The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-09-15

local interests have gotten togethe
and set up receiving stations 70 tina
they might obtain the service cacl
| night. But wireless telegraph l. Tim
tied ia use by the fact that the telc
graphic code Il necessary and it takei
a skilled operator.
1t was this fact that led to an in
vcstikAtion OF the possibility OF the
radio telephone, which II reduced to
practical basis, would enable any
farmer or community that would cs-
tablish receiving station to get the
service by wireless telephone. -
Postmaster General Hays announc-
ed that r. Il. Howells Of Omaha, Neb.,
Republican national committeeman
ard prominent business man, who
has been working on the problem for
him, viii leave for Europe Saturday
to make an investigation into the
practical workings Of the radio tele-
phone in Berlin and Budapest. Mr..
Howells. who Is an enthusiast on the
possibilities Of national radio tele-
phone service, is making the trip At
his own expense, because Of his inter-
est In the work. Whether the post
Office department will take up the ex-
pertinent Of sending out market news
by radio telephone at this time will
depend largely on what Mr.. Howells
reports.
"Berlin and Budapest today are dis |
seminatinR certain matters Of public |
news by radio telephone already"
Mr.. Howells said. at is scientifically |
possible. That is certain beyond
doubt The only question is the prac-
of 1t. I'm going to Buda-
pest because for thirty years tele-
phone newspaper has been conducted
there. Before the war it had around
twenty-five Thousand subscribers.
Theodore Puskas, young Hungarian
engineer, who was contacted with
he Edison laboratories in this coun-
ry, went back TO Budapest and start
ID it.
radio telephony is new, but It is
coming thing. 1t is practical now
0 send over 4 range Of two hundred
niles each way. The cost Of receiv-
ng apparatus formerly was prohibit
i've, but makers are getting out
nipple receivers that could be estab- y
shed on farm for around 500.
he development is coming fast, and n
Is my belief il is only question of "
me until receiving apparatus can be n
ought at popular prices-that they u
i'll be turned out like Ford cars now a
e on a quantity production scale. y
that day comes then it is practical a.
r the government to put in sending e.
atoms every four hundred miles and &c
nd market news direct to the far p
err.
The bulletins will be sent from +.
'ashigton, repeated each four hun .
ed miles, until the country is cross T
only certain mountain countries Al
mot be reached. From practical a,
andpoint there is no reason why the q,
rmer at specific hours during the :,
y CAM get brief bulletin Of the IT
US events. He won't have to hold
receiver, but by having an amplifier
tacher TO his apparatus he can get
9 news while he eats or is stretched W
4 for hit of rest" D<
Apart from the radio telephone idea "
tirely Mr.. Hays said the postoffice %
partment has worked out plan for ~
king over all the Official telegraph -
siness Of the government itself, ~
" handled by many departments w
consolidating il in the postoffice
partment, and doubling up on the
e of the leased lines the govern to
mt now uses, he said saving Of Di
million dollars year can be eff ho
ted. fic
Wen start with that, as the nue. de
IS of our bureau of communications blu
in the postoffice department., whore 20
ought TO be-" he said. That's
re and certain. II these other
ngs come in the future, then our
oxrtment can expand into . real de- Z
-tment OF public communication" :"