The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-07-08

. Ouk tiiC DicNos
character Of the non-exclusiye policy
lor the United Press. James Scherner-
horn. publisher of The Detroit Times
land twice president Of the Michigan
Press association, today addressed the
international Press Congress In ses-
! sion at the PsnamaPacific exposition
He emphasizes the superior efec-
tiv.eness OF a press association, Or
ganized by a business corporation
/ with its very existence dependent
upon efficiency and the quality OF
service rendered, as compared with
limited mutual or cooperative con-
Germ.
He spoke as follows:
The selection OF spokesman to
report the United Press and its
cause Alright on this occasion is In
keeping with the proverb OF the
wisest bureau manager that ever
covered Israel: Let another man
praise thee and not thine Own
mouth"
come to praise the United Press
and not TO bury it. 1t stands for
the open door and not the open grave
Besides, we have just contemplated
the passing OF an octogenarian morn
ing newspaper with an Associated
Press franchise in Detroit, and that
is mortuary trouble enough for the
time being.
Dissolution was due to impaired
old-age infirmity that
is becoming common with morning
papers as the pace of civilization Is
acceIerated-the 1909 census showing
that morning papers have but 1871 OF
the total circulation of the country
IF you don't believe I'm a chris
tian," said an unafrsid churchnan.
TASK my Wife A case of collecting
testimony at the source One must
close doors with finite creature to
determine the degree of grace ne
possesses. We have lived with the
United Press and its progenitor, the
Scripps- NcRae Press, for nearly M
teen years; we are OF the more than
500 dailies that make up the United
Press better half. We are as proud
about It as bride adorned for her
husband. We know whereof we affirm
when we cross the continent to bear
praiseful report of the United Press
upbuiIding.
Some progress in corporate pub
Iicity is denoted by client appear
ing here to speak for public ser
vice corporation, uniustructed and I'M
restrained
Generally the most formidable legal
acumen is enlisted in behalf of the
corporate client The eminent attor-
ney's strategy is contained in that
familiar maxim OF politics-"admit
nothing, deny nothing But nothing
client can say will spoil the appe-
tite OF the United Press.
I speak as an immediate consumer.
-rfr ri or irrun1dt-
ate consumers. IL not sooner The
ultimate consumers are those who
take some other service.
Whether IT is the flashing ashore OF
the valiant United States bluejackets
at Vera Cruz. the silence of mortal
ity falling upon the distinguished in
valid OF the vatican or the vivid words
OF an eyewitness of the great can
non belcfing their thunders at Ypres,
the United Press newspapers are the
immediate consumers: all others get
the news ultimately-three hours
later in the case OF the Vera Cruz &C.
cupatfoa: eight hours later on the
death of Pope Plus: three weeks later,
in the form of a rewrtie, in the case
of the greatest artillery duel of his
tory on April 25tn and 26th along the
Ypras far-Hung battle line.
These are typical of scores Of in
stances where the Associated Press
has been as belated as Pats selection
at the running race. the Son OF
Erin" which the frantic Pat met at
the haIf-mile post and, indicating a
cloud OF dust far down the track,
shouted. Come on. ye Son OF Erin
they wint that way"
Always the PRESIDENT United Press
men divine the way the wind IS going
to blow. but other press association
representatives get in the trajectory
Of the asphyxiating gases and don't
recover until it is too late.
am glad to be the bearer Of good
tidings about the United Press to the
international Press Congress, because
one should praise the bridge that car
ries him over.
might add parentheticaIly-for the U.
p. spans the seven seas. It was al
/ most as enterpriisng in its prepared
ness for the great war as the Paris
| reporter who wanted the forms held
( for a horrible murder to be committed
at midnight,
All the foreign bureaus OF the Unit
ed Press pulled off moving picture
OF what they would do II the assas-
sInatiou of the Archduke of Austria
and his morganatic wife should set
off the European powder magazine
They knew where hell was going
to break loose and were on the
ground in time to hear the Fremont
tory rumblings.
! And as an especial courtesy, some
Of them were granted official permits
sion to remain on the rim OF the in
ferno while the war went on. VII
liam G. Shepherd, the prose Kiplrns
Of this conflict, is the only American
correspondent representing an indi
vidual American press organization
who has been attached to the British
front. Karl n. Won Wiegand, whit
I said Good morning, what's new" Il
: the German crown prince while thu
: world wondered, was sent to the from
n by the German general staff under al
l escort and given every facility 70