The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-03

the bureaus of the Associated Press
Mr.. E. w. Wingart, who is here this
evening, is the Topeka correspondent
Before he came, Mr.. Capper was under
obligation to give to the Associated
Press newspapers all of the news that
occurred in the evening and turnout
the night; and 1 was obliged, as part
of my contract, to give out the news
of general interest happening during
the day.
From Topeka is distributed by tele
phone to Associated Press dailies IN
smaller towns of Kansas the quota of
news desired, supplemented by state
advance service by mail; this is of
great value.
A p. Men With Armies and Navies.
THE Associated Press has bureaus
or correspondents in every city of
any Importance on the globe. The AS
ISOLATED Press correspondent is called
upon to meet the most serious re-
sponsibility and to face the ordeals
that soldiers face. Associated Press
correspondents are not infrequently
shot or wounded by shells in the per-
Torrance of their duties They are
heroes, in sense, as great as the
soldier in the trenches They per-
hazardous, and when you think of the
soldiers at the front you should think
of the Associated Press correspondents
there, because they perform duty
i
! The Associated Press has a number
! of rivals but it is the greatest organ
ization; other organizations copy
after it. All of the other associations.
/ believe, with the exception of the
Associated Press, are organized partly
| for profit. The Associated Press can
declare no dividends: if its receipts
exceed its expenditures then its as
I sessments are reduced; if its expenses
exceed the receipts, they are advanced.
Governor Capper knows that in times
of stress, particularly during the
| Russo-Japanese war when the cable
was so very expensive, he was called
upon to pay an additional assessment
of 25 per cent, as l was.
In the larger cities there are sew
eral papers that are Associated Press
members; in Topeka there are two.
| The basic idea of the Associated
Press is the organization of newspa-
pers for the economic collection and
dissemination of news for its own
members. Some times a newspaper
man will wish to start a newspaper
and will say he cannot get the Asso-
ciated Press service. Well, the Asso-
| ciated Press is organized for it's own
members and unless they wish to take
him in and consider him a good mem
| Der or concludes the community
needs the additional member he may
have difficulty. This is just as in your
/ business organizations and associa-
tions: some people want to join in
your successful venture and you have
to decide as to accepting them. The
Associated Press is a mutual affair
and conducted for the convenience
and purposes of the newspaper mem
| bers of the organization.
Governor Capper's Tribute.
! Following Mr. MacLennan's remarks
Gov. Arthur Capper delivered a trib-
ute to the veracity and impartiality
Of the Associated Press in which he
said:
During the heat of campaign
times" Governor Capper said, par
tisan spirits often freely assert that
this great news agency is biased
Serving as it does $50 newspapers of
all known political faiths, the "A. p
cannot be otherwise than discriminate
| ing, impartial and truthful 1t is the
greatest and finest organization of the
Kind the world has ever known,