The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-03-26

News and the Chu~ch's Responsible
itv in Producing ~ was the topic
of an address here Thursday night
By Edgar 7. Cutter, Chicago, super
intendcnt Of the central division Of
The Associated Press, before The
Mems Club at Christ Church, Episco-
pal
AN historical coincidence of mo-
ment in news association. life was
the formation in New York city IN
1913 Of an organization which be-
came The Associated Press and the
birth that same year at Hudson, lii
nois, near here, Of Melville +. stone
who was for "A quarter OF century
to guide that organization as genef-
al manager" said Mr.. Cutter.
These two facts form significant
double event that have had arreach-
ing effects for good upon the educa-
tional and material development, rs
well as the cohesion and the mutual
welfare Of our people.
I'VE might well say that the in
ccption of the news association,
which more than any other agency
has kept correct historical record
Of our times and done more perhaps
than anything else to bring our coun-
trysdes into intimate constant re-
lationship, and the bilth Of the man
who more than any one else was in
strumental in its first stages in fight
ing for clean news, was divnely or
dcrcd.
when, seventyfive years later,
Thomas Edison spoke of The Asso-
ciated Press hundred and twenty
thousand miles Of telegraph news
bearing wires, reaching every prlnci-
pal city in the United States, as fur
nishlng IN artery invaluable to our
government and that never would
harden, it is reasonable to say an in
strumcnt most formidable in our ma
tional life had been created.
Owned BY Publishers
THAT such an instrument should
be in the hands of its own 1927 mem
bers, publishers Of daily newspapers,
is its surest guarantee Of safe
country wide channel for the inter
change Of the daily affairs of its
l25 ,O00 900 citizens.
EARLY in the life Of the Associated
Press the newspaper publishers,
members Of The Associated Press,
and they stand out as among the
greatest men of our country, deter
mined news should be pure at the
source. There was no argument on
that point. Other things came up to
test the staunchncss of these men,
but they all agreed that if news
We're not to be accurate. constructive,
big tremendous injury could be
done our people.
$50 those who made up The Asso-
ciated Press determined that THEN
association should be non-money
making.
Then they decided il was not to
be partisan. Politics should have no
weight in determining whether a man
might be elected to membership.
"Then it decided that The Assoc
ciated Press was to be nonsectarian
Religious affiliations made no diff.
ference so long as they were in
agreement upon the general purpose
to handle news from a purely news
standpoint.
Noted for Accuracy
THE Associated Press has fairly
won the name for accuracy and il
is we'll known that any error or any
injustice is promptly righted Thes,
stit sumo VI TIE ItdSOIiS WHY lIt Hun
"By The Associated Press" over al
item brings confidence to It's million:
of daily readers.
Constructive news is ope Of the
most vital things of the time. \
publisher has IA moral sponsibility
and so mas a reporter and many hope
that the day OF yellow news may
pass.
The Associated Press has stead
faStly worked for clean and construc
| tive news.
Mr.. Kent Cooper. general manage,
| Of The Associated Press. has said
| The Associated Press has Il policy
on decency The Associated Pres
/ is not killing news when it's decent
The Associated Press is your world
wide reporter. 1t is to you in tn,
! nation and the world what your in
] dlvidual reporter S TO YOU on hi
city beat. Your reporter might brin,
/ in a story YOU would not use beeaus,
YOU thought it ba policy to use it
SO The Associated Press may brint
you a story you think it policy no
| to use But as your reporter. Tn,
Associated Press is bringing you
! clean report
Treats News Dcccntly
THE Lansing Mich.) State Jour
| nal, recently in an editorial Oh tn
Browning case, said this:
THE point we wish to emphasize
] just here is the studied decency o
/ The Associated Press. There hav,
been some news situations Of lat
! like the Browning case. Some pa
! pers Of supposedly high standin;
have carried stories about that tr:,
from their own correspondents am
from pandering news services. Som,
papers have apologized for what the,
ran the day before No member o
the great Associated Press organza
ton has to apologize for what i
sends. 1t gets the news but it treat
Il decently.'
I'VE hear a great dead in crti
cism of newspapers and newspape
editors because of the crime new.