The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-26
TRANSMISSION.

Scientists through a5str1se caIcula- tions have advanced the theory that the earth is shrinking and have even estimated in inches the gradual les sening in superficial dimensions. Regardless whether their concTu- sions are justified it is certain that for all practical purposes the world has grown irnmeasura.oly smaller in the last few decades and the principal agent in bringing distant places closer to each other has been and is the shore line seen in the columns of The Times, By The Associated Press
 Tleso words are the embodiment in print of one of the greatest organtza- tions of today, Q mutual cooperative enterprise known as The Associated Press, it's membership more than l, ,1G0 strong covering the entire United Sta tes, and it's coTespondents and af- fiIiated agencies spread over the ha'b- itajble globe.
 By The Associated Press,' has come to be regarded as the hall mark
 of truth, the sign manual of vertty The dispatch beneath it may bear a Paris or a. London date; may read from Picking or Bombay. from New York or Hooppole, Ind, but with those words above it its truth is cer-
 tain The ordinary methods of transmits sion, the telegraph and tele- phore---ordinary but none the less wonderful---in most cases have
 brought the news to the columns of
 The Times. Minutes have sufTiced to
 carry the intelligence where once
 days and even months would have been required and so we neigh7JoT
 with the other side of the globe. In bringing the news to The Times
 no means Of transportation is over looked by The Associated Press though the principal method ena- ployed is the telegraph wire. With i the exception of the telegraph com | panies (which have no other business) | there is not an organization in the world which has complete control of i as many miles of telegraph lines as are under lease to The Associate.5 Press Its wire mileage exceeds 50, coo | and the capacity for transmission of i dispatches is augmented by the coda system used. whereby one short word i takes the place of almost a whole sentence. The telephone too has a great aid growing share in the dis f tI'ibutiOn of news by The Associated Press. Continuous talking circuits in operation for stated periods have re- placed the telegraph in many in stances and thousands of words daily
 are transmitted at Q, single reading to three, six or even more papers on a 1 single telephone line.
 1 Wireless telegraphy is employed l where needed and when through the breaking down of the modern meth
 ods speeidier means are not at hand
 more humble methods are employed The dog sled in the north and canoes
 in the islands of the Pacific are not | despised-
 l Men have waded waste deep in wa ! ter and mud for miles to carry an
 Associated Press dispatch telling of
 storm disaster. Others with equal 1 devotion to the service have stuck to
 the telegraph key while flames ragged | around them. The dangers of the front line trench and the disconlfo1-ts
 of march and 1oivouac have been
 shared by Associated Press men. No
 mine is too deep and no height too
 periolus to fbe sought in the service of The Associated Press. Its men are nameless. Their work appears only under the modest caption, ffBy The Associated Press But those iWords mean definite certainty and
 anywhere ardd everywhere will stand the acid test of truth.