Arizona republican., 1914-05-13
Denies That Any Member of Any News Service Can In Any Way Be Entitled To Monopoly of News of the World
NONE EXIST
 AND COULDN'T
The News of the World Is Open to All and It Is Utterly Impossible for Anybody to Monopolize Information
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATcHl

ter from Frank B. Moves, or the W aSn- ington, CD. O Evening Star. president of The Associated Press, who had been invited to address the Kansas News paper conference, was read before that organization at the University of Kansas here today.
 The letter was as follows:
 Washington. May ', 1914. MT Merle Thorpe,
 University of Kansas,
 Lawrence, Kans
 Dear MT. Thorpe
 It is a matter of sincere regret to me that I cannot be present at what am sure will prove to be a most inter- esting and profitable conference
 You ask me- inasmuch as l cannot be with you in person, to write you my views on the question you are to dis cuss today and this I am glad to do though I am not at all sure that I cor rectly understand the meaning of the [ question.
 As you give it to me it is divided into two parts:
 1st. To what extent is a member of d press association entitled to mon , oply of news in a community. My answer to this is that no mem Der Of any press association can un der any conceivable set of conditions be entitled to a monoply of news in community
 The question answers itself.
 As a matter of fact no such monoply exists and as an equal matter of fact no such monoply could exist.
 The news of the world like the news of the vicinity is open to ail
 It is utterly impossible to monopolize it.
 The question is intended to read 'To what extent is a member of the press association entitled to a monoply in a ! community of news gathered by the association of which it is a member" a different question is presented.
 I can only deal with this as an indi- viduad who took part in the formation of The Associated Press (the present organization).
 i, Our desire was to form a coopera . | tive association of representatives of newspapers that should be the agency !, by which We could exchange news with each other and jointly collect news for our common use
 We conceive that we have an entire right morally and legally to do this just as much right as paper in Phil adelphia, paper in Chicago and a paper in Washington have a right tc k1x. M go to Vera Cruz and send dispatches for their joint use
 It is for us to decide, in our view whether we will enlarge our group by the admission of new members-as . matter of fact our present membership is very much larger than when We or ganized in 1900 though it now has onl, about one third the daily newspaper. of the country represented in it's mem bership. S~Wu
 We have provided a method b, which new members may be elected
 My own view-and I have consist ently acted on that view-is that { member should be elected when it il to the benefit of the association gen } erally
 This does not at all mean that would admit every applicant. We wan our members individually to be stron, and solvent It does not strengthen O ] benefit the organization to elect an other member in field that will no ! support another paper. I have also repeatedly refused t vote for an applicant for membership
 when I thought that his admission
 would tend to break down competin
 news service.
 I see by your program that Mir. IT.
 win is to speak on this subject , I greatly regret that I will not hay the pleasure of hearing him-if onl : for the purpose of correcting some c
 his misapprehensions as shown in recent article that appeared in Harp Q CTS Weekly.
 I am sure, however. that MT. Irwi f will forgive me if I take this oppor n tunity of pointing out to him where h r is in error-at least from my point ( f view.
 e First-The success that was made ( The Associated Press of Illinois undt
 the leadership of victor F. Lawson an 2 Melville E. Stone was not at all due e any marked superiority in news gath n ering.
 al It was due to a determination ths if so far as the members of that assc Q citation were concerned, their news SCI r vice should not be controlled by n private oWnershiD-that is should - fact be gathered for and by the news
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