The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-10
By PENMAN SLAVE
The Washington Correspondent OF
The Producers News.

Washington, May7.-The legislative
halls of the capitol are resoundlng
with the mock Indignation of rlghte-
Gus representatives over the revela-
tions made today that some IL or
more newspapers have been more or
less completely drawn into the net OF
the power trust. Publicly everyone APP
pears outraged but in the ante rooms
! of the senate and house comments are
almost uniformly limited to express
sions of disgust at the crudeness OF
the operations of Mr.. Archibald II.
i. Graustein and the International Paper
and Power Company.
No one has any duObt that the
/ present revelations are the climax II
not the end of the matter. 1t is true
5 that the federal trade commission has
= announced its intention of continuing
D the investigation but those who under
stand the ways of such things do not
= hesitate to point out that nothing has
come of quite as important revela-
lions last summer that Col. Ira Z
o Copely, a large stakeholder in one Of
e the insult power companies, has bro
IS up a chain of some 20 newspapers
IS some in Illinois and others in tn
3, state of California. Investigation
Re have two purposes, one, to provld
n jobs for deserving politicians and IN
other to provide a smoke screen 10
at the really effective work of the male
at factors.
a Even the more sophisticated repre-
We sentatives of the press have bee
m forced to swallow hard the news ths
We the Frank E. Gannett newspapt
a chain, now the third largest in tE
ne country and most active in New Yol
state during the past year, has go1
under the bid of power money. III
Brooklyn Daily Eagle and two Albar
papers, the Knickerbocker Press al
the Evening News together with OF
Ithica paper, the JOurnal-News, ha,
as alone been directly affected by t
1c- power trust purchases, but eve
Up newspaper man understands that t
remaining fifteen papers of the Ga
nett chain are no less a part OF I
ne bargain.
- - The newspaper men are sore" L
~ legislators are indignant. The pape
70 are aroused" One could almost
n tempted to believe that all this
a. real feeling. Since there may be one
"a "a two readers Of this paper still unC
-o' the influence of this notion, a +
~ facts will be mentioned forthwith.
as These facts should provide the
centive for the most aggressive inv
tigation. of the ownership and cont
-ute of the newspapers. Nor are they
ON known by the so-called investigate
lata For instance, there is the b
and known paper in the country, the n
ma York Times. The Times is part Ow
low of the Spruce Falls Paper and p
t of er company, corporation hold
get vast timber and power rights in
uble province of Ontario, Canada The {
east er owner of this corporation is
Kimberly Clark company. Mr.. F
.est- Sensenbrenner, president and direC
nner of this company, is a banker and p
esod er magnate. More especially he
bere director in the American Paper
= ~ ports, Inc, one of the important
, > salaries of the international Pc
JdeJ and Power Company. Tied right
49, with the chief culprit is the New Y
800 Times! And when Mr.. Adolph
r Urit Ochs, publisher of the Times,
&c across the directors table or rubs
,Vi+b bows with Mr.. Sensenbenner HI
and pretty close to the power trust il
arter one would suppose. And one might
roed so desire to know if Mr.. Sensenbel
Mil owns stock in the New York Ii
itself. Not thai it matters much
the final effect, but it would be
teresting. Perhaps the federal t
:JEg commission will find out for us.
'-i Is haps.
ii Then there is the Hearst chain,
~ largest in the country. 1t has ever
"a tackled the power trust. Some W
20 people might be tempted to "fall'
N this. So listen: On the board of
E9 Hearst publications sits a gentle
$ XIX by the name of Edward H. Clark.
Clark is one of the largest power
f his ers in the country barring a fe'
been the first rank. Mr.. Hearst himself
sked, interests in power and paper mil
pport mong which is the Watab Paper c
Minnesota. One of Hearst's chief {
t one utives, a gentleman by the nam
curse Town, is head of this company.
been This is only beginning but 81
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