The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 15, 1921, Page 16

| A Telegram “New York, April 12, 1921. “John H. Perry, “Post-Intelligencer, “Seattle. - you did. (Signed) “ARTHUR BRISBANE.” (Head of Hearst Newspapers) MY ONLY BOSS—THE P.-I. READERS. I am here to VITALIZE the P.-I. We are going newsy newspaper. Yt Along this line the EDITOR is making a separate | | "statement as to our immediate additions. But more important for you to know is that the P.-I. will be independent and courageous—free, fearless and a fighter for right as against wrong and corrup- tion whether in political parties, civic, religious or busi- ness organizations. its face to the future. It will bend its knee to no one save God. should have been. Under the “conditions” of its previ- ous ownership it could not be so. The former owner for some time held in his name ire this stock and to hold it he had borrowed money terests and connections. This sort of caused the that the P.-L was not in a position, if need certain men ly in the them to go to Hell. ____ This is a necessary position for an EDITOR and a PUBLISHER in order to make a successful newspaper. sums of money. gorse men, though they will be accorded the same treatment as all other persons, will not have any tt or article. . That being fully and finally settled, I want to say humanly ib! intentionally or maliciously libel or lie about anyone— " even our enemies. We have implicit faith in Seattle. ‘Seattle is going to have the same faith in us. Seattle is a wonder city. It is the healthiest in the world. It is the best lighted. It is the best paved. It is the most beautiful. It is strategically located so as t which will flow its full share of the world’s goods. j But still better than all that, it is the home of a third of a million healthy, liberty-loving American cit- izens, who will not stand with their backs to the wall, Seattle’s progress. The P.-I. will en of any constructive criticism. It will continue to “damn the knocker.” It will fight for the rights of honest business and honest labor. No ader can expect more of us. No reader will re- ceive It has been rumored that I was acting on behalf of the Seattle Star Company. This perhaps is due to the fact that I am a stockholder in the Seattle Star—a pa- per of which I feel justly proud. However, there is no other or further connection between the two papers. It has been rumored that [ was acting on behalf of Hearst. Mr. Brisbane’s telegram above quoted an. swers that. My ONLY BOSS—IS THE P.-I. READERS, JOHN H. PERRY, President and Publisher. “Congratulations. Just heard of your pur- chase. As long as we did not get it am glad | | | _ to make it a brighter, more interesting and more | It will stand erect—doing business on the square— | / The truth is that in the past the P.-I. has not been | ! as free, independent, fearless and courageous as it "the controlling stock in the P.-I. Company. In order to | borrowed heavily from men of large financial in- |; le to fer! 4 to look }} eye, and, if necessary, tell | The former controlling owner still owes these gen- | However, as I own sole control—put this in your i to say about the policy of the P.-I.—what in ia} what stays out—than will YOU—YOU who read 16 emphasis that the P.-I.—as far as it is 3 for us to do so—will not carelessly, | to become one of the world’s greatest seaports, through ||| but will put their shoulders to the wheel and work for | piactamneasmvemmnne: tur mersimarenaren aT ITH the change in ownership of the Post- i Ni; Intelligencer a new era has been begun in Seattle newspaper history. When John H. Perry, the new president and publisher, announced that “MY ONLY BOSS IS THE P.-I. READERS,” he enunciated a doctrine hitherto undreamed of in its field in Se- attle. The doctrine means the birth of the first news- paper for ALL the people that the city has ever had---a paper which will pander to neither classes nor interests, but which will fight for the rights of honest business and honest labor, with night as its only guide. Editorially no paper can do more than this---the Post-Intelligencer will never do less. But the Post-Intelligencer will not stop here. Not only will it serve independently and cour- ageously-—-it will not be content with giving its readers any service but the BEST-—-BEST in ac- curacy; BEST in comprehensiveness; BEST in humor; BEST in art--BEST, in fact, in every- thing that goes to make up a newspaper. The P.-I.--the vitalized P.-I.--offers you not only the best NE|WSpaper to be found in Seattle, but the best NE'WSpaper that human ingenuity and capital can devise. At your breakfast table, on the street car, in your office --the scene won't be complete unless the Post-Intelligencer is part of it. . One glance at the VITALIZED P.-I. will convince you that-- YOU WANT THE P.-L. And, with noless sincerity, the P.-I. wants you. i ee Mi i ek an has ee ni The Post-Intelligencer-Your Newspape | | morning; “Polly and Her Pals,” a close second in VITALIZING THE P.-I. The purpose declared by Mr. Perry, president and publisher, t VITALIZ¥. the Pl, has already been manifested within the office of publication, and to some extent, we think, through the columns of this” Rewspaper. Until the issuance of the foregoing statement this pu had not beem formally set forth; but in several respects it has been very, clearly indicated. ; So far as the memory of the oldest subscriber runs, there has Re pronounced retrograde movement in the history of the P-I. U various ownerships it may have biundered, floundered, faltered a: even come to pause—but as a newspaper it has never actually backward. Under the new contro! is promised forward progress at a rate that) the P-L. has never known before, and something of the evidence that is §] to insure fulfillment of that promise is now to be disclosed: € e ° e “Bringing Up Father,” the most popular comic featare ever offered te newspaper readers, made its first appearance in the P-L. Thursday popalarity, the next day. Hereafter the followers of the foolish adventures of these two 4 households will find them daily and exclusively in the P-L % ‘2 Beeesas } We can almost hear many ef our sober-minded readers and afl of © the supercilious chorusing the question, “And is the introduction of comig ~ features to be taken as a mark of progress?” The answer “Yes” is justified by the experience of hundreds of newspapers and millions of 7 readers. Good humor is am asset of incalculable value, provided, always, that it is GOOD humor—and the P--I. will have none but the best. 4 e e e 4 These things have been said first because these features have been § the first to be announced since the change of ownership. The more serious § | be mentioned, because they speak for — The complete, EXCLUSIVE, seven-day service of the great The complete, EXCLUSIVE service of the enterprising Consol- dated Press Association. The EXCLUSIVE leased wire service of the famous Universal Servica, At the national capital the Post-I tained with broadened scope for its activities, and fits most valuable features, which will be materially strengthened at while as to the accuracy, clarity, interest and sufficiency of its the P.-I. will continue te be satisfied with the daily judgment readers. Turning again te the comie features—aleng Father” and “Polly and Her Pals,” it is purposed to lar “’S’Matter, Pop?” and “Mutt and Jeff.” But i over an unlimited range for To make the P.-1, a better newspaper—to dent and publisher has it in mind—is to skillfully and ments that have been tested and proved out in the making ef newspapers, and to produce, ss mearly as may be, a harmoniéus and ef- fective whole. ‘The revitalized P.-I. doesn't to please and to satisfy everybody. or newspaper today, will be a and again the next day, and #0 on into the future, and ingenuity and enterprise and resources can prevail; always havin; in mind the highest welfare of the community, the state, the nation, ai striving ever for what is best for all JAMES A. WOOD, Editor, ‘