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Show IFH i. KEY BUYS HEW YOBK SUN Paper Once Owned by i Charles A. Dana Becomes Member of Association. NEW YORK, dune 30. After twenty-three years of unsuccessful effort to etnljlish a proprietary news gathering ami distributing organization in opposition opposi-tion to the i'u-operative form of the Assot.'iat''l Press, the New York ISuu v.-as soM today to Frank A. Munsey, a mcuiijiT of t lie Associated Tress, and, I'cgniniiit; Monday next, will no longer try to gather its own news and will receive, ihc service of the dominant organization. or-ganization. In announcing the purchase, pur-chase, Mr. Miiiisey will sayMn tomorrow's tomor-row's issue of the Sun: "The tremendous advantage to .the ; Sun cat be appreciated onlv by news-j papcrmen. Through it the .Sun secures, a morning membershii) in the Associated I'niss, and there is no other possible i wav to seen re such a membership except ex-cept through the purchase of a news-I news-I jtaper owning one. i , "Through a inixup that occurred i some years ago, when the Associated i PresH 'was organized, the Sun did not associate itself with all the other morn- ing papers of the town in the reorgani-zation. reorgani-zation. As a consequence ever since then it lias been compelled to gather its news alone and at a vast annual expenditure iu excess of the cost of re-cciving re-cciving it through the Associated Press. I "Moreover, it is not po.ssiblo for a single newspaper to compete in news galliering with the Associated Press, which is the peerless news gathering organization or-ganization of all the world. With the Associated Press membership which the Sun secures through this merger, it will be equipped for better work so far as concerns its news service than at any time in its history better than in the old days when it was a member of a press association, because the Associated Asso-ciated Press of today is incomparably better and bigger than any previous news gathering organization. " The price of the Sun will be reduced to 1 cent. |