Magnates

Who owns the most newspapers in the U. S., and who owns the greatest circulation, are two questions which Editor and Publisher, journalistic trade paper, answered with statistics for 1923.

The greatest example of multiple newspaper ownership in the country is the Scripps-Howard group, consisting of 26 dailies. Robert P. Scripps and Roy W. Howard own and control this group. Most of their papers were established, not purchased, by them. Their circulation is 1,270,843 daily, and of all their papers 'only one publishes a Sunday edition--the Pittsburgh Press, acquired last year.

The next group in point of numbers, but one even larger in point of circulation, is the Hearst press. Mr. Hearst owns 22 papers with 14 Sunday editions. They have a total daily circulation erf 3,350,411, and a Sunday circulation of 4,084,394. This gives him over 10% of total circulation of all daily papers in the country, and almost 20% of the entire Sunday circulation.

Other groups of papers, prominent for one reason or another, include:

P:The properties of James M. Cox: the Dayton News, the Springfield News, the Canton News and the Miami News-Metropolis. The last two newspapers were acquired by Mr. Cox last year. His group has a circulation of 94,903 daily and 76,804 Sunday. P: The group owned by Louis H. Brush and Roy D. Moore: the Marion Star, the East Liverpool Tribune, the East Liverpool Review, the Salem News--total circulation 30,906 daily. P: The group controlled by John C. Shaffer and his son, Carroll Shaffer: the Chicago Evening Post, the Indianapolis Star, the Muncie Star, the Terre Haute Star, the Rocky Mountain News (Denver), the Denver Times--total circulation 248,518 daily; 215,706 Sunday.

Other papers owned and controlled together, but operated separately, include :

P:The Washington Post and Cincinnati Enquirer, total circulation 134,900 daily; 146,265 Sunday. These are owned or controlled by Edward B. McLean, arch friend of President Harding.

P:The New York World and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, total circulation 804,221 daily; 986,767 Sunday. These are owned by Ralph, Joseph and Herbert, sons of the late Joseph Pulitzer. P: The New York Times and the Chattanooga Times, total circulation 357,556 daily, 559,687 Sunday. They are the properties of Adolph S. Ochs. P: The Chicago Tribune and the Daily News (Manhattan), total circulation 1,201,206 daily; 1,444,848 Sunday. Colonel R. R. McCormick and Captain J. M. Patterson are the owners. P: The Philadelphia Public Ledger and the New York Evening Post, total circulation 318,360 daily; 247,297 Sunday. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, veteran magazine publisher, is their owner.

The Gotha

The Almanach de Gotha, the social register of royalty, for years a part of every ambassador's kit, has quit publication.

For 160 years this annual has chronicled the marriages, births, deaths and throne-changings of Europe. No rival has ever threatened its supremacy.

Its brief chronicles were sternly discriminatory. For years it ignored the upstart Buonaparte. Only when Napoleon threatened to confiscate the Gotha's archives, did it finally submit to printing his name in its imperial list.

James Monroe was the first American to be mentioned as a potentate. The Gotha has always indicated that American women who married great nobles were not of equal birth.