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face of fearful odds. They entitled to the
whole-hearted support of all decent, right-think-
ing Americans.
WHAT WILL RADIO BR1NG?-When Edward

WHAT WILL RADIO BRING?-When Edward
8ellamy, IS years ago, wrote his fascinating pro-
phecy Looking Backward from the year 1000,
people gasped at his daring while approaching his
Imagination. In one atmospheric chapter the
Kip Van Wrinkle" Of the narrative is taken to the
music ROOM where he is asked to make known his
choice from very long "a hour music program.
fle indicates an organ piece; his hostess made
me sit down comfortably, and crossing the ROOM
SO tar as | could see, merely touched one or two
screws, and at once the room was filled with the
music OF grand organ anthem"
Such an incredible prophecy that the Bellamv
work was classified in the libraries as Fiction p
and so speedily has scientific DEVELOPMENTS occur
red that in many libraries it still is Fiction. Yet
this is only 1922, not 1000 and by the time the
Bellamy era OF prediction is reached who dares to
foreell the achievements of men.
lhe radio IS an accomplished fact Man has
discovered great secret; now he sets to work to
develop and apply it. The limitation of the hu
man voice exists no longer, and a whisper thrown
to the air becomes instantaneously chorus in
million homes
It's possibilities limtless that the dav is not
lar distant when every home, every building, pub
nc or private will be equip ped to receive the sig
mails from the air The RADIO receiving set will be
as much part of the building as the furnace and
me Kitchen stove. 1t will be possible, as it is now
;or every man, woman child to hear, at the in
%tant of transmission, whatever is given to the air
What then? When every home, when every
building III the country in the civilized world. has
ITS receiving set to let in the voice of the world inst
as today every home has its windows to let in the
nd frach oir bo, +
discovery be used for the convenience of mankind
mere IS f1eld tor Jules Verne to expore-he
Quiz fiiiig man around the world in 80 DAYS to-
day message is flung around the world in as
many seconds.
But all speculation dies away before the inevita
o'llty OF further and greater advances in the
use of the new mdium Millions whose imapi
nation has been captured by the gcnii of the air
are giving their minds and their enthusiasm TO
'hiS task Daily experiments are recorded. A
United States general has just announced one
great step Inventions are cumulative Given a
key to the beginning and development follows
more rapidly almost than the layman can follow,
o rthe manufacturer produce the appliances
1t is not too much to anticipate, the radio-phone
as the supreme medium of human fellowship,
whereby al peoples may grow closer together in
thought and purpose, with the inevitable dissipa-
ton OF differences which comes with understand
ing.
ms great triumph OF peace has brought to the
present day stimulus and interest so much great
cr than anything recorded in history that it seems
as though it not do less than reconstruct the
very basis of humanitys daily intercourse and
relations
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