The Washington times., 1920-11-25
RADIO COVERS
WORLD SCOPE
General Squier, In Report, Says
Earth Now Run on tenth
Second" Schedule.

Characterizing the progress in the
radio art as nothing short of phe-
nomenal," Major Gen. George o.
Squier, chief signal officer OF the
army, in his annual report to the
Secretary of War, made public today,
states that from a technical point OF
view there has never been period
before when the whole subject OF
electrical methods and means or In
tercommunicatiOn was in more
healthy state of rapid development
than at the present moment.
"TENTH-sECOND- WORLD.
Asserting that with suitable APP
paratus messages may be transmitted
and received practically between any
two points on the surface OF the
globe, General Squier says we are in fact
living in tenth-second world"
since with suitable equipment. etc,
any radio impulse passes between any
two points on the surface of the
cath, even at the antipodes, within
this small limit of time.
Perhaps the most important OF the
many developments in the use OF the
radio worked out during the year by
the signal corps has been the work
OF testing and putting into practical
use General Squier's own invention
OF applying radio telephony and
telegraphy to bare wires laid In the
sea or in the earth. and the year has
seen several offshoots of the main
idea worked out by Lieut.. Col. Joseph
.. Mauborgne and Capt. Guy Hill, OF
the signal corps, and DR.. Louis Cohen.
NO RETURN CIRCUIT NEEDED.
These include the development of
new system OF potential wave en-
cheering involving no earth return
or METALLIC circuits. the utilization of
, wave coils as antenna. without other
| antenna OF ground connection by
which signals are received and trans
mitted Internationally with appa-
ratus resolving itself into very compact
form and n still further modification
bringing about a static elimination
scheme which appears to have great
progress.
In addition to this radio work there
has also been carried out during the
year a number or experiments w tn
wired-radio on railroad lines which
resulted in the superposition Of
radio telephone and radio telegraph
circuits on ordinary wire telephone
and telegraph circuits over maxi
mum distance of 100 miles over the
lines of the New York Central, thus
placing at the disposal of the army
! a number of extra circuits over ex-
listing physical circuits without extra
| cost other than that OF the apparatus
TO be tied to the lines--a highly de-
sirable feature in time of war when
wire is scarce in the theater OF OPP
: erations. D.:
ARMY COST DECREASED.
At the beginning OF the present
year the Signal Corps undertook the
responsibility Of administering and
financing the telephone service for
the army. General Squier reports
that notwithstanding the estimated
general increase in the cost of tele-
phone service of rs per cent through
out the country. the Signal Corps sue
ceeded in decreasing the cost of the
army by 42.72 per cent. General
Squier believes as a matter of policy
that the Signal Corps own, maintain
md operate telephone systems at all
permanent activities of the army and
announces that as rapidly as the
permenant status OF military posts
becomes known and when funds are
available negotiations will be opened
with the telephone companies for the
purchase Of war activity telephone
systems.
General Squier's report gives an in
rcresting and detailed description of
the many and varied activities Of the
signal Corps during the year not only
in this country but in the occupied
section OF Germany, in Belgium, Hol-
land, France, Alaska and our insular
possessions.