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Show Capital Getting to Be a News Center when allowance is made for a head, and 500 newspaper columns In these days of eight-column newspapers would mean a total of G2 pages, about the size of the Sunday edition of a typical metropolitan newspaper. No longer ago than 1912 Washington was a sleepy, country village, somewhat some-what overgrown and spread over a considerable territory. Now It is not only a real city, live and hustling, but a capital comparing favorably with the great capitals of Europe. Just how the 500,000 words are divided eacli day among the news services, correspondents and leased wires Is of Interest. The Washington correspondents' total Is roughly about 50,000 words a day by wire; the press associations send another 50,000, for there are five of these organizations, carrying 6,000 to 15,000 words each. The 50 leased wire services undoubtedly undoubted-ly send more than 100,000 words dally, making a total of 200,000 words telegraphed tele-graphed from Washington dally. Mail service Is probably equally heavy, and writers for magazines and other periodicals who do not deal In live news probably carry some 100,000 words dally. rwriSSINQTON. The capital is yy the greatest center for dissemination dis-semination of news in the world, iccording to recent Investigations, vhlch Indicate that not less than 500,-XX) 500,-XX) words are sent out daily by wire, adlo and mall from tlie offices of Washington correspondents. The imount of publicity material sent out )y the various Associations having headquarters here has not been estl-nated, estl-nated, but It Is nothing short of stu-jendous. stu-jendous. What 500,000 words dally means may oe visualized, perhaps, by reducing :liat figure to newspaper page9. Sough iy, there are about 1.000 words in the average newspaper column, |