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Is the Radio Newspaper Next?
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© Underwood & Underwood
A CALIFORNIA STAGE COACH
Navigating a mountain road. The article by Mr. Young draws an interesting parallel between the present almost instant methods of spreading news, seconds after it is news, and the infinitely slower methods available to our great-grandfathers
inventive brains. For a year or two the whole subject was vague and uncertain. Transatlantic service was bad. So the New York Times, always among the leaders in news enterprise, determined to install its own station. This station first went into use in 1 920, becoming the example and cornerstone for all latter day developments. In the beginning it was largely an experiment, and the experimental spirit has continued to dominate its operation.
The New York Times has been called a war paper, because much of its prestige resulted from the thoroughness of its dispatches from 1914 to 1 9 18. In the language of newspaper men, the Times "covered the war like it covered Harlem." The coming of peace left so many problems unsettled in Europe that prompt, dependable radio service was a necessity for the continuance of this policy.
The station has been equipped for the widest range of transmission. Its daily news report averages about 10,000 words, and these messages can be recorded from three stations simultaneously, on wavelengths of 50 to 25,000 meters. Some of these dispatches literally are sent around the world.
How such enterprise may be rewarded was indicated not long ago when the Shenandoah, the Navy's big dirigible, broke from her mooring mast at Lakehurst, New Jersey, and went careening away in a wild storm. The Navy already had lost two dirigibles, both by explosions, with heavy loss of life. Seemingly another tragedy impended. But word scarcely had been flashed from Lakehurst when the Times station picked up the Shenandoah' s call and learned that all was well, the big ship plunging along in the gale, embarrassed but safe.