New Britain herald., 1927-02-16

rom his organization what he wants
 70 great task to handle the stock
 market quotations, the full list
 "hich for closing prices must he started lew minutes after the mar
 kee closes I suppose that some days there are transactions in two thous- ana Individual stocks, with the fe- ures on sales. high, low and closing nid. The handling of this item alone might stagger the uninitiated vet if Is handled by u3 as a routine matter while tho news report goes on as | usual
 Tn the distribution of news we use various media best suited to the locality. We use wireless where
 wire are not possible. Mostly the 1 telegraph and telephone are used. In telephone circuits one reader in the bureau gives the new and copy
 lsts with head phones in member paper offices take down the matter direct on the typewriter. In this way many scores of papers are serv ed, each of which could not stand the cost of a telegraph wire and operator. A speed of 70 words minute is not unusual Our teIe- graphers are the most expert in the business and We have more than q thousand of them. They are capable or sending or receiving 2,0o0 words an hour. Besides the handsending circuits we have those with auto matic printers on which the speed is oo words a minute. These circuits are being put in in every direction. but we do not displace men because papers continually want more news. and so they have the double circuit service, and the Morse circuit opera tor is always ready for an emer- sency. We have a great body of loyal knights of the keys of whom the reading public never hears Some Of these men have been with us 30 years and for them and for the rest Of us when we get gray in the serv- Ice there Will be a retirement sys- tenn to take off the worry which often comes with old age.
 Printers at Herald Office
 These automatic printers are wonderful machines, turning out 30,- ooe words day. They are well worth Inspection at the Herald office. The Associated Press has done much Tn working out problems of news transmission on them and so eff cient are they that the demand is growing for use of them by business concerns for inter office communica- ton. Soon, they. like radio tele- phony, will be no novelty.
 NOW as to the news report. One thing we are proud Of and that Is that 1t is as accurate as possible 10 make it in the great rising. on- rushing course of events. By stick Ing 10 the fact, permitting no opin- ion to get into the news, The Asso- clated Press has won the confidence Of public men the world over.
 People nowadays do more think ing for themselves about what they read in their newspaper and they are less skeptical of it's truth. If every man put into his everyday work just as much effort as A P men put into their news stories to have the truth there, the world would be the gainer. The A P pledges itself to give you readers an unbiased re- port of the worlds doings each day. It Is an organization of newspapers each of which wants to tell the truth in It's columns.
 Coming back to the first thought, there is more to the getting out of a paper than getting a piece of news and rushing 1t into print. You must get the news right, you must hustle With It, and you must get it to the reader while It is news, and that means get it to him first"