The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-19

Perhaps never more strongly thar
during the last week of partially silent
wires have the American people APP
preclated how they are dependent upon
the morning papers for news of hap
penings throughout the world. salt
Lake wishes with its morning coffee
10 know about st. Petersburg, New
York, about ogden and San francisco
all about them. 1t has become SC
accustomed to do so that the depriva-
ton it takes is with a certain personal
resentment against the news gathering
mediums of the country. As one does
not appreciate any of the good things
of life until one is without them, 81
until the unprecedented news famine
Of the past week the people of the
country did not appreciate just how
great a factor in their daily life as
the daily record of happenings in the
outside world, and just what the news
gathering service of the country meant
in their daily lives.
There are in the United States some
$50 newspapers banded together into
a great league called the Associated
Press, which is the principal OrganiZa-
ton for the interchange of news be-
tween the various sections. This num-
Der is further augmented by the dailies
of Canada, almost every city of which
country is represented, and the two
large papers of the City OF Mexico and
one in Havana which is printed in
English, and several which are printed
in Spanish.
Some in Competition.
There have been from time to time
several competing organizations of a
similar character, notably the old
United Press, which centered about the
city of New York, as the beginning of
the present great Associated Press did
about the city of Chicago. After the
war, which is today yet recalled in
the newspaper circles of the country
as an epOch-marking event, the United
Press succumbed, only one of its great
members, the Sun, remaining without
the Associated Press combine. That
paper, under the leadership of Charles
A. Dana, upon the surrender Of other
New York papers to the Associated
Press, proceeded to organize its own
news service in competition with the
sreat victorious western organization,
and today remains as its greatest rival.
The. other two news organizations
which exist today in competition with
the Associated Press are the Publish
ers' Press association, which has its
great nolQ III TIE OillD NaalCg anu lllC
Lakes district, and the Hearst service,
which serves the Hearst papers and
other papers in the country. principal
ly in the western region. All of these
three news associations have not, how
ever, one-fourth of the number of pa
pers on their service list or nearly the
amount of influence and credit
throughout the country that has the
great news syndicate, the Associated
Press.
Secret of Success.
Melville E. Stone, formerly a west
ern newspaper man, and now the head
OF the organization, has repeatedly eX-
planned the secret of the success Of
the organization. This, he says, is SIM
ply the result of giving the country
news and nothing but news, absolutely
unoolored by political or other preju-
dice. To his hundreds of WOramen
throughout the country he has but enc
maxim of instruction, Get the facts,
all the facts and nothing but the
facts" Richard Harding Davis, A
great artist in the coloring Of events