The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-16

| controlling interest in the United
 Press and made secret agree ment that the two should work in harmony. The existence of this ipact was revealed in 1892 when a ten-year alliance between the New
 York Associated Press and the Western Associated Press was about to terminate The western lgroup refused to go on under the existing arrangement and the New
 York Associated Press was ab Isorbed by the United Press. There
 was period of attempting com. promise, and then the Western
 friends of MT. Stone formed The
 Associated Press, Incorporated in
 Illinois, MT. Stone was asked to | become general manager.
 Biz Fight
 The prospect offered a fight
 against tremendous odds with higs, i principles at stake. Mir Stone felt that he had been called to a
 high public service. and he ac, | cepted the position of general man ager. MT Lawson was made
 president, and together they went Ito New York to do battle. Several New York papers were with them from the start, other papers in New England nd Philadelphia joined, and after a bitterly fought , battle of four years the United Press applied to the courts for q
 receiver Many of its clients
 joined The Associated Press; oth- CTS united in what was called the Publishers Press. later the United Press Associations.
 A year later The Associated Press of Illinois, became involved in difficulties when it attempted
 to discipline one of is members. the Chicago lnterOeean, for a violation Of is rales. by snspcna- ing service 10 the paper The
 matter was carried to the courts.
 the Supreme Court of Illinois fin ally ruling that The Associated Press of Illinois, under the terms Iof it's charter was charged with a public duty and that it could not withhold news from a member
 and must serve any newspaper
 that desired it's report This was fatal to cooperative organization intended to be self-governing. Ac- cordingly the organization went out of business, and new organ
 ization, the present Associated
 Press was founded in 1900 under a charter from the State of New York. It's headquarters were es- itablished in New York City. MT. Stone was made general manager lof the new association and Frank B. Moves, of the Washington Star, presidentss
 FoFetgn oeTVice
 In order rthat Americans might have a report of foreign affairs
 gathered by distinguished Ameri- cans, MT. Stone organized fore ign service, opening offices in European capitals n manning them with American newspaper men who sent their dispatches di- rect to the United States.
 What MT. Stone perhaps consld- |ered hissm most important contribu- Ition to journalism was the success ful campaign to establish legally | the principle of property right in news. It had long been the practice for newspaper publishers to srepublish news published by others when it was to their ad- vantage to do so, unless the mat ter was copyrighted The Associat- ed Press suffered from this prae- |iice inasmuch as it made il possi- ble for rivals to take the news gathered by The Associated Press at great expense and resell if at less than the original cost to the association. To remedy this the
 Associated Press applied to the courts and there was long litiga. tion. In the end the United States Supreme Court issued an injunc
 tion against the rival agency and against the plaintiff restraining
 both organizations from taking
 without permission or compensa
 ton, the news stories gathered | by the other so long as the des patches had commercial value. In the only book he ever wrote Fifty Years a Journalist MT | Stone revealed intimately q career
 of extraordinary usefulness that
 brought him into contact with the foremost men of his day and gave lhim great influence upon his pro 1 lfession and, through his profes
 sion, upon the public both at homo
 and abroad.
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