Abstract

The Press Today: II. The Associated Press

In the last analysis any organization is what the men in it make it. It is a pleasure to record the fact that despite the relatively poor salaries paid the Associated Press has generally been served by a devoted, honest and loyal set of men and women, a credit to themselves and to the service. There is no eight-hour and no twelve-hour day for them. They must be the first into any disease-ridden or calamity-scourged town and they must be afraid of the firing line. A well known Washington correspondent, is the possessor of a gold watch awarded to him by the Associated Press for risking his life to report the battle at Juarez in one of the Mexican revolutions, when he stayed on duty for three days and nights without rest.