The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-10-27
MAKING HISTORY
IN COMMUNICATION
President Harding's Voice to be Heard
Across Continent, Armistice Day.

Across Continent, Armistice Day.
When on the stroke of twelve, 8 90
IA. M, Pacific coast time, on ARMS
tice day, November 18th, President
Harding begins his funeral Grafton
over the body of IAN unknown sold
ier' in the National cemetery at Ar
lington, Va, his voice will be heard
by hushed multitudes in New York,
Chicago and San Francisco, as well as
by the thousands gathered in AMI
around the huge Arlington amphi-
theatre
Every prayer and address uttered
on that solemn occasion will be trans
mitted to these distant cities by long
distance telephone wires, and then, by
means of loud speakers, carried to the
ears of the reverent throngs that will
have gathered to pay homage to Amer
fca's illustrious dead.
The ceremonies at Arlington will be
in charge of the U. S. army. The CO.
ordinated ceremonies at noon in Madi-
son Square Garden, New York, at II
O'clock in Medinah Temple, Chicago.
and at 8 O'clock in the Civic Auditor
ium, San Francisco. will be conducted
by the American Legion posts of these
cities.
AS soon as President Thayer's offer
to President Harding of the Bell Sys-
TENS transcontinental circuits and
loud speaker apparatus was accepted
engineers of the American Telephone
and Telegraph company undertook the
extraordinarily difficult task involved
III the plan to bring, in effect, these
distant audiences to the Arlington
ceremonies. No other cities could be
included because the methods of
achieving such an epoch-making re-
suit have only just been perfected. and
fhe complicated apparatus required
could not be manufactured in neces
sary quantities.
The undertaking is gigantic one
involving countless difficulties of in
stallation and operati ton, but the SPLEEN
did results already obtained give every
assurance of success. One of the TESTS
early in October, made Colonel Cart
and his assistants feel sure that they
could rely on the facilities they were
providing, A speaker on the roof of
the Bush Street Exchange, in San Frau
cisco. spoke into special transmitter
three feet distant. that was connected
by suitable apparatus with trans
continental circuit that extended to
Olympic Park. Newark. where loud
speaking apparatus was installed
His remarks were heard distinctly
and with ample volume. by Bell en-
gineers and others standing more than
thousand feet from the projectors.
Other remarkable tests of similar
character have been made, and have
fortified the confidence of the enpin-
GERS in charge in the performance Of
the Bell apparatus on Armistice Dav
} me simultaneous transmission of
the historic words that will be spoken
on November 18th will mark the no.
ginning Of another epoch in the de-
velopment of communication. No sucb
impressive demonstration of the tele-
phones potentialities has ever been at-
tempted. The event will not ONLY add
UNNECESSARILY to the solemnity and
National significance of the ceremonies
at Arlington but will call the worlds
attention anew to the triumphs of Bell
engineers in speeding the spoken word
The Bell Loud Speaker is funds.
mental contribution to human effort
whereby a speakers voice. or the sound
OF music. can. at the very moment of
delivery, reach distant audiences IN
number and size heretofore never
dreamed of. Colonel Carly. who is head
OF the Bell System of DEVELOPMENT AMI
Research. which has developed the an
paratus and brought It to it's present
high state Of perfection, was recentlr
asked by an interviewer what he con-
sidered the most important feature NJ
the loud speaker development. 9TH
change that II is bound to create In