New Britain herald., 1928-04-23
ASSOCIATED PRESS
 ACTIVITIES TOLD
Annual Luncheon Program Is
 Broadcast Today
New York, April g R

members of the Associated Press gathered for their annual luncheon and meeting, were told today how their organization and their profess sion appeared to a noted clergyman and to the head of the worlds greatest broadcasting chain, and listened to brief word of appro- bation from their president.
 The speeches We're broadcast through WIZ and the affiliated net work of stations of the National Broadcasting company.
 Appearing before the microphone for the first time, Milton H. Ayles- worth, president Of the National Broadcasing company, told the as- sembled publishers and editors his ideas of the relation of radio broad casting to the gathering and distri- button of news.
 $. Parkes Cadman. president Of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, told the mem bers that the Associated Press, by a blending of sound business sense with unselfsh aims and integrity and efficiency in administration, has achieved "an unprecedented proce- dure in the annals of your profess sion and one not often equalled by organizations avowedly altruistic."
 Frank B. Moves, publisher of the Washington Star and president of the Associated Press. spoke briefly in commendation of the purpose and methods Of the organization.
 Dr. Cadman said that the record of the Associated Press offers no apologies and requires no defense"
 Tt l. impossible to sever the news of the day from the sovereign ty of the people or from their law fui freedom. Hence the conviction that. rightly understood. freedom is an essential of everything worth while has not lacked resonant voices in the daily press.
 50 long as news was bought and sold like any other commodity" Dr. Cadman said, Tt remained sus- ceptible to abuse and corruption. xxx The newspaper world was threatened by an irresponsible oli- garchy entranced with monetary gain. and the republic was fed on concocted stun seasoned to the tastes and demands of the caterers and detrimental to public welfare. xxxx
 The wisdom Of the plan of the Associated Press 10 band together its nationwide membership \ xxx is now openly demonstrated. Its re- fusal .s traffic with tributary or sec tional organizations has been amply justified. Newspaper proprietors. publishers and editors of the north and south. of the Jewish, Roman Catholic and Protestant faiths, have made common cause in this under taking with good conscience.
 Il cannot refrain from wishing that all periodicals, including those belonging to the churches, had learned your lesson. How 10 be strong without rage, without over flowing full.'
 xxx Commands intellectual re- spect and instils the moderation which Is ultimate power"
 President Moves told his hearers that The Associated Press exists be- cause its 1900 members insist that for their own protection and also for the public welfare, the dominant news collecting and distributing agency must not be in private own ership, subject to the will of an in dividual or . small group of in dividuals who might use 1t to fur ther his or their individual purposes.
 ''The code of ethics of the Asso- ciated Press does not alter when the year of presidential election rolls around, and every candidate holds a serene certainty that the Associated Press will not help or hamper him by becoming an adherent or an op- ponent."