Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-09
SITUATION ALLOWS THIS
COUNTRY TO LEAD THE WORLD IN RADIO


and in both factors we have been
wonderfully endowed by nature.
las soon as the radio corporation
was organized it ordered twenty-one
OF the great alternators. This was
move which required faith as well as
courage, and 1t proved sound finan-
cially. But the chief point is. that
by causing the manufacture of such
large number of these machines,
automatically twenty-one of the flu
ture ether lanes of the world were
assured of the most economical OPP
Grafton with the least interference
with other lanes.
That which has not been accom-
pIIshed by the carefully thought out
plans OF the business leaders of the
enterprise will be accomplished by
the splendid energy of the American
radio amateur the fam whose en-
thusiasm. energy, inventiveness. in
genuity and tirelessness are all pc
culiarly American, and, incidentally,
would be impossible in any country
not prosperous, as we are not socially
serene.
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veloping for US innumerable ex-
perts. The men pressed into QUIZ
military and naval wireless services
were mostly drawn from our intelli-
gent young amateurs, and they did
well. Amateur radio is in itself a
liberal education, and is particularly.
valuable to the early years when the
power of the minds are being developed.
veloped.
The thousands of amateurs and
novices who are intensely interested
| today in radio as pastime are Amer
ica's best promise of future contri-
buttons to our radio advance.
The wireless telephone will be one
| OF the great national developing in
| ffuences, as the wireless telegraph is
| becoming the great international de-
| veloping influence. Its influence will
| be greater than that of any other
! one thing since the printing press.
1T will revolutionize upward the
| intelligence of the whole people. as
| the newspaper has done, but will not
| take its place. Nor will radio tele-
| phony ever supplant wire telephony.
| but will always be an extension to it.
w ire lclSplOHs is esStIlldlly d PUNK
| to point method of communication.
| Occasionally, as in rural lines, We
load thirty or SO instruments upon
| one wire, but even this is rela-
| lively small number.
| wireless telephony is by the in
herent nature of radio wave propa-
cation a radial method of commune
| cation, mass distributor of thought.
One wire telephone conversation can
be heard by, perhaps. thirty people
| on the line. One radio telephone con-
versation can be heard by 5000, or as
many more as your Imagination
| wishes to provide with adequate re-
| ceiving apparatus.
General use for individual COM
munication of such a wonderful means
| of serving the whole people should
be greatly restricted, and will be.
Only in districts where wire COM
munication is not possible should the
wireless phone be permitted 10 be
used for point to point service, and
even then only under such restric-
tons Is to wave lengths and power
as will prevent interference with the
broadcast service to the whole people.
"THRoUGH both the telephone and
telegraph. w-power wireless
stations will link the people of this
country nationally, as the high-power
stations will link the peoples of the
world internationally.
! in educa ton we shall soon be able
! (indeed, this might be done today TO
I, take the most eminent of all our
| thinkers through the doors and into
! the very presence of the pupils of
! thousands of small schoolhouses at
| the same time. There remains tfdav
no reason why all the nation should
| not daily share in the immediate.
] momentary, personal and fully vital
| services OF its best selected minds, no
matter where they may be located.
J I'm the near future lonely farm
| houses will have their crop reports
and weather forecasts through their
| wireless instruments as quickly as
the cities get them, and for enter
tainment will be able, at selected
evening hours, to choose from great
program of attractive effort by good
artists. Imagine, in a time of threat
ened epidemic, the value of health
lectures by eminent authorities which
| can be heard even in the most iso-
lated country home!
| "In certain details wireless will be
valuable in the preservation of our
law and order, but personally ! am
sure that we shall find it inexpedient
to use wave lengths for any purposes
which wires will serve as well.
! And, of course, all other interests
always must be set aside in favor OF
the protection of life and property at
sea, where no other agency but radio
exists to serve the purpose. For this
purpose adequate allotment of wave
lengths, vigorously protected. is es-
sential For those who sail the sea
, communication, while those who stay
on land have many. Today our
American sea communication is ad-
mirable. The Cape Cod station picks
I'D ships as far away as those which
voyage in the English channel.
! Nothing comparable with the ma
! tional interest in wireless ever has
been known in the United States. The
demand for apparatus to receive the
matter broadcasted from central sta
tons came up almost overnight at
time when apparatus OF design which
/ lent itself to quantity production had
not been developed. The result is that
demand has been not less than double
the supply, although factories are work
ing day and night"