The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-04-29

, pends more on free and honest
press than on all others combined
The relation Of public officials and
the press Should he one OF good will
on both sides. Public officials can
attest that the press OF the country
Is In the hands of gentlemen OF edu.
cation and discretion oil the highest
order
'T feel aycrsc to entering upon any
suggestion or advice"
Woodrow Wilson president OF
Princeton university spoke of the
celerity with which world wide news
and the attendant comment thereon
is now transmitted by telegraph en-.
phaSiZed the decline OF the editorial
in gower and the growing Importance
OF tho prompt. accurate and unbiased
news gathcrer
George Ade was among the speak
crs at the joint banquet In this city
tonight OF the Associated Press and
the American Newspaper publishers
association. delivering a brief address
on Helping the Editor Mr.. AIDE
said.
"Mr Toastmaster and Gentlemen:
1.-The Associated Press Is a great
institution. Around a newspaper Of
fec we always felt easy IN our minds
" we knew the Associated Press was
on the job My out-of-town assign
ment was usually given 10 me In the
following words.
"Send in good story. the Asso-
ciated Press will cover the facts
Respects A. P.
HJ rncnoot the Accociofod Drose lo
cause IL has nothing TO do with the
Sunday supplement. The Associated
Press never sent in a heavy editorial
at 10 y m. and marked II Must
1T never ordered pictures to go
with the stuff and IL never came
around the next day to inquire why he
had not been played up The Asso-
ciated Press bears the same relations
TO the American modern newspaper
that the solid business man does 10
the American family. II stands in the
background. provides the wherewithal.
keeps out of the Spotlight. takes all
the blame and gets mighty little glory.
Respected, but not featured. on the
front page. When there is a grand
jubilee. father and the Associated
Press are behind the potted palms
with the orchestra checking up the
expenses.
They All Know How.
Every man who has not tried 1t
thinks that he can edit a newspaper.
hotel / still believe that I know a
lot about the hotel business.
When I went to Chicago to help
Victor F Lawson uplift n community
that did not want uplifting l noticed
every day, in going to the roof gar
den, large and well lighted apart
mept in which q number of nobby gen.
tlemen were seated at roll top desks
talking about circulation. Most Of
them were smoking and the moro they
smoked tho more enthusiastic they be-
come about the circulation. / learned
that these artistocrats OF our pro-
fession were what Is known as the
business end of the paper. About the
time We began 10 diagram the daily
murder they would put on their top
coats and dogskiu gloves and saunter
over to the Auditorium hotel In
those days il young man from some
where out OF the corn belt came to
the ONCE and applied for job he was
asked If he had attended first class
western college. If he replied yes
and could produce a letter from the
professor OF the English showing that
he had written articles for the college
paper. he was put into the editorial
department. at SIS week If he
could prove satisfactorily he had not
attended college ho was assigned to
the business department at $40
week
In the first place. the city newspa
pers Of today as compared with the