Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-17

What Is this radio craze all about!
what is there in the air to interest
,.sple who don't know anything about
radio! ,s..... v."G.. -.
mint YOU have to know a dot-and-
a..b code or something to get anything
out Of 1t? ,-...#. Ill.,.
Nine men out Of ten who read every
Az sbout the wonders of radio broad
eating ask themselves and their friends
,h.so questions. And unless they can
~ satisfactory answers, they 20 on
.hout their daily routine convinced that
..d;o IL beyond them-One of those
Is.n ond involved sciences that require
ipt OF special study and complicated
snnoratus that only an expert can keep
IN working order.
% know anything about radio to get
.Ho onioyment out of this broadcasting.
you y don't have to know any dot.
dash code.
~ receive a broadcasting station, you
Smnly nut on the head phones, turn q
cnnple of knobs until they get the best
..clts and then sit back and enjoy such
~ evening of instruction and entertain.
M n,.nt as no other invention has yet Of.
There is. of course, a lot of broad
s.,ting done in the dot land dash code.
pnt there is nothing in this to inteye est
,bs ,yern nc .layman. For him, when his
nhonps are on and his set adjusted. there
!. The sound Of the human voice telling
what station it is sending. The voice
comes in even more clearly and dis
tinctly than it does over his house or
Office telephone.
Then comes, perhaps, a vocal solo-a
soprano. we will say. singing a beloved
air. and the music Is received in the
nhcnes almost as purely and distinctly
ss though the listener were in the same
rsom with the singer.
There are orchestral concerts, lee.
mres. speeches, market reports for the
day, general and sporting news, all
the results of the days games or the
uisht's fights; there are dance music
nrOsrams which. with proper apparatus,
can be put on a loud speaking horn, or,
with an ingenious and cheap little at
hcbmept. transferred directly to the
zone arm of the phonograph and room.
hi of ppople can dance to the music OF
An expensive orchestra perhaps three or
four hundred miles away.
On Sundays there arc special sermons
IN the afternoons and, in the mornings
md evenings, actual services held In
mi churches and sent broadcast on the
r,dio waves over the country by, means
q transmittcrs installed in the
thurches. SO clearly do these services
home in under favorable conditions that
lou can hear the responsive readings
n the congregations. the sermon and
nyers, the organ and the choir and
lmost the coins dropping while the COL
kction is being taken up.
This all sounds like madman's raw.
Ings to one who has not actually done 1t.
but IL you know an amateur who has
IA set, get yourself invited to his house
some evening and you will come, away
\ chorting about radio to yourself and
Your family and your friends just as
! lrrepressibly as the rest of us chortle
ito you now.
There isn't a spot in the whole area
of the United States or'Canada which
cant get at least one of these radio
concerts. The mail of the big broad
casting stations. even in the extreme
East. brings almost daily an account
of>some one in the wilds Of the Far
North woods or the mountains of Mex.
leo who is finding life less drcary since
the ether waves have started bringing
home and art and news and civilization
70 his lumber camp or his ranch or hi'
mine or oil we'll.
There is one thing about it, OF courst
the farther you are away from