GUIDE TO GOOD READING Press titan who taught witch-hunters their trade THE “FABULOUS” William Randolph Hearst is one of the great heroes of the American Way of Life. At his death in 1951, all sec- tion of the United States ruling class, including those he had annoyed by some of. his “crus- ades” united to praise him. He is now on the way to be- coming a legend — the colossus of journalism and politics and the admired buccaneer of free enterprise and free living. It is largely in this character that he is presented by John Tebbel in The Life and Good Times of William Randolph Hearst. Hearst was the son of a lionaire. “young his father gave him a Californian daily newspaper to Play with. He was not risking his liveli- hood and he played with the property to some purpose. His » methods paid and he built up the biggest chain of capitalist newspapers in the world. He was not the originator of sensational American journalism, but he raised sensationalism to ~ WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST Modern readers will recognize the technique. new heights (or one should say it to new depths). As one American critic noted, he was “the man who introduced the use of big money into the hewspaper business.” He did what Lord Northcliffe did in Britain and, to a lesser extent, what the late Joe Atkinson did with his Toronto Star Weekly. All made large fortunes out of ‘readers who could read but mot think, who had votes which ° the ruling class badly needed, and who had also to be deceived into a number of beliefs about ‘the world. Hearst had tremendous ‘energy and a great deal of ability. As a _MmiHlionaire newspaper proprietor he power over millions. Some 50 years ago he actually _ ‘Started a war — the Spanish- . American. war—by which Cuba was lost by Spain to a revolu- “Everything in Flowers” EARL SYKES ‘| 56 E. Hastings St. PA. 3855 Vancouver, B.C. ‘| Golden Gate cafe 186 E, Hastings st, “OPEN FOR SERVICE” mil-. When he was very | tionary party backed by the U.S. His methods were pretty shock- ing then, but they are the com- monplace of millionaire journal- ism now. He invented incidents, real and imaginary—for the real ones he had agents in Cuba. He had a reporter to rescue a beautiful girl from’ a Cuban jail. He stole an ambassadof’s private corres- pondence and timed its publica- tion to make bad blood between the United States and Spain. He attributed the explosion on the warship Maine to a _ Spanish bomb. ... Modern readers will recognize the technique. 2 3 * * IN HIS EARLY days when he was fighting for circulation, he had a “progressive” line. He posed as a reformed. His “eru- sades” were many and varied. He was also anti-Roosevelt and one of the original U.S. witch- hunters—as early as 1932 he dis- covered that the White House was an annexe of the Kremlin. One might almost say he taught today’s witch-hunters their job, His private life was almost un- ‘ believable. He bought two Span- ish monasteries and brought them in packing cases to New York warehouses. He bought a~ castle in Wales. He spent $50 million on works of art, some of them junk. At one time he lived in a palace carved out of rock on a high sierra in the Wild West. Later Marion’ Davies, the film actress, lived with him near Hollywood. Hearst had made Miss Davies into a star by the simple process of instructing his editors, in the journalistic phrase, to play her up and to play her rivals down. This was, in effect, his tech- nique in most things. What he said had to be true even though it was the most outrageous lie. - He was a product of U.S. pri- vate enterprise. A man of un- scrupulous and ungovernable am- bition, with no real culture or honesty. He wielded _ enormous power. 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