The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-27


education and training, wonderfully
fitted for the great position which he
holds I have been fortunate in know
ing him quite intimately for more than
the quarter of a century in which he
has been general manager of the As
ISOLATED Press. To begin with, he Is
highly educated man. trained to
newspaper work. He was at one time
one Of the owners of one of the great
est newspapers in this country today,
the Chicago News, now owned and
conducted by Victor Lawson, who
with Mr.. Stone founded the paper.
Mr.. Lawson, always a director OF
the Associated Press, was present at
paid, in an interesting speech, a great
tribute to his old friend.
When I first met Mr.. Stone he was
editor of the Chicago News; l was
introduced to him by the late William
r. Nelson of the Kansas City Star.
Mr.. Stone, as a man and specifically
as a. newspaper man, always held to
high ideals. The Chicago News today
is conducted -along the same lines he
mapped out for it many years ago. and
his training in newspaper work In
Chicago and elsewhere has been in
valuable to him as general manager of
the great Associated Press. He has
also been banker and foundryman-
an all round expert.
The service of the Associated Press
| Is IN many ways. Inc
wires of the Postal and Western
Union Telegraph companies are used
| to such an extent that the Associated
Press has today more than $4,000
miles of wires for it's exclusive use
thru the day and night. In addition
thereto, very large amount is re-
ceived and distributed over the tele-
phone and by wireless A number of
the papers in Kansas receive 500
words by wire and others receive a
periodical daily service by telephone.
By the use of a stenographer a re-
ceiving paper is able to receive about
5000 words day, and those periods
are divided into about ten minutes
around 10 o'clock in the morning,
about fifteen minutes at about 1
O'Clock and five minutes about 8
o'clock in the afternoon. Certain pa
pers receive a 45-minute telephone
service from the STATE Journal build
| ing in which the Topeka bureau of the
Associated Press is located.
The leased wire service, which is
taken by the Capital at night and my
paper in the day, is very. very rapid.
| The service is so fast that the ordi-
nary expert telegrapher is unable to
read it unless he is trained and has
| had experience in receiving the As
| ISOLATED Press news. For instance, as
some of you may remember, when I
| made a talk on this subject about a
|
club, of which the Gentleman from
New Mexico was then president, on
| that evening I gave few illustrations
| of the speed of the Associated Press in
transmitting news.
For instance: the word "scotus'' is
| probably the most notable of the
| code words, which when transmitted
over the wires of the Associated Press
means supreme court of the United
States" the word ''potus" means
president of the United States;"
"ogt"-those three letters when trans
lated is the clause ION the ground
that" and the telegraph operator
must be able not only to read this
| code instantly, but must put it on the
| typewriter so fast that he will not
miss the next word, so that the news
the operator receives is put on the
able. For example: the word "pips"
means Philippine Island;'' ''cgl"
means Congressional; Ign "1egis-
lation." There are many such words
with which the telegraph operator
must be absolutely familiar and
which would confuse the ordinary
/ telegrapher; in fact, if the operator
should put down the words just as he
receives them, it would be unintolli-
gible to the average reader.
I have tried to give you a compre
| hensive statement of the workings of
the great news gathering agencies It
is by the spirit of cooperation and
the working together of the various
newspapers of the United States, both
great and small. that the reader is
enabled to be presented early in the
evening with the days news, and at
| breakfast with news that has trans
| pired later or at night, or a more
| complete report of news that trans
| pired in the daytime.
Tomorrow's Chapter XVI will be a
| continuation of Chapter XIV printed
on Saturday and will cover additional
features of the great win the War
for Permanent Peace" convention at
Philadelphia May is and IT.
| F. P. NJ
(To BE Continued.)
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