New Britain herald., 1926-04-29
Editor at New York Talk ing Over Radio, Gives Col0rful Picture of the Race Against Time in Newspaper Offices.
(Eastern Division Only)

you folks retire tonight other folks in all parts of the world will be working in order that you may hay, the news at breakfast" said T. II , ONeil, general early news editor ir the New York office of The Asso. ciatcd Press, in radio address last night from station WIZ.
 . Mr. O'Neil is in charge of the general news report between the hours of midnight and seven q. m. which is called the "early" trick in The Associated Press.
 Always on the Job
 Literally, the sun never sets on the activities of The Associated Press, q cooperative organization of some 1900 newspapers of the Amer ica3 for the collection and distri. button of news to one another" he said.
 Tt is now five hours nearer dawn in London and Paris than it is in New York. It will be around noon in the British Isles when you are arising, and before then cable dis patches will be in offices of Amer ican newspapers describing such things as the latest flub of a golf shot or the latest feat of horseman. ship of that handsome young bache. Tor, the Prince of Wales, or the prospects of France paying some tP nI.
 Day In Advance
 Ere you return home from busi- ness tomorrow night you may read in your Thursday evening paper some dispatch dated Tokyo, Friday. That will be no Typographical error. At this moment it is about ten a. m.. Thursday morning in Tokyo. At b ?. m.. tomorrow in New York it will be time for Fridays break fast in Japan. Foreign dispatches, apparently post-dated. yet correct by the calendar, are about as far as most American newspapers go in telling vel what has happened be- fore it has happened.
 The sun never sets upon the activities of The Associated Press because those activities are world- wide. It spends its entire receipts of some seven million dollars a year for gathering and distributing news. Individual papers provide the news Of their neighborhoods and in addi- ton, the organization maintains its own staff of Americans in foreign lands in order that Americans at home may have news as news is re- earded by Americans and that it may be free from bias.
 Even when daylight has ceased in particular center of activity of The Associated Press it's workers are busy. They work in three shifts covering twenty-four hours. A net work of leased telegraph wires is in constant operation day and night touching all American cities of any size and having ramifications that permit little or nothing to escape the news searchliG, f.
 News of Sunllcn Sub
 When submarine was rammcd in Long Island Sound late at night this elaborate news machinery en- abled you to know about the disas- ter through your morning paper and to have complete detail in the carly editions of your evening papers.
 There is constant watch for the unexpected. the spontaneous sur prise that is the main factor in mak- ing you read newspapers next to some curios " as to particular events which you expect the paper will satisfy.
 Through the air che night q few back went a. message from steamship 10 the submarine base in London. Conn.,, saying it had sunk tho submarine S-5t in Long Island Sound and had three survivors A newspaper in the vicinity a member of The Associated Press, was appraised of that message its own neWs-gathcring sources. In fulfillment of it's mem- bership obligation if gave the newa forthwith to other members of The Associated Press and consequently to most all newspapers. It supple this message with the indi- cations that some three dozen heroes of our navy were imprison- cd anu presumably dead in the depths off Block Island, R. l.
 Telephone Bulletins
 This newspaper arrived at such as to the loss of life by telephone information from the New Lordon submarine base that about forty men had been aboard the submarine when il left for a 'ruisr. The speedily developed indi- 'a'ions as 10 the extent of this dis lstor quiClily proved correct.
 "Oh q leased wire news associa- ion circuit when one point gis send ng q dispatch every other point copies it. In some eases two dozen IT moro cities are on the same cir nit extending hundreds of miles. There is a definite procedure for joints 10 sond news to ono another, put this procedure is subject 10