New Britain herald., 1926-05-13

New York, May 13 P-The part The Associated Press wire editor plays in furnishing the newspapers with their news was disclosed to- night by NJ A. White, general night editor of The Associated Press, in a radio address over WIZ.
 Mir. White. who is in charge Of the night news report throughout the service, said in part;
 Before the last editions of Pacl- fc coast morning newspapers are of the presses, first editions of At lantic coast afternoon papers are being typed. And news has an lh- curable habit Of occurring at any hour of the 24 Therefore, the workday Of The Associated Press IS a 24-hour one and the great not work of its leased wires. covering the United States is manned con- tinuouely by editors and telegraph operators. .u vour home town newspaper office if it is a member ol The Associated Press. the completed story Of lhal latest news happening, ready TOT Us copy desk and composing room,
 ITO be there; to be ready anu 10 give the facts first and accurately, that has been the determination or The Associated Press for more than e5 years and there are few who Will denv that it has been successful.
 A. F. Is Argus-Eyed
 "Writers and orators frequently refer to The Associated Press as ,rr,s-nvad. Our old Grecian friend yyos credited with 100 eyes, which was not so bad, for the times and people. However, the present num- ber of Associated Press papers IS Tn rxcess of 1.20O. Multiply this some +hree to go times to include the in- diyidual staffs Of those papers; add a few thousand for the Europeah' Canadian and Oriental agencies af- niiated with it and include it's l,ooO or more regular news employees throughout the world, and Argus would seem q patient for modern 
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 "While no paper would want or could print. half the vast amount o1 news coming from these innumer- able sources. none of it IS waste. Somewhere, 10 some newspapers every item has a value. Otherwise if would not have been offered or accepted on the wires.
 "But by far the greater part Of it is of general interest. Given tune von nrobably would gladly read all of it. But you have not the tune nor have the newspapers the space
 Also leased news wires cost enor- nous sums and their use for any thing of trivial or worthless news value is a newspaper crime.
 "Tbe job of selecting the most im- portant happenings that you all wish to read. condsnsing the others 10 the briefest readable form; weed ing out the non-interestlng to Nou' but speeding it 10 a destination where it is interesting and doing all this with automatic precision eight hours each day is mans sized job. The Associated Press filing editor, who does it, is a comparatively un- known. but distinctly important per son 10 your newspaper and 10 you.
 Tn virtually every large city ot the United States is an Associated Press office or bureau where th" great main. or trunk wires touch the smaller circuits. The trunk wire systems have two. three or four leased wires as tho news volume varies passing through the great cities, feeding the great metropolitan daiies along their routes. They are being fed also from the dozens Of divisional and state circuits with which they are connected.
 Dozens in same Circuit
 You understand that if there are a dozen cities, or points, on that cir cult, all the others copy a story when any one point is sending. At the bureau tho 75,o0o or more words carried daily on the trunk wires are relayed, cut down or dis