The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-09-04
FAV0RS ENGLISH AS
TONGUE FOR WORLD
German Wireless Experts Say
Language Is Only Barrier
to Movement Of Ideas
By Franz Lehnhof

Berlin, August 20. (By Mail.)-
english is favored in Germany as the
International language that it is ad-
mitted will be almost necessity for
use in world communication when
wireless telegraphy and wireless tele-
phony have been made thoroughly
practical.
Besides difficulties of transmission
of long distance messages, most OF
which have now been overcome by
use of high frequency stations, Graf
Arco, Germany's wireless authority,
in an interview with the United
Press declared most trouble in COM
plete interchange of ideas in the fu-
ture may be found in the present use
of so many languages.
while am an enthusiastic Esper-
antist," said Arco, Il believe a popu-
lar vote would elect the English tom
que to be used generally in the trans
action of business and transmission
of news, because 1t is now spoken by
) the largest group of people on the
globe.
NATURALLY, there are many ma
lions that would raise objection to
use of English at the world language
on account of the belief that the
study of it would kill their own ma
tionality. Sucn fears, however, are
unfounded, because in each land the
mother tongue, plus English for in
ternational transactions.
Apropos of the beginning of work
on stations that will carry electric
currents by wireless between Ger
many and Argentina, Graf Arco said:
''Wireless telegraphy has reached a
stage Of development in which diff
culties encountered in long distance
TRANSMISSION have now Deen over
come. The greatest distance now
practical is an earth quadrant or / >
900 kilometers. The chief difficulty
hitherto encountered was with the
transmitting station, but high fire.
uuency machines have been develop
ed, so that now this trouble no longer
occurs.
LAS result. the proposed connec-
ton with Argentine will .e virtually
perfect. Germans and Argentinians
have collected practically all the ne
cessary capital, so that the erection
of the overseas apparatus could al
ready be undertaken
Graf Arco is optimistic as to the
future Of wireless telephOny-and
also wireless INSTRUMENTATION
if the nations will undertake a
broadguage international regulation
of the traffic so as to avoid trans
mission and receiving difficulties
arising from too many stations send
ing in conflicting directions or at I'M
proper times.
He pointed out that about 10000
words can be transmitted daily by
a wireless station. whereas with ca
b1ee thee is a considerable delay
from the fact that, since the war
rour 4? hrnt routes must be followed.
lie held th?t. with wireless tele-
phory. greote~ difficulties exist th"n
with telegram brt tests made daily
at the hie N~uen station have proven
that wirclesr to'enhone messages can
Re picked up from all quarters of ELL
rome
N"nen is wai+ir" an opportunity
r. dcmnretrate that conversations are
possible with America. Fifteen years
s~o. Coz Arco, as an April Fool Joke,
pai-tcd ~Nr~""ed wireless tn'onhone
scooch between America and Germ
any
''Todav. however. what was once
r,erely an .Anril Food joke is today
r,ere'v a Question of need and of pro-
fitableness." he added Incidentally
he had heard the Dutch Indies dis
tinctly thru the wireless phone.