The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-11-07
'aEL HEAR TALK
ALL over LAND
Harding Will Have Great
est Audience for Armi-
stice Day Speech

When President Harding delivers
Ehe funeral address over the hody
s & the Punknown soldier on ARMS
lice day his words will be heard b.
She largest audience the human
roiee hHs ever reached. HIS voice
VIII be carried across the continent
10 Kew York and San Francisco,
where meetings composed Of Ameri-
can Legion members and friends
Will hear him plainly and distinctly
4hTeugh tho medium Of Loud
x SpeakerE.r IN addition y loud
sneskiBE system has been installed
IN the Arlington National cemetery
and n half 9 million people cOutd
gather on the broad slope7 Of that
beautiful place thoy coEid hear WIN
perfect clearness every word Of thh
Presidents address,. every note ot
the singers. and every syllable 81
the solemn compliment aervic"a
when they lay this unknown hero
Within his tomb,
o feat Of communication has
ever enualled this. Never before
has the transmission OF sound boon
used in this way, Although The
President, delivering his inaugural
address on March 1 saw before him
q vast audience Of COCOON or moro
and although he knew lfat every
n in that audience heard his
yoice, by means OF Loud Speah
ers: although he was conscious
that the spoken word had Z create
1 power than over before because IL
spoke 10 the greatest audience :
gathered. upon ATmist!cc Day. tn"
President will speak 10 men and
women gathered 10 hear him in cit
les that sDan the continent.
He will have an opportunity for
talking 10 his fellows neyar hereto.
fore given to tho head Of this or
any other nation. II will initiate ?
new era IN oratory. uEdreamed d
5eFetotore.
In addition to the Presidents
voice, all OF the solemn ceremonies.
The bugle taps" the hymns. tho
words OF the foreign ministers az
they bestow honors upon this sol.
Z hier and the solemn burial phrases
will be carried surely and distinctly
10 tina waiting legionHairrs across
khS COuLlHSuhs
For several weeks past crEant
zers Of the American Legion and
the engineers or the Bell System
have been wording together to
bring about these meetings and tho
transmission of these Arlington
ceremonies. Everything that the
engineers have done has been pre-,
dicted by the fact that ArmisticC
Day will be the most solemn min.
Iite in the history Of America. Fu'
thst reason the American Legion.
peterans, who have u vital mart in
sstha days events, were asked to y
) uperate. Although numerous op.
nnrtuHitiea were offered by which
the Presidents speech could be d.
rseteG to the miscellaneous chan
nela those In chHEe adopted a FIRM
policy or CtickinE IN the original
nlap and thus lusurinE success
from the standpoint o only from
the engineers and technical men but
from the standpoint Of the soiem'
nity Of the occasion.
This opportunity for SO many pee
mic to hear the words of the cere.
muDy Will be the gift Of the Bell
Telepbone System to The people Of
the nation, II is not 4 comm crCial
enterprise In any way.
The engineers and experts IN
/. charge have been working on the
loud speaking system al Arlington
and across the continent and IN the
three cities for more than a month
on Armistice Day telephone engi
nesgB all the way acros the conn