Disquisition by Scripps, E.W., Bits of history -- a disquisition, November 18, 1922

              Ohio University Libraries, E.W. Scripps Papers, MSS 117, Series 4, http://bit.ly/scripps_mss117
Mr. :Robert P. Scripps
;~tingt.nt Iew York
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fbe following is a oOPY Elf a letter addreHlsed. to, me last !up.$~
by 130 b Paine:
"San )lego, Calif., "lIS. 17,1",
Dea.r Ed:
It was -111 years 880 tbat 'it was clMided tbat I sJioull
habi tually share in the prosperity of 1'ourself ani AlUlt Ill"
t(l) the extent of a fixed alloenoe. .
Sinoe tn.Jl. th~ cost Elf I1vlZll has risea tr.tlltl'*llfi
The cost of raising gro. chilgp instead of iDf811t$ _. ali50
risen mightily.
We Paines eat plaiD food, make at home mueh _f O'Q.r
clothes, and ride in seeond-hand machines, living as ec" ... i.al1y
as pessible ~ with decent regard for the respect .!~lli." ·0. &f
Ed 5cr111ps' boyeN shol11i 'be held. lut,all eflQ" ehlllre:p. ...
now out of the elemen tary grades .. nO. I can .~t pr.ooee, w1th tke:lr
education as is desirable, with present inoo ••
~he Scripps income UpOJl which V af.0I:tsaii all~e ..
based has ino;lea.sed more than tell-£"oli. All thllil is .,ot e lit._
but merely a suggestion as to something that you pHbabl;r hav •• ' t
oonsldered.
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I dld not have the 1 etter shQ\\m to _ until maay weeks ~8ta7. YOll
M va seen my reply to PaiM.
Paine hasll.' t got ·the :right ld(dj,ory. IIp t. 13'2 there 84 )e._
taci t understanding that Pain,e would eventuallJ be made a steel!rho14er
of the Prese. I think it W8.sita·1892 that a 1'ormljl.l contraot waa _ie
as between the Press, !aii!l& and 11111s Osborn, that if the \us1 •••
should increase to a oertain. .xtent within a ce'!italn tIll., the, .. x-.
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