The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-03
NEWS
Palladium Call zAE Fred Clark Operator

The United States will gain and
hold the position of the radio hub OF
the world, says p E. Nagle, communi-
cations expert of the department of
commerce, in his last report Every
American communication company is
now enlarging and perfecting its
methods of radio communication.
Radio in all foreign countries is
either a private or government mo-
nopoly but in South America most OF
the governments permit the erection
OF foreign owned stations, with the
result that these countries are rapidly
developing their radio facilities Com
pletion of Buenos Aires station in
year and of Rio de Janeiro station
in two years, will put those cities in
direct communication with the world.
Regular service. says the report,
is now maintained between the United
States and Hawaii, Japan, Norway,
Great Britain, Germany and France,
and the U. S. naval communication
service also has continual communi-
cation with the Philippines, China, ST.
IBERIA. SIAM Dutch East Indies, Aus
tralia, Italy and Belgium. Systems
with Central and South America are
being developed.
Building Station.
Large stations are being built in
Warsaw and Christiana and a high
power station has just been finished
at St Assise, France. The Tropical
Radio Telegraph company is building
a powerful station at Tegucigalpas,
Honduras, which will be finished
about Jan /, 1923.
With such rapid and worldwide de.
velopment, it is possible that the
thousands of amateurs in this country,
instead of following a foolish hobby,
may be fitting themselves to serve,
within a few years, in binding the
whole world in closer communication.
! Nowhere else than in this country,
where amateur radio has been given
a free hand, can the operators be
found to handle the immense traffic
that is sure to develop soon.
Prison Radio.
The installation of a radio receiving
set in the District of Columbia Jail and
the development of a competent radio
broadcasting concert company. at the
Atlanta penitentiary, mark a new use
of radio.
These offer a method of communi-
cation with the outside world that is
perfectly safe and relieves the isola-
ton that is the worst feature of prison
life. without detracting from the de-
scipline that is the primary object OF
prison Thus the prison authorities hope
that the little world within the walls,
in which crime has been allowed to
tester and propagate itself, may be
broken up and larger, more healthfui
interests substituted for the gossip and
petty intrigue of the old time prison.
Radio Shows
A radio show, promoted by dealers,
is in progress at Philadelphia this
week. Another will open at Chicago
on Oct. IA continuing until Oct. q
when an afternoon radio dance will
be held at the Coliseum, where the
show is to be staged. An old fashion
ed fiddler will be provided and his
music be broadcasted for the listeners
at the show The fiddler need not be
in Chicago, the dance manager will
take anyone in the country, and send
his music by radio from the station
nearest his home. The dance is to be
in the afternoon Nine Rosa Olitska,
Polish singer, and a chorus of IS high
school girls will sing at the matinee
performance also, and their music
broadcasted for any who care to listen
Another show will be in progress at
: Cincinnati next week.
Radio for Fishermen
Radiophone may be used by tuna
fishers to keep in communication with
home ports instead of the carrier pig
con formerly used. The fishing boats
follow the tuna fish schools and notify
the canneries on shore of their posi-
tion by pigeon. 1t is thought that ra
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