New Britain herald., 1926-05-13
THE WIRE EDITOR AND HIS
 PART IN NEWSPAPER WORK

carded, as the Judgment of the edi-
 tors dictate, for the papers on the smaller, single wire circuits who can use but d fractional part of the volume.
 "But that fraction Of news, how ever large or small, must be the best part of the whole. The editor of the smaller paper reads the . larger one carefully when it arrives, and if he did not receive the cream of that days report, that particular bureau is going 10 hear from him.
 The Associated Press workday Is split roughly into three shifts, sup
 plying the morning. the early day papers and the late afternoon edi- tions and extras. Naturally, as the clock time changes across the coun- try-and the telegraph wire is h. stantancous - their work overlaps somewhat, but news is news at all times and big news has the same thrill, whether you read it first at the breakfast table: on the home ward bound train or in the hastily purchased street extra.
 They Get No Thrill
 And right there is an odd thing that all Associated Press men know. l Big news has no thrill 10 them when . if comes as part of their days work. There, 10 the experienced filing edi-
 tor, 1t means just added speed and concentration in pushing the story along. But there Is no kick. no muttered; what do you know about that" nor kindred comment until that particular crisis has passed. T have watched editors while an exciting convention, fight or ball game was in progress and have seen them become as interested | listeners as the copy boys-whosv chronic enthusiasm no editors can | kill. But when they took their | desks and began handling the same
 story-as it reached its most stirring climax-it became merely hot stuff
 10 be given the right of way. The kick had gone.
 Whether it be bulletins of the 1 progress of a fire on a crowded
 steamship, fighting its way to port,
 or radio messages of a great dirIg-
 iblo. battling for life in a gale, 1 there is but the bricfest comment from the editors while the tension
 is on; and that is only as to news probabilities, the making of editions and suggestions for local details or
 sidclights on the story. It is a queer l phase of the newspaper and news 1 association business.
 Has Right of Way
 Big news always has the right of
 way on all wires. San Diego, Cali
 fornia. is just as interested in the l progress Of the great British strike
 as Augusta Maine. Minneapolis.
 Minnesota wants the details of the
 shooting Of Mussolini as quickly as | Miami. Fla But, while news Is
 news at all times it may be news
 that appeals 10 but one section of
 these somewhat extended United
 States,
 News that might cause John K. Smith of Portland, Mo, to yell ex-
 cited1y 10 Mrs. John 10 come and listen to this probably wouldn't even check the scanning eye Of John . G. Smith Of Portland. Oregon, if his paper carried the same story. The event aronsing the interest of the { Northeastern Smith may have oc-
 cured in Austin. Texas and con- . cerned the doing Of some persons widely known in New England. 1 Therefore. it was up to the offices i of the Associated Press in Austin, ! Kansas City. New York. Boston and
 Portland, Maine, 10 sec that the Maine Mr, Smith got the story promptly while tho Oregon Mir, 1 Smith had no opportunity to be bored by it.
 This may seem somewhat long and complicated. and, as it affects
 just one story, if is; but that one story is typical Of hundreds handled daily by fling editors and is a sim ! pie part Of their days routine. Four Main Circuits 'Thcre are four main circuits out