Evening star., 1926-04-22
NEWS MOVEMENTS
TURN TO SOUTH
Latin America, Once Weakly
Linked to U. S., Now Served
by "A. p"

NEW YORK, April 22.-"The pre-
ponderant current of world news has
moved for centuries. like the course
of empire, from east to west, but In
recent years 1t has taken new di-
rection-from north to south--to the
worlds new empire. South America.
This phenomenon in the movement
address last night from WIZ by Mer-
edith N. Stiles. In telling how news
is sent to South American neWspa'
pers by the Associated Press. Mr..
Stiles is the head of it's Latin Amer
lean department.
1T was not until after the war
that this flow of news southwark
became important" he said. With
their peoples profoundly stirred by
its outbreak. South American news
papers found their facilities made
quate to meet the demand for infor-
nation about it. BY makeshifts and
at heavy cost they got the news from
one source or another, but when
the war was over they cast around
for more efficient means of obtain
ing world news.
Latin Papers Admitted.
This is why the Associated Press
since 1919 has maintained a large
news service to the South American
countries. The Associated Press re-
sponded to their need, and a group of
South American newspapers were ad-
mitted to membership in it's co-opera-
tive organization. AS a consequence,
these newspapers are now receiving
daily through the Associated Press
enough news to fill two newspaper
pages. providing them with a compre-
hensive report of important and in
teresting events in all parts of the
world.
1T is nothing in these days that
Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina,
where the farthest south newspapers
are served, is 5000 miles farther from
the sources of world news than is New
York. Ordinary news dispatches make
the journey from the New York office
Of the Associated Press to newspaper
Offices in Buenos Aires in from one
to two hours over the lines of the All
American Cables. What we call In
newspaper parlance bulletins telling
of highly important or sensational oc-
currences. will be delivered in Buenos
Aires in from to 15 minutes.
when Luis Angel Firpo and Jack
Dempsey had their little affair at the
Polo Grounds three years ago, an
excited mob that had gathered that
night in front of the bulletin board
of the newspaper La Nacion of Buenos
Aires. learned within two minutes
after the blow was delivered that their
pugilistic idol had knocked the Yankee
champion completely out of the ring.
The message which spelled to the
Argentines the hope that Dempsey
was done for and Firpo champion of
the world, was flashed by an AsSo-
ciated Press telegraph operator at the
ringside to the New York Office of the
All. America Cables over a special wire
and instantly speeded on its 6,000-mile
cable journey to the bottom side of
the globe. 'Firpo knocks Dempsey
through ropes it read.
Relayed Over Andes.
The electric current carried it out
under the gulf stream and down along
the Atlantic Coast and across the
Caribbean Seat to Balboa. Here 1t
jumped the 1sthmus of Panama into
the Pacific. and then. coursing under
the Humboldt current, but darting
now and then to the South American
Coast as it followed it's submarine
conductor. it reached Valparaiso. the
principal seaport of Chile. Here Ii
leaped by automatic relay to a land
line which slipped it aloft ~ 900 feet
over the top of the Andes, thence
down to the Argentine pampas and
across them thousand miles to
Buenos Aires, where from the cable
office there it was flashed by another
special wire into the office of the La
Nacion. A man with a megaphone did
the rest.
The mighty uproar of shouts and
cheers that followed that thrilling Incl
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not reached its crescendo before an
other uproar burst forth from the
thousands who on that night packed
the streets of BuenoS Aires waiting
for the Associated Press to tell them
how Jared the fight for the worlds
championship. Indeed it might be
said that all South America joined
in the shouting, for that message in
its journey was copied and delivered
to . newspapers wherever the cable
touches the coast as it loops its way
down to Valparaiso. in Panama, Co
lombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and
Chile. From BuenoS Aires it was re-
layed to Brazil.
1T is thus that the news of the
Associated Press is delivered in South
America. Spanish-language papers in
Porto Rico are also served by this
same cable. Cuban papers and Mex
lean papers are served by telegraph,
while in the far off Philippines Span
ish and English language papers are
flashed the news through the air from
the Associated Press Office in San
Francisco.
"In all, 40 of the leading newspapers
of Latin America learn what is 60
ing on in the rest Of the world
through the Associated Press"