The Washington times., 1919-03-12

wireless telephoue bv which the human voice may be
rIied over the ocean is promise Of the near future
When Bell first perfected his telephone do you suppose
dreamed of a wireless phone in the future? It is un
ally.
We hear often that Bell invented" the telephone.
Everybody knows what the telephone has DONE IS doing
I'd viii do.
The magic skin was supposed carry man instantly
om one place to another matter how far.
The magic telephone actually does carry the voice
1santy thousand miles or more And maSmucn as tne
ce carries the thought and the thought THE MAN.
e telephone actually carries man thousand miles In an
lstant
The man of today, sitting at his desk in New York
dy can work and he CAN BE WITH HIS 4 BEAM M IN
'HIA HUNDRED CITIES, IN THE COURSE OF
NGLE MORNING. SOON THIS CONDITION MAY BE
EXTENDED TO EUROPE.
Nothing has done much to free men from limitation
f time and space as the telephone
AND THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS THAT THE
TELEPHONE HAS EARNED IN THIS COUNTRY are
due to the fact that Bell the inventor, turned little
screw onethousanth part of inch In certain direction.
It was the turning of that screw that made Bell the
:Teat and deservedly popular man that he is
But long before the days of Bell Refs German school
master was actually using telephone of his invention
That old telephone although it would seem queer to
pou and looks like telephone at ALL actually to all
ntents and purposes the telephone Of this day. with its
Refs could whistle sing and transmit other interesting
noises through his telephone But it impossible to
SPEAK through it. The voice could not be sent from the
ransmtter to the receiver at the other end.
Refs idea that the telephone must be arranged in
uch way that the electrodes did not, quite touch he
wanted them possible but he did not quite let
hem touch each other. he that that right
md therefore the little connecting the two electrodes
sept them about one-thousandth of an inch apart
Bells ides which gave him millions, which has enriched
he human by thousands of millions in saving time and
abOr that the electrodes MUST touch but very family
he turned that screw one-thousandth of inch and
there was at once the telephone of today.
That turning of one thousandth of an inch that
faint distinction between and failure between
naricuate wisting and shouting and useful distinct
clearly heard speech that turning of onethousandth part
Of inch this way that something that happens in
the lives of nearly all of u.s.
There are thousands of human beings in this world
millions of them with important messages for other human
beings with emotions moral and character that need
expression But something is the matter with the
that puts the mind in touch with the outside world And
the message carried distinctly REACHES
In all of US there is something that might at any time
be DONE effort of the will application of con-
eentrated thought some idea some effort some reach
ing out born of hope that will not be destroyed; some lit
te turning of in the brain thousandth part
or onemionth part Of inch, that might make of the
man unheard misunderstood lacking the comprehension of
lis fellows far above the that he was as
the telephone of Bell is above the useless telephone of the
poor, disappointed schoolmaster.