The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-21

Classifying news into three general grades. local. state and telegraph. each grade becomes more cosmopolitan in it's nature than its predecessor, state news covering a larger area of events than local news and telegraph news standing in like relation to state news Tele- graph news is the news gathered from the entire world outside of the state of Alabama and it is therefore more univer- sal in it's application to the reader in gen. eral than any other division of the news printed by a daily newspaper.
 The telegraph news of The Age-Herald Is gathered by saiaried special eorre- spondents and by the news service known as the Associated Press. The larger part of it comes over the Associated Press wires, two of which run into The Age-Herald building. The Associated Press. commonly referred to as the "A. P, is an organization of the leading newspapers of the country into service for their mutual benefit. Each news paper which is a member of the A. P. re- ceives its news and is likewise supposed to put onto the A. P. wires all the news of national importance which occurs with in that papers territory. Special corre- spondents are then used by the A. P and by The Age-Herald to cover the special occasions such as the Mexican war, the Mississippi food Congress, etc, and in this way the two wires coming into The Age-Herald building spread into every corner of every state and into every civ ilized country on the globe. Telegraph operators sit at the end of these wires from 5 o'clock in the afternoon until 2:So o'clock the next morning and with typewriter copy every story that Is sent.
 This copy from these operators imme- diately falls Into the hands of the tele- graph editor, who then treats it as has previously been described in regard to local and state news.
 This news largely applies to things na- tional and the way to read it is acquire an interest in national things.s The stories cover all fields of human en- deavor and an attempt to classify them would be almost impossible. But 1t Is sufficient to say that whatever they tell about is something that has some pecu- liar feature about 1t that it is of interest to persons who are not acquainted with it's local surroundings. This appeal to the reader is usually made in three ways. One IS through patriotism and interest in the state and the nation and her welfare another Is that something about the story applies by comparison or contrast to something locally in regard to the reader. There is one other way in which the in- terest of the stories break through the boundaries of localsm and that is inst ordinary human interest
 The first of these appeals can he illus trated by referring to stories of the hap- penings of Congress, events at the White House. conduct of the national officials their treatment by similar officials from olner countries, news from such national undertakings as the Panama canal and the recent raising of the Maine. These stories are readable only to the person who is loyal American, one who thrills when the national air is played and the stars and stripes are waved, one who be- lieTes there Is no other country in the world can equal the United States in commerce, in sport, In business. in war.