Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-16

greatest of all news gathering agen-
cies, the Associated Press
Declaring that the Associated Press
is a great cooperative enterprise
representing 1890 newspapers in
America, Kent Cooper, it's general
manager and the most distinguished
of the newspaper notables from out
of the state feted by the Rotarlans
at theh luncheon yesterday, said that
the press is the one medium through
which people in one section Of the
globe can be informed of the doings
and happenings Of his fellow man in
another part Of the world and thas
the romance of this business of
gathering the news SO that readers
everywhere can receive the detailed
accounts Of events tn world over ST"
multaneously is unsurpassed in the
achievements of mankind
AS you are sitting here, ether
waves travelling through this room,
are carrying Associated Press news
to other parts Of the world. Isn't
there something wonderfully roman
tic about it alp asked the general
manager of the Associated Press.
Cooper gave the Rotarians an in
terestng insight into the intricate
workings of the organization he
heads and of the service it renders
to the world.
THE Associated Press functions
through many, many channels, it has
10000 miles of telegraph wires, 1900
operators and 100 automatic receiv"
Ing machines with capacity to re-
ceive SO words per minute is repre-,
sented in nearly every corner of the
globe by $4,000 reporters to secure
for it the news of the world Cooper
stated in describing the vast equip
ment and personnel of the organiza-
tion.
Although the Associated Press has
no direct contact with the public, it
serves them through the columns of
the newspapers it represents, Cooper
asserted. He said that the great
news collecting agency has operated
for 81 years and it determined to en-
dure and gradually extend the value
and worth of its service.
L. G. Probert, head Of the Washing
ton bureau of the Associated Press,
which furnishes the world daily with
the doings of the official life in this
nations capital, was eloquent in his
description of the reporter whom he
declared had always stood on the
firing line of civilization and has
carried the light of civilization to the
dark corners of the globe. Sometimes
they call them novelists or authors
but they are really after all only re-
porters. 1 am referring TO Victor HUI
go, for example, who gave to the
world the most elaborate and accur-
ate report of the Battle of Waterloo,
or to Charles Dickens, who began his
literary career reporting the events
of the British parliament"
Probert, who directs the news gath
ering activities of several Washing
ton correspondents in the national
capital, drew a clever analogy in
his brief address, on the "likeness'' of
his work and that of pople of a min
ing section such as Bisbee "We both
have to break down into the crust to-
get what we are after" he said. "In
your case you break into the earth
surface and generally find something
valuable. In my case, however, al
though I require the same amount of
labor to break into some of the
.crusts" at Washington but don't
always find something valuable.
II consider it a great privilege to
be a reporter iProbelc continued,
"and 1 would consider it a great tri-
butte if the one word reporter were
placed on my tombstone when die.
The army of reporters stand between
the people and the politicians and
keep the latter from grabbing off the
world and actually prevent half of
the crime in the world, the speaker
concluded.
Paul Cowles, western division sup.
erintendent of the Associated Press,
the final speaker on the program, de-.
clared that it required man with
we'll trained instincts in newspaper
work to detect real news, (which does
not just come naturally but is illu-
sive as a wild animal in the forest