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'imes Has Membership In The Canadian Press ) eh il organ sin and until uth 7 th iy vty te Tress, every exist k Canadian rship on an equal basis. While ed in Ontario and al | jack was Sich by 3epat. fe organiza s for the morning an y pers respectively of these proyinces. These four indepen- t news Sh sot which 4 Doe nio i yay Cs o t, united on m membership in Canadian Ressdimited, exchanged to some ex- t the news of their territories, but arrangement was loose, wasteful Chief difficulty in getting in all ether into one e sed Wires at that EA seem nd' the combined resources of the terested publishers, These gaps gre three in number, between Mon- and St. John, Ottawa and Win- g and Calgary and Vancouver. nd et it was impossible to set up national news agency, © erating ed wires from Coast to Coast, as does The Canadian Press today, un- Toss i cost of bridging these un- productive gaps in the news distribu lion system could be met. It was not ntil the war pressure of 1916 and 1917 7 Juruat to the forefront the na- onal importance of unifying all nada in a riews sense, that the Government of Sir Robert Bordon offered for this purpuse an annual grant of fifty thousand dollars, to be | nded in bridging the three gaps by leased wires, The obstacle thus removed, no time was lost in amal- mating the four sectional news bodies into ene naticnal entity now nown as The Canadian Press, «A word about igrant, On March 31 next (1924), it Hs to be withdrawn, setting before the ily publishers of Canada anew the rol ww they found insoluble from 011 to 1917, But in the meantime e Canadian Press has proyed its yalue and efficiency. and 'there is no Po of going pack to old "eondi- this Government ons, The loss is serious but it will met with least possible dislocation the present news system. In re. ent years evidences have not been cking that interested politicians ave regarded this grant as a ful- grum of influence on the character of ur news services, Idle though that fs has been, this considerable sum f fifty thousand dcllars a year is felt to be not too great for the daily ress of Canada to pay for freedom, pre indeed from Government control which never existed, but from even er suspicion of Government eontrol, , Functions of The Canadian Press Such is but the balacst narrative of e ten years' struggle that led to fhe foundation in 1917 of The Can- pdian Press of today, a struggle ro- mantic in the retrospect and that ade Canadian -newspaper history. e proceed very briefly to review jts functions, The Canadian Press, as we have seen, serves practically every Canadian dail newspaper, the ser- yice given oh A member being limited erly by ability to pay for transmis- sion. M fall into two ts ed Wire and P Poy. The former receive the full service over te wires leased and dpeaied by the a" sociation. The la consist of th smaller dailies waible to bear (Bi cost of leased wire service, or hibited by distance, and these Papers are served overhead from cen- ral fyling bureaux--that is to say, a Ho running from a few hundred Youd to ive three thousand words, prepar: anadian Press editors, is delivered to them over tommereial wires on a word-toll Pa What is the character of these news services? Canadian Press of- fers each member a basic news 3 complete in every department, i gd world news, the domestic news ef Canada, financial and sport- ing news and political news coveri Parliament and the various provincia legislatures. Nothing can happen in the civilized world but comes within its. purview, But it must THE OsHAWA DAILY TIMED SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1928 case in many cities and towns of Old Ontario, "Where formerly at least two dailies existed, representing the t great politi parties, but Es mto "one paper towns" by the inex- on RS rea ol oun costs in the news- paper. The single _paper surviving --. tion or purchase, with its' supe is able to give its public a much oved news service, the tendency being to replace the Pony service by a leased wire service to the benefit of the whole community. The Canadian Press with Ma co- operative news gathering an tri- butbon and its mutual cost System, makes possible the publication all over Canada in the medium and smaller centres of first-class pews- papers, such as could not otherwise Paper The smallest Pony paper mem- ber, taking but a few hundred words a day, not only thus gets the cream of the news of the day but has com- plete news ection thoughout the year, He is thus able to his limited fed successfully against inva Metropolitan newspapers. These latter, affording continual support and ement towards betterment of Canadian Press news services, are in a very real sense be news, mot opinions, Take for working unselfishly in support of the tained all its world mews oust 1 American sources. But what are wo | facts of the situation? Compare for a minute the condition in Australia and Canada. The former is am iso- lated geographical and economic en- tity, self-sustaining in its' J literature, in all that goes to nation; pothing stands TR and the facial and historic Slegiance it consciously owes to the nothing but a vast spread of ocean; its tradition is inexorably British and. when 'it requires a news service, it turns instinctively to Lom- don. The news service it secures 3 very Hited affair comparable ther in nor comprehen: with own cable service. ; But i is British; there is no foreign' color- ing, there is 'no foreign propagan conscioys or unconscious ; rather reverse; it is as unmistaki as Fleet Street: itself, whence it em- anates. This limited news service of a few thousand words, but & at a cost several times greater than that at which the cable service of Canadian Press is furnished its m bership, tingles with Brit po and is gedolent of old country associ= ations, But for Canada the natural, the n= evitable main source of news supply lies ip the United States, No cost CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT IS BUSY PLACE . 