A. P. Orders

"Avoid writing a story in a way to give factitious interest to something which, while true, is relatively unimportant. All 'golddiggers' who break into the news are not 'former members of the Follies'; a man with a couple of hundred dollars on his person is not necessarily 'reputed to be wealthy'; . . . an automobile used either in the perpetration of a crime or in the pursuit of the criminal is not always a 'high-powered car.' "

"Avoid the word 'Romanism' when 'Catholicism' is intended. . . ."

"Any non-white is 'colored.' If an in dividual is a Negro, call him that."

"When the weather department forecasts a sudden freeze, it does not follow that the fruit crop is ruined."

"To avoid confusion in assigning the cause of death in liquor-drinking cases, it is sufficient to state that the liquor contained poisonous alcohol."

"Do not glorify crime nor heroize criminals by giving a false glamor and thus exciting sympathy. . . ."

"[A reporter] quickly will find he can be truthful without being trite; accurate without being arrogant; unbiased without being unsophisticated; decent without being dull; and interesting without being inconsequential."

These are excerpts from the orders which Associated Press correspondents received last fortnight along with their pay checks.