Advertising Club of Washing
ton is 2 tenant. as is the Better
Business Bureau. while advertising
agencies, in addition to The Star Ad.
Bureau, include the Marble, Lewis.
Gardner Johnson, Tauber Richard W.
Ellis and ]. Albert Shaffer agencies.
The Washington Board of Trade and
the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association both maintain their head
quarters in commodious suites.
Among welfare organizations are
the Council of Social Agencies and
the Instructive Visiting Nurse So
ciety. Offices also are maintained by
the StandardiZing Bureau. which per-
forms research and publicity work
for manufacturing concerns, based on
information obtained from govern
mental departments; the Worlds
Dairy Congress, in which all civilized
nations participate, and several food
brokers who handle nationally a6rer-
| tiSed goods.
A store for the convenience of en-
ployes and tenants. handling maga-
zines. smokers supplies and confec-
tionery, is maintained on the ground
moor at the 11th street entrance. \
battery of postage stamp machines
installed by the Post Office Depart
ment IS located in the main DOWN
stairs business office. while on one of
the intermediate floors The Star
maintains completely equipped car
penter shop wherein articles of equip
ment may be built or repaired.
4c5 Employees
On Weekly Pay Roll.
The 425 full-time employees Of The
Star are often referred to as "The
Star Family" for that sort of spirit
pervades the establishment to
marked degree. Pleasant surround
ings intensity the esprit de corps OF
the staff. Few individuals struggle
either'for advancement or for praise.
! Every man is plugging" for the sue
cess of the paper; every one is in
terested in the quality and quantity
of the work of every other employe.
This family spirit is to some ex-
t-tent. at least, engendered and fos-
tered by the fact that descendants of
the second and third generations OF
the men who, in 1868, with broad
vision and firm belief in the future of
the National Capital. formed a stock
company and took over the then es-
tablished but rather modest sheet.
still entirely control and are. most of
them, active executives or employees
of the company.
There are a number Of other in
stances of employees whose fathers
before them served with The Star.
while one man, at least, occupying
an important position in the compos7
ing room, was preceded in service by
both his father and his grandfather.
AS indicated by the facts regarding
the foremen of some of the mechanf-
cal departments previously mentioned,
the number of employees with twenty.
thirty and even forty years to their
credit is a remarkably large one.
The Evening Star was founded in
1852. The Sunday Star was estab
ltshed in 1905. The bound file cover
ing the month of March, 1922, is in
size more than twice as great as that
containing an entire half year in the
first decades of its existence. After
occupying several small structures.
or parts of structures. the newspaper
occupied the first entire home of its
own, on the present site, in 1881.
This was demolished and the new
building completed in the last year
of the last century. The beginning
of the present year saw the new am
mex occupied and the front building
remodeled and redecorated.
To the many patrons and friends of
The Star n cordial invitation is eN-
tended to inspect it at any time that
the plant is in operation.