'Staff Has to Keep Record of Over Five Thousand Subscribers and Supervise City Carrier Delivery instance, the proceedings of parlia- ment at Ottawa, where The Can- adian Press maintains a parflamen- tary bureau: with a considerable reportorial staff. This bureau re- parts the proceedings often at con- siderable length, varying according to their news value, and these reports are distributed by the leased wires of the association from Coast to Coast. Obviously, where papers of every po- litical stripe are served, these re- ports must be scrupulously impartial and non- partisan, News services of Canadian Press are so complete, so reliable, that it is possible to get out a daily news- paper in even a metiopolitan centre ke Toronto with this service alone, except so far as local news and news of the immediate circulation territory is concerned. Such was done for years by the Toronto World, In smaller centres all over the Dominion the majority of our members rely entirely on Canadian Press for their outside news service, This is the co-operative idea. For they thus for- tify their competitor, the small daily, in his limited field which neverthe- less falls within their own broad circulation territory, The benefit they receive in return is the immedi- ate access they have through Can- adian Press--which maintains a cor- respondent in every newspaper of- fice--to the local and district news of the smaller paper. Co-operation is complete and unstinted. Cable Service We come finally to the important matter of cable service. The Can- adian Press secures the bulk if its foreign news through The Associated Press, which lays down in New York a very complete world service. We supplement this, mainly with news of Britain and' the Empire, by main- taining our own London bureau, sending a direct cable service to Canada. Before this special . cable service was established The Canadian Press was open to the eriticism that it ob- Underwood--- it is the typewriter T HE typewriter has but one attribute which makes if of inestimable value, and that is speed. Underwood is 22%, faster than the next best. twenty-two successive years it has won the world's cham- pionship for speed and accuracy . Underwood is more generally used than all others com- bined, Of all typewriters in Canada 71.17 are Under- woods, U it is the typewriter United Typewriter Company, Ltd. 135 Victoria St., Toronto And in Twenty Other Canadian Cities. adil di HE Win Oki tigre are 54 Typewniten. Of these 638 are nderwoods--=84.6%, A SOU Of a truth (For ~ ll 1 barrier of high cable tolls intervenes between Toronto and New York, Winnipeg and St. Paul, or Vancouver and Scattle; no customs officer stands sentinel on the international houn- dary to demand his toll on this com- modity of news; it is neither more costly nor more difficult from the physical standpoint to bring in news by leased wire from New York to Toronto than from Montreal ; it is in- finitely easicr and less costly than to bring news to Toronto from Winnipeg or Vancouver, That being so, The Canadian Press would he abusing its appoFtLY did it neglect to avail itself of this great reservoir of news lying at 'its dis- posal in New York, and for which in part return it supplies to The As- sociated Press the news of Canada. But it recognizes that the world ser- vice of news laid down there is pre- tared by The Associated Press pri- marily and solely for consumption of the American public; The Associated Press does not pretend to cater to the Canadian people; it only says, "Here are our cables; short of dis- tortion do with them as you like," And in response to that invitation The Canadian Press maintains in New York in the office of The As- sociated Press its own staff of edi- tors, trained Canadian newspaper» men, whose chief business it is to edit the services there laid down from the Canadian point of view, It is one thing, of course, to edit out of a service a too.obvious Ameri- canism, and quite another to inject into it a British point of view that by reason of the premises is com- ton lacking. Our New York edi- tors do not and cannot do that. It is here that the idea of the supple- mentary or complementary sable ser- yice comes in, ' The Associated Press om the bulk of its news in London from Reuters, which is essentially the news agency of the British Empire, collecting news all over the world and supplying its news services to the daily newspapers of Britain, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, Reuters is also the exporting agent for news of the Press Association, the co-operative associ- ation of the British provincial press. But much of the news of Britain and the Empire is of no value to The Associated Press, and therefore to restore the balance The Canadian | Press has now its own staff in Reu- ters office, sending direct to Canada news of the Old Country and the Empire not laid down in New York by the AP. Its London staff also follows up the British end of strictly Canadian news, This supplementary cable service works admirably, and there could be no better illustration than the recent British elections, when Canadian Press not only coy- ered completely the news of the com- but carried in its cable ser- constituency, One more word. All of us who are intimately connected with The Can- adian Piass are proud of -the fact 8 modelisq in form and. in spi ver very Jar lines of not 8 AO organization but is owned and controlled by its members, the daily newspapers of Canada; it has mo strings; no government or interest can control it nor dictate the character of its news services; it ab- hors the very idea of propaganda, and devotes itself to the recording of mews without comment, fear or favor, Finally, through the interchange of news | from Coast to Coast thus made po e Canadian people, riven asunder by great stretches > un- productive territory, by his- toric barriers of race and grouped into opposing economic camps, are thus brought into a close and. intimate daily relation making for better understanding--a truly na- tional service, _ vice the detailed result for every: ye The Canada Paper Co. takes this opportunity of congratulats - ing the Oshawa Daily Times on consummating their objective of installing a new rotary press equipment in modern and enlarged premises. 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