The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-04-08
BOOSTS AR0N0a{ITE.
HAS JOINED GLASS A NEwseA.
PeRs OF THE COUNTRY
Veteran Newspaper Man Writes Flat.
terlng Compliment to Management
OF PaPer--"Nothins Too Good For
South Oklahoma

The Ardmoreite is this morning
grateful because of a flattering compli.
ment which the mail yestery after
noon Brought to the desk of its pub
Usher. And the management is ex.
ceedingly grateful because of the
source of its praise. Because of the
writer's modesty his name is withheld.
but ii may be said that in the widest
circle OF newspaper acquaintance in
the middlewest he is considered one
of the best judges of newspaper work.
lie served more than a quarter of a
century at the various desks of city pa
pers, and is qualified as an expert.
His opinion is here quoted:
You are making The Ardmoreite
look better alU much more readable:
in fact you have made it real news
paper.
Now that The Ardmoreite has be-.
come a full-fledged member of The
Associated Press and incidentally
joined the class "A" of American news.
papers, you have, in my opinion, dem
onstrated that nothing is too good for
South Oklahoma"
More improvements Coming.
The management of The Ardmoreite
desires to acknowledge this and other
recent compliments and to assure its
readers that the improvement has only
begun. Other changes for the better
are son to follow. The epitome of
The Ardmoreite's policy is: Nothing
is too good for Ardmore, Carter county
and South Oklahoma"
In this connection the following III
formation relative to The Associated
Press is, we believe, of interest to Ard.
moreite readers:
The Associated Press is the greatest
organization for the collection and dis.
semination of news in the world. II is
purely cooperative, mutual organiza.
tion. II declares no dividends, has no
profits, and by its bylaws canOt sell
intelligence or traffic in it, The asocia.
tion is probably the most democratic
institution that could be imagined In
its members are newspapers of all DO
litical parties and newspapers pub
lished in the English, Spanish, Ger.
man and French languages
There are only six officers of the
association, the president, who must
he selected from the board of direC.
tors, which numbers fifteen; two
vice-presidents, which are selected
from the members of the corporation
and are not directors except they at.
tend directors meetings.; a secretary
an assistant tecretary, and a treasur-
er, none of which needs be a member
of the board of directors or the cor
poration itself The fifteen directors
have general charge of the organiza-
tion which collects about 100000
annually and disperses it.
The Associated Press employs the
wires Of the Western Union and Pos
tai Telegraph and the telephone com.
panies for the transmission of its
news, but is not allied with these com
panies or any of them The organiza.
tion requires in this country about 800
telegraph operators and these opera
tors must be experts no or
dinary telegraph operator, no
mater how god he is, is competent
to take the Associated Press report eX-
cept after long training and experience.
The Associated Press uses the great.
est care to be accurate. If it is in the
Associated Press II is pretty safe 10 be-
lieve 1t is true. A severe reprimand
would follow to any employe of the AS
soc!ated Press, or any member of the
Associated Press, who gave to the or.
ganiZatiOn an inaccurate Dipcp of npus
Every one Of the $50 newspapers in
the United States receiving the Asso-
ciated Press is under obligation to give
its fellow members the news OF general
interest 20 its community; that is part
of the contract. Furthermore the As.
sociated Press has bureaus, or CORE.
spondents, in every city Of importance
on the globe II has not been organ
tied for profit; 1t can declare no divi.
dends; If its receipts exceed its eXpcnd.
itures then its assessments are re.
duced; If its expenses exceed the re.
ccipts, they are advanced.
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. 1t is a mutual affair and
conducted for the convenience and pur.
poses Of the newspaper members Of the
organization.