The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-15
The Associated Press

Scientists through abstruse calculations have
advanced the theory that the earth is shrinking
and have even estimated in inches the gradual
lessening in superficial dimensions.
Regardless whether their conclusions are
justified it is certain that for all practical pur
poses the world has grown UNNECESSARILY smaller
in the last few decades and the principal agent IN
bringing distant places close to each other has
been and is the short line seen in the columns OF
The Palladium, "By The Associated Press"
These words are the embodiment in print OF
one of the greatest organizations of today, NUT
ual cooperative enterprise known as The Asso-
ciated Press, its membership more than eleven
hundred strong covering the entire United States
and its correspondents and affiliated agencies
spread over the habitable globe.
by The Associated Press" has come to be
regarded as the hall mark of truth, the sign man
ual of verify. The dispatch beneath it may bear
Paris or a London date; may read from Peking
or Bombay, from New York or Hooppole Ind, but
with those words above it its truth is certain.
The ordinary methods of transmission, the
telegraph and the telephone-ordinary but none
the less wonderful-in most cases have brought
the news to the columns of The Palladium Min
utes have sufficed to carry the intelligence where
once days and even months would have been re-
quired and so we neighbor with the other side OF
the globe.
In bringing the news to The Palladium no
means of transportation is overlooked by The
Associated Press, though the principal method
employed is the telegraph wire. With the ex-
ception Of the telegraph companies (Which have
no other business) there is not an organization
in the world which has complete control of as
many miles of telegraph lines are under lease
Ito The Associated Press. Its wire mileage ex-
ceeds $4,000, and the capacity for transmission
Of dispatches is augmented by the code system
used whereby one short word takes the place of
almost whole sentence The telephone too has
a great and growing share in the distribution of
news by The Associated Press. Continuous talk
ing circuits in operation for stated periods have
replaced the telegraph in many instances and
thousands4of words daily are transmitted at a
single reading to three, six or even more papers
on a since telephone line.
Wireless biography is employed where needed
and when through the breaking down of the mod.
ern methods speedier means are not at hand more
humble agents employed. The dog sled in
the north and canoes in the islands of the Pacific
are not despised.
Men have waded waist deep in water and mud
for miles to carry an Associated Press dispatch
telling of storm disaster. Others with equal.d
votion to the service have stuck to the telegraph
/ key while flames ragged around them. The dan
gers of the front line trench and the disconforts
of march and bivouac have been shared by Asso
! ciated Press men. No mine is too deep and M
height too perilous to be sought in the service Of
The Associated Press. It smen are nameless
! Their work appears only under the modest cap
ton, "By The Associated Press. But those
words mean definite certainty and anywhere ane
| Everywhere will stand the acid test of truth.