Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-26
A. ?. POLICIES
EXPLAINED. At
NY. LUNCHEON
600 Newspaper Publishers
Gather at Annual Meet
ing In Gotham.
HIGH STANDARD
Former Governor Henry
Allen FeIicitates Member
ship.

NEW YORK, April 25 (P).-Some 600
newspaper publishers from all sections
of the country attended the annual
luncheon of the Associated Press at the
Waldorf Astoria this afternoon and
heard addresses by Frank B. Noyes,
president of the organization, and
Henry j. Allen, former governor of
Kansas.
Mr. Noyes, the principal speaker,
spoke of the inception, history and
development of the Associated Press,
a nationwide cooperative organization
operating without profit and producing
a news report without bias and unin-
fluenced by any interest.
Mr.. Noyes told the members of the
spread of the cooperative idea of news
gathering to Canada, Great Britain,
Australia, New Zealand and Japan,
where cooperative news bodies now
exist.
Former Governor Allen felicitated
the membership on the clean record OF
the Associated Press and it's efforts to
maintain a high policy in meeting the
needs of it's more than 1900 members.
Governor Allen said: "The greatest
task of this organization has been to
keep some 1900 members of different
political aspects, of different moral
tendencies, of different publicity tastes,
of different politics, of different re-
ligion, satisfied and reasonably happy.
And I think it has been a great proof
of their cunning they they have been
able to do this better than anybody
else has been able to do it. That they
have done it so we'll is why when we
speak of the standard of the Associated
Press we have definite picture in
view.
1T is true that President Noyes has
said it would be difficult to outline a
standard and yet if we were to adopt
standard of the Associated Press we
would concentrate upon the one
thought that we are selling the truth
as a naked commodity.
'The fashion in which the Associated
Press has met all of the unreasonable
demands, has welded together an
acceptable report, has placed our
newspapers-some metimes in spite of us
upon the plane of broad intelligence,
is the thing that challenges us today
as the accomplishment that has come
not through the gift of any miracle
but has come through the steady pro-
cess of these gentlemen who have de-
voted two months out of every year to
determining that which is satisfactory
as truthful news agency in the
United States, and today there is no
greater pleasure 1 have than to con-
gratulate them upon the great success
of it,
added to the furore that has always
challenged them has been, of course,
the effort of everybody to use the
| Associated Press. Most of you people
who have the good fortune to be
known in your community as truthful
men know how the community desires
| to use you. They want the advantage
| they would get from the seal of your
| approval; and so everybody around the
world has desired the seal of approval
of this great organization. Great law
yeIS, great SldleSIlcIl, SlCoI uON'0A'7
| everybody has said: Here is the sort
) of news the Associated Press ought to
| be printing more. about And so they
| have stood upon the doorstep-the
| mghtest doorstep in all the world
| intriguing the Associated Press to de-
I liver individual truth for the benefit
of those who would be benefited by
! the truth told as they would like to
| have it told 1t has been a pressure
! that has been continuous"