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NEWS LIKE A SERIES OF ROCKET COMBUSTIONS SIR RODERICK new factor in world affairs unfor JONES ON tunately are not as yet understood or appreciated in British Imperial MODERNWAYS circles."
nursery,
phenomenal progress
radio and the implications of this
Up
of ed to
221 avstem ́
that
observed dire successful competition.
as
a point cables have tend-
The
be stimulated by radio, both electrical science ás adapted to the in the commercial and the scientific special needs of the press was des- sense. It was the introduction of ▼ cribed by Sir Roderick Jones, Chair-short-wave directional wireless man of Reuters, in an address de-the so-called [livered on "Transmission of News" brought matters to a climax. Immense New Factor jat the Annual Conference of the
"The development of short waves, Empire Press Union in London.
and higher After comparing conditions to- with smaller power day with those of 1920, date of the speed, introduced an immense new second Imperial Press Conference, factor. It altered the whole finan- when "wireless for four purposes cial outlook of wireless, and seem- was still only emerging from the ed to point for the first time to
" Sir
Roderick
cables. This country, pos- "during no period in the history with of journalism, indeed never in the sessing both cables and wireless, fight which history of humanity, have science could only lose by and invention reached farther into would inevitably weaken one sys- other. The rivalry the unknown with such dazzling tem or the and with such practical effect as therefore was wisely nipped in the bud by the formation of the during the last two decades.”
Dealing first with local or inter- great corporation now known nal news dissemination, says Reu-Cable and Wireless Limited. The ter, Sir Roderick recalled that be beam services, originally developed. fore the War the main vehicle of on Marconi principles by the Post [local news delivery in Fleet Street Office, were brought under the same
was still the messenger, boy.
control and made to serve what is function as "The basic messenger boy ser perhaps their proper vice was assisted by a a crude form auxiliaries to the cables.
Sorting Out of telegraph printer, incorporatingį.
"The two systems are so sorting some of the principles of the grand- father clock. This instrument themselves out as to show that for could tick out 25 words or so a the immediate future we shall pro- minute. But the high speed tele-bably have to recognize the super- printer of to-day is a totally dif-iority of the cable for high speed ferent proposition, working at and continuous telegraphic commu-- something between sixty and eighty nication between fixed points, and or ninety words a minute, accord-broadcasting to a large number of ing to need, or, in the case of the places at the same time, in parti- tape printer, one hundred words cular the multiple distribution of news services. Wireless will also a. minute.
"Consequently the delivery of be indispensible for some time to as it is now, for very long syndicated news from the agencies come,
distance telephone communica- or press associations to the news- papers is continuous and, on occations; but we may eventually see sion, almost instantaneous. While the use of the cable for extra- Hitler is making a speech in Ber-European and Inter-Imperial tele- advance lin the newspapers in Fleet Street Phony welcomed as an
and an improvement on wireless. are simultaneously receiving a
"The Agencies and the newspa- full agency, report of the
pers
se cable and radio impartial- over their teleprinters.”
ly an endeavour to get the best Sir Roderick then turned to the out of both systems. And speak-~ larger question of news transmissioning for Reuters, it is significant from country to country.
Wireless and Cables
speech
that up to the present our very ex-: tensive wireless services have not "Apart from the remarkable led to any reduction on balance in growth in the use of the ordinary our cable wordage. We employ telephone, with its complementary wireless chiefly for new types of recording devices for newsgather-service dependent upon mechanical ing purposes, the development of facilities which the cables cannot wireless has been the main factor give, and I have no doubt that this in revoluntionising news transmis is the experience of many others sion methods in recent years. Wire who make use of wireless as well less is very far from ousting the as cables.
older cable system, but the new "If I may make a peroration by: possibilities opened up by wireless, suggesting a picture, the detailed. some real and some only imagin- furnishing of which I leave to you,- ary, undoubtedly hastened more I suggest, as a warning, that we than anything else the reorganisa- think for a moment of the two thou- tion of world communications, and sand million human creatures in to-day we have at our disposal the world, clotted into small and facilities which were undreamt of large groups → of, family, of re la generation ago.
bationship, of creed, and of race “Largely through the enterprise and that we reflect upon the pos- of the old Eastern Telegraph and «ibilities of friction, of drama, of its associated companies, ~ the 'ragedy in even the smallest of British Empire gained an early these groups; that we think of this friction producer, news, going up supremacy in international tele- graphy" which remained without like a series of rocket combustions, serious challenge up to the War, continuously, everywhere, its par- Then wireless came into the com- ticles moving with the incredible I have described, mercial field, and with it many at velocity which tempts to break down the British falling here, landing there, and
| quasi-monopoly, attempts which are igniting other explosions, until, tha
still continuing and which;
world rained upon by these showers, we are faced
fiery
as the carrying side of work news is concerned, threaten so to thing almost alarming, something: affect the British Commonwealth as that must give us pause and that to reserve the attention of the Em- inclines me to finish, with pire Press Union. The growth of clergyman, saying, 'Let us pray