Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-03-09

there seemed to be valid proof for
believing in this case that the pro-
clamation and the music had come
from Pittsburgh Cleveland, however,
took vocal hand in the radio pot
pourri, and The Naughty Walse came
palpitating in thrillingly. At about
this juncture, the endless space be-
tween here and everywhere having
evidently been carded free of all high
tension contributors for the moment,
the radio artist at our side dexter
ously filliped little lever in front,
when 10! dots and dashes Of the
Morse telegraph code instantly re-
sounded
An Evanston Amateur
That amateur at Evanston again"
enormously remarked Mr.. Hanson.
Yes. that's his signal" he added, af-
ter referring to a handbook not un-
like a telephone directory. BY that
simple turn of the wrist, our appar-
atus had been altered in some way
that enabled IL to absorb wave
lengths of the lesser quality, such
as accord with the enforced modesty
OF smaller stations. Ae least, this ex-
position perhaps may suggest what
transpired. At any rate, when enough
had been heard OF the Evanston in
truder, the lever was twitched back,
when the bia.e OF horns and the lively
~ - he
citement Of a big brassband-made
ones ears ring and feet to beat
nervous tattoo ON the floor in the
simiitude or a spirited quickstep.
This was from Cleveland or Newark,
New Jersey,-One really cannot re-
momber all the swift geographic
changes and so IL went for an hour
or two with the wonder ever increas-
ing till ii finally merged into dumb
amazement
perfected, but 1t speedily has attain
ed an advanced stage little short of
the miraculous. The Wisconsin uni
versity station is the best equipped
in all the middle west. yet its mes
sages have never been reported at
a more distant point than Boise, Ida
no; but it cannot be long before we
shall be talking from Madison half
round the globe-and then well be-
yond! Here have been - : ~ of
the sky communications, from far off
Honduras, we'll below Mexico; from
Catalina island, in the Pacific, fifty
miles west of Los Angeles; and, when
we do get to gosdping round the
world, time will occasion no embar-
easements bel ause the radio wave
makes the entire circuit in less than
half a second! At l p. m. each after
noon the correct time is spread broad
cast from Madison, after coming in
like manner from the sltional CAPT
tai, and spatters into several hundred
receivers throughout various states
roundabout as quickly as sent!
DO these sound waves run through
certain strata of the atmosphere"
May Reach Planets
No! They go everywhere at once,
sp, cad in all directions; and there
is no reason that we know of why
they should not reach other planets.
They do not require what we call at
mosphcre such as it wrapped close
like a blanket round the earth. They
simply traverse the ether, and its
rarified nature above the earth's zone
surely should have no deterrent eff
fc upon them | cannot see why we
should not converse with Mars, ex-
cept that there may be no one up there
10 understand our language, any more
than we may theirs"
Letters and cards of pleasure and
appreciation are received numerously
in every mail During the past three